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Eat My Shorts 4 / Malice, Models, Malingering, Malick
Standing up to bullies in order to bully; contra Hanania on "great books"; my one weird trick; wasted words on "Knight of Cups" and "Tree of Life"
May 31
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Mills Baker
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I Lost on Jeopardy!
And it was okay
May 12
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Omar Khalid
26
9
March 2023
The irrepressible monkey in the machine
Neither "AI" nor TikTok (nor Facebook nor NBC nor...) can "hack" human beings.
Mar 18
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Mills Baker
54
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Quant. & Lit.
What reading rationalists does to an mfer.
Mar 11
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Mills Baker
35
18
February 2023
Convention and Neurosis Revisited
Hell is people who think hell is other people; hatred is generally ignorance; and other conclusions from one of my favorite passages of all time.
Feb 28
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Mills Baker
27
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Abjection Doesn't Scale
When support scenes stigmatize.
Feb 18
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Mills Baker
55
35
"The Sellout"
Humor, transgression, and beauty in Paul Beatty's outrageous novel
Feb 12
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Mills Baker
13
15
Designing in Winter
Gloomy possibilities for software designers in the coming years
Feb 11
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Mills Baker
41
18
January 2023
Steely Dan but it's just my voice
Creativity, expression, and the irony of being earnest
Jan 30
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Omar Khalid
12
3
Eat My Shorts 3 / "Near" "Death" "Experiences"
Death, advice, Kubrick, Wiman, shutting up.
Jan 29
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Mills Baker
30
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Eat My Shorts / 2
Dad's art; mom's heart; and a rant contra "therapism."
Jan 6
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Mills Baker
23
13
On and Off "On Freedom"
Maggie Nelson and the novelist's songs / "Don't Mess with Mrs. In Between"
Jan 4
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Mills Baker
11
4
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