Big news out of our building today that has nothing to do with the late wars. Sea levels are already much higher than most people realize. The models were wrong. www.wur.nl/en/longread/...
r you sure you need to work yourself to death to get that tiny bit of art and research funding? pls, think again
walking dead analogy doesn't really work here. these are not zombie worms, they were never really dead, and they are certainty not dead now, wiggling their ancient, 40.000 year old worm bodies www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...
A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"
Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip
(with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)
turns out no amount of soft and hard genocide denial will count as loyalty when the time comes... what a shock to see this approach fail, I'm shocked.
A girl lifted my wallet in the locker room. Scrolling through her travel and transaction history and honestly? Taste this clean deserves a line of credit…
platform capitalism 2026
An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine.
psyche.co/ideas/why-be...
a country that siphoned billions from culture and education for defence against russian invasion goes into a full panic mode shutdown on snow day…
Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.
really not sure the hoarding principle is what gives time value
training chat into debate mode.
an insider account of a carastrophic fuck up by Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...
"Karl Marx failed to consider brain worms"
there is a rat running around in an exhibition about poverty.this animal’s sense of conceptual belonging and irony compliments if not this completes this otherwise rather predictable work and its lackluster chatgpt captions.
These section titles are kind of perfect. I’m not sure they need any changes, or the 9,000 words that follow them.
Will & Disgrace!
"implicit and explicit complicity" 😮💨
It’s strange to be in a position just far enough above the threshold that your income security actually depends on which political party wins the majority. Stakes r stressful, but the odds are slightly better than no political representation at all.
psychoanalysis is learning to live again after philosophy.
(vibing with Jung)
"We all chunk. We are all categorizers and users. Life’s conventional elements demand that of us. But we are all also transcendental-fielders. After all, a chunk is only a chunk against the contrasting background of the field as a singular-generic spacetime of experience. "
outrageously scandalous and delicious read about anachronistic mafia, snails, and taxes.
“I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.”
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
very true, paranoia even
what is perceived as ‘present’ is the “vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation”
Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.
why is this relationship dynamic so enduring...? 😭😭😭
there’s an apple in my fridge I realized was forgotten since July. it didn’t mind that at all. it didn’t rot, a real people pleaser, yet I’m never so out of fruit to actually want to eat it. are we really supposed to believe that paradise was lost over something so aseptic?
" I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense “Remembrance of Things Past” into a paragraph" 😭 and then what?
(kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
i still hate boris more.
from today's lecture on cellular meat cultures by Clemens Driessen: the frikandel theory: it's a scandal, but is it really? does anyone knows exactly what's in it? (nope) but does anyone wants to know? (also no) @culturalgeography.bsky.social
