Be careful 😬

Please submit to Will Stancil at least 25 instances of you denouncing Nazis on Twitter before taking a position on the ramifications of the Cass Report

Pretending to believe something that isn’t true introduces dissonance and dishonesty into the core of my conscious experience. How could I ever believe “it doesn’t affect me personally”

I have nothing nice to say about Dennett- his ideas were evil garbage and his intellectual influence ought to be eradicated- that's all

The Reasonable Man™ position is that actually *understanding* what you are being demanded to believe (and believing in it on the basis of that understanding) is a luxury you do not deserve while under conditions of vague perpetual emergency

You're going to see a lot of these histrionics from midwitted Reasonable Men™ like Will Stancil in the wake of Cass as the wall of consensus begins to tumble down and public conversation opens up

Power Rangers were the biggest thing going in the mid-90s, so McDonald's considered all kinds of ideas to collaborate with them. One of the best concepts that didn't get produced was this mask-shaped Happy Meal box. (1995)

Excellent letter in today’s Guardian on the Cass Review, and how the suppression of research undermines the right to safe medical treatment, from Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

i used to be dismissive of elvis out of reflexive boomer disdain but you watch stuff like this and it makes sense why people went absolutely crazy over him

Windows XP Plus! Aquarium

the main problem I have with ‘media literacy’ is the narrowness of its definition of ‘media.’

what about screwdrivers? power tools? transistors? electricity? clocks? wristwatches?

there’s more to media than meets the eye.

Takafumi Fujisawa, the virtuoso sound designer, orchestrated the iconic startup sound of the PlayStation 2. Within mere seconds, his harmonious creation evoked anticipation, smoothly transitioning from serenity to wonder.

Not that haunting to a chill guy like myself. In fact I find these quite calming

When the PlayStation Store was actually a store.

The problem with 'lived experience' is not 'experience' (which is our only source of knowledge) but 'lived', which usually means 'uncriticized,' not scrutinized by our universal inner compass. So that it is NOT experience, but just 'going with the flow of instinctive reactions.'