Oedipa Maas

from Wittgenstein‘s Culture and Value

whitepilled again (heard a world class violinist play Vivaldi at an organic farm at sunset)

my newest reason to dislike AI is that it’s making my beloved em dash seem suspicious

It has become a given in humanities academia that some people’s apprehensions of life are just “anxieties.” And once a perception can be labelled an “anxiety,” it is automatically mistaken. Vast areas of reality can be effectively marked as “off limits” this way.

Counter proposal: Inspired by Tom Bombadil

everything I have ever heard about Ben Shapiro has been learned against my will

type of guy who exclusively cares about things they can’t affect

"How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Mossad" (derogatory)

Anything the feds had on Epstein would have been cleaned up years back, the admin botched this on their own with dumb influencer hype, pursuing it now is pointless and a distraction because no answer is possible, but don’t trust anyone who says it was a hoax. All of this is true.

Jean-Luc Brunel suicided, Giuffre settlement wrapped, Maxwell fix is in; the clean-up is almost done and the core network is not only untouched but ascendant, more powerful than ever. It's been educational.

I resonate with Hannibal because I, too, have a rich and secretive inner life that can only ever be truly shared with deeply autistic men

good morning to everyone except the IT people who send annoying fake phishing tests all day long just to break my focus and waste my time

there's a caste in american society that consumes as much blue-chip media (nyt, new yorker, npr) as possible and then quizzes each other on how closely they've read it to discern their place within the caste. i outwardly present as a member, i think, and it's been very awkward

synesthesia but specifically for Bill Callahan's voice