ozempic stare

Stylizing Florence. And there are no noise filters here, all the color breakup is painted by me (digitally in Photoshop).

This argument is a speedrun of how the right lost the culture war for three decades and almost destroyed western civilization by so doing. The right became infected with two terrible assumptions. 1. That childishness is bad. 2. That play is for children. Both of these

Uncle Sam cannot get a better deal from Vietnam than free. Vietnamese women grind in factories to produce Nikes, while Uncle Sam sends them printed money in return. Who is ripping off whom?

Seen on Slack.

I wrote this in 2021

unprecedented levels of cope from MAGA people

Washing my hair with just niacinamide and water doing wonders for my scalp

We need a prequel to Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, one describing the devastation wrought by paper. Before paper, people had to speak to each other in person, in the flesh. We used the voice to transmit vastly more than simple text, we used tone of voice and inflection,

Physiognomy is so real except when it isn’t

The thing about growing as a person is that you can’t predict the psychological or life innovations you’ll make. So it doesn’t make sense to want specific things too far in advance. The future you will want differently, with better knowledge.

You can’t schedule breakthroughs

First carrot salad in a while and I am WARM

This is what it's all about.

The response to Trump’s tariffs taught me that both the left and right are selective about when they care about economics.

conjecture and criticism

When Israel hits Iran it’s like they shot a needle at 5000 mph and hit a genocidal maniac in the head while he was standing in his kitchen. And when Iran hits Israel it’s like they took out half an apartment complex in Tel Aviv and there’s zero explanation or plot