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god bless petty Wikipedia vandals

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it so beautiful that this is an album cover everyone has to look at when you go on the 2024 rym chart thank you vylet pony really realy cool

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genius.com makes sense in its original form as a website focused on annotation & interpretation for specifically rap/hip hop music because hip hop is an inherently intertextual genre that makes prolific use of samples & interpolation, wordplay, references to other artists and their works, etc so having a website to explain all of those things to listeners was a genuinely clever and useful concept. but to put it plainly as a human race we were not meant to apply that level of analysis to figuring out whether taste by sabrina carpenter is about shawn mendes and camila cabello

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Me & BF now sell merch on our very own brand new website WOOF.SUPPLY!!🐾

⚠️WOOF.SUPPLY is now THE source for OFFICIAL 4LUNG MERCH as well as tons of other awesome stickers and kandi and stuff!!

💿My MYSTERY CDs are BACK & on sale there!

🎵10 random songs from my 900+ track discography, in a random color of CD case, decorated by Me w/ random stickers! OOOO SHIT!!

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the best thing to come out of the Star Wars sequels was the phrase "little white cuck ball"

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Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.

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you could probably stand to be nicer to your internal parts, even if they weren't fragmented off by childhood abuse

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Like, I’ve called a guy “Anthony Fantano’s stunt double” to his face before, but this just feels like a bridge too far

There’s a recurring customer who looks like my ex-girlfriend if she never transitioned, and I’m annoyed that there’s no non-insane way to say this to a stranger

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There’s a recurring customer who looks like my ex-girlfriend if she never transitioned, and I’m annoyed that there’s no non-insane way to say this to a stranger

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So I was reading a book on the history of double-entry bookkeeping in early-modern Britain today ("A History of the Modern Fact", by Mary Poovey), and the author mentioned offhand that numbers, far from being afforded universal respect in the late 16th century, actually carried pejorative associations with necromancy and black magic. Can you comment on this?

So, for most of human history, math has kinda been associated with magic. The fact that you can write a bunch of shapes on paper, and then manipulate those symbols to make a really good bridge, is kinda fucking crazy when you think about it.

"England in the late 16th century" is right about when John Dee died. It was after his death that his wizard notebooks were discovered and published. The fact that one of the queens most trusted confidants was actually literally trying to talk to angels with magic, was kinda the story of the century. It was around this time that Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, which featured a heavily John Dee inspired Prospero.

Dee's most significant contribution to England was actually his skill at cartography. Simply by correcting some astronomical math and pouring over charts, he figured out how to shortcut weeks off trade routes to India. The relationship between astronomy, mathematics, and Dee being a wizard, was not lost on English pop culture.

So, if you were an old guy in 1626 with a beard who spent all of his time cloistered in a big castle, and all you did was weird math, people might half-seriously speculate that you might be doing some wizard shit.

Additionally, this is a period where many mathematics texts from the Islamicate world were making their way to England. And you've gotta understand that like 25% of these Arabic math textbooks straight up had spells in them. Any English collegiate mathematician at this time would at least be tangentially aware that Islamic polymaths were doing some pseudo-religious stuff with mathematics. But that doesn't mean it was taken seriously beyond commonplace orientalism.

So I'm not sure if I would go so far as to say that numbers themselves had a negative association with magic. Like, accountants had normal boring math to do all the time and nobody cared.

I would say that mathematics were occasionally regarded with suspicion under specific circumstances.

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Like, “there are so many traffic laws that you’re always violating some of them” is stressful enough without needing to violate them

One nontrivial reason why I don’t drive is that I just don’t want to fuck with the mindgame of “driving the posted speed limit on the highway is slow enough to be obnoxious, dangerous, and potentially grounds for getting pulled over”

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One nontrivial reason why I don’t drive is that I just don’t want to fuck with the mindgame of “driving the posted speed limit on the highway is slow enough to be obnoxious, dangerous, and potentially grounds for getting pulled over”

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We smokin' that empyrean. That Akiva OG. That firmament-cracker kush. Shit so blitzed off that Chaldean snake-blaster we touchin' tips with Metatron. We smokin kykeon in the krater hermetis. Opps can't even see me. So trounced off the flowing light we Lingua Incognito. That Beatrice got me abandoning all hope. We smokin' that deep-dirt shit, that telluric, that chthonic chronic. Dick her so deep call it katabasis. I'm Eurydice. I'm gone forever. [1][1b][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

I'm hotboxing the accumulator, so twisted off that Willhelm Reich I'm gonna live forever. My girl a desert. So bricked up on orgone they call me cloudbuster. We smokin' Phlogiston. We smokin' Vril. We smokin' scalar waves. So fucked off sophic salt and six emerald tablets, call me the sun the way that pussy devouring me. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

We smokin' that lemurian crystal surgery crud. That atlantean akashic Koot Hoomi kush. Master so ascended I got my tulpa's tulpa blazed. We on that Nebraskan shaman. We on that Caucasian voodoo. We on that Yakubian private reserve. We smokin' perdurabo in the great pyramid of Giza. Call my dick Bethlehem the way my girl slouching towards it. [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

WORKS CITED:

[1]: The Empyrean Heaven [1b]: Rabbi Akiva Ben Joseph and the Sepher Yetzirah [2] The Firmament [3] Ancient Near-Eastern Magic [4] Metatron, Enochic Mysticism [5] Kykeon and the Eleusinian Mysteries [6] Ludovico Lazzarelli and neohermeticism [7] Mechthild of Magdeberg [8] Hildegard of Bingen and Lingua Ignota [9] Dante, Canto III [10] Telluric Current [11] The Chthonic World [12] Orphism and Katabasis [13] Willhelm Reich and Orgone Accumulators [14] Orgone theory and weather [15] Antoine Lavoisier and Phlogithon theory [16] Vril energy and Theosophy [17a] Scalar Wave Theory [17b] Failed CIA experiments into Scalar Wave Theory [18] Paracelsus, Sophic Salt, and the Tria Prima [19] The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus [20] Splendor Solis, The Green Lion Devouring the Sun [21] The Lost Continent of Lemuria and the New Age [22] Koot Hoomi, Theosophy, and the Ascended Masters [23] The Besantine Tulpa [24] Neoshamanism [25] Yakub, The Nation of Islam [26] Perdurabo [27] The Second Coming, [28] Yeats and Alistair Crowley

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A while ago at work I saw someone with an anime T-shirt and a neck tattoo, and I was struck by how normal it felt, when that would’ve been a punchline in itself within my lifetime. They’ve both become much more mainstream from very different directions in not that much time!

It’s worth acknowledging some ways in which culture has improved in the last decade or so.

There is massively more anime every year than in any previous decade. The *average* quality has gone down, but it’s okay because the *total* number of good anime per year has gone up. The total is more important than the average. There are way more music genres than ever before, and numerous deceased genres have even been revived. Anyone can find music they’re interested in, and many more independent music artists have some chance of getting popular online.

(Some people complain that the 2010s has no distinctive “sound,” or that there are almost no anime coming out that will be considered “classics.” This may be a loss, but it is a minor downside compared to the advantages of variety.)

While mainstream video games have suffered enormously from EA-style monopolization and microtransactions and suchlike, independent games are more numerous and better than ever. The prevalence of shit-games, as with shit-anime, does not come close to outweighing the fact that there are more total good ones than ever before.

Video essays on YouTube are more numerous and better than ever, and provide immense opportunities for entertainment and edification. A decade ago, it was major news when Red Letter Media made a 70-minute review of a Star Wars movie. Now, anyone can make a 70-minute review of a movie, or for that matter a 7-hour review of a movie–and a lot of these exist, and a lot of them are incredibly good. Even as the owners of YouTube are continually making it a shittier platform on a design level, the community itself is periodically getting better and improving the content.

Many once-stigmatized subcultures and hobbies, like fanfiction and furry fandom, have become quasi-mainstream and less regularly derided.

Most forms of everyday technology have gotten immensely better in the last decade. This is of course a mixed bag, as it has come alongside increases in cyberbullying, privacy violations, and technology addiction. But still, computers and other useful technologies are much better and more affordable than ever before.

Today’s memes are excellent, and often far better than the memes of previous decades.

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The Onion buying Infowars is the best "displaying your enemy as a trophy" acquisition since the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund got the rights to the Comics Code Authority emblem

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My contribution to a local zine! I had a lot of fun with this, and look forward to doing more with these characters in the future.

(My current name ideas are Quincunx and Other Sam, respectively.)