kant's phrase "the supposed right to lie" has to be one of the all-time best phrases in passive aggression

when/as the AI bubble bursts how can we use this to get them to give us the codes

Really good piece by Mary Townsend I think good art has to be humble--that is, the artist has to be willing to take aim at their own ideology to the exact same extent that they're willing to take aim at the ideology(ies) that they don't like. This, to me, is the through thread

this, at nearly the twenty year anniversary of hurricane katrina

y&w son, wearing a brunson jersey and a hoodie from the metropolitan museum of art, eating a popsicle from the store where somebody tried to bribe a reporter

perking up in the coffeeshop when the song lyric 'some love is just a lie of the soul' plays but it's not a plato song it's just billy joel

the feeling when you are looking to verify a quotation that won't quite search up and after an hour of going through the annotated text, you find it

micro-trend alert incoming, markedly more people in late twenties/early thirties reading on the subway. and friends they are reading with a dialectically oppositional gleam in their eye

a seagull has captured a large crab, and this has made some small children very happy

the whitsun weddings but ten jetties’ walk along the beach

eric rohmer: actually brittany was a bit too sunny for me. but I worked with it

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