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βI want to be stabbed with a knife by a humanoid coworker. β¦ I just want to be stabbed in the stomach, that's all.β
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Avant God π₯π΅πΈ retweeted
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I don't have anything to say apart from expressing gratitude for the Grossman in my bookmail today... elated to see Robert Chandler involved in the translation.
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βVasily Grossman, bespectacled, overweight and leaning on a walking stick, was dejected when the recruiting station turned him down. [β¦] Grossman was only in his mid-thirties, yet the girls in the next-door apartment called him uncle.β A Writer At War, Beevor
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I am enriching uranium with a view towards developing nuclear weapons
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Since starting Chinese it has become harder than expected to avoid adding ε to the end of questions when speaking Spanish
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Adam Curtis canβt keep getting away with this
President Trump, from the South Portico of the White House, with the Easter Bunny, addresses Iran:
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Beast mode
Mar 22
Kids on a street in central Havana playing dominoes by torchlight just now.
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This essay is about how the internet has βchanged our sense of self,β yet (as many have noticed) it fails to leverage fundamental scholarship in the humanities that the internet has now made broadly accessible. Annoying blind spot all too common in essays by those in art/tech/etc
Mar 10
"The Post-Individual" essay took me five years to research and write. It's about what happens when the individual stops being the center of society. We're still early in this shift.
ystrickler.com/thepostindiviβ¦
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Itβs ~3800 words after 5 years of βresearchβ watching Adam Curtis and reading a few NYT bestsellers, so the bigger essay is about why this kind of stuff gets written and how it ends up passing for insight in certain circles
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Iβd rather not care really, but since these circles occasionally intersect with those looking to buy land or whatever for reactionary βnetwork statesβ it unfortunately warrants some level of attention
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Bro has horrible ankle/hip mobility
Mar 10
Clavicular officially drops his American Psycho inspired Trailer for his 24/7 one month long streaming marathon, starting March 13th π₯
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Oswaldo Zavala is good and I donβt care that a bunch of parapolitics babies wanted his to be a different kind of book and got disappointed. Just read something else and stop complaining. This comes up literally every time cartels are in the news cycle, grow up
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