Theodore W. Ornament
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self-positing and decreation
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it time for a thread of books I have read this year
...starting with Joyce's Ulysses. Outstanding, difficult, disorienting, impossible, inventive, too clever for its own good and funny as hell. This is an absolute must read for anyone who loves great literature.
...starting with Joyce's Ulysses. Outstanding, difficult, disorienting, impossible, inventive, too clever for its own good and funny as hell. This is an absolute must read for anyone who loves great literature.
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Looking out for numero uno: a nice little Christmas present for myself
December 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Looking out for numero uno: a nice little Christmas present for myself
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Never seen one of these Avatar movies, but they all look like absolute ass.
December 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Never seen one of these Avatar movies, but they all look like absolute ass.
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Erektionsliteratur
December 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Erektionsliteratur
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“Organising rests on the insight that… what is sometimes needed to become the sort of subject who feels empowered to stand up to the boss or the police or the state, is simply to act, in some small way, as if you already were that sort of subject”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“Organising rests on the insight that… what is sometimes needed to become the sort of subject who feels empowered to stand up to the boss or the police or the state, is simply to act, in some small way, as if you already were that sort of subject”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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thomas is right, read the whole thing
The Hitler example is the thing we should absolutely be discussing from the Manhattan Institute focus group, yes, but if you read all of it, there's more useful things in there and less monolith atrocity than just that. Insufficient, sure! But also.
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
Everyone Wants to Know What Gen Z Republicans Think. We Asked Them.
Twenty GOP Zoomers on Trump, Hitler, dating, racism, politics, the economy, and more
www.city-journal.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
thomas is right, read the whole thing
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Eisenhüttenstadt, jetzt
December 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Eisenhüttenstadt, jetzt
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A sparrow flew down. "Excuse me", said the sparrow. "Have you read Dominique Routhier's seminal work, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation?"
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A sparrow flew down. "Excuse me", said the sparrow. "Have you read Dominique Routhier's seminal work, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation?"
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They think me mad
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
They think me mad
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chop from the top
chop from the cop
chop from the bot
chop from the cop
chop from the bot
This details the costs of buying AI subscriptions at universities. Co-pilot, which my university subscribes to, is around $30 per month per user.
No wonder budgets are tightening. Imagine if we took that money back from the slop peddlers and their boosters…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
No wonder budgets are tightening. Imagine if we took that money back from the slop peddlers and their boosters…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
OpenAI Inks Deals With Colleges, Seizing Early Lead in Education Market
OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators’ wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the...
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
chop from the top
chop from the cop
chop from the bot
chop from the cop
chop from the bot
"Nun haben die Sirenen eine noch schrecklichere Waffe als den Gesang, nämlich ihr Schweigen."
Kafka
Kafka
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Nun haben die Sirenen eine noch schrecklichere Waffe als den Gesang, nämlich ihr Schweigen."
Kafka
Kafka
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Ich freue mich sehr: Ich habe gestern einen Rechtsstreit mit Ahmad Mansour gewonnen. Ich hatte auf X in Zusammenhang mit einem Kommentar von ihm in der Welt mit der Überschrift „Menschen, die vor Unfreiheit flüchten, importieren Unfreiheit nach Europa“ (siehe Screenshot) geschrieben, dass 1/
December 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ich freue mich sehr: Ich habe gestern einen Rechtsstreit mit Ahmad Mansour gewonnen. Ich hatte auf X in Zusammenhang mit einem Kommentar von ihm in der Welt mit der Überschrift „Menschen, die vor Unfreiheit flüchten, importieren Unfreiheit nach Europa“ (siehe Screenshot) geschrieben, dass 1/
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noted liberal, Rod Dreher
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
noted liberal, Rod Dreher
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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needle in a haystack but:
recommendations for specific episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show from the 1950s that exemplify its variety, for teaching purposes ??
recommendations for specific episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show from the 1950s that exemplify its variety, for teaching purposes ??
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
needle in a haystack but:
recommendations for specific episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show from the 1950s that exemplify its variety, for teaching purposes ??
recommendations for specific episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show from the 1950s that exemplify its variety, for teaching purposes ??
if only I had re-read Michael Thompson before embarking on Rödl's new book
alas,
alas,
December 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
if only I had re-read Michael Thompson before embarking on Rödl's new book
alas,
alas,
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"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
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Papst Leo XIV. hat den Rücktritt von Timothy Dolan als Erzbischof von New York angenommen. Damit verliert Donald Trump einen wichtigen Fürsprecher in der US-Bischofskonferenz. Nachfolger wird Ronald Hicks. Er kommt wie der Papst aus Chicago und verbrachte einige Zeit in Lateinamerika.
POPE LEO XIV APPOINTS BISHOP RONALD HICKS TO NEW YORK - Archdiocese of New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2025 ADVISORY: POPE LEO XIV […]
archny.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Papst Leo XIV. hat den Rücktritt von Timothy Dolan als Erzbischof von New York angenommen. Damit verliert Donald Trump einen wichtigen Fürsprecher in der US-Bischofskonferenz. Nachfolger wird Ronald Hicks. Er kommt wie der Papst aus Chicago und verbrachte einige Zeit in Lateinamerika.
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Not sure what’s worse, starting a war for no reason or STATA’s default graph scheme
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Not sure what’s worse, starting a war for no reason or STATA’s default graph scheme
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ist jetzt eigenwerbung, aber ich wollte auch darüber motzen, dass ki jetzt die ram-preise ruiniert und musst leider zu dem schluss kommen, dass es ausnahmsweise ein bisschen komplexer ist. (aber tatsächlich war sam altman persönlich der auslöser für dummes verhalten anderer.)
Konstenexplosion bis 500 Prozent bei Speicherchips: Was hat ChatGPT-Gründer Sam Altman damit zu tun?
Die Preise für Speicherchips sind in den letzten Monaten um bis zu 500 Prozent gestiegen. Was haben OpenAI, Sam Altman und die KI-Industrie damit zu tun?
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ist jetzt eigenwerbung, aber ich wollte auch darüber motzen, dass ki jetzt die ram-preise ruiniert und musst leider zu dem schluss kommen, dass es ausnahmsweise ein bisschen komplexer ist. (aber tatsächlich war sam altman persönlich der auslöser für dummes verhalten anderer.)
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coming up in January www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...
Select tickets – Nature in the Social World II: Karen Ng on "What is the Gattungsprozess?" – Zoom
Nature in the Social World II: Karen Ng on "What is the Gattungsprozess?" – Zoom, Mon 12 Jan 2026 - Karen Ng's monograph Hegel's Concept of Life has become an essential reading for scholars and studen...
www.tickettailor.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
coming up in January www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...
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Das ist ziemlich exakt…Religion als rechtsradikales Live Action Role Playing.
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Das ist ziemlich exakt…Religion als rechtsradikales Live Action Role Playing.
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Such an important piece.
And having looked only at the drones bit (while Justin is able to take a much broader airpower view) I agree that the small drones won’t be decisive. I keep thinking, however, that there will be a role for larger, more capable drone systems, especially for surveillance.
And having looked only at the drones bit (while Justin is able to take a much broader airpower view) I agree that the small drones won’t be decisive. I keep thinking, however, that there will be a role for larger, more capable drone systems, especially for surveillance.
I enjoyed writing this for Foreign Affairs on why the US Military’s most serious Chinese capability problems in the Indo-Pacific cannot be solved with “cheap massed drones”:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
America’s Drone Delusion
Why the lessons of Ukraine don’t apply to a conflict with China.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Such an important piece.
And having looked only at the drones bit (while Justin is able to take a much broader airpower view) I agree that the small drones won’t be decisive. I keep thinking, however, that there will be a role for larger, more capable drone systems, especially for surveillance.
And having looked only at the drones bit (while Justin is able to take a much broader airpower view) I agree that the small drones won’t be decisive. I keep thinking, however, that there will be a role for larger, more capable drone systems, especially for surveillance.
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I enjoyed writing this for Foreign Affairs on why the US Military’s most serious Chinese capability problems in the Indo-Pacific cannot be solved with “cheap massed drones”:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
America’s Drone Delusion
Why the lessons of Ukraine don’t apply to a conflict with China.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I enjoyed writing this for Foreign Affairs on why the US Military’s most serious Chinese capability problems in the Indo-Pacific cannot be solved with “cheap massed drones”:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...