artists making art about the figure of The Artist is sort of like starting a business that starts businesses, or working on those AI models that're supposed to recursively self-improve. yes it's sad you went to harvard but it doesn't make it *this* impossible to develop interests
i compiled it!
if materialism in the marxist sense were real it would explain a lot about the discipline
of junior TT faculty at the top 30 leiter rank philosophy departments:
2% have ever held a vap
0.5% have ever held an adjunct appointment
5% have ever held a renewable teaching position
11% have ever previously held a role at an R2
2% have ever previously held a role at a 4-year
i dreamt last night of NEET-and-greets, which were annual events with lines out the door... you get to look at the NEET cave (if only for a little while) so as to gain precious insight into how to live so well, how to game so much, how to enjoy pizza pockets
today while taking out recycling i discovered my neighbours had filled the recycling bin with wet pillows and i let out like three involuntary 'ach so's... i was fantasising about reporting them to some kind of cantonal recycling magistrate before i realised i was turning swiss
right when jürgen habermas died i had just been reading an article from monocle magazine to my friends in eurocrat voice and it left such a discomfiting impression on me that i felt myself lapsing back into eurocracy for days thence
i accidentally set my wikipedia to dark mode & it disturbed me so much i started unconsciously fumbling around with the language selector like my brain couldn't parse the script it was written in
the estimable guest lecturer!
yayy mine is doing slightly better too
bf’s shared faculty office contains:
- totally stopped clock
- jar of Natural Molasses with a 2021 expiration date
- out of tune Aerosonic piano
- 10 volumes of charlie chaplin films on VHS
former punk frontman who just turned 43: 'living in a simulation // food co-op tribulations'
drummer who bought his first moog last year: [80s pop melody repeated 8 times]
frontman's daughter's oberlin friend: 'i'm like a bug // or is it a dog'
frontman's exwife: [angular guitar]
every manufacturer of humidifiers is one thousand times as guilty as your worst SBF or holmes for their production of infinite clouds of baby killing lung fibrosing pm2.5 white dust
‘cool mist’ is basically like toxic gas intended to punish you for believing your life could be better
even after the south korean humidifier disinfectant scandal (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_K..., 20k dead, same products still sold in the US) we have yet to bring one false humidity peddler to justice
if your air is dry your whole life is dry. there’s nothing for you anymore. your epithelial barrier has given up. it’s time for you to do the same
as a new yorker i carry talismans to protect me from the harmful effects of ductwork wherever i go
adding water to air is literally impossible. it’s air. air is a gas, not a liquid. what do they take us for
under communism forced air heating will be illegal. you really can tell it doesn’t want to do that
evan gave you a christmas gift! everybody say thank you evan!!!
in hindsight we were able to close the book on american liberalism when the new york times changed their little front page christmas homily from 'today is christmas. remember the neediest' to 'remember to give back to your communities'
im harking it
even unopened, totally unsalted butter turns pretty quick. i’ve gotten it off supermarket shelves and had it slightly turned
salted butter keeps way better!
i just don’t want to read any more poems or novels about how spooky and evil but also secretly cool you think the thing you’re currently doing is
we need to show less forbearance with people in tech who produce creative work about how sorry they are that they’re in tech. i mean this in a very value-neutral way re: the ethics of tech or whatever; you’re either in tech or you’re not. the cafe across the street is hiring too
it's insane how much applying to things we make artists do. that's basically the last thing you'd expect them to be good at
for me it's like watching disney movies (i don't mean that in a bad way)
all models are agentic with a harness/appropriate tooling; what makes them better at tool use is just post-training on the specific details of the tools they'll be using. the new deepseek models are perfectly fine at tool use, a little worse than the claudes and maybe a little better than kimi
