it’s all in the curatorial presentation

for example, i strategically did not share my list of top stations, which includes not one but two different foo fighters songs and the English version of an anime op, in my post

listened to >13 hours of Pharoah this year but it was just this one track 53 times. many people like it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii63...

a band with a truly rare ability to sound exactly the same live as in the studio. Steve McQueen is a masterpiece
youtu.be/zefR13phCKM?...

Wolfowitz called arabs terrorists for over a decade but he cheated on his wife with one for that entire time, and now you’re all excited about his best friend’s mag, so starved for an outlet that will identify something as fascist. you could just look in the mirror and say it out loud to yourself

none of these MFs even have a Giftschrank. they think posts are enough to argue against them. like get good

whatever happened to "giving the bare minimum doesn’t actually count as trying?" reconcile your internal contradictions people. if the bare minimum is good enough, you can’t assert anyone is actually trying. what if instead of giving glosses of what people say online, anyone actually read the books?

Wolfowitz called arabs terrorists for over a decade but he cheated on his wife with one for that entire time, and now you’re all excited about his best friend’s mag, so starved for an outlet that will identify something as fascist. you could just look in the mirror and say it out loud to yourself

yemma’s shakshouka isn’t watery either

Moroccan food in the US is almost always “ambiguous Middle Eastern” with a Lebanese flavor profile. for some reason nobody ever purées the zaalouk—or worse, there’s no zaalouk, and just the same unseasoned muhammara as everywhere else

"Whether that's AI, I don't know, but fabricating sources is a telltale sign of artificial intelligence."

Straussians have been doing this for decades!

if every week is ten years, Thomas Crooks was everywhere for 40 years. that explains why I remember!

oh absolutely, i used to live around RPI and have nothing but respect for the students who go there. they don't have a medical school though

tbh if you can’t remember Thomas Crooks’ name that’s a you problem, it was everywhere for a whole month, only 14 months ago

RPI doesn’t even have a medical school, so necessary some portion of the funding is going to Albany Medical College—RPI’s 7 year BS+MD partner that doesn’t even require MCAT as part of the application process to the program

"It is good to be able to see what everyone does and says" seems like the wrong takeaway from this event

Claude, as an LLM, is a model of language. it is capable of generating text about a topic but it is not capable of conducting reasonable or measured analysis based on the news cycle of the last 6 months

it doesn't "tell" or "know" anything

sent! cc'd both just in case

i have a small section on the bottom of my bookshelf i like to call “the bad guy books,” because i can’t point out the internal contradictions in their thinking if i’m not reading their thoughts

the only reference to Plato’s Republic in The Technological Republic weaponizes the text to create a false binary: perfect moral purity vs. absolute corruption. classic elite apologetics