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Our 3 go-to Christmas movies now.
Happiest Season
Spirited
Daddy's Home 2
We've left some of the Old School dependables behind, these give the most X-mas pop right now...though did throw in Alien last night, to...you know.
Happiest Season
Spirited
Daddy's Home 2
We've left some of the Old School dependables behind, these give the most X-mas pop right now...though did throw in Alien last night, to...you know.
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our 3 go-to Christmas movies now.
Happiest Season
Spirited
Daddy's Home 2
We've left some of the Old School dependables behind, these give the most X-mas pop right now...though did throw in Alien last night, to...you know.
Happiest Season
Spirited
Daddy's Home 2
We've left some of the Old School dependables behind, these give the most X-mas pop right now...though did throw in Alien last night, to...you know.
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if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
Academic Philosophers work in a textile industry...their work, their job is to produce & proliferate texts (& more text producers). What is to come of the work when so many others produce texts (of counterfeit imprimatur) & soon texts will be produced & proliferate thru automation at mad rates?
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Academic Philosophers work in a textile industry...their work, their job is to produce & proliferate texts (& more text producers). What is to come of the work when so many others produce texts (of counterfeit imprimatur) & soon texts will be produced & proliferate thru automation at mad rates?
I think the Ontological Argument for God is subtly a bit like an Ontological Argument for Coherence. Because the Religious tradition considers coherence to flow from God itself, its very perpetual possibility-activity proves its existence. We moderns, on the other hand, do not link God and Coherence
The Ontological Argument for God asserts that the possibility of God is by definition equivalent to Their necessity
This seems like a self-referential definition. Can you construct a Gödel sentence that asserts it's not disprovable if and only if it's provable?
This seems like a self-referential definition. Can you construct a Gödel sentence that asserts it's not disprovable if and only if it's provable?
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I think the Ontological Argument for God is subtly a bit like an Ontological Argument for Coherence. Because the Religious tradition considers coherence to flow from God itself, its very perpetual possibility-activity proves its existence. We moderns, on the other hand, do not link God and Coherence
Watched Vertigo in 4K for the first time, blown away of course, but also so, so struck by how much it (likely) directly influenced Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. I bet Roy Batty's white-blonde hair came from Kim Novak. I've never realized how close these films are, despite BR being my favorite film.
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Watched Vertigo in 4K for the first time, blown away of course, but also so, so struck by how much it (likely) directly influenced Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. I bet Roy Batty's white-blonde hair came from Kim Novak. I've never realized how close these films are, despite BR being my favorite film.
several philosophical words would likely be improved if the prefix was replaced by "dia". Diacept, diacrescence, diastance, diathesis, diaduce, etc, etc.
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
several philosophical words would likely be improved if the prefix was replaced by "dia". Diacept, diacrescence, diastance, diathesis, diaduce, etc, etc.
Cixous, probably the author who most erupts with brilliances when I read her again, and who most slips from my mind for handfuls of years and decades of time. Just unparalleled.
“Presence and absence are my wings. Impossible to separate myself from them. To transcribe my life, with one leap, invisible to myself: to be not altogether what I think I am, to escape way up there, to the last leaf, at the limit of the species.”
— Cixous, First Days of the Year (tr. MacGillivray)
— Cixous, First Days of the Year (tr. MacGillivray)
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Cixous, probably the author who most erupts with brilliances when I read her again, and who most slips from my mind for handfuls of years and decades of time. Just unparalleled.
As Wittgenstein argued...there is no such thing as a Private Language.
Billionaires aren’t building bunkers for fun. They’re preparing for the societal collapse they helped create, argues @JulianCribb. #BunkerWorld #ClimateCrisis #Inequality #Future #Collapse
Welcome to BunkerWorld – home of the rich and fearful
From luxury bunkers to billionaire boltholes, the world’s richest are planning for collapse rather than preventing it. Julian Cribb argues this fear reveals a deeper failure of our economic system – and a stark choice for humanity’s future.
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
As Wittgenstein argued...there is no such thing as a Private Language.
Crazy to say, but back when special effects were believable BECAUSE they felt unreal...and unreality that was equal to the irreality of film itself, extending the dream.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Crazy to say, but back when special effects were believable BECAUSE they felt unreal...and unreality that was equal to the irreality of film itself, extending the dream.
Intimacy and Extimacy.
Do you ever think about how the distinction between "this" and "that" is not just spatial distance but Euclidean spacetime distance
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Intimacy and Extimacy.
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"Love stands opposed to death – it alone, and not reason, is stronger than death. Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts."
—Thomas Mann
—Thomas Mann
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"Love stands opposed to death – it alone, and not reason, is stronger than death. Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts."
—Thomas Mann
—Thomas Mann
This is the truth challenge of Spinoza.
Is suddenly stooping down to help a stranger who has fallen the same level, the same force of "cause" as being struck by a car yourself? Are you equally compelled? Thrown to toward the ground twice?
Is suddenly stooping down to help a stranger who has fallen the same level, the same force of "cause" as being struck by a car yourself? Are you equally compelled? Thrown to toward the ground twice?
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is the truth challenge of Spinoza.
Is suddenly stooping down to help a stranger who has fallen the same level, the same force of "cause" as being struck by a car yourself? Are you equally compelled? Thrown to toward the ground twice?
Is suddenly stooping down to help a stranger who has fallen the same level, the same force of "cause" as being struck by a car yourself? Are you equally compelled? Thrown to toward the ground twice?
Waiting for the "turn" to happen (2 episodes). Right now Rhea Seehorn is incredibly one-note, an "Internet Karen" of outrage, serving an interesting allegory for our times - very hard to watch in contrast w/ her BCS subtle character building. It IS full of potential ideas. Want to see where it goes.
Pluribus is A+ good so far. Exactly my sort of thing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Waiting for the "turn" to happen (2 episodes). Right now Rhea Seehorn is incredibly one-note, an "Internet Karen" of outrage, serving an interesting allegory for our times - very hard to watch in contrast w/ her BCS subtle character building. It IS full of potential ideas. Want to see where it goes.
Spinoza made the most beautiful Rubik's Cube such that you can turn every side and make it fit.
I wonder what a time-traveling Baruch would say to all the articulate but speculative/amazing things we do with him.
I wonder what a time-traveling Baruch would say to all the articulate but speculative/amazing things we do with him.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Spinoza made the most beautiful Rubik's Cube such that you can turn every side and make it fit.
I wonder what a time-traveling Baruch would say to all the articulate but speculative/amazing things we do with him.
I wonder what a time-traveling Baruch would say to all the articulate but speculative/amazing things we do with him.
a big Del Toro fan...but this film. Ugh. No. Isaac (who I also enjoy) completely non-engaging in his flourished melodrama. Elordi, a beautiful guy in white paint (come on master of visual design, a male "Nebula"?). Very disappointed in the core of this film. Mia Goth held her part/s down tho.
a man standing in the snow with a ship in the background
ALT: a man standing in the snow with a ship in the background
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November 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
a big Del Toro fan...but this film. Ugh. No. Isaac (who I also enjoy) completely non-engaging in his flourished melodrama. Elordi, a beautiful guy in white paint (come on master of visual design, a male "Nebula"?). Very disappointed in the core of this film. Mia Goth held her part/s down tho.
In Philosophy it is possible to take skepticism quite seriously.
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
In Philosophy it is possible to take skepticism quite seriously.
A great deal of politics, and certainly all of ethics (& morality) is anchored in the perceived, imagined "enjoyment of others", and if it is appropriate. What is it that the "other" is enjoying?
I have read Spinoza enough to know that we should not find joy in another's sadness, but some of the worst people in this country are pissed that their money did not buy them power this time and I can't help but take some joy in that.
time.com/7331119/zohr...
time.com/7331119/zohr...
The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani
Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
time.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A great deal of politics, and certainly all of ethics (& morality) is anchored in the perceived, imagined "enjoyment of others", and if it is appropriate. What is it that the "other" is enjoying?
Spinoza's panpsychism equation is pretty simple.
1. To think is to act.
2. To exist is to act.
3. To exist is to think.
4. All things think.
1. To think is to act.
2. To exist is to act.
3. To exist is to think.
4. All things think.
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Spinoza's panpsychism equation is pretty simple.
1. To think is to act.
2. To exist is to act.
3. To exist is to think.
4. All things think.
1. To think is to act.
2. To exist is to act.
3. To exist is to think.
4. All things think.
Spinoza chuckles with mirth from his place in Eternity.
I see panpsychism has broken out on Bluesky again. 🫥
November 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Spinoza chuckles with mirth from his place in Eternity.
Liberation. You can have it both ways. You can see that coffee is a work performance drug that got so twisted into the culture that Labor Unions bargained and won worker stimulant "coffee breaks"...
And there is nothing in the world like a first cup of coffee. Nothing.
And there is nothing in the world like a first cup of coffee. Nothing.
November 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Liberation. You can have it both ways. You can see that coffee is a work performance drug that got so twisted into the culture that Labor Unions bargained and won worker stimulant "coffee breaks"...
And there is nothing in the world like a first cup of coffee. Nothing.
And there is nothing in the world like a first cup of coffee. Nothing.
"The Conformist cost only seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars"
Last night watched this again, this time in 4K. The above...wow.
Not sure how I feel about it this time. Lacked unity for me, but visually spectacular.
Last night watched this again, this time in 4K. The above...wow.
Not sure how I feel about it this time. Lacked unity for me, but visually spectacular.
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"The Conformist cost only seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars"
Last night watched this again, this time in 4K. The above...wow.
Not sure how I feel about it this time. Lacked unity for me, but visually spectacular.
Last night watched this again, this time in 4K. The above...wow.
Not sure how I feel about it this time. Lacked unity for me, but visually spectacular.
Bought this in hardback and its sitting on the shelf. I went into a deep dive into epic Sci-fi after falling into the Murderbot books, a genre I loved when a teen/young adult. Lots of books lined up now, but this one feels further back. My wife kind of told me the whole plot & I'm not sure.
I had heard only good things about this book and I enjoyed The Martian well enough, so I picked this up.
A good read! Didn’t talk down to the reader either, which I enjoyed. Looking forward to the upcoming movie.
#BookSky
A good read! Didn’t talk down to the reader either, which I enjoyed. Looking forward to the upcoming movie.
#BookSky
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Bought this in hardback and its sitting on the shelf. I went into a deep dive into epic Sci-fi after falling into the Murderbot books, a genre I loved when a teen/young adult. Lots of books lined up now, but this one feels further back. My wife kind of told me the whole plot & I'm not sure.
A very, very insightful Graeber lecture/essay, was glad to be directed toward it! (But, at least in my view the Spencer "compatibility" reading of Graeber is just off and misses Graeber's fundamental point.)
On Graeber on Play as Constitutive of Freedom with notes on Spencer and Plato.
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Graeber on Play as Constitutive of Freedom with notes on Spencer and Plato.
One reason why I really enjoyed reading David Graeber’s collection (2024) The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World: Essays (edited by Nika Dubrovsky; my page-numbers below refer to the Farrar, Straus, G...
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A very, very insightful Graeber lecture/essay, was glad to be directed toward it! (But, at least in my view the Spencer "compatibility" reading of Graeber is just off and misses Graeber's fundamental point.)
The problem with the Turing Test is that people are really, really...really dumb.
October 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The problem with the Turing Test is that people are really, really...really dumb.
"my mobility is angry to get out" wow. Tim!
Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
![Screenshot of text from the interview:
You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?
I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.
[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kauax6xnnqalxegoxv6ku6cv/bafkreigcfeqofifclu6we32xbzdi6klq6qpymjd4pal4mgxkatvmuf5jsu@jpeg)
October 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"my mobility is angry to get out" wow. Tim!