Apologies first to @freecraigslistsnob.bsky.social because he nominated Liz Lopatto’s sentence last week; I had already encountered and added it but did not mean to appear to engage in stolen sentence valor.
Nothing like a nice Delta-Epsilon Proof for my post-nut clarity.
An anonymous Pornhub user quoted in “We Asked the Math Tutor Who Posts His Lessons on Pornhub: Why?”, Koh Ewe for Vice
I don't necessarily love rotting bodies, but there's a texture to a rotting body that is unbelievable.
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, David Lynch
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of this (read by Lynch) at the recommendation of Chris, and not only is it helpful for thinking about the grief of Lynch’s passing but also just thinking about how to keep living amidst all of the all this. It’s got me returning to ideas I’d shelved and really letting myself sit with fleeting ideas. Lynch also has such a wonderful soothing cadence—the enthusiasm with which he says the texture of a rotting body is “unbelievable” really makes it a more wholesome sentence than it seems as plain text.
It’s not like I was a super-fan of David Lynch’s movies, but his passing really shook me. People who are so entirely themselves, just incapable of faking it and wildly deeply present, are so rare in this world.
It must be clear even to the non-mathematician that the things in this world just don’t add up to beans.
The Angriest Dog In The World comic strip, David Lynch
Even if you eat this stuff all day, you can still live to your 30s.
A translated quote from Weibo in the newsletter Moly’s Substack, 11/18/24
Submitted by Danielle.
When I think of you reading this I do not want you to be taken captive, separated by a wire mesh lined with glass from your life itself, like some Elektra.
“On Major and Minor”, Anne Carson
via Maeve on Bluesky.
If Facebook and newspaper op-eds are any measure, we “white” Christians can’t stop bringing him up, almost as a cudgel, an admonishment to those today who would dare demand their own human dignity for not doing so as antiseptically as we remember it being done by Dr. King.
“Sky”, A.R. Moxon for his newsletter The Reframe
Submitted by Brad.
But if OpenAI is doing primitive accumulation, expropriating the commons and making it their own—if they are dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt—then a company like inference.ai is the nice legal friendly guys who come and do the nice legal capitalism afterwards, once all the blood and dirt is cleaned off.
“In line to be over”, Aaron Bady on his blog and other shells I put in an orange
I’m still haunted a little bit by the image of boats down the Danube with a skull and crossbones and your name on it.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviewing David Pressman for The New York Times
Submitted by Melissa, who found the response to this question (“Me too.”) a rather perfect Q&A moment.
The life I always said I wanted, the weather I longed to complain about, the rooms I could only dream of settling into.
You Get What You Pay For, Morgan Parker
Submitted by Mars last week but I didn’t see the second email in time.
Yet the god’s-eye view of the planet may become polytheistic as the number of satellites and their makers continues to grow.
“The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing”, Mia M. Bennett, Janice K. Chen, Luis F. Alvarez León, and Colin J. Gleason
Implying that the Hand of Wisdom and Action unique could be a higher level than 52 is bad enough--but there is no bigger sign of being a fake gamer girl in 2025 than not knowing how the business side of YouTube works.
“The Musklash”, Max Read for his newsletter Read Max
Cliffs should be less ambiguous now.
Release notes for the game Manor Lords, 1/10/2025
Submitted by John.