ThePolymathicSpree
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Making out the seventh piece
Have job will alt
There's nothing wrong with being psyched about 人
Have job will alt
There's nothing wrong with being psyched about 人
"He calls me Petal, I thought, and the Zoom window between us is like a black, wet bough. We were virtual, but yes this was Poundtown. In a flash up from my mind's Metro I realized-- I have my title."
Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto is a celebration of the English language
“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
"He calls me Petal, I thought, and the Zoom window between us is like a black, wet bough. We were virtual, but yes this was Poundtown. In a flash up from my mind's Metro I realized-- I have my title."
Dua Lista "Meditating"
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Dua Lista "Meditating"
The disciples, reporting back after crowd asks for less of the fish.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The disciples, reporting back after crowd asks for less of the fish.
For Thiel and Sacks it was encountering Black students at Stanford (who among other things didn't have to go back to a different sector of the Bay Area at night) and for Thiel the divestment movement on campus. "The subhumans are coming for me" has been his guiding light ever since.
one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
For Thiel and Sacks it was encountering Black students at Stanford (who among other things didn't have to go back to a different sector of the Bay Area at night) and for Thiel the divestment movement on campus. "The subhumans are coming for me" has been his guiding light ever since.
I'm going to have to reread three Murakami novels to restore working vision to my eyes.
The prose is incoherent & the only way to make it through a paragraph is to rely on the North Star or her self-pitying narcissism. The gist of this graf is “strangers obsess about me, must be because I work so hard,” but it is almost immediate lost in the morass of “typed on notes app while hiking”
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I'm going to have to reread three Murakami novels to restore working vision to my eyes.
There are so many Summers stories beyond Epstein, Harvard community is just too dysfunctional and too afraid of its own involvement to have them come out.
Could almost be a yearly Best American Larry Summers Stories edited volume.
Could almost be a yearly Best American Larry Summers Stories edited volume.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
There are so many Summers stories beyond Epstein, Harvard community is just too dysfunctional and too afraid of its own involvement to have them come out.
Could almost be a yearly Best American Larry Summers Stories edited volume.
Could almost be a yearly Best American Larry Summers Stories edited volume.
"Joyful rigor" captures so much of what tech's approach to language, writing, interaction, and, nauseatingly, imminent "erotica" flees: intimacy, patience, care, how joy and suffering are each other's consorts not enemies.
I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Joyful rigor" captures so much of what tech's approach to language, writing, interaction, and, nauseatingly, imminent "erotica" flees: intimacy, patience, care, how joy and suffering are each other's consorts not enemies.
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Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
August 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.