The same people who don’t accept Clapton’s takedown of himself in the 70s as chauvinist & fascistic readily accept Albini’s less forthright self-criticism. ‘Edgelord BS’ is a humblebrag for promoting his mates child pornography. He was a misogynist to the end.

Talented? Yes.

A naive imagining of this: we find ourselves on a boundary between order & chaos, slowly cooling form. It’s during this, at this scale & for the time being, that structures of life manifest, ever so briefly flowering.

With sliding continuous scale it can be quite Bergsonian…

I see ignoring accounting rules qualifies you as a founder. It would be OpEx not CapEx. Cashflow people!

And yes, language is economy: I’m invested in you, I hope you return with interest.

But why be happy to prepare to compete as nodes in a matrix? What an inverted dystopia!

I have deep appreciation for Paul Auster 🖤. Here I may offer an alternative take to trace the edges of his point. Do we see different Mondrians we look at this image? After the private language argument I say, no. And mathematicians do offer different proofs for the same…

What point is being made by 4? During The Great War soldiers with PTSD were shot for cowardice. Lobotomies were performed from 1880s to 1960s for bipolar patients. Insulin shock therapy was introduced in 1927.

Psychiatry is far from perfect, but we’re not worse off.

Fascinating! Although I knew Thirring's name from the Lense-Thirring effect, I had no idea that he had such an interesting life story and tried to contact Einstein about the bomb through Gödel. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Odd that the controversy is over statements about Cage’s silent / not silent 4’33”. McWhorter is correct. A piece that invites the audience to hear what otherwise might be obscured by music is not saying stop, listen to the shouting people outside. It is to listen to the quiet.

While I’m not aware of any attempts to ‘upload’ Dennett, atheistic bodily resurrection is not entirely discounted by his adherents. He wouldn’t see it as practical soon, however another atheist might hope the memories of the future resurrected remain peaceful.

RIP Daniel Dennett

This is why I was proud to see my nephew a year ago, after my mother passed. It turned out he was a cryogenic field technician reaching very low kelvin on behalf of a company that didn’t especially treat him well.

It’s still more interesting than another $18bn collider.

A modified take: the article juxtaposes lack of agency with an intentional stance to suggest neither fully explain the attackers motivations. ‘Resentment’ is a keyword when applied to a social group & comes with baggage like ‘low self esteem’. A sickening, troubling attack.

I remember stories about Gowanus ‘Hazmat Necropsy’ Dredge, the notorious Brooklyn Gangster. He was an assiduous campaigner against the Barclays Center gentrification of Boerum Hill. There were unfounded concerns that the microclimatic cultures of the local canal would be diluted.

I fell asleep wondering why this was a question.

Sometimes when someone is worried consciousness is an illusion they should sit back & enjoy it.

I remember when I started this as a quasi-music-promotion account. I do have music coming, have for a while, but I’ve drifted so far…

Eliminative materialism is a social construct.

I should probably justify that. ‘Everything is a social construct’ is just as bad. But right now I’m more interested in the semantic contagion that spreads ideas that eliminate the possibility of empirical science than the ideas.

Philosophy Twitter needs to do a better job explaining why ‘exists’ & ‘does not exist’ matter in a variety of situations which don’t involve two people in a room with a strawberry they can’t pick up & eat.

We build simulacra to chase that of us which is human into a corner from which it screams, ‘This is not me!’ We stare in horror, reaching through our imprisoning mechanical mirror wondering how a badly xeroxed image could have saved us from our sense of isolation.

(Goth take #3)

Show the greatest “I’m about to die” moment in cinema.