every damn thing that crosses my mind

having kids

education, especially math (”you study math? so you’ll be a teacher?”)

- while listening to Everything’s a scam - very ambivalent about the message (isn’t that how you get elizabeth holmes?) but it sure is catchy 

Jordan Ellenberg on word2vec

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/  according to this theory new atheists turned into sjws – this fits my personal experience so there’s that

Eydís Blöndal - Tejberizs 

“You’ve read Foucault, right? ‘Pouvoir-savoir’. That’s it: that’s the basis of many crushes, is that the person seems to have – has, maybe, power and knowledge that you want.”She gives a one-shoulder shrug. “And so, what better way to get it?”

(...)

Acker was also Lotringer’s most recent serious ex-girlfriend at the time he got together with Kraus. In I Love Dick, Chris recalls reading inscribed in one of his books, “To Sylvère, The Best Fuck In The World (At Least To My Knowledge) Love, Kathy Acker”, and realising she was “up against some pretty stiff competition”.

Kraus had admired this author, been influenced by her work long before they crossed paths. In the spirit of pouvoir-savoir and all that, to what extent did Lotringer’s connection to Acker factor into Kraus’ desire for him?

She is momentarily thrown. “Well, I mean – Sylvère had a lot of other qualities besides being an ex-boyfriend of Kathy’s.” And she laughs.