It's covid.

I’m going to teach the world what propreantepenultimate means, even if it’s the fifth to last thing I ever do.

I just saw a TikTok that said “The real reason we have a male loneliness epidemic is because marriage was DEI for men” and I can’t stop thinking about it. That may be the most succinct explanation of women no longer settling for mediocre partners I’ve ever heard.

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide, whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living"

This is how kids get eating disorders btw

This is what automation should be doing instead of making art

Some of you want me to believe walkable neighborhoods are pointless in the winter because nobody wants to be outside.

Kristen Stewart says acting is by nature “quite embarrassing and unmasculine,” and that going Method is a way for some male actors to temper the “inherently vulnerable” side of being a performer: “Have you ever heard of a female actor that was method?”

Foucault

Students asked about AI companies advertising to student pops and I recommended that they read tech bro rhetoric about AI while swapping out "AI" for the terms "slavery," "pollution," "billionaire profits," or "deep state surveillance," and we had a great time. Highly recommend.

Something big is happening STEM is dead. CS jobs are gone. I hate to break it to you, but we’re dealing with a Total. Technological. Bloodbath. The ONLY choice you have is to dedicate your life to the humanities. Words. Books. Art. Music. The only lifeline we have left.

no offense but what happened to just googling things

I think we should let the philosophy/literature majors become therapists

"Ever since Harold and Maude, people have generally regarded me as an arbiter of weirdness. So I'll tell you what I find weird. I find malice, violent and poverty weird." - Bud Cort My uncle Bud passed away this morning. There is so much to say about how special, strange, and

Do women who swear give a fuck what men think?

Autism: I need clear instructions. ADHD: I need short instructions. AuDHD: Make it clear, make it short, make it interesting and don’t talk to me while I read it.

Caregiving for both parents in succession is the easily hardest thing I have ever done in my life. Glad I can do it and do it well, but it involves a particular kind of weariness that does not abate until the person dies and you get through the worst of the early grief. I had

Editors, I would like to write about books, games, and culture more broadly this year as a freelancer (features, profiles, you name it). Here are some clips. Hit me up!

it’s always anything but high speed rail

h/t Crossbones688