On the left we have a long history of modifying our speech to be more sensitive and inclusive, and people on the right hate it because they feel like we are just trying to control them. Well, now we see what it means when someone on the right does it: it is literally only about dominating the […]

Dawn, Sunday morning. I would like to linger in this twilight for a few days. Although I don’t like that twilight can mean either, the period where the sun is just below the horizon, be it at dawn or dusk, or, the same period but at dusk only. It feels like we need to invent another word for […]

When the dems had only the executive branch I remember reading some take about how the gop was ok with that because that’s the branch that has to do the chores and take the blame. But of course, only if you don’t dream big. Now that maybe the dems will have only the legislative branch we will […]

To the woman's credit: she defied the court and shared the footage anyway, which shows a state trooper blowing away two trained police dogs as they trotted to him, in response to an active break-in where the dogs were detaining the burglar Cops are great

Really digging Sly and the Family Drone. Not sure what genre to invent for it. Black metal free jazz? But a little different than what you might be imagining from that. (Edit: see “Shrieking Grief” from their Walk It Dry album for a track that lives up to that description. They have other modes […]

New South for Wales.

Enjoying Szwed’s book about Harry Smith. He thought each frame of a film should be understood as a glyph: interesting to realize that Smyth was a structuralist. Which helps me understand structuralism as a kind of schizophrenia. Apophenia without the negative connotations.

MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.

Harder to do degrowth in a world at war. War is like forcing the loser to do the degrowth

The Mormon cultural artifact of the “dirty soda“ is interesting because what’s dirty about it is that milk has been added to it. Milk, the foodstuff of babes, which emanates from the bosom of holy motherhood. Roland Barthes’ eyebrows raise. Cleanliness is dirty. We should remember that the soda […]