“The long term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference of opinion.” -Tarek Mansour
What would you call this? Discourse mining?

We are gathered here today to witness the joining of these twelve beautiful typewriterssswheeee! Let the joyful clackety clacking begin! New ribbons for everyone!

winter sports 

I’m not sure why but I’m excited about this

Saw this amazing looking stray cat in the big park. I wanted to be friends but it was not interested. I’m going to go back with food.

Je Tu Il Elle - continuing Chantal Akerman at MOMA. I first saw this decades ago. I was surprised how little detail I remembered while at the same time it was lodged in my subconscious (the idea of sitting alone in a bare room, eating sugar from a paper bag and scribbling notes on sheets of loose leaf paper) For some reason my clearest memory of it was false. In my mind was a scene that wasn’t in the film but could’ve been. And it was in color

film/culture criticism 

I feel like watch a surreal double feature, the events of yesterday and Jeanne Dielman

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Just saw Jeanne Dielman on a big screen for the first time and I have to say it hits different

dissertation writing accountability note 

@darius the faster I write the bad sentences the sooner I can do the good sentences

Apparently there’s now Octopolis and Oclantis.

, but that's how it goes.
millions of people living as foes
, it's not too late
to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: reddened waters, each next pair, billboards, bros, lettuce, whimsy, small holes in their heads, merciless prolixity

Moving always sucks, especially when you are self isolating and have hoarding tendencies, but then friends come out of the woodwork and are supportive and kind and you get to spend real quality time with them and it’s kind of magical.

US Pol AF1 controversy 

I think the president should abandon Air Force one and travel like Kublai Khan did: in a palanquin atop four caparisoned elephants.

And in this apartment I’ve experienced two very painful breakups, a pandemic, and well, politics.

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Because I tend to adapt myself to problematic situations rather than working to change them.

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.