I started reading this sci-fi paperback and realized my copy was printed in 1983 and never been read before.

Describe yourself in three characters

Luin aamun Hesarin haastatteluja, ja pariinkin niistä pitäisi vastata virkkeellä, jonka luin John Greenin kirjasta Everything Is Tuberculosis (2025): "Lakatkaa puhumasta systeemisistä ongelmista ikään kuin ne olisivat yksilön moraalisia valintoja." Voisin painaa tästä T-paitoja.

John Green's Everything Is Tuberculosis was quite good. A quick and important read.

Tykkään kauhukirjojen retrokansista. Veikkaan, että Grady Hendrixin Paperbacks from Hell (2017) auttoi trendiä.

I saw a review of this Casio watch on a YouTube channel called "Wrist Action" and fell in love with dial. It's big and clear, and, most importantly, it shows the date in the proper order: dd-mm-yy. I want one and will probably buy one for my birthday.

Tekoälykeskustelun onttous ja typeryys alkoi ärsyttämään niin paljon, että ostin pari kirjaa, joissa on kuulemma järkeä.

Yeah, I don't think I even need to see the video to know what he means. I got this.

I'm not even going to click on this BBC news link. This is just what Meta does, I guess.

I wonder what would happen if people writing vaguely apocalyptic news articles about AI just gave up the pretense and started writing science fiction? My guess is we would get a 1930s-style explosion of great sci-fi pulp magazines.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. Definitely not Dracula.

I feel seen.

Insomnia, and reading Maupassant's weird stories to pass the time. The French seems to unravel in tippy-tappy rolling cascades of goodness.

Jotkut paheksuvat ilakoivia kuvituskuvia kun uutisoidaan helteistä, mutta tässä Iltiksen kuvassa varoitellaan, että tulee niin kuuma, että skidit jää stadikalla roikkumaan ilmaan kesken uimahyppyjen.

Dumb phone summer. And FLAC player, too.

Lateraalista ajattelua: syntyvyys nousisi, jos miehet lukisivat enemmän.

New pen day.

Felt cute at the show tonight. Might delete etc.

Sir Lepel Griffin reviews Matthew Arnold's lecture in the US: Arnold was a bad speaker and most of the audience was also bad. Brutal.

I go to the gym because I sit at my desk a lot and need the exercise. Now, my back hurts, and I don't know if it hurts from the deadlifts or from sitting at my desk. Whatever the reason, I still got to do the deadlift, which is probably for the best.

Uusi niin & näin. Teemana tulevaisuus: onko sitä ja jos on, kuinka paljon?

Someone said Heidegger is a phenomenologist and phenomenology is an art. Yep.

We have at least two books in our library that use that statue of a lady about to sneeze as a cover picture. The books are not about sneezes, so don't judge a book by its cover.

Toinen mahdollisuushan on, ettei Putin voi kovin hyvin ja sanoi juuri noin.

Reading fiction is probably addictive. I've spent a few days reading only non-fiction and I feel bad. It might be withdrawals. Maybe some pastoral science fiction will cure the shakes.

Who the hell is out there punishing birds?

Zizek on the Paris Olympics opening ceremony: "The ceremony presented Europe at its best – only in Europe is such a ceremony possible. The ceremony was ironic, staged at a distance from one's own tradition, but precisely as such it displayed fidelity to the emancipatory aspects of this tradition."

I have a deadline, and my book app decided to lock me out. I cannot access my sources and finish my article. My printed books have never decided to lock me out and ruin my day.

Persut ovat tehneet kantansa selväksi jo aiemmin. Muistakaa äänestää.

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