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haha cute yours made me too ^-^

i miss when we traded likes on our posts …. 💔⛓️ what? do i want to actually talk to her? ew no wtf

this genuinely isn’t about a singular person (i don’t even know if i’ve consistently had a relationship with that dynamic simultaneously), just a conglomeration of vibes

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the dogs at my apartment complex are v homophobic in their defense i look extra faggy today

this will either be: - project completionist weekend - pick up new projects that will forever go unfinished weekend

all day work training. mind numb

obvi the guys an idiot but i’m genuinely curious what context would make this level of granularity actually useful (also lmao gold star you tried @ trans options)

also ofc it doesn’t have to be “useful” to be a good idea; it could just make people feel good. tho personally i’ve always felt very icky about those forms and have always just lied

sure but at that point why appeal to rights at all? just say “i have the power to stop you from doing things i don’t want you to” and call it a day

i’m not using enforcement as a moral category, it’s merely practical. if you lack the ability to back up your rights claims with force if necessary, you practically speaking have no rights.

yeah so enforcing your rights

what do you do if someone violates your natural rights?

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics, pg. 64.

tbh i think we largely agree on goals, i just don’t think de-historicized and reified rights are the way to get there

objective evidence that i’m becoming more normie over time

i’d be so curious to learn how they categorize music by artist when it’s not hosted by the direct author themselves. they seem to have a really hard time gathering info on my habits. even categorizing videos as music seems a bit difficult for them, does recap only count things available in yt music?

(winter 2022 vs year of 2023 recap)

pretty accurate summary of the trajectory of my year

i got a job in mid year and after i started im just depressed LOL

like i wonder what this stat would be if it counted derivative works or videos not on the official channel (maybe it can if it’s recognized thru content ID? but i doubt otherwise)

internal pops on even-layered cubes are the bane of my existence

i still have a bag of 6x6 pieces that i was never able to put together from like 9 years ago. i promise i tried so many times ;-; skill issue i suppose

it took me a while after being exposed to the term 'pair-bond' that it was being used to mean exclusive monogamous partnership. it's still kinda goofy to me; can you pls just be more forthright with your ideological commitments for the autistic homies in the chat

tho i imagine the ambiguity is not accidental, or is at least a welcome feature rather than a bug. the point is to naturalize and present the concept as value-neutral.

i'm just kidding it's actually extremely good - i'm just tired from work

considered the low hanging fruit of being needlessly verbose in postone's jargon but i resisted the urge (i'm eepy)

postone's chapter on abstract time was the one's that stuck with me the least on my first reading, so i'm excited to revisit it now that i can appreciate it more viscerally.

moishe stfu about newtonian time i wanna go hang out with disabled anime girls

willowNov 28, 2023

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the not-so-niche intersection of marxologists and visual novel players

i love this song because i’m so violently ambivalent about it. i wouldn’t want it to be anything else.

willowNov 15, 2023

it’s a fantastic expression of a compensatory fantasy inspiring hope in someone so clearly barely hanging on. it’s delightful to think about the despair implied by this message for the atheist

i’ve appreciated BAAO since high school for this reason - their music sounds angry, frustrated, downtrodden, but they preach a message of hope and love. however, if you lack their faith then it loops back around to be depressing again.

each moment is significant in the dialectic, and the synthesis does not summarize the whole.

their new shit sucks tho lmao

saw a tweet and immediately stopped what i was doing to type 2000 words to myself about how much i hated it

the tweets in question

the semantic meaning of lyrics are usually far less significant than their sonic contribution. the voice is just one instrument among many, and music that treats it as such is usually far more compelling.

willowNov 28, 2023

postone's chapter on abstract time was the one's that stuck with me the least on my first reading, so i'm excited to revisit it now that i can appreciate it more viscerally.

that’s kinda jargon heavy and dense so for example: MAL/anilist have the ability to add comments and ratings to entries, but youtube doesn’t have the same feature when adding videos to playlists. this might seem like a drawback, and in many ways it might be relative to certain goals, but i feel like

there’s so much depth by not providing that ability. it leaves open questions like “why did they (or I) add this here?”, “how does this fit into the larger context of their playlist organization?”, “what was striking/warranting attention?”.

and it’s not that ambiguity itself is alluring - it’s that an explanation would prematurely foreclose curiosity, and is always partial. don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty to analyze with what people explicitly state about their motivations (hi freud), but in some sense that is a separate enterprise.

and what interests me is the way platforms and protocols are designed and how this influences our engagement with them. AniList toward lexical legibility, YT playlists towards metaphorical inclusion/evaluation.

(in this context, with this dimension). as someone who struggles immensely to put their impressions into language, i appreciate the lacking feature set. even with the limited options i do have (title, description), i can get carried away. and of course im never satisfied with the result - there is

an inherent gap upon translation. which is manageable or at least tolerable at times, but.. idk there’s a reason i don’t leave comments on my highest rated media

everything i could say would be nauseatingly quaint or horrifically inadequate. i listen to others talk about the aspects they enjoyed and i roll my eyes, even though i may agree with the individual judgement. even mentioning this is an inapt use of attention in the face of what could be discussed,

but articulation would shred the delicate flower of its petals, leaving a bald stalk in its wake. you think you are extracting the the most significant core, but in your haste and carelessness you have mangled your subject.

related: the mood evoked by a philosophical text is not merely a matter of style or taste. presentation is partially constitutive of substance, and is a great indicator of congruence.

postliterate on Ceika is good on this subject. inoffense and shallow is a pathetic failure when it comes to thinkers with bite and rigor.

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A Review of “How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle” by Jonas Čeika

I was inspired to write this because of a review of the same book by a fantastic medium writer now under the alias Amar Mujezinovic.