Kári Tulinius
@kattullus.bsky.social
Yet another goddamn Icelandic writer.
yes, it's me, back on my bullshit about immanuel kant and the origins of scientific racism
'non-ideal Kant'
Immanuel Kant — Chief Architect of Scientific Racism is a short blogpost by Nathan Allen [archive] laying out Immanuel Kant's theories of race. It builds on the 2005 essay Kant's Untermenschen by...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
yes, it's me, back on my bullshit about immanuel kant and the origins of scientific racism
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I was curious, out of the top ten worldwide box office champs for each year, how many movies were original, written-for-the-screen stories. No adaptations. No remakes. No sequels. Starting with 1977
'77: 4; 78: 5; 79: 3
'80: 3; 81: 7; 82: 6; 83: 4; 84: 8 (wow!);
'85: 5; 86: 6; 87: 5; 88: 5; 89: 4
'77: 4; 78: 5; 79: 3
'80: 3; 81: 7; 82: 6; 83: 4; 84: 8 (wow!);
'85: 5; 86: 6; 87: 5; 88: 5; 89: 4
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I was curious, out of the top ten worldwide box office champs for each year, how many movies were original, written-for-the-screen stories. No adaptations. No remakes. No sequels. Starting with 1977
'77: 4; 78: 5; 79: 3
'80: 3; 81: 7; 82: 6; 83: 4; 84: 8 (wow!);
'85: 5; 86: 6; 87: 5; 88: 5; 89: 4
'77: 4; 78: 5; 79: 3
'80: 3; 81: 7; 82: 6; 83: 4; 84: 8 (wow!);
'85: 5; 86: 6; 87: 5; 88: 5; 89: 4
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times (I’m excluding Icelandic and Finnish bands and musicians and I think it might be only these five I’ve seen more than once).
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
Liars
Low
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
Liars
Low
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times.
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Erasure
The Damned
Castle Rat
Man or Astroman?
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Erasure
The Damned
Castle Rat
Man or Astroman?
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times.
Frank Zappa
Dead Can Dance
The Pogues
King Crimson
Mojo Nixon
Frank Zappa
Dead Can Dance
The Pogues
King Crimson
Mojo Nixon
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times (I’m excluding Icelandic and Finnish bands and musicians and I think it might be only these five I’ve seen more than once).
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
Liars
Low
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Modest Mouse
Bob Dylan
Liars
Low
I made a post about one of my favorite Ursula K. Le Guin stories (there’s stiff competition) “The New Atlantis”, written half a century ago about a far-fetched future United States ruled by fascists and a climate that’s collapsing.
among the saddest things I’ve written
Fifty years ago in the novella The New Atlantis Ursula K. Le Guin wrote about a far-fetched future where the climate was undergoing catastrophic changes and a fascist government ruled the US. A...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I made a post about one of my favorite Ursula K. Le Guin stories (there’s stiff competition) “The New Atlantis”, written half a century ago about a far-fetched future United States ruled by fascists and a climate that’s collapsing.
I once read a book by an eminent historian who claimed that the lack of a rat population in medieval Iceland proved that the black death came from space
Fun fact: The oldest rat bone ever found in Iceland only dates back to the 17th century.
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I once read a book by an eminent historian who claimed that the lack of a rat population in medieval Iceland proved that the black death came from space
You’ve just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You’ve just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
I was not prepared to have Icelandic literature read to dirt by Ursula K. Le Guin
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I was not prepared to have Icelandic literature read to dirt by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
One Thanksgiving in the US I was tasked with making succotash. I found a slightly spicy recipe online which called for aji dulce pepper and went shopping for beans, corn etc and what looked to me like aji dulce peppers. They were scotch bonnets. My friends christened the dish "sufferin' succotash".
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
One Thanksgiving in the US I was tasked with making succotash. I found a slightly spicy recipe online which called for aji dulce pepper and went shopping for beans, corn etc and what looked to me like aji dulce peppers. They were scotch bonnets. My friends christened the dish "sufferin' succotash".
alltaf þegar ég sé svona fréttir þá grunar mig að eftir nokkur hundruð ár verði talað um stafræna tímann sem myrkar aldir sem fátt er vitað um
sem samfélag vitum við hvernig á að geyma upplýsingar á pappír til langframa en það er engin reynsla komin á langtíma varðveislu stafrænna upplýsinga
sem samfélag vitum við hvernig á að geyma upplýsingar á pappír til langframa en það er engin reynsla komin á langtíma varðveislu stafrænna upplýsinga
Kirkjubækur færðar yfir á rafrænt form - RÚV.is
Skráning í kirkjubækur Þjóðkirkjunnar verður færð yfir á rafrænt form í lok mánaðar. Þær hafa verið handskrifaðar öldum saman. Sóknarprestur segir þetta töluverða breytingu, en í takt við tímann.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
alltaf þegar ég sé svona fréttir þá grunar mig að eftir nokkur hundruð ár verði talað um stafræna tímann sem myrkar aldir sem fátt er vitað um
sem samfélag vitum við hvernig á að geyma upplýsingar á pappír til langframa en það er engin reynsla komin á langtíma varðveislu stafrænna upplýsinga
sem samfélag vitum við hvernig á að geyma upplýsingar á pappír til langframa en það er engin reynsla komin á langtíma varðveislu stafrænna upplýsinga
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The scarf story: one of my last outings with my singing teacher before he went into hospital, he insisted on taking me out to afternoon tea. And I insisted on getting him a gift... 🧵
I just bought a very emotional scarf
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The scarf story: one of my last outings with my singing teacher before he went into hospital, he insisted on taking me out to afternoon tea. And I insisted on getting him a gift... 🧵
dead in the middle of Little Italy
little did we know that we riddled
some middlemen who didn't do diddly
little did we know that we riddled
some middlemen who didn't do diddly
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
dead in the middle of Little Italy
little did we know that we riddled
some middlemen who didn't do diddly
little did we know that we riddled
some middlemen who didn't do diddly
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I can only hope that the reason "librarian" is not on this list is b/c they are afraid of us. As they should be.
Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊
(repost from before where I left off the word NOT)
Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊
(repost from before where I left off the word NOT)
Anyone see a problem here? Speaking as a teacher with a master’s degree, I’m insulted.
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I can only hope that the reason "librarian" is not on this list is b/c they are afraid of us. As they should be.
Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊
(repost from before where I left off the word NOT)
Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊
(repost from before where I left off the word NOT)
For the last week or so I've been mainlining the catalogue of French 80s indie rock darlings Les Calamités, in aural and visual form, so I turned it into a MetaFilter post. Pretty much every track of their small catalog is a banger.
'Je suis une calamité/un bâton de dynamite allumé'
Les Calamités were a French indie rock band from the town of Beaune in Burgundy comprised of Caroline Augier, Isabelle Petit, Odile Repolt and Mike Stephens. They recorded 16 bangers between...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
For the last week or so I've been mainlining the catalogue of French 80s indie rock darlings Les Calamités, in aural and visual form, so I turned it into a MetaFilter post. Pretty much every track of their small catalog is a banger.
I picked Sapiens up in a bookstore once and put it down when I realized that the author didn’t understand the difference between the concepts fiction, belief and myth. From this podcast episode I learned there’s so much more wrong with it.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I picked Sapiens up in a bookstore once and put it down when I realized that the author didn’t understand the difference between the concepts fiction, belief and myth. From this podcast episode I learned there’s so much more wrong with it.
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#TheTwen2ie5
Day 44
Midnight Blues
by Emily Wurramara
Warnindhilyagwa/Australia, 2024
Of all the songs I've voted for, this is the one I most urge people to listen to if you haven't already.
I'm not good at music blurbing - it's just so real and perfect.
Day 44
Midnight Blues
by Emily Wurramara
Warnindhilyagwa/Australia, 2024
Of all the songs I've voted for, this is the one I most urge people to listen to if you haven't already.
I'm not good at music blurbing - it's just so real and perfect.
Emily Wurramara - 'Midnight Blues' (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Emily Wurramara
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November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#TheTwen2ie5
Day 44
Midnight Blues
by Emily Wurramara
Warnindhilyagwa/Australia, 2024
Of all the songs I've voted for, this is the one I most urge people to listen to if you haven't already.
I'm not good at music blurbing - it's just so real and perfect.
Day 44
Midnight Blues
by Emily Wurramara
Warnindhilyagwa/Australia, 2024
Of all the songs I've voted for, this is the one I most urge people to listen to if you haven't already.
I'm not good at music blurbing - it's just so real and perfect.
it’s remarkable to think that postal services, because of their innate usefulness, survive everything, even imperial collapses, heck, the Persian Empire‘s postal system survived Alexander the Great, but in less than a year the dude in charge of the US has shut down parcel post to the country
Posti: No parcels to US this Christmas
Letters and Christmas cards will still be delivered, Finland's national mail carrier confirmed.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it’s remarkable to think that postal services, because of their innate usefulness, survive everything, even imperial collapses, heck, the Persian Empire‘s postal system survived Alexander the Great, but in less than a year the dude in charge of the US has shut down parcel post to the country
In 2013 I went on a work trip to Stockholm, saw that there was a big exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s works at the Moderna Museum. I’d seen reproductions of her works, which absolutely didn’t prepare me for the full force of seeing them in person. Since then, a lot has been learned about her.
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
Possession is an esssy by Alice Gregory in the New Yorker [archive] about Hilma af Klint, her breakthrough abstract paintings, religious beliefs, posthumous fame, drama in the foundation that...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In 2013 I went on a work trip to Stockholm, saw that there was a big exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s works at the Moderna Museum. I’d seen reproductions of her works, which absolutely didn’t prepare me for the full force of seeing them in person. Since then, a lot has been learned about her.
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Those clowns at the ice cream factory
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Those clowns at the ice cream factory
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www.metafilter.com is still really good. Digg, Fark, Reddit and the rest have come and gone, but MetaFilter keeps chugging away. The $5 membership is such a good quality filter.
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
www.metafilter.com is still really good. Digg, Fark, Reddit and the rest have come and gone, but MetaFilter keeps chugging away. The $5 membership is such a good quality filter.
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I love to see comically large American flags at car dealerships flying half-staff for Dick Cheney. Ain't that America?
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I love to see comically large American flags at car dealerships flying half-staff for Dick Cheney. Ain't that America?
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In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
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In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
írskur vinur minn mun væntanlega hætta að senda mér skilaboð með óhróðri um íslenskar tannlækningar frá og með deginum í dag
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
írskur vinur minn mun væntanlega hætta að senda mér skilaboð með óhróðri um íslenskar tannlækningar frá og með deginum í dag
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From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...