🇵🇸i have never heard of philosophy
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🇵🇸i have never heard of philosophy
@dimitripilled
Philosophy, lit, Pittsburgh Pirates, etc. not much of anything but Catholic and stupid. Colossians 2:17


I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.

Israel murdered this man a few days ago. Ali Larijan's address at Remnin University.

"Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs

At a writers’ group, an older journalist mentioned that she used to write an article for $2,000 and live off of that (this was probably in the 70s-80s). She asked some freelancers what they make now, and she could not believe that the rates had stayed static or gone down.

News - Joe Kent is under investigation by the FBI for leaking classified information. Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday over the Iran War.

Writing advice: A typical education will expose you to the greatest masterpieces of all time, collaborations between genius authors and editors, final products of a dozen revisions and editions. Nobody spits a perfect text off the dome. Look at drafts and juvenilia and go easy.

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

your great-great grandparents rocked up to cities that looked like this to work 14-hour shifts in dangerous factories and thought “oh thank fuck we don’t have to farm anymore”


There are six books by Frank Herbert. Dune Dune Messiah Children of Dune God Emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune Chapterhouse Dune Do not read anything after that.

Does anybody have a good theory for why we're still doing philosophy even though Hume solved it nearly three hundred years ago?







