I submitted two dissertation chapters this past week, which was a little anticlimactic but still relieved. Thanks to the sentence submitters who kept this from being a very bare bones newsletter entry.
And, you know, I hate competing symmetrically with government approved monopolies.
Someone I interviewed for my dissertation
Don’t we all, man.
Candy corn tastes like melancholy and whites only drinking fountains
Submitted by Matthew.
No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago.
“A Benediction for Chicago on the Eve of Occupation”, Dan Sinker on his blog
My mom lives in DC so we’ve been talking about the fascist occupation stuff a lot, and she was saying how worried she was for me if/really when they come to New York. But the crazy thing to me is trying to pull this in Chicago first. Look, New Yorkers are freaks about their city, but have you met anyone from Chicago? Maybe the only place where the people go harder for their city is Oakland. Just seems unwise to fuck with Chicago IMO.
It’s fun to imagine the past 150 years of psychotherapy springing from Freud’s failed eel dissection project.
Submitted by Mark.
A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs.
Tumblr post by tlirsgender
Via grayRazor on Bluesky.
Aging is generally defined as the progressive decline in physiological function of an organism over time, resulting in a decrease of its fitness and ultimately death.
“Endogenous metabolites promote stress resistance through induction of mitohormesis”, Fabian Fischer and Michael Ristow for Embo Reports
Submitted by Wesley with the comment “idk exactly what it is about this sentence that tickles me, i think it's maybe the contrast between "generally defined as" and a really specific and reasonable but somewhat niche definition.”
The story of New York is a tale of ceaseless Manichean struggle between the chthonic forces of rat chaos and the shining light of civilization.
“Curtis Sliwa's Feral Cat Vigilantes Will Clean Up This Dirty Town”, Nick Pinto for Hell Gate
LLMs perform a kind of taxidermy with words, presenting them in a lifelike fashion that mainly serves to remind you that they are dead.
“The reified mind”, Rob Horning for his newsletter Internal exile
Submitted by Erin.
nothing anyone says will convince me peter thiel isn't sticky, texturally
Planets are not abstract we are always living in outer space all the time
Max Neely-Cohen on Instagram Stories
Submitted by Kelsey.
The president did not use the press conference to announce his own death, however, but, instead, used it to announce he’s moving US Space Command to Alabama, brag about blowing up a boat full of people in Venezuela, and deny that he saw the internet celebrating that he may have died.
“Trump's Labor Day Weekend At Bernie's”, Ryan Broderick for his newsletter Garbage Day
Submitted by George. Independently, Ed submitted this from the same newsletter:
There’s really no polite way to phrase this, but, basically, there are a lot of people on the internet who really want Trump to die.
They use AI to pursue the jobs AI hasn’t yet taken.
“What Labor Means Today”, Jonathan Larsen for the newsletter The Fucking News
Submitted by Suda.
Few things have tested my patience like this car, and I have two younger brothers.
“Our 2023 Tesla Model Y Two-Year-Long Test Is Over. I’ll Never Understand How It Became the Most Popular EV.”, Alex Leanse for Motortrend
Submitted by Ed.
Octopuses and crabs are not using human-generated training data to mimic the behaviours we find persuasive.
“What Has Feelings?”, Kristin Andrews and Jonathan Birch for Aeon
Submitted by Justin.
There are no guillotines or molotovs without optimism.
“How to clear an inbox”, Mike Monteiro in his newsletter Mike Monteiro’s Good News
Submitted by Angela.