NB: I will not perform sleuthing, i.e. reading up on this guy or anything he wrote. I don't think it's worth it

/jk: I’m dopamine fasting. That way I can enjoy genAI music in the inevitable future

I've stopped listening to music because I realised it made me dissociate too easily. If I were getting back into it all, I'd probably start by playing this on repeat.

it’s almost as if we’ve culturally deluded ourselves away from seeing that nostalgia is a toxic impulse and clinging to the past is self-imprisonment*

*in particular I thought it was cool to enjoy classic rock in high school because it was non-mainstream, not seeing the irony that I was just enjoying a mainstream from decades ago, making me even more mainstream

It’s less the amount of smoke and more the kind of smoke. It’s the magic smoke that comes out of fried electronics

I 100% really did not intend for the name to work so well with that context but am once again thankful for all the gifts it brings.

Had to stop reading that. My eyes were rolling too much.

I would like an explanation, please!

my bad. When I said “class consciousness” I meant a full mental transformation to radical communism, words are difficult

to anyone else that'd be a big oof but to scott, it is tuesday

I thought this was going to be a shia lebeouf reference, pleased to see it’s a VK reference.

I just looked up “beisutsukai” and took psychic damage. All I heard were shouts of “priors!” and “bayes-no-jutsu!” and before I knew it I lost a whole standard deviation of IQ.