Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I’ve hated him for 11 years. I hate that I hate him. I hate that he makes me feel contempt for my own hate. I hate that I have more introspection about my hate than he has for any thought he’s ever had. I hate that I think about him at all. I hate that all he wants is for us to think about him. 061
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Because I'm a weirdo, I keep track of the weights of every iPhone model. See this plot. Remember when new technology was lighter and smaller than what came before? Not anymore! Now the most advanced thing is the heaviest. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Most covers of “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” make it a happy song, but the whole point is the melancholy of trying to make the best of a sad situation. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Excerpt from today’s class (slightly edited): Student: So what’s the value of u? Me: Great question. To answer that, I’ll need to thoroughly investigate the reasons for academic pursuits, the nature of the universe, and humanity’s relationship to it. In this 17 part essay I will 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Continuing the theme of “that time I pretended to be a famous actor who just died”, here’s me trying my darnedest to do a Tim Curry monologue for a Mystery Hunt puzzle. Nobody else could have gotten all these words out so fast, making it look easy and loving every minute of it. Certainly not me. 040
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Also, even if *your own paper* uses crappy notation, you don’t have to use it when you give talks about it! 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I hope you’re not one of those evil scientists that gets… funding! 120
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I have no memory of what exactly precipitated this but I feel like I could post it every day. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Part of me has wanted to be popular on the internet since like 1997. I'm so so happy this never happened to me. I get 3 likes on a skeet and I'm breathless at each one. It would not be good if I got 3000. 001
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I dressed as Sam Neill’s character from Jurassic Park last Halloween. I will never look as good in this costume as he did. I’ll never do as good a Spielberg face. I’ll never have my head screwed on as well as him. But that last one I can hope to work toward. 030
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Don't get me wrong, I kid with love. If social media can't do silly things that are fun, we should shut it down. (Perhaps we should shut it down, but not because of this.) 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I love these dumb memes. "Show a tall building that isn't the Chrysler building" "Show a famous actor who's not Sean Connery" "Name a theorem but not the law of large numbers" "Show a famous painting but not Guernica" "Say a common English word but not 'of'" "Name a movie that's not Titanic" 101
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Which is not to say that the movies are bad! The LOTR movies are still among my favorite of all time. But film adaptations of dense novels, even faithful ones, are forced to simplify. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026One interesting thing is that the movie has this exact scene, with much of the exact dialogue, but the meaning is flattened. In the movie, Saruman is simply evil, so he wants to join with a greater evil. It loses the applicability to the temptation to colaborate with real world evils. 100
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026My wife texted me a few days ago to say she was watching “relay sex on a sled.” 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026You may have thought they attempted time travel in Avengers: Endgame. No, they are truly attempting time travel with Avengers: Doomsday. Just go back and do exactly the thing that worked before, down to the last detail. Luckily for Marvel, this strategy has never failed in the history of Hollywood. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 28/12/2025I saw a skeet the other day. Didn't like it. Wrote a skeet saying so. Didn't feel like I made my point adequately, so I didn't post it, went to bed. Woke up to find other people had articulated my point better than I ever could, and the original skeet had been deleted. I only make good choices 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025“No stretching, just bold determination” goes right up on the board next to “With great power comes great responsibility.” 040
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I agree with Bouie about Rogue One (although I don’t even think the final sequence is that good), but I’m happy for the people who love it. The movie they describe sounds great. I wish I could see that one, rather than the one I see when I watch it. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I wonder a lot about what life is like in the parallel universe in which the 2024 presidential election result is unchanged, but 3,656 people changed their votes and the Democrats took back the house. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025This is me from ten years ago today. I’ve been wearing the tie every day since, but for some reason no one ever comments on it. I guess it really is the style of the future. Or perhaps the past. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025From today’s No Kings march in Phoenix. When the march reached 4th Ave, we turned left despite the posted No Left Turn signs. Hell yes we did, and soon the country will follow. 030
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Christmas Evil. Yeah I just saw that, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson right? Really good. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 12/10/2025In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone if your profession would understand: Published theorem actually incorrect 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I’m glad that many people post here instead of Xitter because they get more engagement here. But, for me personally, a random guy with no public following, I post here rather than Facebook (the other major option for me) even though I know I’d get more engagement *there*, because I think it’s evil 020
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I don’t have kids, and from the outside active shooter drills seem bananas to me. Many liberals say “well this is just the consequence of living with so many guns.” And like I agree let’s get rid of the guns but in the meantime can we stop traumatizing the kids. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025We're all the way up to iOS 26 now, and it still does this. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025With each passing year, the cast of Sneakers becomes even more astonishing. David Strathairn is the least prominent actor on the poster! Ben Kingsley, Timothy Busfield, Stephen Tobolowsky, and James Earl Jones are in this movie and not even advertised. And they're all good in it. This movie rocks 050
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025You should watch this video. Not just for personal reasons, but also for personal reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWF...youtube.comWhat if the Moon were made entirely of electrons?YouTube video by xkcd's What If? 110
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025No no, Benoit Blanc is just pretending to be short, just like he’s pretending to have long hair. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Wait, this year we're getting re-releases for the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future, and the 30th anniversary of Apollo 13? What about the 20th anniversary of the 40 Year-old Virgin? The 10th anniversary of Jupiter Ascending? 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Bare minimum for a heist: a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever. 020
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Only when you’re a vision science academic. You know, 50% vision research, 40% vision teaching, 20% vision service. 020
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025I don’t know why, but this can be really hard. There’s someone I’ve been following on the internet for decades, who I really admire, but who has a take on a 35 year old movie that I strongly disagree with. I have imaginary arguments with them about this all the time. Why on earth do I care so much? 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 05/08/2025“speculation on how the technology might develop in the coming years can easily distract us from solving issues we are facing now” might be the best, most concise advice about AI in the present moment that I’ve ever read. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 27/07/2025In this age of AI, it's important to maintain discipline and readiness. That's why this poster is so useful. I suggest printing it out and displaying it prominently anywhere that anyone might interact with rogue AI. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 18/07/2025We really need movies directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis about the passage of every constitutional amendment, not just the 13th. Implausible, you say? I say our democracy depends on it. We need to believe that we can change our country for the better 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I first read this as “Midnight Run” and honestly I’d watch that too. 020
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I finally got around to doing this. This is really hard; on any given day I'd probably produce a different list in a different order. Despite what some people sometimes say, cinema ain't dead. 010
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The only flaw in the satire of Glass Onion is that Miles Bron is too smart. 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025p.s. I made up the term “Crispin’s Day Fallacy” but is there an accepted term for this fallacy? I haven’t found one. 8/7 000
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025That world seems so big and immovable that for ordinary people, it's hard to internalize that you actually have agency over your life and the lives of others. To have agency is to have responsibility. You’d think a senator would understand that their actions have consequences, but I guess not! 7/7 100
Oliver Kosut @oehpsk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025It would be easy to blame this kind of thinking on religion, which might cause someone to think that God's plan is what it is. Perhaps religious people are more prone to the Crispin's Day Fallacy, but I've occasionally noticed myself doing it too, and I'm not religious. 6/7 100
