Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney
@jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
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Increasingly decrepit father, partner, economist, teacher LFGM, UU, upbeat guy, still recovering from an injury sustained during the cola wars on your side, rooting for you, no matter what
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oh hell yeah

Can't wait to become even more unhinged
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
I guess it depends who you ask? But no
Cobra Commander in black and red looking menacing, arms upraised
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
I mean this all presupposes that the rule of law in these situations obtains, which appears not to be true when destroying Venezuelan boats (and civilians), so I don't think it's as cut and dried as you're making it out to be
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
O nan that's a god idea
smtuffy.bsky.social
The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny
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OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi
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My belief is Beijing is northmost, then LA, then Osaka....
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
That album will always sound like my second summer in Singapore

So many good songs, needles in my eyes, dry the rain, inner meet me, she's the one, not a single dud on the whole album
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
Oratory is the most engaging literary form, followed by essays
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
I recognize both the loss you mention at finishing a work and the capacity to let it become a part of you forever, a spiritual practice of revisiting a space that nonetheless changes with you, but shapes you as you inhabit it again and again
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
A weird aside this reminds me of: my son has, for years now, fallen asleep to the same chapter of the same audiobook (Ch. 17 "Death of an Alien" from Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks At Last). It feels like such an idiosyncratic and (to me) charming way to inhabit a piece of art, make a home of it
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
I think people should do more weird idiosyncratic shit, so hell yeah
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
Especially surprising because automation and mechanization *have* displaced a lot of farm work, meaning it's "hard" in a very specific sense, while the (female-dominated) helping professions seem among the hardest to automate--not just laborious but dynamic, responsive, emotionally complex
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
I genuinely wonder if he could name 90 jobs, though.

Like I think the kind of broad claim he's making benefits from abstraction and crumples when it interacts with a detailed description of the real world, because whenever you start looking at the real world, words like "hard" get weird fast
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
Can confirm--my dad's family is long Island Irish Catholic, two sisters and a brother both married Italians and my aunt's best friends were the Greek daughters across the street. They all sound like Long Island but it's different.
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
I think "hardness" and "realness" are pretty underdefined here

Crab fishing is harder but not realer? Surgery is realer and harder?

Does "physical comfort" make a job less "real"? Like being a chaplain in a children's hospital seems "hard" and "real" but you can have air conditioning...
jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
Peter Thiel, at 2 am in his dorm: "hey guys, you ever think about how Zack Morris is kind of like the Christ of Revelations, but also how Screech Powers is a sort of antichrist?"
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Guy who's only experience with narrative is half listening to other people's summaries of the Bible, consuming literally any other narrative: "I'm getting some real Bible vibes from this"