the problem with most critical thinking today - whether watching tv or movies or reading books or whatever - is that most people think good creators are trying to deliver answers when they’re really just posing interesting open-ended questions

I think the “you have to love your work and if you love the work of writing, you won’t use AI” take is very, very bad. And very, very smug. And also bad.

my main motivation for reading capital is that i wanna argue

People don’t appreciate Gillian Welch enough. Top 10 musician that’s ever existed, put her with Bach and the Beatles. People should form a religion around her.

non binary descartes: they think they them

Elaine Scarry: "If you really want to take down someone’s, or a whole population’s, ability to think, you must do it by shutting down their practice of the fictional as well as their practice of the factual."

I encourage anyone interested in the debate over millennial feminism to read The Feminist War on Crime by Aya Gruber where she uses the term repeatedly to unpack the complicity of a certain strain of liberal feminism with the carceral state

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and I'm apparently just German. Kant would approve. german.millermanschool.com

You reach a point where you can only post photos of Baudrillard smoking and looking directly into the camera so many times.

all the Ye denunciation is performative-activism btw

Telling everyone how impressive my first gay bareback orgy was

"Glossary: for readers from elsewhere, who don't deal very weIl with unknown words or who want to understand everything." - Edouard Glissant, Malemort

do ppl srsly think ye is a nazi???

How much did Rachel Cusk pay for her first home and what was the interest rate of her mortgage?

shaving your armpits is textbook pick me behavior. you shave because ad campaigns a century ago told women their natural body hair was icky and unladylike and less attractive to men, all because gillette wanted to double their market. and you pretend it was actually all your idea

I love it when sufjan stevens sings “I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve made a lot of mistakes” over and over. me too buddy

The king of “I will never unmute this”