i had a moment of despair yesterday when i realized that i need to either purge some more books or buy another bookcase. the system i’ve been using for the past decade no longer works with my three Billys

same woman, same format:

“is it ok to use Trimix if i only want to add ten pounds to my dick?!l

every time i see one of these my brain registers it as “trimix” and I’m like “please calm down, people.”

i used to watch the ISS livestream when I was falling asleep.

good god. I just got a recruiter email for a startup that's building "GPU-backed lending at scale".

instant loans! backed by... GPUs!

this was less true among the catholics, but there were people in the church I grew up in for whom "are you happy" was a proxy for "how is your walk with the Lord?"

I love that he's spinning it as a media generated "narrative", when Trump is basically frothing at the mouth.

hi!

jk. l(ol)

i mean the correct response was “def.” right?

Luigi ha sempre ragione.

1. this is cute
2. somehow I thought you were in your 30s but you look about 25 here.

Nobody asked for this, but I randomly took this image and ran it through a down-sampling / upscaling loop a dozen times and it ended up here.

Why not investigate bulldozing entire towns instead?

haha I absolutely did not

oh no.

got to let yourself lose things for a moment, back to wonder

instant follow 😉

Today’s poem: Richard Wilbur, “The Beautiful Changes”
#lunchpoems

didn’t know what to expect going in but i left in tears.

Maedhros stolen goods recovery service: “we’ll get it back, whatever it takes”

pick three stretches and do them before every workout

do it! feels good.

(fascism is a species of this, or is in any case deeply connected to this impulse)

In contrast to the Enlightenment's faith in perfection, which thinks in terms of complete freedom from "superstition" and the prejudices of the past, we now find that olden times —the world of myth, unreflective life, not yet analyzed away by consciousness, in a "society close to nature," the world of Christian chivalry-all these acquire a romantic magic, even a priority over truth. Reversing the Enlightenment's presupposition results in the paradoxical tendency toward restoration - i.e., the tendency to reconstruct the old because it is old, the conscious return to the unconscious, culminating in the recognition of the superior wisdom of the primeval age of myth. But the romantic reversal of the Enlightenment's criteria of value actually perpetuates the abstract contrast between myth and reason. All criticism of the Enlightenment now proceeds via this romantic mirror image of the Enlightenment. Belief in the perfectibility of reason suddenly changes into the perfection of the "mythical" consciousness and finds itself reflected in a paradisiacal primal state before the "fall" of thought. 13 In fact the presupposition of a mysterious darkness in which there was a mythical collective consciousness that preceded all thought is just as dogmatic and abstract as that of a state of perfect enlightenment or of absolute knowledge. Primeval wisdom is only the counterimage of "primeval stupidity." All mythical consciousness is still knowledge, and if it knows about divine powers, then it has progressed beyond mere trembling before power (if this is to be regarded as the primeval state), but also beyond a collective life contained in magic rituals (as we find in the early Orient). It knows about itself, and in this knowledge it is no longer simply outside itself.

gadamer on the paradox of counter-enlightenment fetishization of an imagined past

it’s important to stretch!

chest ✅

i only follow people who ignore me, because this validates my self-image

“Tech startup Ungoliant is hyper scaling the landscaping industry.”

“Thiel-affiliated company Sméagol promises new techniques to fight aging.”

etc

you could get most of what he’s saying by reading a handful of excerpts from schiller, goethe, yorck, schleiermacher, and dilthey.

I’m about halfway through Gadamer’s “Truth and Method”. He does a good job covering the intellectual history of modern hermeneutics and the evolution of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline, but I can see now why my prof in college skipped the entire first half of the book.