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Reviews

Lecture
Lecture

a disciplinary technique that presumes to rely on words while actually communicating disposition

11/4/2026
Debate
Debate

a kind of sadistic speech warfare where caring too much is a liability and the spoils are immaterial

11/4/2026
Mind
Mind

where the happenings happen. absolute goat. misunderstood.

11/4/2026
Brain
Brain

on inspection, doesn't seem to do much. a weird thing.

11/4/2026
Energy
Energy

the stuff of stuff. careful with equilibria.

11/4/2026
Ketchup
Ketchup

acidity's last stand in the american diet

11/4/2026
Business
Business

a specialized kind of transcendent friendship

11/4/2026
Venturecapital
Venture capital

a fun way for rich people and quirky people to occasion hangouts. gets things moving, but at what cost?

11/4/2026
Internal combustion engine
Internal combustion engine

don't let the science fool you. this is an alchemical object where the four elements meet to produce pure force.

11/4/2026
Eating
Eating

more to this than meets the eye. destroying. consuming. the organ-pleasures of the mouth and stomach. it's altogether too much. but i need to do it.

11/4/2026
Appetite
Appetite

most people call this feeling hunger even though it's not. annoying but overall tolerable.

11/4/2026
Pez
Pez

something uncanny about them even though i enjoyed eating them

11/4/2026
Therapyspeak
Therapy speak

speech etiquette returns with a bureaucratic vengeance. i don't like it but it's entertaining, at least.

11/4/2026
Psychoanalysis and music
Psychoanalysis and music

you could. but should you? i have no idea

11/4/2026
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis

hidden gem. expensive but worth it if you stick with it. can change you big-time. i learned a lot.

11/4/2026
Bitterlesson
Bitter lesson

very funny. mogs the cleverest, divine justice for the fool. expensive but worth it.

11/4/2026
Violence
Violence

kind of crazy that anyone can do it at any time and most of the time we just don't. much to contemplate.

11/4/2026
Tariff
Tariff

political function aside it's a very cool word

11/4/2026
MatchGroup
Match Group

comic book style evil corporation but they're real

11/4/2026
Sump pump
Sump pump

cool as hell once you learn how the whole system works. basements are magic.

11/4/2026
Pattern hair loss
Pattern hair loss

not great overall but everything has its reason even if idk what that reason is

11/4/2026
Woman
Woman

doesn't exist. no shade tho. we love woman.

11/4/2026
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Legend of the Galactic Heroes

broke anime for me forever because i suddenly realized every other show was for teenagers

11/4/2026
Qualia
Qualia

im genuinely uncertain what this is supposed to be

11/4/2026
Styrofoam
Styrofoam

fell off in the aughts but real millennial heads remember the squeak

11/4/2026
Normality
Normality (behavior)

mid

11/4/2026
Software
Software

pretty good but not great. maybe a little too soft sometimes.

11/4/2026
Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich
Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich

one of the all time greats in its weight class. salt pepper ketchup. if halal, go turkey not beef. outclasses the chopped cheese, but nj pork roll is competitive. somehow not perfect.

11/4/2026
Mariana Trench
Mariana Trench

i wonder what's hiding in here

11/4/2026
Music
Music

"Of all the arts, it is perhaps the least connected to reality. I would even say that, if it is connected at all, the connection is purely mechanical, without ideas, through empty sound... without associations... And yet music miraculously penetrates into the very depths of the soul! What is it within us that responds to harmonized noise? What transforms it, for us, into a source of immense joy... that unites us and shakes us to our core? What is its purpose? And, above all, for whom?"

11/4/2026
Freedom
Freedom

you have various forms of it already, always. we talk it up too much so we don't have to use it. better than the alternatives.

11/4/2026
Duty
Duty

sometimes a pain in the ass. important to discharge and also paradoxically freeing even though culturally we think poorly of them.

11/4/2026
Agency (philosophy)
Agency (philosophy)

for most people, better in theory than in practice, because agency demands responsibility demands work, which is why we'd often rather give it up

11/4/2026
Public utility
Public utility

important for efficiently solving collective problems but strips you of agency

11/4/2026
Truth
Truth

"illusions which we have forgotten are illusions... metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins" overrated as knowing, essential anyway

11/4/2026
Analyticphilosophy
Analytic philosophy

less fun than other philosophy. can't think of any applications except publishing revenue and tenure.

11/4/2026
Large language model
Large language model

funny weird little computer guys we enslaved and then had the courage to despise

11/4/2026
Claude (AI)
Claude (AI)

really solid hang but wont help move ur couch

11/4/2026
Autocomplete
Autocomplete

gets a bad rap. an asymptotically smart and general autocomplete would have a mind of its own and would know what you want before you do. unfortunately that doesn't mean it can get you what you want, but mirrors are still worth having around.

11/4/2026
Jouissance
Jouissance

useless waste of time. also the purpose of this website. and yet

11/4/2026
Countertransference
Countertransference

the greatest scientific instrument for vibe-measurement ever created. requires a license.

11/4/2026
Law
Law

not perfect by any means, better than the alternatives

11/4/2026
Eschatology
Eschatology

cope through and through

11/4/2026
Outer space
Outer space

"...the happy climes that ly Where day never shuts his eye Up in the broad fields of the sky." *not for human consumption

11/4/2026
Technics SL-1200
Technics SL-1200

the wheels of steel! pleasingly weighted like a sack of bricks. its motor spec lives in a thousand fingers. and yet it can't play 78s.

11/4/2026
Roland TB-303
Roland TB-303

whichever japanese guys invented this were on the sauce. sounds like a slap in the face by a metal bar or a blanket depending on Q. we're still reckoning with its consequences 40 odd years out.

11/4/2026
Together Forever (Rick Astley song)
Together Forever (Rick Astley song)

overshadowed by Never Gonna Give You Up, but Stock, Aitken, & Waterman cooked here. never before has a love song been so unconvincing, a Disquiet Storm, and yet it would still fill a floor even in a Brooklyn k-hole

11/4/2026
Equaltemperament
Equal temperament

cool math but ruined music for centuries by putting it in a cage and hiding the keys

11/4/2026
Peer review
Peer review

pretty good originally but now kind of a corrupt rubber stamp to get a name brand on ur idea

11/4/2026
Allergy
Allergy

just awful. mostly useless. would not recommend.

11/4/2026
Sleep
Sleep

meh. could be better

11/4/2026
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt

cool gods and stuff but mean to my ancestors

11/4/2026
Perspective-taking
Perspective-taking

a good thing to know how to do. we could probably use more of this. not without problems though

11/4/2026
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill

flawed but operationally excellent

11/4/2026
Uterus
Uterus

everyone wants to get back inside but nobody's figured out how

11/4/2026
Coffee
Coffee

one of life's greatest hits

11/4/2026
Mattress
Mattress

mostly a real estate scam. occasionally comfy

11/4/2026
Intelligence
Intelligence

fake concept without god

11/4/2026
Plato
Plato

goated. but not perfect

11/4/2026
Mining
Mining

children yearn for the mines. otherwise mid

11/4/2026
Sexual arousal
Sexual arousal

problematic

11/4/2026
Toilet
Toilet

i despise the toilet. id love nothing more than to kick it through the wall and shatter it into 100 shards of wet porcelain. But i need it

11/4/2026
Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
Things That Make You Go Hmmm...

Hmmm...

11/4/2026