local fan of diagnosis-critique is a terrible diagnostician, blusters their way though haphazard critique in hopes something will stick

this alt text is awesome, i sourced the quote in itself and in root, reproduced the text itself, included the relevant footnotes, and provided a more full reference for the foucault citation

i lost my “sorry” tic for a few months there and now it’s back, not quite in full swing

i become less of a boy when i become a wife

that’s an incorrect attribution

i listened to the john oliver vid on felony murder and i think he’s being too dismissive about the nature of causation and responsibility, but that obvi doesn’t speak to the sociology

i’m not sure i wanna be there yet

rather, i’m sure i do not wanna go

i’m hitting the snooze button

i tried to make my ambiguous relationship to this passage clear

and also in context of below it makes it seem like i’m particularly worried about our discrepancies and what that implications that has for the continuance of our relationship, and furthermore makes it seem as if i am deifying her but none of that is the case

i wish i could better express how important you are to me kasey

i’m just crying and crying and i admire you so much

i misstated my wish, i really just want you to be happy

do you think they would ban me from the work discord if i said faggot

this one is my favorite

ming on the side cam like subway surfers

ming kit wong is actually super cool btw, his interests are very similar to my own and he’s landed some cool interviews

i’m not so bold as to aspire towards my own aesthetic contributions, but i hope to become someone who can keep up with the conversation

unfortunately it’s not as easy as opting out of participation or suspending judgement, abstinence is not an option and the notion of excusing oneself from aesthetics is as absurd as excusing oneself from ethics or politics (beyond absurdity, it is more disgusting than either of those two)

with another meaning

historians are far more equipped for aesthetic judgement than philosophers

artists themselves are historians of a sort by the minimal requirements of acculturation, but the aperture of their historical gaze narrows and widens as circumstance requires, for better and worse, even if they have capacity to do so

i’m also thinking of vertical and horizontal considerations

epistemic humility is one of the best intellectual virtues there is, but it can be pragmatically dire

praxis is hard in the way virtue ethics is hard, its all-encompassing and has extensive and intimidating demands

helps if you don’t play the all-or-nothing kantian game and your evaluative framework allows for gradations and contextual application

becoming an aesthetic stalinist (or conditionally, fascist) to own the ai glazers

if i can construct a logically consistent argument against a known bad thing, i can stop thinking and don’t have to explore the rest of its implications

not even a self deprecation thing but i genuinely don’t know how kasey doesn’t get incredibly irritated with me, considering im the exact kind of incompetent coworker that makes her life miserable

i’ll get better but wow am i slow on the uptake, throwing away the first year of training really fucked me

lol i’m dumb

very dumb

“her overall response far eclipses what i would expect for a TS of her tenure”

when is m getting w f“{val=}”

w $$fString(“{val=}”) is probably viable

tho in all likelihood you’d have to parameterize and it’d defeat the purpose, you’re just doing %s at that point

why’s everyone doing nick land rn

triple key index so fast

sometimes i have agoraphobia in the classical sense

other times, “open spaces” are unbelievably comforting, provided no one is in the vicinity

i need to go for a walk