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“The Just World fallacy needs to go”
Monday, August 3, 2026
Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Universal Basic Income This is the foundation on which all of our “choices” are built. We like to believe that somewhere above this machinery, there’s a rational agent pulling the levers, but Sapolsky argues that there is no level at which the machinery gives way to […]
just a fit of pique
Monday, June 29, 2026
A Better World Is Not Possible They may be right. But there’s something suspicious in any automatic answer. Set aside the need to say no, of course it was all very bad. We’re here anyway. Put down the sense that it is dangerous to ask—worse, that it is unserious, unadult, vaguely embarrassing to ask—for a […]
an eternal moment
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Friedrich Engels once said: “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” What does “regression into barbarism” mean to our lofty [Western] civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what […]
2.8 days
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Low-Earth orbit is just 2.8 days from disaster Solar storms create a rapidly changing atmospheric environment that requires constant, real time monitoring and control. If that real time control is lost, the paper suggests there may be only a few days to restore it before the entire system collapses. via /r/collapse
Games
Friday, January 30, 2026
According to [Johann] Huizinga [in Homo Ludens], games have certain common features. First, they are clearly bounded in time and space, and thereby framed off from ordinary life. There is a field, a board, a starting pistol, a finish line. Within that time/space, certain people are designated as players. There are also rules, which define […]
Homo Sacer
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Epstein: A marxist perspective Thus, the assumption that “the world is run by pedophiles” is mistaken because it confuses cause and effect. It is not pedophilia that makes one powerful, but power that generates those distorted forms of desire that express themselves in mistreatment and exploitation. via reddit Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and […]
Eigenvalue knows the score
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Thomas Pynchon Is Angry […] one detects a writer who has finally lost patience with Americans’ persistent failure to understand the obvious consequences of their own country’s actions. via Reddit i read Gravity’s Rainbow last year. Pynchon’s relevance is so profound as to be deafening. i have V and Lot 49 on the shelves, i […]
Why do people listen to this shit?
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
The Hatred of Podcasting Shows like this have a flow that the listener doesn’t actually participate in—the hosts have gone home, you’re the only one in the room, and it’s a dead conversation that’s already happened—but, given the intimacy of how the product is consumed, can get the same psychic impression. On your commute, while […]
Go home, Tilly
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin Tilly, you can not look up and become half of someone. Because you are no one.
