the best thing about reading books is everything. some books are gonna make me think about all MY life choices. others are gonna make me think about the CHARACTERS' life choices. some are wild rides i gobble up in one sitting. others take longer and make me feel drunk on story when done.
BOOKS!!!!
The mask of Nyarlathotep you summon when you want to destroy the manosphere
Also the one with the little girl, but yeah the "town full of loser" might be the peak line delivery.
In this house we stan Earl Pastko.
(And also Julian Richings but that's the start of a real tangent.)
If i was a vampire I'd be fine. If I was confronted with the erosion of the soul borne of my need to regard all other creatures as prey or competition I would simply handle it.
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If you look at these men and think "that's what a genius looks like, I gotta give this guy all the money that has ever existed in the hopes that they build Roko's Basilisk and it rewards me for my unwavering faith in The Basilisk" then I'm sorry but you have the brain of a baby penguin
I have a registration and rooms booked, but ultimately the answer will depend on how safe I feel crossing the border. (And that's the middle-aged, relatively well-off, white, cis, straight man talking.)
Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1) Jerk chicken from Soul Island that imma eat now
2) The start of a road trip when the possibilities are infinite
3) A shared look between old friends conveying instantly that something just caused you both to think the same thing
At least three of us are in this boat, but I don't think the horrors have compatible agendas. It's going to be a problem eventually. For now it just enables a lot of dark comedy among ourselves.
I mean, it's not actually a surprise that they think this; it's been pretty obvious for a while.
It is a surprise that they're stupid enough to say it out loud.
remember when Facebook straight up lied about the "pivot to video" stats and wrecked entire industries? Surely the chatgpt people wouldn't do THAT
"Failures that can not be attended to."
Damn, son.
Saul's non-fiction began with the trilogy comprising the bestseller Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992), the polemic philosophical dictionary The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (1994), and the book that grew out of his 1995 Massey Lectures, The Unconscious Civilization (1995). The last won the 1996 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction Literature. These books deal with themes such as the dictatorship of reason unbalanced by other human qualities, how it can be used for any ends especially in a directionless state that rewards the pursuit of power for power's sake. He argues that this leads to deformations of thought such as ideology promoted as truth; the rational but anti-democratic structures of corporatism, by which he means the worship of small groups; and the use of language and expertise to mask a practical understanding of the harm caused by this, and what else our society might do. He argues that the rise of individualism with no regard for the role of society has not created greater individual autonomy and self-determination, as was once hoped, but isolation and alienation. He calls for a pursuit of a more humanist ideal in which reason is balanced with other human mental capacities such as common sense, ethics, intuition, creativity, and memory, for the sake of the common good, and he discusses the importance of unfettered language and practical democracy. These attributes are elaborated upon in his 2001 book On Equilibrium.
It's actually fascinating to see how many things that are obvious now, which weren't as obvious 30 years ago (or at least weren't to _me_) are hit on in his analysis.
OK, just for me & Tom.
The Nebula of Morbius!
#SomeOfTheseAreJustForMe
That was a "like" of solidarity, not an expression of schadenfreude.
The award for best press release goes to....
#canpoli #chillax
This does remind me, John, that is you haven't listened to/read Saul's UNCONSCIOUS CIVILIATION (now 30 years old! Yikes!) that it might be something right up your ally.
There's probably a really positive reason for this rooted in the way our culture developed from a different blend than the US--John Ralston Saul writes about this in his REFLECTIONS OF A SIAMESE TWIN.
There's a negative reason too: our national identity is smug about being "better than the Yanks".
Biological life is a billion year effort to make water taste like things.
I'm glad it was made clear this was about the Strait, because just looking at the picture I was sure it was about LLMs.
Everyone running this country rn is stupid and pathetic but Kash Patel is stupid and pathetic in a whole other bug-eyed, barely-got-into-the-least-popular-frat-on-campus-at-a-state-school kind of way
Cliché & basic point, i know, but it's really fucked up how many people refuse to ask "but how will we pay for that" about war & jail shit.
Like they fully & fundamentally accept & believe in endless money taps for killing & jailing & hurting other people, but not like… food or medicine or housing.
With all of our glaring faults as a nation, imagine being proud of our ability to kill people
Manosphere figures couldn't tell a grown-ass man ****. And now they couldn't tell young men **** either because they outed themselves as marks and weirdos and sad johns. "Being a man" now means doing the exact opposite of what Ak does. Or Tate does. Or Fuentes. Or McGregor. Or Trump.
Yeah, I usually don't use those links--I figure if people need/want the service they can find it themselves--but this time the link came to me already in that form (from a newsletter I was reading) and I just didn't undo it.
Anyway, Ed's posted the source already so we should be good.
And that's without getting into the whole "why sure, I believe the CIA never does domestic operations, and I sure believe the NSA never does mass surveillance on US Persons" thing.
If you are not a "US Person" the wording here should worry you.
If you are a "US Person" but you ever leave the bounds of the US, or communicate or do business outside the US, the wording here should worry you.
