posts from 2021 / 11

1. just learned that imessage chat names are effective for everyone in the chat, a year after /topic’ing the chat with the everloving wife and our landlord “Chat with Sysop” lmao, no other takes stepped on, 😅

2. the entire try life school thing is pretty depressing tbh.

   learned-helplessness with lean-in and a cashmere sweater tied over the shoulders. a sinecure with a mission, vision, and strategy. a lemonade stand in a gated neighborhood with a substack.

   spit-on-the-ground worthy

3. every two panel bit simultaneously like the wall of tvs behind the architect while he blah blah blahs about the terrible simulation we thrive in, and each one’s got these two knuckleheads on it

   

   

4. the tree at city hall this year 😍🎄

   

5. 𝓓𝓡𝓘𝓟

   

6. reading up on the bios of my enemies so that later we can have expository dailog to move the plot along and then wincing a little at how wierd it gets when they explain to me that i’d read their bio to move the plot along.

   ugh, awkward.

7. “excellent standing”, hell yeah

   

8. the three genders

   

9. you know, Frederick fucking Engels https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

10. a fantasy novel about the last developer to to build a house for someone, and the last person who will buy a house, before the supply curve reaches the demand curve and the market reaches equilibrium (which their transaction causes to happen in the second act), who fall in love

11. logging on

    

12. letters, even

13. 360 words to summarize Seinfeld posting “what’s the DEAL with anarchists?”

14. it’s fine if everyone has their favorite critique and I think generously we gotta assume they don’t mean “for absolutely all cases” unless they say so but, but hierarchy and centralization are two of many great organizing approaches, I can’t imagine rejecting them outright

15. as a corporate bureaucrat, I find the idea that we will eventually, if we manage the contradictions appropriately, be able to effectively do what my teams and I do in a flat organization, or via some sort of set of shared values, to be utopian

16. La Wuigi

17. J&J splitting is like when you have to unsubscribe from the “hot deals” list it even though you already unsubscribed from “promotions” and “product news” and 17 others, in that, because of the complications, they say, it’s technically fine, they say

18. idk how the website works but in tweetbot, when I block/mute someone, I still see quote posts, it just doesn’t render the inner, even if I also keyword mute their handle

    so I just tried to keyword mute https://twitter.com/their_handle, and now even the quote tweets are gone! hell yeah

19. we offered 10% under asking on a condo last month, seller would not budge

    we offered 5% under as a final counter, seller would not budge

    [one month later]

    seller dropped asking 2% and asked if we would come up, we would not budge

    SOME JERK bought at asking

    great system!

20. one fun trick, almost a propaganda tranche, is to argue from a seemingly damning sum of weak individual list items, or assertions really, and then tell on oneself by not pursuing the huge-if-true conclusion to ground

    unserious and disrespectful and careless but very effective!

21. also, this arrived today

    

22. happy 50th to the fourth album

    

23. gonna become one of those wierdos

    

    

    

24. land use more like hand use

25. my homunculus just walked up to me to say that when he tries to mentally rotate market rate housing for everyone in my mind, he fails every time, on account of the all zoning everywhere, in my mind

26. The Prestonomicon

27. calling something “currency” is just another of capital’s naming-things sham

    alternate version if I wasn’t just posting indecipherable nonsense for myself: everything about blockchains and crypto and nft and the next scam is next is foolish and despicable including the people

28. the deere worker strike is much more interesting than the democrat capital strike, to me

29. e.g., https://youtu.be/wdJ_AXje5iI

30. listening to an old Dylan “Theme Time Radio” episode (because whoever wrote and picked for the show did amazing work and most of the tunes are fun to play guitar with), and in this one he reads a letter from none other than Alan Dershowitz, haha ( https://www.themetimeradio.com/episode-13-rich-man-poor-man/)

31. was looking for another av and found this, which i’m not gonna use

    2019, rip that cat, the best