I had always kind of assumed it was invented in 1986 by Jewish organizations worried about intermarriage and birthrates, as a way to trick neurotic single overeducated 20-somethings into touching each other.

Not only did Trump somehow win a debate he didn’t go to, instead he had an event where the ‘08 and ‘12 Iowa caucus winners - Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum - gave auxiliary speeches from a lectern bearing his name.

As, in the language of political stagecraft, endorsers do. With nothing to gain and everyone coming for him, he somehow left everyone bruised and in his debt by running away and tricking HIS OWN OPPONENTS into endorsing him.

Unreal.

I just added an “it’s like a brer rabbit story” tag to that last post so I was like I wonder whether the tag’s richer as “brer” or “br'er” so I searched that.

There’s a lot more fucking Brer Rabbit shit out there than I expected. Scrolling through it, scrolling, scrolling. I was like “well, this IS Tumblr and he WAS in a Disney movie.”

Scrolling, scro—

“Well, this IS Tumblr, and he WAS an anthropomorphic rabbit.”

The AP US History test is going to get some amazing document-based questions out of this election.

nathanjurgenson:

link, via

naturepunk:

This is my kind of humor.

If you want to know who someone really is, look at the ads they get shown.

owls-n-elderberries:

Le coq hardi .. by Denis Cauchoix

deep-state:

gchq document describing the use of open source software for processing hacked video feeds from israeli drones

a recurring theme in snowden/5eyes documents is the use of software and tools that mature in the civilian space, particularly OSS, and are coopted by deep state apparatus: a shadow world of the infrastructure that drives cyber in our lives, retooled for reconnaissance

swampgallows:

buzzflower:

nothing matters anymore. only this vine

i’m always here for aphex twin cows

yeah I thought I was immune but apparently I, too have been ghost-unfollowing people and just noticed

SORRY

but it’s kinda nice, you lose by attrition and only replace what matters. like how we didn’t NEED gentrification when we had fire

pluspluspangolin:

nuclearspaceheater:

nostalgebraist:

mathamaniac:

nostalgebraist:

well, okay, sure,

(first, @nuclear-red-navy​, tumblr’s side-bar opening of links to tumblr blogs has broken the “read more” functionality.)

Second, this is the result of EY asking for covert art at a price of 125$. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s an interesting event in the saga of EY doing things that will piss off the internet.

https://www.freelanced.com/job/29612/create-a-cover-for-an-english-original-light-novel-by-yudkowsky-freelance-anime-art-job

https://www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comments/40d6z9/125_for_an_artist_with_anime_experience_to/

To clarify, I wasn’t intending to poke fun at the art style/quality so much as the overall goofiness of the cover, especially the title

Given it’s intended genre, it fits in with titles like No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular! and so on.

Yeah, this is 100% in line with how light novels tend to be named, right down to the punctuation

The next question: what does the fandom (for such a dread beast shall doubtless arise) settle on as the ‘official’ acronym? 

(EY suggested Summoned Hero in a reddit thread, but that seems a bit clunky; it’s a a pity that english doesn’t allow for the nice and quick contractions that are regularly pulled off for light novels in japanese [eg WataMote for that which nuclearspaceheater mentioned, Haganai, DanMachi, etc])

yeah no that’s actually a very good 3/4s-ass overliteral translation of the Japanese grammatical forms that would be used to title an installment’s worth of pulpy fiction. Add in the art and it’s very 1999.

nostalgebraist:

well, okay, sure,

RED TITTY UP, WHITE TITTY DOWN

bluecote:

residential blocks, university of essex
(the brick bulletin 1/67)

antoine-roquentin:

vivianvivisection:

Excuse me

Which means I created a pile of broken glass, steaming hot coffee and dirty grounds on my bedroom floor for the sole purpose of faceplanting in it.

That was fun.

It is a political rally highlights film which begins with the arrival of the headliner’s plane, then some testimonials to his greatness and exhibitions of the scale of his following. Then he speaks, which you notice is more audience than podium shots, in service of the overriding message - these ordinary people are part of something bigger, something powerful, a force of destiny, and you can be too.

But where Riefenstahl’s original was a cinematic breakthrough, this one uses techniques developed in the MTV revolution of the ‘80s that are now the basis of modern blockbusters - very fast cuts, heavy use of conspicuous filters, a score of contemporary pop on the adventurous edge of mainstream, to-the-bone editing that compresses the whole arc into a few minutes.

It is very well done and I guarantee you there is NO ONE capable of putting it together who wouldn’t know exactly what they were doing.

Like, songs with motive force of their own lend a heavily cut sequence the kind of coherence and continuity that long, carefully matched shots used to; insert shots that focus on important props or actions in the “Hey Lookit This” role that orchestral stings used to…

oligopsony:

leftclausewitz:

leftclausewitz:

Something I’ve been thinking about is like we assume that old radical discourse is like made for its own sake with no, lets say, ulterior motives. But how much discourse from back in the day comes from the same infighting and how much of it exists, lets say, more as a rhetorical weapon than as a way for analyzing the world (for a contemporary example see monosexism)

For an older case see labor aristocracy

This strikes me as a false dichotomy. When Discourses are working, incentives are aligned so that infighting, points-scoring, and so on produce attempts to analyze the world. My intuiiton feeling is that late 19c/early 20c radical discourse had more concern for good epistemology and for Winning In The Real World than late 20c/early 21st, and so was in a better position to produce good analyses, but of course that could be rose-tinted glasses speaking.

the various secret police set up after 1848 were pretty good at filtering for competence?