had a strong urge to go to bayou beer garden last night, and ultimately didnt. but then found out this morning my friend bri was there, out celebrating her last day as interim principal at Kipp. Like a boozy sixth sense that i hope will never leave me, i intuitively knew what the move was
gotta turn off the subtitles when you watch standup. don’t fuck up their timing. Respect the art
when I see tom hiddleston I only want him playing British. He’s so British looking, I don’t like him messing around and doing an American accent. Leave that shit to michael fassbender
this makes me think of a Tracy Morgan joke where he goes “I only bet on myself. It’s like working for tips”
random other new orleans related clip for you youtu.be/2MwTlgsDHpA?...
really hate to admit it but i understand now how elon musk buying twitter and turning it into a right wing website leads logically and directly to this website, a musty old time capsule of lib thinking where people are still talking like it's 2023. a little on the nose but it's pretty interesting
A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library
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genuinely i would love this
basically when i got old enough to learn about god and jesus and basic Christian teachings, i got very freaked out by this Satan fellow, and somewhat wisely deduced that the rest didn’t matter if an all powerful trickster spirit was after me, and they had to tell me it’s all made up to calm me down
Carr also wrote about the exploitation of negativity bias: anger engages, so algorithms feed us what we oppose. But even if we consider that a new media phase, it has traces of shock TV, of controversial novels, of polemical writing, of rabblerousing speeches. New media contain all previous media
thompson doesn’t care, because his intellectual process seemingly consists of skimming Wikipedia and consulting chatgpt. but many smart people have already written better stuff about this topic. for example Carr (2025) wrote about the fb newsfeed & its “frictionless”ness that reduces self reflection
some media ecology theorists argue that we’re entering a fifth phase, the algorithmic phase. This includes digesting a “pre-processed” reality, where experience arrives not just live, but pre interpreted.
McLuhan would argue that the content of every medium is always another medium. Writing is just an extension of the spoken word. Mass print is just solitary scribbling on a mass scale. Television & video is just print + moving pictures and sound. Each phase contains traces of the other phases
Walter ong, whom thompson quotes superficially, would argue that you can never go back. The genie is out of the bottle; you can’t “unthink” writing. Even in a post literate world, your YouTube videos and podcasts still have bulleted lists, for example. The “linearity” of writing persists
when, for e.g., we made the jump from print to digital (really “electronic”), a revolutionary new sense of “live-ness” and simultaneity emerged that changed our “sensorium” (sense of the world). We can suddenly communicate instantly across vast distances, changing our relationship to space and time
i was skeptical of media ecology theory until @erickblasco.bsky.social and i took a class on it with katherine fry, who writes lucidly about it. the short version of this idea: there were 4 jumps in human communication. they were orality, literacy, print, and digital. Each jump changes everything
hate to always be beating up on this halfwit, but he’s thinking through mcluhan here, & he is demonstrating the most tenuous grasp of media ecology theory. he makes the (audaciously wrong) claim that post-literacy means a return to orality. the theorists he’s trying to crib from would not argue that
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we did what in iran? god dammit i came on this website to talk about the tron soundtrack
truth is, i’ve grown into a nine inch nails guy. but that’s too off brand
i’ve got a dumb inside joke where every time i drink a mai tai, i whisper to myself “it’s mai tai season”
jake szymanski did it again. incredible m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4q_...
AI should’ve ended with will smith eating the spaghetti hung in the moma
“I used to collect music like butterflies—you had to watch them fly by, swoop them in a net, pin them to a board. This is how I learned to care about music. You had to really want it.” - another flawless banger by molly dirt.fyi/article/2026...
I think the place for AI was avant garde art. It should’ve just been this little machine for a handful of weirdos who try to make it generate bizarre pictures and nonsense poetry, for like 6 months before they moved on to some other weird process. It was born to be a fad in aleatoric conceptual art
(monsignor mollusk??)
the democrats should run on data centers, tax breaks for rental property owners, and concentration camps but woke
new orleans has a specific strain of leftism that is very DSA and annoying but also perceptive and brave and, most importantly, high in density
my dad worked in hotels; i fancy myself a baby of the hospitality industry. so when i need to book a room, i want it to be like the scene in grand budapest hotel where all the concierge guys call each other to help a brother out
