mattweiner19.bsky.social
Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. World's leading connoisseur of Dark Hi & Lois. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
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second the recommendation for "Forlesen"
I would also say that if you are taking off from this story, The Fifth Head of Cerberus is very relevant
(in general The Best of Gene Wolfe collection has a lot of the good starting points IMO)
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Holding attention, retention, persuasion. HARP on it!
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in the spirit of publishing negative results, some good news on this: there was a journalist I was annoyed at for suggesting Dems wouldn't Byrd bath the Medicaid trans care ban, I just checked her TL and she reskeeted a bunch of posts giving Dems credit for successfully pulling it off
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there is also a pretty wide gulf between the standards being applied to Mamdani and to someone like Lipstadt, first person quoted in the article about how some Jews are scared, without any reference to her views on deporting protesters.
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I can see people being unhappy with his answer and thinking he is being excessively charitable about people who use the slogan, but it seems detached from reality to think that *he himself* secretly thinks suicide bombings are OK. which is pretty much what it'd take to justify Gillibrand's stance.
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and it makes other people think of the First Intifada, or of the general Palestinian resistance to occupation. wasn't Mamdani's comment not that he thinks the slogan is great, but that it means different things to different people?
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GOLLLLLLLFFFF ok my favorite golf strips are the ones where Hi's golf mania annoys his family. 3/10 QDUs
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thanks! the original location seems to have opened in Manhattan in 2019 which is loooong after I spent any time in LIC
also it looks like some kinda wordplay but I don't get it? riffing on the Grapes of Wrath maybe?
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you got it!
bsky.app/profile/mike...
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YA author drama that everyone else has mercifully forgotten about
anyway, meh, I think we agree on the basic principle that good things are good and bad things are bad and Byrne is whining about criticism because he has no argument on substance
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(this doesn't extend to people harassing that poor student over it--Dessen cut the student's name in her original post so I don't think she's mostly culpable for what other people did)
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*very* sleep-deprived today so jumping in with both feet: like, the roasting Sarah Dessen got for complaining about getting casually disrespected proved she was right, but I wouldn't think that if I didn't antecedently think Sarah Dessen was pretty good
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I sometimes find it compelling, when there is reason to think that the work needed to be done in the first place
which is not the case here
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AI ethics good, AI safety bad
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big ups to whichever senior philosopher wrote the "project of extermination" line
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the other day the voice in my head uttered the phrase "analytic Simmelism"
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ah the GIFs show in preview but not in post? harrumph! see alt text of previous post for narration
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xcancel.com/ZohranKMamda...
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no Bill Ackman, the guy who wrote the words in that screenshot, is Republican Republican. he voted for trump. he's not vote blue no matter who in any way
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I've never read The Nevsky Prospect! I'm just talking about the ones I *have* read.
(Also I read Lem and Invisible Cities when I was very young and on a metafiction kick.)
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I don't think The Nature Book is super well known or anything, that was more along the lines of "here is this neat thing I heard about on bluesky sometime, you might also find it neat!" I've one bit that was online.
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do you know about The Nature Book, which "collages nature descriptions from 300 canonical novels into a single novel" with no human characters?
www.tomcomitta.com/the-nature-b...
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some of Stanislaw Lem's late work has the feel of imaginary wikipedia articles. the reviews for nonexistent books and the like.
JG Ballard also goes into imaginary essay mode sometimes. Some parts of The Atrocity Exhibition are e.g. imaginary studies of the witnesses of the JFK assassination.
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yep, though there's dialogue between Marco Polo and Kubla Khan between the city descriptions
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reports are Kluwe is running for Assembly though
(linking to reddit because I'm paywalled from the article)
www.reddit.com/r/orangecoun...
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yeah, and I don't *need* to know (sigh)
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yeah, I'm looking for the one Mamdani himself was at, which was definitely in LIC
(it's not *really* important. and I think all the places I would've known in LIC are closed)
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the dream of an Alphaville for James Bond lives
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this says he didn't start pitching regularly till his junior year, and his senior year was 2020 so who knows what happened
www.mlb.com/news/paul-sk...
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might be. seems like he was mostly a reliever in high school and these stats, while almost certainly incomplete, don't show him giving up five runs in a year
www.maxpreps.com/ca/lake-fore...
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ha, sorry, I thought it was a trick question!