Any Irish person of sufficient age will tell you that the outlook Gillers is articulating here, and its consequences, are best understood by googling the phrase “appalling vista”.
Wittgenstein's social status game was a true case of "You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where I was raised". He moved from a setting where drama-queen battles were won mostly by killing yourself and just ate the Cambridge Apostle snobs for breakfast. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2016/04/28/how-rude/
@gruber@hotdogsladies@ironicsans It clearly varies in different bylines by him—eg in ones that are all small caps, his name is in all small caps too—so I wonder if it just shows up in settings where they just pull the name directly from how he wrote it in their CMS or something
Can’t wait to watch the thrilling tale of a weak and pathetic creature, whose every living moment is agony, who flees, is hunted down, captured, and tortured by the leaders of first one and then the other side of a power struggle he cannot understand. Truly a parable for our times.
The Data Colada people provide an update on the defamation case Francesca Gino has filed against them. Short version: the dismissal hearing happened and now they wait for a decision on that. https://datacolada.org/116
Look, I’m gonna be honest with you [there is a pause; a fugitive moment; he gazes off into the middle distance as if gripped by a memory he cannot articulate, a feeling he cannot explain; his focus returns but the sense of loss remains] this is a good book and you should buy it https://theordinalsociety.com
The astonishing organizational power of taking everything on your computer Desktop, putting it in a new folder named “To File” and never looking at anything in that folder ever again.
