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

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

for anyone who doesn't wanna click the vid

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

i’m like incredibly uneasy lol

uncomfy environment and no one’s hand to hold

this is how you get the pronouns labeler folks

funny that i did the exact same awkward song and dance in 2023 when i joined the first time

one last screenshot for old times sake

tfw u don’t know the vibe yet so u don’t know what pronouns to use

everyone’s too woke about this shit

“if i’m being a bitch you can use she/her”

thank u for dragging me btw, it wasn't a graceful goodbye but it mattered to me

she is busy but she told me to come in

honestly it was pleasant to just sit and listen for a bit

she is quite good at her job you know

“my orbit” is pretty funny lol

that sounds contrary to this but it’s a different kind of social, like a weighted blanket

hopefully she’s not busy