Barthes’ Mythologies, The Batory Cruise. This stuff never changes, but, at the risk of sounding like Shirky, it feels like the tech we now use to rapidly deploy evidence counter to “tourist” reports might start to change things?

reading a bunch of Graeber and then Fisher because capitalist realism was in the discourse this week, as the middle management bureaucrat that I am, thinking to mysef, “I could manage these guys successfully. I could manage Žižek too. At the same time. Yes.”

[bob vila after programming his office number into an AT&T Genesis and placing a call with it] “Super.”

kid has another cold practically back to back with the last cold he was still waking us up all night with but mostly over, probably just a cold 😗

“Quid quid latinum dictum sid, altum videtu” but instead it is quid-quid slapping really big huge logos on your personal .com, and self, even, as if your identity was wrapped up in some kinda fortune 500 polycule

immediately after posting this I took a prankster’s stopped-up playground water fountain blast to the face in front of dozens of 10 year olds, ggwp

more like playgroaned a i r?

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United Farm Equipment Workers of America workers on picket, Runyonesque

otoh, ehhhhh