Rafe Meager (they/them)

we definitely need to hear more about this because this sounds wild

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

The theranos whistleblower is truly one of the few heroes of our age

Become ungovernable

Still covering Elon Musk as a business mogul and not foregrounding his murderous white nationalist politics is like doing a piece on only the clown career of John Wayne Gacy.

sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

On the one hand it is good to run stories of trump being abandoned by the faithful as a signal to other faithful that it is safe and reasonable to abandon him. On the other hand why would anyone care about the political journey of an 11 year old. Age 11-21 is for being a moron on that front.

is there a term for this specific thing in text where what looks like a mistake is in fact a reference that conveys tone? (I refer here to "Love too" which allows us to understand immediately that the tone is a sort of wan or beleaguered sarcasm)

i really enjoy how wes anderson used part of the french dispatch to be like ok dummies now i am going to expain the point of abstract modern art to you. cretins.

The TeX Live Utility release notes are still undefeated.

I would also like mainstream press and journalists throughout the world to understand that when you wring your hands about estrangement you are carrying water for this stuff regardless of your intentions

“Penfolds designed by troye sivan” is this peak australia or can we go more

To add a bit more context to this, Darren Dahly can also predict cancer survival my looking at a single patient selfie - now ask the researchers here exactly the same questions you would ask of me before using that prediction.

AI not on the level of jon safran going after rove yet

(1) hot damn (2) econ marked safe from this somehow?

and don't sleep on his banger, "important mermaid" youtu.be/3OfR5OQi-54?...

Announcement: My children's book is under contract with Dead Fox Publishing! They are doing an open call for illustrators (pay is revenue split with me), and I'll share a link to that in the next post. If you know any artists who do spooky, witchy, whimsical art, send 'em this way.

Gladwell's "analysis" is infuriating because it's why so many people throw up their hands in disgust with statistics & say "you can make numbers say anything." No! There's a way to do this well, and Gladwell just doesn't want to be fucked to do it.

I looked this quote up because I wanted to learn more about it and it has been a while since Gemini coughed up something this strange (I legit wondered if "the tribe of ipi" might be a gilgamesh-inspired videogame or something that I just had not heard of, but it does not seem to be....)

Any Sydney mutuals going to TISM on the 31st? I’ll be there having the belated edgy teen misadventures i never fully had… though of course now it practically counts as dad rock….

What can Dems actually do about DOGE? A Democratic Congress has a real opportunity to engage in the type of oversight that DOGE has avoided thus far. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

adulthood is full of a lot of scary things. for example, second rise of fascism. or dishwasher makes a new sound

Pika la revolution in surry hills

1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard

Live by the sword, oh, okay, very nice. Die by the sword? Oh no thanks. No thank you.

Get em sal, tell them to go fuck themselves. This is the good use of fame

Another thing I’ve heard Goldin say about this is soft skills of communicating and negotiating roles within relationships have become more valuable for men, which explains why the decline in marriage is so concentrated among noncollege men

Look, it's just common sense that in the ancestral environment if a man read a book by a woman or vice versa they'd get eaten by a lion

i really am not convinced the Telegraph isn’t a massive satirical art piece