a relentless necessity

Still proud of this article on the role of racial slavery in Kant's theory of money in the *Philosophy of Right.* philarchive.org/rec/CAPEMH

@mmmmlecker @abookofsymbols conversely, in berkeley, i had the same thing going on but it was judith butler

@mmmmlecker @abookofsymbols when i was living in pasadena i had this weird thing going on where no matter what coffee shop i chose to read in, danny pudi would always be at the next table.

holy shit how

i would like the universe to send me a vox amp and either a gibson es-330 or an epiphone casino, just putting that out there

that said, it's also interesting to notice how much of this really did stick with me

turns out you can't go home again

been reading karl barth again for the first time in probably like a decade and it feels so weird to revisit this stuff, like visiting the house you grew up in kinda stuff

@themountainsar5 i mean seems about the same level as always for him

Proof that it’s possible to become increasingly bigoted as you age. Build character, not clout.

@eleanoir i wish i were a person who found this tweet less relatable

you met me at a very listening to Amy grant all day long time in my life

I was a manichean youth :(

@themountainsar5 i'll simply walk through walls and float down the liffey

@CapenerSean Sounds like some “last man” thinking. The question is, what will you do if it happens. Does a totally disappear song need a witness? Will u put it out there?

a totally unhinged, self-aggrandizing thing that i nonetheless believe is that i have a 'how to disappear completely'-level song in me and i'm only ever about a month of practice and a little bit of luck away from being able to externalize it

@mekkivelli @drumm_colin if anything i suspect it's the fantasy that one can *not* waste time that animates the 'better to only ever read a few things, as long as it's closely' mindset

@mekkivelli @drumm_colin ah yeah i don't think the issue is about saving or wasting time, agree on that point for sure

One thing we tell students is that they're almost certainly trying to read *too carefully*, or trying to do a second reading on a first reading. You need to get through massive volume and then come back to read carefully later when you know what you're looking for and why

@mekkivelli @drumm_colin (and that's granting that LLMs make good enough summaries of books generally that they're likely to be better than the one a beginner would 'hurt themselves' by doing wrong, which has ... not been my experience)

@mekkivelli @drumm_colin maybe, but still not sure how any of that would be made better by having an llm do the first pass readings, which still seems like outsourcing the step you have to learn first in order to get good at the others

can someone write a critique of this book lowkey the gillian rose twitter society has been beating my ass

@mekkivelli @drumm_colin whereas close reading is the flashy lift

@mekkivelli @drumm_colin right but what you're talking about offloading onto the LLM is precisely the small weight/core muscle group stuff that people hurt themselves by skipping

interiority is emotional labor

@mekkivelli @drumm_colin for the same reason it's pointless to make a machine lift weights for you if what you're trying to do is get swole

@drumm_colin what I’m trying to get at: going by that logic, why not let an LLM do the first order reading and sort out all the obvious positions to then delve into when reading carefully?

@RedWhiteandWack joliet jake strikes again; ellwood still in the wind

with each word my smile grew and my little head tendrils fanned out