Levitating

A nice piece from Ben Folds on Hayley Williams and her political music: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Can I just say that this is a beautiful and thrilling public example of Black community care? One member of the community has experienced a carceral lockout and the entire architecture is being reoriented to bring him home. 👏🏽👏🏽

yearning is the other side of the coin of conspiracy theory and I appreciate your service 🫡

yeah no this entire experience of attempting to becoming a reliable narrator with interests and a unique perspective, instead of emailing my therapist and trying to assign blame for my discontents, is very vulnerable of me and i don't have a more clever saying than Bo Burnham "your phone is poison"

an under discussed facet of it scamming poor people is how it is notorious for robbing people in much poorer regions like South Asia and East Africa. It hits a lot different when you realize that $20 of rugpull was someone’s household wages for a few weeks.

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Did not know this about Old Bay

the matrix: gnosticism but make it robots

i'm out of fucks, time to go live my life

rage more

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It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

i wouldn’t bet against Bari Weiss, but i absolutely would oppose her. that so many in our society are so market addled they confuse the difference is much of our problem.

this is a game often played by people who experience some systemic oppression and then they sell out everything good and wholesome and sleep well about it because they feel socially secure in their group chats

but yeah this is just the next level of dystopian, it will get much, much worse

I guess I have to identify as a historical materialist because there's no way to have a concept of the individual as having mental health these days

just shocking how poorly equipped mainstream institutions are for this level of systemic rot

insignificant

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i think Hillbilly Elegy will take a historical pillar right next to Mein Kampf, a hateful, rancid memoir devoid of empathy or compassion, demanding the vulgar masses be indoctrinated into fascism or eliminated

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

i mean, that's why I am feeling hopeful about the extent to which I see mainstream YouTubers posting shit like 'we have enough GDP to take care of everyone on earth, actually'

i can't help but be optimistic about what comes out of the humiliation

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well, on a practical level it's enshittification, in that if no one is going to sue them for workslop they're going to deliver workslop

no man it's way too early for democrats to abandon norms. we gotta wait for the openly genocidal armed right wing forces invading cities to be entrenched and organized first

I don't always reference David Foster Wallace, but when I do it's his essay on how TV warped fiction and society

jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf

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I mean apparently that's pretty much everyone now, or something

Anyway this week for the Times I reviewed this incredible book, which asks the question “what if we kill them back” in a way that I found very moving and sad