Yang Wen-li's Flying Hugbox

Yeah i went on this date with this guy and he was really weird about being bisexual? Like he started talking about jerking off to twinks in panties—as though I've never fujo'd the fuck out before—but I was just sitting there stunned: we're in the middle of a coffee shop and I don't think Dolores, age 67, wants to hear about the theater kid—sorry theater "barely-legal"—you're popping a boner to. So I told him to tone it down and then he tried to name drop John Waters as though he's some esoteric figure. He said (out loud!) "I bet you don't know who that is." I ended up going to the bathroom to brainstorm some excuses for bailing with the groupchat, but when I came back I heard him muttering some weird Trump impression to himself. He kept saying "She's hetero Jessica folks!"

the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice

the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice

i think if you like francophone philosophers it's still really crucial that you do not adopt their way of speaking

You mean their way of speaking, locuting, describing, conveying? The mannerisms, forms, collocations, recurrences and expressions which serve to separate, break, to distinguish their texts as discursive formations within a discursive formation?

Apparently there were vernacular translations of the Christian Bible into Gothic that specifically omitted the books of Joshua and Judges bc the Roman missionaries were like “yeah they uh… they don’t need to know about these parts… not yet… it’ll undo so much fucking progress they’re gonna read Judges and then their take away is gonna be “SO IF I SPEAK AN OATH TO BURN ALIVE THE FIRST PERSON I SEE LEAVING MY DOMICILE THEN CHRIST WILL GRANT ME INVINCIBLE FAVOR IN BATTLE?????”

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

"The median American is from almost literally every perspective immensely richer than they would have been in 1980" is one of those things that is instantly obvious looking at...most things, but somehow remains secret forbidden knowledge to a truly depressing number of confident cultural theorists, commentators and activists.

I feel like people are always doing some form of "we compared the westborough baptist church with sufism and what we found is that islam is much more progressive than christianity." like i think it depends. it depends though. like it depends.

so much crime discourse is implicitly predicated on there being an ontological distinction between Criminals and Ordinary People that the justice system should be able to immediately intuit by mystical introspection, like why would you let Criminals out on bail? why would you put Ordinary People on trial? if police already knew who was guilty in advance then their actions really would look even more perverse than they already are!

I think it's pretty crazy that Zionists really are posting "wow everyone is blaming Zionists for the war with Iran" honey take off the hot dog costume!!!!

A lot of wooy-er occult types are resentful of the idea of objective reality because it stymies their desire to change things for the better. Constant noncommittal gestures to "well maybe images and thoughts are the same as reality in some special and secret way." But these notions can never reach escape velocity beyond the motions of brute matter.

Yeah, it's kind of funny that a lot of companies are now re-hiring junior programmers to save on LLM credits, but it's not surprising. From a pure line-goes-up perspective, working people to death is almost always better than automation. That isn't an indictment of LLMs in particular – it's just how this shit works.

Like, yeah, joke about the "self-driving car" service that turned out to be employing remote drivers in the Philippines if you want, but it's not only a tech grift; the fact of the matter is that even if the technology was there, making that guy in the Philippines pull sixteen-hour shifts with no bathroom breaks until he dies of a bladder infection is almost certainly cheaper than "real" AI would be, and that's the actual reason they do it. They wouldn't deliver on their promises even if they could.

also much cheaper than paying a driver in the west of course. it's labour market arbitrage all the way down

I am reasonably sure this is actually fake on the order of "a bunch of guys turning cranks is always cheaper than a large diesel engine".

criticizing a pseudonymous author by dropping their government name is such a bad sign. unless you've led with a case for why identity A is government line item B, it just looks weak. you're about to make a conservative argument that you aren't confident in. if you were confident, you wouldn't be leaning on social pressure. and that's the optimistic case. realistically it's a move in a game entirely separate from saying true things. you're writing for football hooligans. for people who don't matter enough for it to matter what they put in their head. absolutely beaconless behavior 🤣🤣🤣 the finger points to nothing

okay yeah the world is just better off with pseudoanonyminity remaining so, even if revealing might be public-relevant info, because it's too easy to use that to justify bullshit

criticizing a pseudonymous author by dropping their government name is such a bad sign. unless you've led with a case for why identity A is government line item B, it just looks weak. you're about to make a conservative argument that you aren't confident in. if you were confident, you wouldn't be leaning on social pressure. and that's the optimistic case. realistically it's a move in a game entirely separate from saying true things. you're writing for football hooligans. for people who don't matter enough for it to matter what they put in their head. absolutely beaconless behavior 🤣🤣🤣 the finger points to nothing