Pretty sure it wasn’t & even if in a sense it was — dialectics my friend! Today’s ‘abnormal’ was pregnant in yesterday’s ’normal’.

grace There's statistically people who were born in the late 1890s who fought in World War 1 and then used email/Internet forums in the 1990s.

“If we could dissuade from wars, so much the better...to take such a select crop of youth and energy and power and then to put it in front of cannons – that is madness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, late notebook, W 13, 646, W 13, 645

Love how the singularity bros think this is the technology that is going to take us beyond the frontiers of our humanity.

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I’m so exhausted all the time. I have to lie down after doing a few dishes.

#AccidentalPartridge

Teenagers have started calling AI art “boomer art” and consider it cringe. I honestly couldn’t be happier.

Repeatedly googling hamas on my work computer

Designs for municipal signage used to look like constructivist art.

I need a husband

Pessoa is one my favourite authors. And this is a very interesting thought from him. “The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”

“Animals fantasticate me. They are time that does not measure itself.”

(Clarice Lispector, Água Viva)

Foucault, Agamben, Schmitt: The return of polis banishment to modern, technocratic orders. ‘Rights’, ‘humanity’ & ‘life’ totalised in order that humans can be excluded from them — except while remaining within the polis.

this man could be slaying 15 to 20 twinks a day if he put his mind to it

They literally look like they’re from M&S.

On the inevitability of Starmer, the moment's representative politician COMPACT

compactmag.com/article/keir-s…

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