Starfleet Academy gives an autism test as part of the entrance exam. If you aren't autistic they don't let you in.

Star Trek can't stop inventing new metaphors for Autism, there are two or three new ones in each series.

If we apply this fluidly gendered idea of bisexuality to the concept of original bisexuality we get a Freud who is a true constructivist about gender.

I was reading about Freud's treatment of the poet H.D. I think we often misinterpret his concept of bisexuality as only sex and not gender, but it's clear that when he called H.D. "the perfect bisexual" he was referring to a sort of nonbinary gender identity more than sexual preference.

Slightly out there choice, but I think Tom Waits could do it.

Of course Danny DeVito if you wanted to go a more comedy direction.

Present day Mark Hamill could be interesting casting and with the beard I think he looks a bit like some of the old busts of Socrates.

I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that, it probably depends on what political and economic events we experience in the near future. I'm not an expert in psychology or economics. I'm just trying to be clear about what the OP is saying.

That's the point of the post from OP you are replying to. His theory is that people in the 80s were more used to bigger price increases year over year and so not as shocked by the big inflation spike as people in the 2020s have proven to be. Give it time, a period of stability will calm people down.

What OP is saying here is an addendum to a larger blog post on the subject of cumulative price increase and consumer sentiment that's worth reading.

This is about cumulative price increase not just the yearly rate of inflation. It seems like people are still mentally comparing 2026 prices with 2019 prices. People weren't used to price jumps like that in the last 30 years, they aren't used to the new prices. Inflation is lower but prices aren't.

I need to get in on that moka pot lifestyle. I love my French press but the "espresso" calls to me

I'm fairly convinced that this is the correct view on today's economic sentiment. The thing people actually care about (real prices not just inflation) isn't being captured by most economic measurements.

"if you know what I mean": innuendo
"iff you know what I mean": dogwhistle

The next James Bond should be played by a woman, but with absolutely no other changes to the character. She'll be an alcoholic womanizing dirtbag lesbian, and she'll be perfect.

I should add that I try to be an ambassador for analytic philosophy to my continental friends, and although I've broadly found them more willing to read the other style some are no less closed minded.

A picture of Robert Brandom edited to have laser eyes

Sort of marginal, but I'd argue Brandom is in the analytic tradition.

Finally getting around to reading Rosa Luxembourg's The Accumulation of Capital. It's straight fire, I love her so much

As someone firmly in the continental tradition but with analytic training, I think you were very even handed. I try to be an ambassador for continental philosophy to my analytic friends, and it can often be a frustrating experience. I'll never get the obstinacy of refusing to read with an open mind.

I would argue yes it's extremely unwise if those ideas are important ones. If no one taught Foucault, Said, or Butler we would lose out on half the important work done in the humanities and social sciences over the last fifty years. We can criticize those authors over style, but we can't ignore them

Just saw some posts from very violently anti NASA people. Fascinating to see people arguing that moon missions are both the height of US imperialism and a distraction from their many atrocities.

Crazy to me that Chicago isn't a more popular style outside history and some humanities. Especially with PDFs it's so nice to have footnotes.

Downloaded more PDFs.

Will *these* hold the wisdom I seek?

A couple years ago I saw a beautiful collection of five or six Pissarro paintings. I've been in love ever since

Interesting article. I think this tracks my experience of sad art up to a point, but it doesn't quite capture all of the experience. I'm appropriating the sadness of the characters/artist, but it doesn't need to be closely related to my own. Empathy with an alien sadness can be even more powerful.

I was pretty ok with the old world dying, the new world struggling to be born seemed reasonable, sucks that it's now the time of monsters though

It's so brutal! I managed to lose three ascension 8 games on the final boss before beating it. I just beat ascension 10 on Silent. I'm working on getting the other characters up there now.

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed, in a priest’s robes, looking anguished and panicked, saying “Well, somebody has to do something!”

god, the last few days, i don’t think ive ever related to a movie character more than this one in this scene

Guy who gets confused about the term "enlightenment" and thinks Rousseau is a bodhisattva (he's right)

One of my most Freudian philosophical takes is that a committed belief in universals is often a symptom of sublimated fear of death. The desire not to acknowledge that there could be an end to beauty, goodness, or your own soul.

The lyric "I'm not a girl, I'm a swarm of bees" is Ashnikko taking a deleuzean line of flight in which they are both becoming animal and embracing multiplicity.

The more OOO I read trying to figure out why it appealed to people the more confused I became. All its insights are better articulated elsewhere and what's left didn't make much sense.