Well it is only 120 pages so less to bear!

Men in women’s fields

Reading the new Ben Lerner which is funny to me in the same way as Knausgaard my struggle was - both are “I didn’t know they let men do that sort of writing” kinda books (writing about phone in Lerner’s case)

Hampshire college aka WASP Evergreen

My bf’s response to the Hampshire news

oh no haha... someone take her wifi away permanently

don't ask me i haven't read a single one of them! i'm just here to post and even that i regret

Not to be a bitch but this is a weird corollary to angry young men getting captured by manosphere podcasters after feeling rejected by puritanical and officious liberals

Looks like Tyler Cowan found the New Aesthetic he was looking for and turns out it’s Helen Dewitt

No offense to the plasticana lovers but all in all the vibe here is “starter pack for the guy or gal who has decided to have “”taste””

Chalk sign that reads “Agency School (sold out)”

Basket of Plasticana hemp garden clogs on a wooden floor

Hell in Hayes Valley

I saw Sirāt - send in the ravers

MAINTENANCE is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. Every living thing spends a great deal of time and toil in maintaining its own life and the life of the systems it depends on. Plants tend the life of the soil they grow in. Beavers maintain their dams and thereby the pond that protects them. Humans maintain their bodies, their vehicles, their homes, and their cities, along with much else. Nearly everything worth maintaining is nested in something larger even more worth maintaining. But so much of doing maintenance is tiresome. Brush the damn teeth, change the damn oil. They are unrewarding chores—repetitive, boring, often frustrating, and endless. Since that part of maintenance is a pain, we shirk it, defer it, fail to budget time or money for it, let it drop to the bottom of the priority list. That’s easy to do because the necessity of maintenance accumulates invisibly and gradually. Then suddenly one day the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops in a turmoil of disruption, expense, and blame. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional. It it easy to put off, and yet it has to be done. Defer now, regret later.

This (from Stewart Brand on the progress of his now-published book about Maintenance) is gagging me ... essentially a rewrite of Mierle Ladreman Ukeles' Maintenance Art manifesto.

"Maintenance is a drag; it takes all the fucking time" (M.L.U 1969)

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A document on printer paper sits on a wooden table beside a glass of beer

Printing out my tabs so I can read the internet phoneless at the beer garden as is my right

😢

I give it about 8 months (in San Francisco at least)

Ew the San Francisco tech dads are posting their Gramicci and Orslow pants on the tl… they’re blowing up your spot boys. Time to get the next military inspired post-gorp trou locked and loaded before this shit starts to read like 4-way stretch joggers by association

Exterior of the famous ride “it’s a small world” with a boat full of people floating past on an artificial canal in the foreground

i’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe

Exterior of the famous ride “it’s a small world” with a boat full of people floating past on an artificial canal in the foreground

i’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe

WHO GETS TO LOOK AT THE WORLD? The memeification of war and the ubiquity of cellphone cameras makes it feel like we are watching this shit play out live. But the surveillant aerial view is only ever selectively available to lay-people.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

oh that guy!!! crazy cheekbones and crazy pecs tbh. he's kind of spot on a lot of the time

who said that?? feels pretty correct i'd say

Ultimately quite disturbing to see people applying the logic of industrial agriculture and the CAFO to their own bodies and lives. and for what!

So many of these "taste" bros are building bodies that are very UNtasteful.

Looksmaxxing and creatined to the eyeballs - boys you look TACKY!!

ohhhh interesting

jokes aside McLuhan is back in the discourse because he was good at identifying and diagnosing transformations in media and culture but was not "political" and thus does not require contemporary readers to ponder political answers to cultural symptoms.

Why is Marshall McLuhan being cited everywhere again all of a sudden? The idea of a Canadian philosopher... it just doesn't sit right

Very strange spot!!

a "hidden speakeasy" pay by the ounce/pour your own beer bar behind a moving book case in the back of a bigger and also-bad-looking bar called "Tap In"!!!!