The Wind Turkey Rises

I elaborate my Kantian interpretation of Joanna Newsom, "Time, As a Symptom" and ask whether we should find it comforting to deny that time is a transcendent reality. dog-envier.bearblog.dev/joanna-newsom-…

@la_leere embarrassing at every stage but to go all the way and announce the award and not notice anything amiss is stunning

@dog_envier yes when reading thru fiction submissions for Chicago Review we see a fair # of ai-genned bios, sometimes even with specific named publications which do not exist and spun-up webpages. They are immediately easy to identify and would never pass a basic quality check

the first two paragraphs of this obviously AI-generated story contain the character name "Vishnu Muhammad" and a nominally trinidadian woman saying "the grove ain't forget", on top of a few facially incoherent metaphors. racist judges going "well that's just postco lit" lol

I am curious what @HenMazzig and @deborahlipstadt, who have condemned the bloodthirsty Ben-Gvir many times, think he’s been up to while overseeing the Israel Prison Service.

Cork City Council to consider tiny statue honouring mosquito linked to Oliver Cromwell’s death irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…

There was a guy who took such a massive dump that it caused the arteries in his brain to explode and when he woke up from surgery he was an artistic genius with the urge to paint for 19 hours a day. newscientist.com/article/dn2352…

UK unis so cooked they’re coming for the department where the krebs cycle was discovered

@glosseantics that seems right yeah. i looked at one of the contemporary reviews i remembered and he's not even mentioned as a character.

@dog_envier anyway i'm going to take your 2011 date as equivalent to 'very few on theatrical release', if that tracks to you

former student watched the social network for the first time and emailed me in shock that 'peter thiel was around back then' and i almost dropped to the floor

@glosseantics the first new yorker profile was i think 2011, that may be when i found out about him

i don't know if i would have or not. i know starting uni i was definitely aware of y combinator but maybe not thiel, and that feels generally true, which is a very funny inversion

Experimental post: The Time 5-Year-Old Supper Mario Broth Thought Luigi Was a Cryptid I share a story from my personal life about the first time I encountered Luigi at the age of 5. Due to a combination of factors, I was unprepared for him and ended up believing he was a cryptid.

Sun Ra pictured on location in Oakland for the film ''Space is the Place'', 1972.

@EYakoby why are you "BREAKING" with something that happened last Friday and has been independently reported by the Cornell student paper and the New York Times? both newspapers also reported the video (available since Saturday) which shows Kotlikoff's version of events is false.

BREAKING: The Cornell President just obliterated the extremist students who surrounded his car. Rather than surrendering to them and apologizing, he directly called out their unlawful behavior. This is what true leadership looks like.

coconut crabs are so funny to me. like what the hell is this guy doin

@ohcrapohno lcgbtf

I got through a week and a half of the ADL's newly-released "Antisemitic Incidents 2025" dataset before I gave up. 🥴

Half of the farmers in Martha's Vineyard may have alpha-gal, the tick-borne red meat allergy.

huguenot girl

at a data center town hall the other day the industry rep likened data center buildout to israel’s iron dome and confessed to the need to uphold “judeo-christian” values. also made a point of saying “pete’s [hegseth] a good friend of mine.” not a particularly good PR strategy

Yesterday at Walter Reade Theater, Tony Leung said he learned a bunch about neuroscience and plants to do this role. And now he is always sure plants are aware of him when he is around them

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