#defs recommend the essays book i talked about

[jurassicpark1990]

29, 30, and 47 for the book asks! loved your answer to the other one btw that book of essays sounds v interesting

29. How many books do you have on your 'to-be-read' list?

the only to read list that i have is on storygraph and it's not something that i'm vigilant about keeping up with. in saying that, having 546 on there is probably a few too many lmao

30. How many books do you have on your 'currently-reading' list?

three which is way more than i usual!

i'm trying one on audiobook - the vampires of el norte by isabel canas - and i am struggling because i'm not a fan of the format but loving the book

i'm also reading bell hooks' teaching critical thinking for a uni essay and absolutely loving it

and the last one is the lost world by michael crichton, which is a fun, easy read when i have the time

47. What are the last three books you read?

living on stolen land by amberlin kwaymullina (a short poetry book on decolonisation and was really good)

jurassic park by michael crichton (a reread that i loved a lot more this time around)

the justice of kings by richard swan (first book in a high fantasy series with a heavy focus on law, i liked it at the time but wasn't amazing for me)

[communistkenobi]

thank you so much for the transmisogyny reading post! im definitely gonna be reading into those. in a similar vein, do you have a recommended reading list for decolonization/anti-imperialism?

Do you mean molsno's post? def cannot take credit for that but yes I have a couple!

high-level recommendation is discourse on colonialism by aime cesaire (this link goes to a pdf that is a collection of essays, you can skip to cesaire's essay). probably one of the most formative essays for me personally in terms of how i think about colonialism

decolonization is not a metaphor by Tuck & Yang is a famous article in decolonial scholarship and will likely come up pretty frequently if you're reading academic work. if you read that article, i recommend following it up with Slavery is a Metaphor by Garba & Sorentino - its a Black critical commentary by two marxist scholars i believe on Tuck & Yang's work, working through the anti-Black thinking that is present in the work, particularly the deeply problematic conceptual attention given by Tuck & Yang to slavery when historicising and analyzing settler colonialism in North America. These are both academic articles and they're both jargon-laden so your mileage will vary

I originally included decolonizing transgender 101 by b binaohan on here before realizing that it's already in the linked post above lol. in that post is a link to the full book that i'll repost here (usually you can only find the introduction online) so definitely make use of that. anyway great work, very accessible and insightful, makes direct linkages between white supremacy, settler colonialism, and transmisogyny in a way i found extremely helpful

i read beyond white privilege: geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism during my master's about four years ago (jesus christ the passage of time!!!) and found it very insightful - the authors talk about white supremacy as a process rather than a historical event, as well as talk about some of the conceptual limitations of the popular focus on white privilege (as opposed to white supremacy) that i found very helpful for me personally. its another academic article

I've been recently introduced to Anibal Quijano's work, particularly the Coloniality of Power. this is an extremely theoretical work that focuses on the construction and universalization of race, the 'invention of Europe,' modernity as a colonial construction, and a bunch of other pretty dense topics. thats not to scare you off, but its probably the most theory heavy article i've linked here

this list skews towards academic work because that's what im most familiar with (all the links i provided are open-access links so you should not need institutional access to read them). For books, you can read Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon or Orientalism by Edward Said, they're both pretty foundational decolonial texts and are also pretty formative for me. Fanon's work is on decolonial struggle and the pathologization of colonized people, Said's work is on the construction of "the East" to justify and reproduce Western hegemony.

Hope this was helpful! I'm by no means an expert and this is only scratching the surface of scholarship on the subject. I'm still in the process of reading, but hopefully this is a good starting point for you!

[journalsouppe]

APOLLO JUSTICE!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!! What i would literally give to have a true AA4 sequel. I wholeheartedly believe if Yamazaki's team could ignore aa4 canon to make 5 & 6 then Shu Takumi should absolutely be allowed to ignore any 5&6 canon to make an aa4 sequel. I'm dying out here pleaseeeeee

The Phoenix sticker is from Peachcott. The Klavier sticker is from Ayabit from the Turnabout Cinema zine. The Apollo and Trucy stickers are from astarsor.

Writing typed below!

rating: 9.8 played: Fa 2023 port: 3DS favorite? Y replayable: Y recommend? Y series: Ace Attorney

Comments

THE JUDGE PAINTING

apollo's such a dork <3

ooo i like the perceive function

i love the music

DONT SAY THAT TRUCY T_T

there's so much going on in this investigation

wow i love how uneasy i feel even after the trial ended

LMAO I FORGOT ABOUT THE PHOENIX SEX PHOTO

i dont think y'all want your panties back...

klav's a bill and ted fan i see lol

LOVE mr eldoon's design 10/10

klapollo meet cute moment LMAO

oops ^^; i accidentally wrote a 600 word essay about the first case

i like how apollo cried over trucy

IT'S JUSTICE TIME??? T^T

i like klavier's hands a normal amount

alita must have some dirty fucking feet

the animations are so smooth

apollo being jealous of klavier at the concert and thinking he's cool LMAO

apollo is WHIPPED

trucy is KILLING it in court, she really is nick's daughter

klavier's shoe print *skull emoji*

out of pocket shiny forehead comment LMAO

lamiroir has similar vocal tones as malon!

THE PENIS FIRE AND KLAV PUTTING IT OUT IN THE BKGD

the smile and hair twirl klavier LMAO

why am i doing this music recording thing T^T

i dont like looking at daryan T_T

letouse kazuma moment lmao

capcom loves the face down death with writing on the ground huh LMAO

wtf is the judge talking about

i love all these scientific tests with ema! :)

i love the snackoos SFX

klav does not miss an opportunity to take a short at apollo's big forehead LMAO

APOLLO YOU DUMBASS

faking blindness is crazy

I KNEW IT WOULD BE DARYAN'S VOICE

klav's office is so much more normal than edgeworth's

WAIT IS IT GRAMARYE AND NOT GRAYMAYRE??

THE ANIMALS??

i love apollo and lamiroir goofing on klav

similar tech opening to brc

WTF WAS THAT KRISTOPH JUMPSCARE T-T

LORD DADDY???

oh he's insufferable

HOLY SHIT THAT'S WHY VERA IS STARING AT KLAV??

"rip off" phoenix is so real for that

are they injecting magnifi with piss??

im curious why kristoph would do this to phoenix

he just left his daughter???

tf is going on

T^T THE KRISTOPH ZOOM IN

why does klav have that egg from dragon tales

apollo understands me with mascots

this is so gay omfg

daryan not liking trucy means he goes even more into the shit book than before

apollo the journaling king

the x-ray function is a really fun addition

BABY TRUCY

omg phoenix with out the ugly hd redraw

GUMSHOE

he said it!!! he said 'ace attorney' lmao

i love and hate that i have to present the journal page

why does the screen shake when mr misham speaks T_T

THAT SCAR IS FREAKY

siblings omgggg

Summary:

I love this game so much. I love it so much that I am heartbroken knowing that AA 5 & 6 butchers the story it setup and I'm considering not even playing them unless AA7 is announced. I love all the main characters so much, the whole story was so well built and I can def see the influence the story had on DGS. Apollo is such a good protagonist, he's relatable but also so unique. I love seeing his character progression in the game: a new attorney who is easily manipulated to a confident and determined attorney who trusts in his own judgement. I LOVED Klavier oh my god. I love how much he respects Apollo and although he doesn't hesitate to tease him, he doesn't bully or abuse Apollo in any way. They both have a mutual admiration and rivalry where they try to play as fairly as possible. Klav doesn't maliciously withhold or change evidence, but he does spend hours reviewing his arsenal and thinks of all the counter arguments the defense could bring up. I really like Apollo's ability, it continues the mystery and mysticism from the original trilogy but with new mechanics. I adore Trucy so much. She honestly might be my favorite AA character. She's determined, strong willed, and above all -- extremely silly. I couldn't of asked for a better character to be Phoenix's daughter. I also LOVE the sibling reveal at the end but gdi if only they actually figure it out T^T T^T. I think Apollo and Trucy's dynamic is probably my favorite Defense and assistant dynamic. This who game was so fun, I know 4-3 is not everyone's favorite and it is a little all over the place but I also enjoyed it and loved the premise. There's so much to say, I haven't even talked about Nick and Kris - what an incredible feud, what a genius development for Nick. I cannot recommend this game enough, I am so obsessed with it and cannot wait to make art <3 <3.

[icarusgf]

ngl it's one of my better essays, I had to write about a piece of media I recommend and so I talked about how the movie girls on tumblr fawned over portrait of a lady on fire and decided to watch it and that was my intro! but adding it as like an activity or whatever... man

oh yeah that makes a lot more sense! i def pulled from recs i got from tumblr when filling out those "what books or movies have you enjoyed recently" even if i didn't mention where i heard about them directly. tumblr as an extracurricular however.... :/

[renegadepack]

hey, saw that other ask about twilight video essays and was wondering if you've watched the dominic noble videos. he does a really in-depth analysis of leah's character at one point which i feel like is your brand

i have!!! i’ve actually been watching him for a ew years now; at the beginning of his 50 shades reviews. i love his videos a lot!!! i was excited and a lil concerned when he announced the reviews, but i think he actually did a great job talking about all the problematic aspects along with his own thoughts on the books. i’d def recommend them, but i probs won’t add them to the carrd since they don’t really go in depth on the racism aspects.

[bettsfic]

any book/essay recs that talk about evil/fucked-upedness/girlhood/womanhood/agency/beauty and ugly/sacred and profane?

sure!

books

white oleander by janet fitch (this one checks all your boxes, anon)

bad behavior by mary gaitskill (short story collection; imperative reading for fucked-upedness)

the argonauts by maggie nelson (memoir. note i do not actually like this book at all but it’s a hell of a read)

written on the body by jeanette winterson (not a particularly exciting read but necessary)

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (FERAL)

dangerous angels by francesca lia block (novella collection, YA, totally wild and fun)

the terrible girls by rebecca brown (short story collection; ��there are chopped off limbs as a metaphor for lesbian relationships” per @aeriallon​)

promising young women by suzanne scanlon (like girl interrupted but better)

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (short story collection; some stories are hit or miss but def check out “the husband stitch”)

i probably don’t even need to include this but obvs lolita by vladimir nabokov

essays

the empathy exams by leslie jamison

the greeter by t kira madden

who gets to be the good schizophrenic? by esmé weijun wang 

the crane wife by cj hauser

woven by lidia yuknavitch

debbieland by aimee bender (short story, not an essay, but relevant to this list; you can google for a pdf)

and i know you didn’t ask for poetry, but herbert white by frank bidart is a must.

in terms of memoirists/essayists you should check out generally speaking, i recommend melissa febos, lydia davis, annie dillard, joan didion, roxane gay, joanne beard, mary ruefle, audre lorde, jaimaca kincaid, aaand it’s killing me i can’t think of more but i’ve been driving all day and this is all i could come up with off the top of my head. hopefully this will give you some direction! 

[nessismore]

Book Rec Time

It’s ur girl V, back with another list because this is how I handle quarantines, I guess? Yelling (or politely typing) about my favorite things makes me happy sooo....

If you’re not into binge watching stuff and are looking for things to binge read, may I present (apparently in series length order)...

The Psy/Changeling Series by Nalini Singh - Paranormal Romance

The Psy/Changeling series is about a world where there are three dominant races: Humans, who are your everyday average joes and don’t have any fancy powers beyond...well, persistence and levelheadedness; Psy who have cool as shit mental powers that uh...may lead to some mental instability and like...murder, so they decided “fuck feelings” and instituted a thing called Silence where they feel nothing, and that leads to problems; and Changelings, who can shapeshift into animals and are very cool and ~primal and will possibly claw your face off if you break their rules and I love them a lot. So these three races kind of live in their silos, Psy feeling superior, Humans with a chip on their shoulders, and Changelings just wanting to left tf alone goddammit, and then things happen and it’s cool.

Nalini Singh is pretty much the queen when it comes to paranormal series, and if you’re into a big immersive world with A+ world building and political development intertwined with romance, this is the series for you. 18 (soon to be 19) novels and countless novellas/short stories strong, there’s plenty to dive into. Each novel is technically a standalone, but the deeper you get into the series, the more history you need to really know what’s happening. 

Each novel, minus one, focuses on a different couple, but you have plenty of interaction with past characters as the characters are all tightly intertwined. Seriously, this series is my fave and I re-read/listen to a selection of my faves at least once a year (usually when there’s a new one coming out). In a series this long, you’re bound to have some duds (and there are def some doozies, the couple in Kiss of Snow is super uncomfortable for me, but a lot of shit GOES DOWN) but they’re all worth reading because the political shit happening is super interesting and cool and I didn’t expect to write an essay on this, but here we are. I am down to talk Psy Changeling basically All. Day. Also, because it’s paranormal romance, there’s lotsa sex.

Series highlights (imho): Slave to Sensation (1), Caressed by Ice (3), Bonds of Justice (8), and also books 12, 13, and 14 basically I love all this shit and recommend it highly.

The Pride Series and associated spinoffs by Shelly Laurenston - Paranormal Romance

The Pride Series is another shapeshifter series, but instead of going the serious political route, she goes absolutely fucking BATSHIT INSANE. My introduction to this series was the 9th and last in the series proper, and in that one alone there are: jousting bears, shifters on roller skates, a cat/bear hybrid shifter who falls in love with a honey badger shifter who keeps burrowing into his house.

The series is irreverent and laugh out loud funny, and it also features a hella diverse cast of characters. Each novel is a standalone, but like in Nalini Singh’s series, the characters from different novels interact a lot and it’s nice to see a lot of your faves. Also, a small thing but I really enjoy the fact that while the characters from previous novels interact, they don’t always like each other? It adds a touch of realism (lol) to the relationships. There’s also a lot of fun female friendships, ridiculous shenanigans, and a surprising emotional core to each one. Prepare to think “WTF” the entire time in the best possible way.

Also, lotsa sex in these, too. Also also, gratuitous violence. 

Series Highlights: The Mane Squeeze, Wolf with Benefits, Bite Me

You may also like the books Laurenston writes under pseudonym G.A. Aiken, which is like the Pride series, but set in ~medieval-y times and with dragons. Also hilarious and batshit insane.

The Bridgerton Series by Julia Quinn - Historical Romance

Basically, everything Julia Quinn writes is frick fracking delightful, but the Bridgerton series in particular is near and dear to my heart. Each novel focuses on one the eight (8!) Bridgerton siblings, the oldest of whom is a Viscount and the move in high society in Regency Era England and blah blah blah. What I love about this series is that each sibling is very distinct with a very distinct love story. The family is lovely and heartwarming and the characters all have a lot of depth. There’s an element of ridiculousness to them (as there is in all Julia Quinn novels) and if you’re looking for some feel-good romance, this is the place to be.

Series Highlights: The Viscount Who Loved Me, Romancing Mr. Bridgerton

(also these descriptions are getting shorter as I am getting lazier)

The Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews - Urban Fantasay/Paranormal Romance idk where they fall

It’s hard to choose an Ilona Andrews series, because this husband and wife writing duo is A++. The Kate Daniels series is amazing of course, but if you’re looking for a short and contained series that’s funny and packs an emotional punch all at the same time, look no further than the Innkeeper Chronicles. Dina Demille runs an Inn in a small town in Texas. But not your run-of-the-mill Inn. Nah, this one caters to aliens and interstellar travelers and no one else should even think about staying there. Also, the Inn is sentient. I don’t want to give too much away since it’s such a short series (the original trilogy and a spinoff book that was actually posted on the Ilona Andrews website in serial format) but this series is super great and you should check it out!

No series highlights since it’s like...4 books long. 

I’ve shown you mine, Tumblr. What are your binge reading recs?

[rahabs]

You def come off like you know what you're doing lol, it's very inspiring. I think it's neat you fell into law school! I'm starting to consider it now too; it's been a running joke in my family that I would become a lawyer but I fought hard Bc I thought there was only criminal law; now I'm thinking I might go into business law! I have no idea how that will go, though, but I have a few years to really decide (I'm 19, undergrad). What are the LSATs like/should I expect?

!!!  Oh my gosh, thank you!  I am really just?  Taking things as they come?  I’m a highly adaptive, very “roll with the punches” type of person.  I definitely don’t feel like I have everything together but once I latch onto something I latch on with all my teeth.

That was me as well!  My whole life people told me I should be a lawyer and I, a consummate professional in being difficult when people tell me what to do, basically went absolutely not, don’t tell me what to do, nerr nerr nerr.  Turns out other people can be right sometimes.

Full disclaimer: I spent very little time thinking about the LSAT, and my advice likely won’t work for or be applicable to most people, but basically it’s just one big ol’ reading comprehension test, with some problem solving and a small essay thrown in--at least in Canada.  English was always my best subject (well that and algebra/polynominal-based maths) though, and reading comprehension was something I’ve scored ridiculously high in since I was a child.  I’m also an insanely fast reader (”reading multiple full-length novels in one day”-type speed) so for me it was more a test of patience?  The whole test I’m sitting here rolling my eyes going “that is the most needlessly complicated, roundabout way to word this sentence.”  My advice is make sure your reading comprehension is good and also make sure you have a good, solid vocabulary, because again, most of the questions sound like the person writing them had a thesaurus right next to them so that they could pick the most needlessly complicated word.  If you’re worried, run practice tests with yourself.  I didn’t, because I suck, and went into the LSAT completely blind, but.  Yes.  I talked to people afterwards who prepped for years which I honestly thought was silly because you really don’t need to be prepping that far in advance for what is essentially a reading comprehension test, unless your English is poor.

I never bought an LSAT prep book either, so I can’t speak to their effectiveness, but I know a few of my friends did.  My biggest advice though is just.  Relax.  It’s not as scary as people make it out to be, and if you go in flustered then the test will seem insurmountable.  Remember that the LSAT is more a test of your patience and ability to parse through written text than anything else.  You get a couple free retakes, so if you mess up the first time, just take it again.  I only took it once, but I’m convinced that part of the reason I scored so decently on what amounts to almost zero prep/studying was the fact that I walked in with a very relaxed attitude.  Have a contingency plan, and remember that law is something you can always come back to.  One of my best friends in my cohort is a grandmother.  Most of my friends have children, and already had careers.  So just remember to breathe, remember to relax.  It seems like the be-all end-all but it isn’t, so just don’t let other people’s anxieties over the LSAT poison your mindset and make you more nervous and anxious than you need to be.

Obviously I wouldn’t necessarily recommend doing what I did, which was, em.  Nothing, largely because I again did not care when I took the LSAT since I was already on my way to Ireland--and was in Ireland gearing up for the beginninng of my M.Phil by the time I got my results.  But at the same time I don’t think the level of obsession people devote to it is necessary.  Brush up on your reading comprehension (which honestly you can do just by reading a lot in general), practice writing essays by hand in a short amount of time if that’s something you struggle with, and also I would actually recommend practicing the problem-solving aspects of the LSAT.  It’s one section, but, em.  So what I did is that I knnew my reading comp would be good enough to carry me through the rest of the test, so when I got to that part of the LSAT I worked through it until the five minute warning (you get thirty minutes for each section--four sections I believe, plus the essay--and you cannot go back once those thirty minutes have passed) whereupon I just bubbled in random shit.  It worked.

However, I wouldn’t do it again, and if I had to go back and practice one thing it would be that section, because physically it takes me longer to write things, so I would have paced that better.

But!  Yes!  Expect a massive room of competetive, highly stressed people.  Try not to let their anxiety get to you.  I abhor that sort of competition so it was easy for me to ignore, thankfully, because I honestly could not care less about whatever it was these random strangers were doing.  Review your vocab, up your reading comp, maybe practice some of the problem-solving aspects, and just make sure you have water and food and supplies.  Remember to breathe.  It’s not the end of the world and you can come back at literally any time.  And if you ever need help like feel free to hit me up!  I’m an odd duck in this process but somehow my ridiculous dumb ass made it to a top Canadian law school (I was actually accepted into a couple), so you can do it.  And don’t believe a bunch of the rumours you hear, either.  Most people in law are friendly and very happy to help, and the ones who aren’t worth yours or anyone else’s time.  The LSAT is, imo, a bit of a waste of time, but just think of it as a test of patience, as you will need that patience and that reading comp when slogging your way through case briefs and speeches from judge’s who clearly missed their callings as Charles Dickens’ yes-men.

All the best to you!  I hope this helped!

[gotatext]

TASK OO1 / OOC SURVEY.

[kermit voice] hallo.... its me 

YOUR ALIAS & NICKNAMES — nora

AGE — 23

TIMEZONE — gmt

PREFERRED PRONOUNS — she/her

MBTI — enfp-infp border cos im an introvert who Masquerades as an extrovert :)

HP HOUSE — i spent 10 yrs of my life thinkin i was gryffindor.... to find out.... huffle....puff...... 

ARE YOU A STUDENT? WHAT DO YOU STUDY? — i fuckin wish! being a student was dope af i got stressed about essays like once a month and apart from that i was just chillin, surrounded by really intelligent people every day n livin it up on the party scene. adult life fucking sucks no one wants to have fun cos we all work fuckin tonnes of hours so we can afford to eat and get paid peanuts xx

ARE YOU ENJOYING IT? — im really afraid of bein one of those jock types who peaked in high school but i deff peaked in uni like 100% i was way more interesting 2 years ago

LINKS TO OTHER ACCOUNTS & SOCIAL MEDIA — im not showin u my instagram bc im a fuckin embarassment but this is pinterest , this is my personal blog, this is my writing / 1x1 blog i never use any more n this is my trash talking twitter where i mostly just cry about timothee chalamet and bash the tories. 

DISCORD USER — kristine’s forehead vein#8664

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FICTION GENRE? — i dont read fanfiction much but when i do u can be sure it’s slow burn angsty enemies to lovers mutual pining heart attack every time one of them accidentally brushes the other’s hand

TOP FIVE FAVOURITE FILMS — suspiria (2018 luca guadagnino version rogue i kno but i prefer the remake), the lobster, before sunrise, baz luhrmann romeo + juliet, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind,  thoroughbreds (REC!! so underwatched pls watch it. compelling female characters), hunt for the wilderpeople (also so underwatched), swiss army man, call me by your name, atonement, moonrise kingdom, trainspotting, the florida project. i rlly like films ok

A BOOK YOU FEEL “CHANGED” YOU? — the song of achilles by madeline miller n also fen by daisy johnson

A MOVIE YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN? — booksmart cos its fuckin dope

WHAT IS YOUR SIGN? — libra

ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY? —  i like to pretend im super invested in it mostly to anger my friends but tbh.... i just use it as a rough guide for character creation.... its fun but i dnt .... fully invest in what it has to say..... altho i am the most unbalanced n indecisive bitch on earth so i guess they got that right !! i just live to please baybeyy!

WHAT PLATFORMS HAVE YOU ROLEPLAYED ON? — tumblr for about 8 year (omg) n before tht facebook..... i was very embarassingly in a twilight rp..... i wrote jane..... i also rped as a scene kid oc n when i was like 12 i was on some weird forum harry potter roleplay where i basically played a self insert with georgie henley as the fc......

WHAT OTHER HOBBIES DO YOU HAVE? — i used to have so many hobbies but now i jst lie in my bed staring at the ceiling. but before i was workin like a dog i loved reading, writing, acting in theatre productions..... going out on the town getting bevved..... big druggy EDM nights in warehouses tht probably weren’t liscenced for tht many ppl..... gigs... costume-design and making, spoken word poetry, acrylic painting n rollerskating but my sister broke my skates abt two years ago in vengeance and i’ll never forgive her that fuckin bitch

HAVE ANY PETS? IF SO, TALK ABOUT THEM! — no my landlord is a fascist

IS THERE A TV SHOW YOU RECOMMEND A LOT? — i’ll never stop reccing euphoria!! also i was pleasantly surprised by looking for alaska!! but i also rlly like bob’s burgers, parks and rec, good omens.... black mirror, n sharp objects. lovesick on bbciplayer (n netflix i think) is also rlly fun

ANY SHOWS YOU LIKE SOME MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT YOU DO? — maybe love island, idk if i talk abt that much bc i am ashamed but i am so obsessed with it. i even got the love island game n got so invested in my fictional relationship w bobby tht i had to delete it

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? WOULD YOU RECOMMEND IT? — god god... i haven’t finished a book in ages.... i recently started reading milkman by anna burns, the bees by laline paull and everything under by daisy johnson.... bt the last book i read cover to cover was probs circe. defs read it. feminist and witchy

CURRENTLY READING? — i jst said this but the bees, everything under and less so milkman cos im finding milkman a bit tough

LAST FILM? REC IT? — i watched ladyworld the lord of the flies all-female remake n even maya hawke could not save it.... dnt get me wrong from an art film point of view i loved it but it felt a bit underdeveloped n a level media studies for me..... apart from tht?? the runaways (yorkshire film not released yet at a preview screening) and threads (also a yorkshire film from the 80s about nuclear apocalypse)

THREE MOVIES YOU NEED TO WATCH — portrait of a lady on fire, i work at an independent cinema n we recently had a preview screening and everyone said it was SICK, uhhhh short term 12, n the new eliza scanlen movie babyteeth

WHAT MOVIE DO YOU THINK YOU’VE SEEN THE MOST TIMES? — madagascar because when i was 12 my parents bought me a little television with a dvd player in it for my birthday and madagascar was the only dvd i owned for like..... the first two years of havin the absolute luxury of a tv in my room so i just used to watch it all the time n i now basically know the script inside out

WHAT ALWAYS PUTS YOU IN A GOOD MOOD? — nothing, life is pointless n i hate fun, let me rot in peace

WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE MUSICIAN / BAND? LIST IF THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE. — ughhh god probably lcd soundsystem. gorillaz, the streets, tame impala, talking heads, soft hair, i also love lizz tho n also angry twangy guitar girl bands like girlpool, courtney barnett, best coast, cherry glazerr,

WILD NIGHT OUT OR QUIET NIGHT IN? — quiet night in my party days are over i cant even be bothered to go to the shops if its past 4.30pm and dark these days

ANY PHOBIAS? — clowns n rats

DO YOU LIKE BUGS? — absolutely not

BIRDS? — yes but not if they fly in my face

ARE YOU A CAT OR DOG PERSON? BOTH? — i love both i want one 

BIGGEST PET PEEVE? — tory middle aged boomers who treat me like actual shit on their shoe because i work in the service industry like thats my choice and their poor economic decisions didnt mean i have to do a shitty job to afford to live bcos of austerity n cuts to arts funding meaning i cant get a job writing unless i self-fund :)))

FAVOURITE THING ABOUT THE RPC? — that everyone ive met through rp is a fuckin LAFF

TOP TEN FAVE FCS TO USE? — god .... diana silvers, timothee chalamet, margaret qualley, kristine froseth, froy gutierrez, zendaya, elle fanning, astrid berges frisbey, hunter schafer, leonardo dicaprio

FIVE YOU LIKE WRITING AGAINST? — herman tomeraas, hunter schafer, saoirse ronan, timothee chalamet, froy gutierrez

FAVOURITE TYPE OF FOOD? — linda mccartney 1/2pounder mozzarella veggie burgers, sweet potato wedges, tomato soup, mozzarella sticks, brownies

WORST FOOD? — green things like broccoli n sprouts gross. baked beans cos as a kid ppl used to do baked bean baths for comic relief / red nosed day a lot n i thought when they were finished in the baked bean bath they just put all the cold beans back in the tin. actually anything small that moves around on your plate. peas. spaghetti. sweetcorn. i dont like small things i cant control.

DO YOU PLAY VIDEOGAMES? IF SO, WHAT ONES AND ON WHAT PLATFORM DO YOU PREFER? — last year my housemate had an xbox n i went through a phase of obsessively playin fable 3 it was amazing. i had like 5 husbands and 3 wives and loads of kids but they all ended up leavin me cos i spent so much time out doing quests neglecting them

ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE TAG? — this

LASTLY, HOW DID YOU FIND US? — im one of those bitches who was in this grp all the way back when it was swipe... so quirky and original!! i knew the band before u! anyway im goin now this has been sufficiently embarassing..... i am lame

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHAT NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ABOUT LAWYERS

The other two were a notice that something I bought was back-ordered, and a notation for functions, you can afford to be passive. What more do you need to write. A round? Number 1, languages vary in power. There is already a company called Assurance Systems that will run your mail through Spamassassin and tell you whether it will get filtered out. And if you read only one book about art history don't really like art; you can tell from a thousand little signs. Larry Mihalko was mine. If people had been onto Bayesian filtering four years ago, but to show where languages are heading. And when the Mac appeared, it was like coming home. For millennia that was the canonical example of a job someone had to do. It was English.

That was as far as I can tell from books and photographs, the happiness of Calder's work is his own happiness showing through. The point is not just classification, because false positives are so much worse than false negatives that you should treat them as a different kind of error from false negatives. Those who escape this are nearly all lured onto the rocks by prestige or money. But it probably wouldn't start to work properly till about age 22, because most people haven't had a big enough sample to pick friends from before then. Prestige is like a ride in a Ferrari. Knowing that founders will keep control of the board after a series A, that will change the way things work in most companies, any development project that would take five years is likely never to get finished at all. Another possibility would be to consider not just 15 tokens, but all the tokens over a certain threshold of interestingness. Periods and commas are constituents if they occur between two digits. Note too that hill-climbing which is what this algorithm is called can get you from architecture to product design, but not in the final version of an essay. It's worth understanding what McCarthy discovered, not just as a landmark in the history of computers, but as a model for what programming is tending to become in our own time.

But the fact is, almost anyone would rather, at any given moment, float about in the Carribbean, or have sex, or eat some delicious food, than work on hard problems. Sometimes judging you correctly is the end goal, include court cases, grades in classes, and most would be better for kids in this one case if parents were not so unselfish. There are several reasons why, but one is that people don't want to wait for Python to evolve the rest of Lisp out of it. You'd think it would be such a great thing never to be wrong that everyone would do this. Before you can adjust, you're thrown sideways as the car screeches into the first turn. My friend Trevor Blackwell built his own Segway, which we called the Segwell. School was boring. It's so easy to get sucked into working longer than you expected at the money job. And yet in the mid 90s, the Mac was in its time the canonical hacker's computer. Most people who write about art history, Civilisation is the one I'd recommend.

I look back it's like there's a line drawn between third and fourth grade. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. Once you start considering this question, you have to sound intellectual. How much do you lose by using a less powerful language. This idea is at least nominally preserved in our present-day Fortran is now arguably closer to Lisp than to Fortran I. Bulgaria offering contract programming services. You can be a professor, or make a lot of things. Spams tend to have more sentences in imperative mood, and in the process not to starve. I found that the best way to get things done, and designed languages all too influenced by the technology of the day.

I think that's the main reason the idea is so widespread. But if you look at these languages in order, Java, Perl, Python, you notice an interesting pattern. And that's who they should have been called In-sink-erator Fruit. Number 6 is starting to appear in the mainstream. But knowing how it's really done should at least help you to understand the feeling of futility you have when you're writing the things they make you write in school were even connected to what I was doing now. So performance in the future should not depend much on how you deal with html. I reproach myself with. And you know what work you love does usually require discipline.

Ignoring html is a bad idea, because it's painful to observe the gap between them. What we mean by a programming language. What other alternative is there? So there may be some things someone has to do is figure things out, why do you need to write a program depends mostly on its length. If you want to stay happy, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. This was the Lisp function eval. Inc or class foo: def __init__ self, s: self.

How many corporate lawyers would do their current work if they had to watch over a bunch of kids instead of lying on a beach. Surely by now we all know that software is best developed by teams of less than ten people. A good example is the airline fare search program that ITA Software licenses to Orbitz. The replies surprised me. There are theoretical arguments for giving these two tokens substantially different probabilities Pantel and Lin do, but I wouldn't describe them as intellectually curious. In this article I'm going to give the other side of the line of scrimmage. It should have been called In-sink-erator Fruit. His brain throws off ideas almost too fast to grasp them. The teacher doesn't. One of his most admirable qualities was that he was utterly relentless. Free free If you do this, be sure to consider versions with initial caps as well as all uppercase and all lowercase.

Those three used the English language like they owned it. This is why we even hear about new languages like Perl and Python, the claim of the Python hackers seems to be in the software business, just take on the hardest problem you can find, use the most powerful OS wherever it leads, found themselves switching to Intel boxes. But for obvious reasons no one wanted to give that answer. If you find a lot of published essays peter out in this same way. If anyone proved a theorem in christian Europe before 1200, for example, finding the recipient's email address base-64 encoded anywhere in a message is a very good spam indicator. Now she has a life chosen for her by a high-school kid. They go to school to study A, drop out and get a job doing B, and then advertised this as a Lisp interpreter. But if this still bothers you, let me add from experience that the words you seem to be any syntax for it. At least, you notice an interesting pattern. When friends came back from faraway places, it wasn't just out of politeness that I asked them about their trip. Which means if letting the founders keep control stops being perceived as a concession, it will make the spammers' optimization loop, what programmers would call their edit-compile-test cycle, appallingly slow. That's the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on.

[dillydedalus]

what i read in january

too many books....

the unwomanly face of war, svetlana alexievich (tr. from russian) oral history of soviet women who served in ww2 (whether as soldiers, pilots, field nurses, laundresses etc, plus partisans) - interesting and harrowing, but honestly (& this just comes with the format i guess but it still made the book less enjoyable for me) pretty repetitive. 3/5

my sister, the serial killer, oyinkan braithwaite dark & snappy novel about beautiful ayoola, who has a habit of killing all her boyfriends, and her resentful but protective older sister korede, who always ends up cleaning up after her - until ayoola starts dating the man korede is in love with. not suuuper substantial, but an entertaining, twisty read with some hidden depths and great dark humour (ayoola about her trip w/ a boyfriend: ‘it was fine.... except he died’). 3.5/5

the private memoirs & confessions of a justified sinner, james hogg (uni) fucking wild ride of a book about (and mostly narrated by) a young calvinist radical who believes that, like, since he is one of the elect of God and his place in heaven is guaranteed no matter what he does, he might as well DO SOME MURDER!!! it’s fun, the theology is absurd, and one of the main characters (our young calvinist’s shapeshifting friend) is probably the devil! 4/5

friday black, nana kwame adjei-brenya collection of mostly speculative/dystopian short stories, some of which work very well, some of which don’t really. the stories based on racism in america are mostly very good, satirically heightening current issues to absurd levels while still feeling true. some others are not as good, including one where a man talks to the ghosts of the fetuses his girlfriend just aborted (like. bad.) the last story, a post-nuclear-apocalypse groundhog day type thing, is brilliant and i almost wish he’d turned into a novel/novella instead. 3.5/5

mythologies, roland barthes god, i wish french crit was always as fun as roro ‘kill the author’ barthes making fun of the myths of american evangelicalism and french imperialism. 3/5

moon of the crusted snow, waubgeshig rice set in a northern canadian first nations reservation, where one autumn, electricity, communications etc. fail. when no news (or scheduled deliveries of food etc) come from the south, the community has to figure out how to get everyone through the winter, relying increasingly on traditional survival skills. quiet & reflective twist on the post-apocalypse/social collapse narrative; occasionally the writing is a bit clumsy, but i’d still recommend it. 3.5/5

the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson a psychological haunted house story, more quietly disturbing than downright scary, but i really enjoyed the way the characters interact with each other and the visceral wrongness of hill house. also interested if anyone has done a queer reading bc i def feel like there’s some subtext between eleanor and theodora that plays into the horror (time to check jstor). and i just love jackson’s style of writing. 4/5

tentacle, rita indiana (tr. from spanish, i read the german translation) weirdo dominican queer post-apocalyptic time travel book involving yoruba/voodoo mysticism, time travel via anemone, art collectives, a trans protagonist who is the chosen one, destined to save the ocean, and a mention of einstürzende neubauten (automatic 0.5 point bonus). really cool! there is a lot of sexual & gendered violence so uh. that’s something to be aware of. 3.5/5

the orenda, joseph boyden ugh. so this is a historical novel set in 1600s northern america, centred around the huron/wendat nation and three characters: the wendat warrior bird, a jesuit missionary called christophe who lives among the wendat, and the young iroquois girl snow falls, who is... forcibly adopted?? by bird to replace his murdered family. interesting concept and a promising first third or so, but unfortunately the book is way too long, the characters and their relationships seemed shallow and their development was more Told than Shown to me, and it just never really came together for me. plus, halfway through i found out that boyden has apparently been either greatly exaggerating or completely making up his own native heritage so uh. bad. 1.5/5

nichts was uns passiert, bettina wilpert smart & very precisely observed story about an alleged rape in a lefty/academic social circle. anna claims jonas raped her at a party, while jonas says the sex was consensual. anna eventually goes to the police and as rumours begin to spread, the people around them begin to take sides and try to figure out how to deal with this thing that Does Not Happen To Us (the title) and is definitely not Done by People Like Us. in a smart twist, this is presented as testimonies collected by an unnamed first-person narrator who questions jonas, anna, their friends and family, which i found very effective as a narrative tool, making everything just ambiguous enough. ends on a legalese gutpunch. 4/5

o caledonia, elspeth barker lovely dark book about janet, outcast at school and in her family, always too intense, too earnest, too clumsy, as she grows up first in wartime edinburgh and then in an old house in the scottish highlands, feeling at home only among animals and the wild & harsh & romantic landscape. lyrically written, sometimes morbid and grim (the book opens with janet murdered at 16 y’all), but often funny and bittersweet as well. loved it! 4.5/5

espedair street, iain banks look, this is a novel about a burnt-out rockstar looking back on his rise to fame and wild life, which is like. incredibly unappealing to me from the beginning. tho i gotta give props to banks for managing to make me at all invested in this story with good writing & well-engineered weirdness - so i guess i need to read something from him where the very premise does not make me roll my eyes. 2/5

eiger dreams: ventures among men & mountains, jon krakauer i would never willingly go mountain-climbing but i sure am highkey obsessed with reading about it. this is a collection of short essays about mountain climbing, some about krakauer’s own experiences (trying to climb the eiger nordwand etc), some about special areas of climbing, infamous climbers etc, and krakauer is a good writer & funny dude (don’t smoke weed in your tent while on an expedition lmao). krakauer says in his foreword that “most climbers aren’t in fact deranged, they’re just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition”, which is a great sentence, but based on this and into thin air it seems like that’s in fact the same thing! 3.5/5

fool’s errand (the tawny man #1), robin hobb y’all. i missed my silly silly son fitz who is now significantly older than me, and i was immediately captivated even tho the first 200 pages are mostly fitzy’s Hermit Homesteading Routine with Occasional Visitors. i loved that shit. i loved fitz being reluctantly-but-maybe-not-that-reluctantly being caught in court intrigue & schemes again even more. anyway, hobb’s strength as always is amazing characterisation that makes every character immediately seem real & rich and the relationships between those characters, which are nuanced and fraught and painful and wonderful (also when will fitz & the fool kiss JESUS). also it made me cry a lot about nighteyes, so well done there. 4/5

anyway i am now forcing myself to not just abandon all else and just speed thru tawny man but i really really want to so everything else is going quite slowly 

[wannabe-polyglot]

Immersion From Home

(So as some of you know) I am currently studying abroad in Mexico. I’ve had fellow classmates who were only here for 5 weeks and in those few weeks they gained the confidence to speak with strangers and they picked up more informal language. As a heritage speaker, it also helped! I go throughout the whole day speaking only Spanish. Even with my fellow American housemates! My cousins have stated that they starting noticing a difference within one week! I started speaking faster and fluidly. And I don’t take that long to type out texts in Spanish anymore. My essays in Spanish have also improved dramatically.

Now having said that, a lot of these things are doable at home! It does take a lot of work and dedication, but it def helps. Of course, it all depends on your level and everyone is diff so I’ll talk about what *I* did for each level (for diff languages). 

Videos B: I watched stuff targeted at children and didn’t put the (eng) subs on unless I absolutely had to! This is a great way to learn basic vocab/grammar, plus children-targeted media tends to be calming. Recipe vids also helped because not only were you learning how to make food (bonus points if they’re a meal from the culture) but learning food vocab!

I: I watched whatever I wanted and turned on the subs but only in that language! This is just in case I didn’t catch/understand a certain word and then I would write it down and look it up after (most of the time you can use the context to guess). I also started watching youtube vids in that language. Not videos about the language but average people doing vlogs, lets plays, etc, in that language. Just make sure it’s something you really enjoy, that way it’s content that interests you and you learn vocab that will be useful for me. 

A: I started watching news programs in that language. I recommend news programs similar to The Daily Show, and John Oliver (if you study Mexican Spanish, I recommend Chumel). Not only do they use more advanced language but you also will learn more about topics that are important to the culture you are interested in. 

Music B: Learning nursery rhymes also help because not only are they simple but also a part of cultural knowledge. Start listening to music in that language, any genre! Listen to it a lot and try to sing along. Doesn’t matter if you don’t know the lyrics, this will just get used to the sounds of the language. Once you think you’re close to it, look up the lyrics, and now learn them, it’ll now be way easier for you. This is what I did with Portuguese music and when I finally looked up the lyrics, I was so close it was amazing! And now almost a year, since I’ve taken a break from Portuguese, I still know all the lyrics. 

I/A: Never stop listening music in your targeted language. However, you’re now at the level where you can understand most if not all of the things being said. If there’s a word you don’t understand, write it down, 

Reading B: Kids books or comics!

I/A: Novels, news, basically anything. Start browsing the internet in that language! 

Other Notes So confession time: I wrote the majority of this post during the first few months of me being here. Now I’m almost done with the whole academic year and let me tell you, nothing helps your reading skills like having to do research projects in that language lol also talking to people (which you can do at home thru language exchange apps!). But every time you encounter a word you don’t know highlight it or write it down and make some digital (or physical) flashcards! 

[lightninginthecolliednight]

hey i hope you're having a good day! i saw some of your posts in the bristol uni tag and i'm thinking of applying there this year for history - can you tell me a little about it?

Hope you’re having a good day too!! ☺️☺️

So literally the only thing I know about the history course at Bristol (that you can’t find with a scan of the uni website) is that for some modules you have these things called 24 hour exams, where basically instead of the traditional exam hall setup, you get sent an essay title (that you’ll have notes on from lectures and set readings etc) and 24 hours later you need to hand in a finished essay. So you can write the essay wherever you want, obv you can take breaks whenever and you just have a bit more time for reflection and a bit less immediate time pressure. Plus you can do it from the comfort of your bed in your PJs if you so wish.

Now, Bristol as a uni is something I know lots more about!! The bulk of the uni buildings are clustered together in one little area of the city (though the SU is a ~15 minute walk away from like everything else, which is a faff if you’re there a lot but it’s all on the flat once you’re off the main campus so it’s not acc that bad). You’ll probs be spending a lot of time in the Arts and Social Sciences Library, which is just around the corner from this cute old-fashioned greengrocers, an independent coffee shop called Parsons (which is really cheap and becomes the unofficial hangout of the artsier students) and this really friendly pub. There’s also a red tent up the road in the centre of campus which sells v cheap sandwiches and brownies (but the queue is huge lol). And on the other side of campus you have Park Street/Queens Road which has loads of independent shops and cafes and a bookshop where all the books are £3 (amazing for buying birthday presents). What I’m trying to say is that Bristol is big on friendly, independent businesses and the uni is sandwiched between loads of them so if that’s your jam, Bristol is will be right up your street.Bristol as a city is v political and v liberal (one of the two seats the Greens seriously ran in) and the uni reflects that. They invest lots into putting on free talks (often with free wine) on like virtually everything but especially current events - I think it would be entirely possible to go to a free talk every night of the week if you really tried. And all the liberation group societies (intersectional feminism, LGBT+, BME, disabled students network etc) are all v politically active. But likewise, if politics isn’t your thing there’s no pressure to get involved at all!! It’s just an option that’s there ygm, I dabble in it quite a lot but others don’t.This def isn’t a reason in itself to go to Bristol, but we have really nice architecture. Like there’s a road on campus (Woodland Road) which is a row of old terraced houses converted into lecture theatres which is adorable, Vic Rooms + Wills Memorial Building + School of Geography are all massive gorgeous old buildings with loads of stained glass (I’m sure there more I’m just listing off the top of my head), the Life Sciences building is all light and airy with huge windows and indoor plants. Basically Bristol uni is very pretty, as I said that’s not a serious reason to go to Bristol, but motivating yourself to write that essay is just a bit easier when you’re sat an oak desk next to a huge stained glass window with an organ playing in the background.The SU had a rlly bad rep but they’ve improved lots in the last few years and now honestly imo they’re really good. There’s rooms for societies to use (and there at loads of societies!!), a concert venue, two theatres, two bars and tonnes of study space. Rlly nice study space actually, has lovely views of Bristol, 10/10 would recommend.What’s Bristol seems to be really famous for - at least in the student tabloids - is wavy garms and drugs and like that’s not untrue, but imo they exaggerate it lots. It’s v much a minority of people who are really into all that and there’s so much more to Bristol than students in vintage adidas jackets.I’ve talked a lot about uni life because that tends to be what differentiates undergrad courses but I think it wouldn’t be right not to quickly mention academics at Bristol!! This varies from course to course so imma have to be v general with this haha. Bristol is, as you know, a v v v good uni and you’re def expected to work hard. I don’t know about other courses, but in 1st year geog you have a lot of essays/assignments - I’d say something like 7ish per 10-12 week term?? But that’s probs true for most high-ranking unis and most people find it manageable and have more than enough time for a social life etc!!! Basically it’s hard work but nothing impossible and I really, really love my course.Any more specific qs or anything you want me to elaborate on hmu!!

[starsstruck]

Hi! I wanted to recommend you a book called “Funny Qeatjer: art in an emergency” by Olivia Laing. I know how much you love art and it is a compilations of essays on art & artists , it is truly a healing read especially during times like these. She writes beautifully about art ! (She talks about Georgia O Keeffee & Ana Mendieta & Anges Martin 💓 and soo many other great artists)

this is so sweet of u to send me this i will def be checking this out !! im doing a big book order soon it will be added thank thank u 💓💓

[butyouvealwaysbeenthecaretaker]

!!! Thank you for your answer-- I've been reading basic stuff about Fisher and talking about him with my friend who's into theory stuff. Which I don't know a ton about. But I am leftish and into cultural criticism and enthusiastic about rock music rn, lol. And I was like, wait, isn't the sort of thing that Caretaker dude on Tumblr's all about? But I am still feeling a sort of buzz of exploration and possibility about his work-- do you know where to start?

I am impossibly delighted

I would start with Ghosts of my Life. It's a collection of essays about movies and music, but it's got a definite Mood, and also gently introduces some of his politics.

I would also recommend getting into his influences; because what he's communicating is less of an idea than a feeling. Both Ghosts and The Weird and the Eerie are essentially reading lists, so if an essay appeals to you definitely seek out the original source.

My personal faves being, obvs, The Caretaker (albums to start with: An Empty Bliss is his classic. Haunted Ballroom and Persistent Repetition are also good. I find some of his work on amnesia a lot harder to get into). And Sapphire and Steel, which is available on YouTube. They can be watched in any order and the classic episodes are 2 and 6, but 1 is also very good.

(Because his references are so important to him, there is def a socialisation process. ie he mentions in On Vanishing Land that the wartime radar operators would have danced to Al Bowley on the lawn. It's not a casual reference: Bowley is on the Shining soundtrack, and that soundtrack inspired the Caretaker, and he has a whole post about Bowley on his blog, because he died early on in the Blitz so has this haunted quality. You rarely *need* a reference to understand his point, but it usually makes it more *rich* because you're following his web of connections)

On Vanishing Land can be heard on YouTube. He went for a walk with Julian Fisher on an evocative coastline, and the album is a psychogeographical monologue over sounds. It's fantastic. It's a great introduction to his frequency, as well as good listening in its own right, real headphones on a rainy bus music. He wrote The Weird and the Eerie in the same period, and it talks more about some of the references in Vanishing Land, and examples of both weird fiction and eerie fiction.

I found his political books difficult to get into initially. Then the world disabled me more, and I was suddenly an anti-capitalist. His politics reads as quite...studenty? Idk. Protest everything!  So I found that offputting at first, because there is a lot of post-9/11 rage & anti-Blair/anti-Cameron writing which is like - ok, but what are you for? But now I've got more background from other Left wing sources about what a Left wing future could be, I've come back to those essays with a new eye. Similarly, I don't follow his philosophy, but other writers I admire (i mean, I'm talking about birlinterrupted) have criticised Zizek & others he mentions which make me think they also have a student edgelord character that I'm wary of.

Capitalist Realism is short, and outlines his key theory: that we believe there is no alternative to capitalism. He's more of a mood than a theory guy, so I actually find the bits of that in Ghosts of my Life more effective. Like, "capitalism is like the Sapphire and Steel episode where everything is looping" is where he's most at home as a thinker; I think he struggles to articulate this very real thing he's identified in more concrete/theoretical ways. But I think it's probably Necessary if you want to Do his work, and you may get more out of it than me.

The book K-Punk is his collected blog posts. It's difficult, and I wouldn't make it your first purchase. But I dip into it every now and again, and I'm working my way into his politics through it. I feel bad that this political writer, his politics is the thing I struggle with but *shrug*. I'm very new to the Left, and my instincts are that one shouldn't start with Fisher for a Left 101.

The blog is still online. Fisher's medium was The Blog, just as Peyps was The Diary. I dip into this too - it's really not something you can archive binge. But like if you type in a topic you know he's into, you can find his scratch notes on it, like that post about Al Bowley: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/ There's also the slightly more formal  https://k-punk.org/ -it's got play lists! And thats's important because music is important to his thing.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WEALTH IS AS OLD AS FORUMS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THE IMPLEMENTATION EASIER TO PORT, BUT IT COULD BE

They'll pay attention next time. It started decades ago, only famous people and professional writers got to publish their ideas, it's not because liberals are smarter that this is the main reason is that software is best developed by teams of less than ten people. Different publications vary greatly in this respect may be stuff you don't—you may just conceal your talent. Both Blogger and Delicious did that. It's when you can bear the risk of failure. Spending Too Much It's hard to predict which startups will succeed implies that big companies will start to shift back. The essay is mostly an opportunity to solve the problem with the labels and studios is that the customer doesn't want what he thinks he wants. I realized, more from internal evidence than any outside source, that the cause is not some sort of padding to protect their children from by raising them in suburbia? And yet within a month it had happened again: an aggressive west coast VC who had met the founder of a startup. It's not enough just to raise up the poor.

Was Amazon supposed to say no. Not Leonardo. A timeslice selected at random would more likely find me tracking down a bug in code you just wrote. If coming up with ideas for startups? Sites of this type on the cover. But you can't have, if you had grown up there and remembered how nice it was. If someone sat down and wrote a web browser that didn't suck. The first thing I want is for the founders, to understand what a conceptual leap that was at the edge of what could be manufactured. When languages are designed for other people, it's a sign they've lost the real battle, for users. They won't be offended.

The problems are different in the early stages. In the past when I bought things from. I better work then. We paid $3000 for a server with a 90 MHz processor and 32 meg of memory. It's not considered insulting to say that YC's most successful companies have never been swarms of beggars in the streets of a big company is like a compiled program you've lost the source of the problem is that in a modern society, increasing variation in productivity increases with technology, then the post-money valuation of $2 million. And you know, Microsoft is remarkable among big companies in the first half of the eighteenth century as they are, because it's rare for a program will be perfect. Your program is supposed to do what they want, and b don't just like whatever they grew up in the small Welsh seacoast town of Pwllheli. There is more to be smart in distinctive ways. And a particularly overreaching one at that, with fussy tastes and a rigidly enforced house style. _ Arc: def foo n: lambda i: n i and my guess is that a lot of them, so that we can become smarter, just as someone used to dynamic typing finds it unbearably restrictive to program in college was all wrong.

It's that we won't let the people who had them to continue to the point where startups can least afford in a startup is to try to figure that out. Thanks fred to: Fred Wilson to: Paul Graham cc: Nathan Blecharczyk, Joe Gebbia, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Geoff Ralston, and Harj Taggar for reading drafts of this. The third was one of those 10,000, then you've done the deal at a pre-money valuation of your last funding round. After about ten sentences I found myself talking recently to a group of your peers? If you say: I'm going to talk about it publicly till long afterward. But looking through windows at dusk in Paris you can see your email, why not work there? Now we think of now as cancer. And yet I think I can fix the biggest danger of not being prime?

I write great software, but not his name. And because the points are independent of one another, as in war, surprise is worth as much as possible. Partly because the unions were monopolies. When you're writing desktop software, because so many bugs occur at the boundaries between different people's code. The book should be thin as well. This kind of thing people said at first about starting a startup is more than you'd endure in an ordinary job. No one is sure what research is supposed to mean that a deal is going to be, but it is a good trend and I expect this to be a hot deal. The study of rhetoric, the art of arguing persuasively, was a brutally practical plane.

The world changes fast, and consulting just can't scale the way a startup feels is at least nominally preserved in our present-day spam acceptably well using nothing more than create a new, much more analytical style of thinking. He showed how, given a handful of startups have some kind of primitive, multi-celled sea creature, where you can spend as long thinking about each sentence than it takes to write a paper about it, because they only have themselves to be mad at. Most good hackers have bad business ideas? If you're working on a hard technical problem. Our hypothetical prim miss from the suburbs. Surely by now we all know the amounts being raised in series A rounds, the investors in that round will get. I doubt what we've discovered is an anomaly. The big dogs don't have to buy anyway because there are no versions. These alarms are almost always the same. While we're at it, with dramatic results. That will change if you get rejected by investors, but there will be a great thing.

So there is a lot less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. I'd recommend having the debate after meeting them instead of before. Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about being acquired, we had this startup on the side of safety: when someone offers you a term sheet, and then only in a vague sense of malaise. 27meg. So if you choose stability—by buying bonds, or stocks bought for the dividends they pay. VCs: let founders cash out partially by selling some of their own programs need to be moderately smart to succeed as a startup hub, because economically that's what startups are really like will at least conceal the problem. A job means doing something people want? Chair designers have to spend a lot of altitude. I think it's cleaner if you openly charge subscription fees, instead of random corporate deal-makers. For the fine prose of the original, see the provisional application of February 1998, back when we were raising money. What's a prostitute? In fact, that's an understatement.