Bento (dog) licking spoon
There are no a lot of ways in which having a dog is like having a child, but I let Bento lick the spoon I use to make his food just like my mother let me lick the spoon she used to make cookies
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Much of teaching is giving summaries, sometime to get to talking about X, some philosopher or idea, you have to first give a quick summary of Y. The same is true of writing, to make your point you often have to summarize the other points you are arguing against or using. As someone who has been doing this for awhile, I would say that summaries are never the same, they are always related to the specifics of the class, a summary of Hegel is different in a class on work or on nineteenth century philosophy, it is also different depending on who is in the room, are there philosophy majors or is it more general education students. The same is true of writing, the summary changes based on the audience, the publication, and the overall context of the article. Summaries are not some neutral, generic "one size fits all," but a specific intervention in a specific situation. It is for this reason that I HATE the little summaries that AI offers for every article or book. Of course AI offering to summarize the article I just downloaded is a little like a restaurant offering to have someone eat the meal I just ordered, I downloaded it to read it. I also just think these generic summaries miss the point, there is no summary in general.
I wrote about Macherey's new book on Spinoza, and why no longer seem to be living in a society.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/soci...
AI offering to summarize the article I just downloaded is a little like a restaurant offering to have someone eat the meal I just ordered.
Bento (dog) in red light with shadow and soccer ball
Airbud meets The Thing
Fuck, now I have to like The Strokes.
Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.
Repeater was released on this day in 1990. (Pedantic old timer voice, It is Fugazi's first album. Thirteen songs is not an album, but the first two EPs collected onto one compact disk.)
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Bento (dog) near pier head titled
I do not know how or why dogs tilting their head when confused developed, or what it says about our shared life together, but it is adorable as hell.
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll
I just happened to be reading this book this morning when I learned about Palantir’s manifesto—good timing in bad times.
i think it’s SO SUPER TELLING that a lot of this manifesto, which demands that we allow Silicon Valley to enact fascism and endless genocidal violence at home & abroad out of a “moral debt” to the govt that funded its rise, is expressed in the language of anti-wokeness and cancel culture discourse
“The shuttering of Hampshire College … feels different, not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition of progressive education in the US.” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Bento (dog) with his paws on my feet
My buddy
Ah Squiddy, I got nothing against ya. I just heard there was gold in your belly.
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If Hollywood is not making this into a movie the system is truly broken.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Says the administration that has been doing everything it can to undermine that trust.
Reposted for #Supermanday
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/08/just...
Unfortunately, a very accurate representation of the state of the United States right now
Anyone at Hampshire knew what I was doing, I remember even the reporter couldn’t keep a straight face. I am surprised it was printed. This was the UMass paper so I have no idea how it was received there.
Picture of me with long hair. Text reads “Jason Read, Third Year, Anthropology, Hampshire College with my response “They should be hung from lamp posts as moral sing posts for American youth.”
From my Hampshire scrapbook. A newspaper came from campus asking the question “Should drug abusers be incarcerated or rehabilitated?” I knew what they expected a Hampshire Student to say, and I also was really into Debord and detournement and decided to my own little subversion
Usually this is where I would do a sickos meme, except that the people who are actually being hurt did nothing to deserve it and the loss of revenue or whatever from the rich Americans who can't find any more employees to abuse is scarce consolation compared to the concentration camps.
Bento (dog) with copy of Sur L’appareil D’état et la machine de guerre
The paradox of Deleuze is that of the thinkers of his generation he is the most engaged in theory, in Jameson’s sense as a transdisciplinary form of knowledge production, while simultaneously being the most classical of philosophers.
Swim fan
Miracle plant eaten into extinction; who was the real Pontius Pilate?; inside the illegal lion trade
Foucault had Borges' Chinese encyclopedia. I have my daily emails from National Geographic.
Hegseth's mistaking Pulp Fiction for the Bible is funny to most of us, but unfortunately a lot of people in this country just consider scripture to be "a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass" anyway.
