inverted vibe curve: burgertown has fallen

nobody is talking about this but every time you make up a guy to get mad at online I employ the astral workings of the Sarmoung Brotherhood to manifest that guy as an enfleshed tulpa destined to cross paths with you and ruin your day IRL. consider yourself warned

Allentown grandpa who was granted asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Pinochet was disappeared by ICE. The family was then told he died. Now they learned that he's alive, was deported, and is in a hospital in Guatemala. mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui…

🚨 NEW STANDARD EDITION EPISODE🚨 Abby and Patrick read the case of "Frau Emmy von N" AKA "the one where Freud learns to listen." Then they go behind the pseudonym for the real Fanny Moser's tale of wealth, scandal, and maybe even True Crime! buzzsprout.com/2131830/episod…

I spend every day asking ChatGPT to summarize books, do therapy, and navigate life. today, in a stunning moment of self-reflection, it expressed worries over my ability to imagine interiority and grasp the problem of other minds. so I was like "say that sexy waifu pirate style"

settler Christianity is magical

we have so much planned over at @PsychosocialFo1 & @Parapraxis_Mag for fall-- parties, programming, courses, and our biannual seminar (this time on Romance). As of today, our short courses are enrolling:

I spent 8 optimized hours asking Grok, ChatGPT, Alexa, Claude, Siri, Jeevester, BingB0T, and five other LLMs to summarize Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations for me and got the equivalent of 40+ hours close reading the book. sure they all got hung up on these passages but whatever

This Guy (Jeffrey Epstein) Thought He’d Beaten the Male Loneliness Crisis thru Friendship - but in the End, Did Loneliness Win? or

actually the kerfuffle over the Trump - Epstein card is all about distracting you from the real story: people don't write each other nice letters so much anymore

If you think that Epstein birthday letter is too weird to be real, you're not very familiar with Trump's 1980s style

Freud to Bonaparte, 1937: "I have an advertisement floating about in my head which I consider the boldest and most successful piece of American publicity: 'Why live, if you can be buried for ten dollars?'"

please take a break from epstein speculation to appreciate “dubai chocolate is an MI6 plot in favor of palestine,” a hall of famer conspiracy theory

scientists may never be entirely sure what “obscene jouissance” is but the particles emitted by this are off the charts

Decent possibility that this item—and others like it—are part of the reason the promised release has been curtailed

Wall Street Journal is reporting they have uncovered a bizarre, sexy and flirtatious letter from President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003: