Fred Scharmen
@sevensixfive
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Consulting: @BrickMoonSpace | Teaching: @morgansap | Space Forces: @VersoBooks | he/him | opinions own
Brick Hill
Joined June 2007
A weird day to be writing about political tectonics and outer space.
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OpenAI and Nvidia passing the same ten billion dollars back and forth
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Outer space is a pleasant place A place where you can be free Theres no limit to the things you can do Space is the place. (Sun Ra)
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Truly, I cannot think of a greater fall from grace. From "you're going to get tired of winning in the tech right tpot government" to a series of incompetent, increasingly desperate copes fizzling out into radio silence from figures like pmarca on politics as a whole.
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if donald boat worked for yancey strickler i'd be on board with all of it 100%
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the jury has determined that you are guilty of the crimes at hand. you have been sentenced to graduate school.
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Actually Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. The monster is called "allegory for the emergent industrial working class as a reservoir of latent revolutionary violence"
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RT @PulpLibrarian: The Barclays Customer Service Programme (1985). Ridley Scott directed three adverts for Barclays in 1985, bringing in th…
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Francis Fukuyama's favorite movie is Blade Runner
also. i asked him what his favorite movie was and he said blade runner “ — AND NOT the ryan gosling one.” he did not know landmark e street cinema had closed, hated being the bearer of such bad news 🥀
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"where intelligence fails [at making an accurate assessment], aesthetics will see you through" - Terence McKenna
if someone is smart but has bad aesthetics, normies will not take them seriously. This is good. Aesthetic contains real information that this category of "smart people" can't read (and if they gain power, these blindspots will lead to their undoing)
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I can’t stop thinking about this
Imagining Christopher Walken saying “chat … GPT”
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@sevensixfive Tearing into a historic building with 3 weeks notice: "This is just like using your hands to eat rice"
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Centrist brain must be studied for science
The White House ballroom is fine Eating rice with your hand is fine Trump and Mamdani have generally bad policy ideas I wish people cared about stuff that mattered
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My haters will become my gators when I wade into the bayou of success
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