If Whately didn’t exist we would have to invent him.
11.03.2026 16:28
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If Whately didn’t exist we would have to invent him.
Learning about Whately’s book is what led me to write my book (though I probably devoted approximately two sentences to it)!
Are you just responding to the description of her as “Chinese American”? Or did I miss something in my hurried look at the summary?
museum-goers wince at the sight of grotesquely oversized shoes. “they did this to themselves,” the docent explains. “fathers would inject their sons’ feet with filler. they called it the ‘twelve-inch golden lotus.’”
broke: footbinding
woke: footmaxxing
Rubio staring at his shoes like his first big boy pair
Puts this picture in a lot more context now
Floresheim hasn't been a recognizable name in shoes since 1986 and I am 99% sure it is now a house brand at JC Penney, which perfectly captures the headspace of someone who is rich, cheap, and whose worldview hasn't materially changed since the last Reagan Administration
Big Tech is literally stealing the public internet.
This remains one of the most brilliant things ever.
youtu.be/kZEGHK_3W2o
Malacca
"Admittedly, the Henry Ford reference was wrong even though he was an innovator in the automobile industry. I certainly was not trying to praise Ford and didn't intend to minimize his contemptible antisemitism in any way." (Wikipedia)
Renfer: I accidentally deleted my original brief because I was overwhelmed so I used AI to try and replicate my prior work
I know it's only March, but I believe that "sloppelganger" is 2026 Word of the Year
From the correspondence course craze in the early 20C to MOOCs one hundred years later, the commodification of education was but a lucrative side hustle for unis. Now the compulsory technologization of education is fully integrated into extractive capitalism. What a time to be a professor.
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
I think One Battle After Another was significantly better.
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I didn’t have to use ChatGPT to know it tells you that you’re right even when you’re wrong. I’ve talked to people about their LLM usage, read reporting and studies about it, and seen what people have shared online. The idea that you HAVE to use something yourself to critique it is not always true
Trying real hard to passive voice terrorism here.
Katherine Anne Porter lived long enough to buy Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall.
HANK: i don’t get it. why am i being reassigned to the border team?
SMOKING MAN: [eating another button of peyote] you misunderstand. the border is coming to you
4/5. Turns out I think that Carl Sagan was a clunky writer.
Don’t worry, there’s gonna be so much link rot and data loss that future historians will basically be medievalists.
I’m assuming dude just doesn’t like coffee; drinks it just for he caffeine.
Though, wait. I’m now realizing that MacWrite [sic] (I am old) and then maybe early Word too didn’t have footnotes yet? I think I did my own superscripting and then typed up endnotes. Jeez. I guess I do believe in progress after all.
Yeah, thankfully I didn’t really start footnotes until I had just acquired a Mac.
Oh, duh, I see you already shared the link.
I must mention once again that, given he was living in London in 1939, it's theoretically possible for Sigmund Freud to have watched Bruce Forsyth on TV.
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