Kieran Healy

NYC Neighborhood Complaints. Tag yourself. I’m “Illegal Posting”. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

Went to see The Movie. You can see what they were going for; and largely got it, too, though perhaps at the cost of intentionally not asking some questions anyone would ask, to keep the audience squirming. Competent lawyers did ask those questions, which is presumably why she and Sunny went to jail.

Dogs of New York, shapes and sizes edition.

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

“Please” said Mendicant Neobery. “I have made the offering. I have given up my token. I ask that you say the Enabling, as is your and only your right. There was a pause. “Oh. Ahh ;; pwot” the Overseer said, with that distinctive glottal double-click mid-utterance. The Instance flickered to life.

Paddy Keenan just the other week, and now Dónal Lunny. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY6Q...

The (Peer Re)View from Nowhere

youtu.be/WAaSzZAY3pw

Truly unironically, fantastic job everyone. Very well-played.

Once again, I demand an animated series where all the little NYT focus group people are living together in a big house and trying to have conversations while also not having the house constantly at risk of burning to the ground or flooding with raw sewage or overrun by wild tapirs and such.

You think the city is a grim and unforgiving place where no-one gives a damn whether you live or die, but then you see people rushing to save a guy trying to board the 1 who, because of his giant headphones, is unaware that this train is going express to 168th but there’s another right behind it.

You think the city is a grim and unforgiving place where no-one gives a damn whether you live or die, but then you see people rushing to save a guy trying to board the 1 who, because of his giant headphones, is unaware that this train is going express to 168th but there’s another right behind it.

Forget it, Charlie Brown, it’s Charlie Brown

Time to watch more @tomvii.bsky.social videos, like GradIEEEnt half decent, where floating point math standards are made to do terrible things. youtu.be/Ae9EKCyI1xU

Our critic thinks this underrated novel, despite opening with a wild claim about a truth supposedly universally acknowledged, is in the cusp of a critical reëvaluation

Dude just keeps cranking stuff out

I stopped watching it after Season 1 but it looks like things have really gone off the rails in the new Ted Lasso.

Dark Nutrition + Dark Academia = Tuesday Pizza in the Dept Fridge Left Over From Friday Workshop

I keep getting announcements from various universities about how they have some new initiative focused on how to have what they all are calling “difficult conversations”. Initially I was like hey sign me up, I am famous for my awkward conversations, but it turns out that’s not what they have in mind

The Jurisprudence of imaginary visits to Ye Olde Dyner Inne Kansas

The decoupling of outlet from impact in American sociology. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

See also.

A little known fact about "Alien" (1979) youtu.be/rBeYwIp6KE8

Gotta hand it to Ricœur, this whole Hermeneutics of Suspicion move turns out to be tremendous for Engagement.

I see thousands of these stories smdh

Is Baghdad Bob busy these days?

Political Scientists discover the Mooch is not the fundamental unit of governmental time, but can be split into fractional units. The latest in the long progression of refinement, down from the Wilson, first discovered in Britain in 1961.

The Comp Lit branch of this discourse will not rest until the Neural Nets are not just already clean, but always already clean. already-clean.goodfire.com

Dogs of New York, or, the Rise of the Goldendoodles. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...