Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026probably would have been more painful the other way around 110
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 05/07/2026One of my favorite passages from Eagleton's 'Literary Theory' (p30) "When the Allied troops moved into the concentration camps...to arrest commandants who had whiled away their leisure hours with a volume of Goethe, it appeared that someone had some explaining to do." 042
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Kind of an ur-text for this part of the discourse, although people like to poop on Black Mirror. I wrote about it in 2014 (alas, links and most images have been lost due to multiple content migrations) 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...3quarksdaily.comDaisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do - 3 Quarks Dailyby Misha Lepetic 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This is excellent, esp the Sackler angle. And while I appreciate Colin's restraint in not mentioning Black Mirror's "Be Right Back" (2013) I'm afraid I must. I haven't watched it in many years so not sure if the depiction of and desire to resolve grief is more on-point. 151
Reposted by MishaLord Darias @lorddarias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Extreme carceral Buddhist government that sentences you to 2 consecutive life sentences so when you die in prison and reincarnate into a random pond frog they find it and throw its ass in the slammer too 220847
Reposted by MishaDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I wanted efficiency improvements then I found efficiency improvements and Jevons knows I'm miserable now 282
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026the OG, always loved his commitment to the 'The + [adjective] + [noun]' title bit: 120
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026drop the Prester John bit, here's another idea bsky.app/profile/pano... 220
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026tangentially, a philosophy teacher of mine used to say, when the student offers certainty it's up to the teacher to counter-offer doubt, and vice versa. 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026a decade ago i wrote about Pokemon Go: "Silicon Valley abhors a data vacuum, and a great way to get people to provide data about anything is to make a game out of it. The genius of this is that, consequently, people are really convinced that it's just a game." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...3quarksdaily.comNo Can Go - 3 Quarks Dailyby Misha Lepetic 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026cc @greglindsay.org and @changeist.bsky.social this makes my decade-old writing about Pokemon Go seem positively rosy 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...3quarksdaily.comNo Can Go - 3 Quarks Dailyby Misha Lepetic 200
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026static.klipy.comPatrick Bateman Inspects Business CardALT: Patrick Bateman Inspects Business Card 110
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Mythos is actually a Greek restaurant in CDMX's Condesa neighborhood, hope that helps, thanks & you're welcome 000
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026@carlbergstrom.com has got you, fam bsky.app/profile/carl... 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026WhatsApp on Mac laptop has just slowed to an utter crawl for me in the last two or three days, and this has never happened before. Are you seeing similar? 100
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026i keep telling people that, if they really want cheaper rents in NYC, they should encourage the return of street crime 030
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026i used to tell people that you became a real New Yorker when you got mugged here but that doesn't happen so much anymore, so now there are fewer real New Yorkers every year 100
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026perhaps instead, given the latest encyclical, 'Demon Seed'? 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 02/06/2026ICYMI this guy is world-class: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comA Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside itJay Morris denies experts’ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Meta’s Hyperion datacenter 000
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026didn't you say at some point, 'the only sustainable human being is a dead one'? i used to use that one a lot 000
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026it gets even wilder (this was the first ref I could find as I'm in a rush atm) www.coolidgereview.com/articles/who...coolidgereview.comWho Built the USSR? — The Coolidge ReviewThe American capitalists behind Soviet industry 021
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Now if the dress of 'what color is this dress' fame were a Ross dress, I would totally make a beeline for that museum. 0100
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026love how "a bored smart-home staging a re-enactment from old log files while the family is away, replaying a family dinner" is awfully close to AI/IoT cargo-culting humanity after the latter is long gone 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026this is also a very good comment on the topic www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9dg...youtube.comRichard Dawkins just played us allYouTube video by Mo Bitar 000
Reposted by MishaScott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Well, this happened. @felixsalmon.com was kind enough to invite me on Slate Money to talk about risk-maxxing. Banter was had. Acronyms were flung. Suffixes was -maxxed. open.spotify.com/episode/17zB...open.spotify.comMoney Talks: Risk-Maxxing 173
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Like the Disaster Area frontman in Hitchhiker's Guide: “He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.” 000
Reposted by MishaKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 02/05/2026We shouldn't try to use AI for everything. We should try to build everything so you don't need AI to use it. 820022
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026he doesn't even bother with a blue check, i guess arms dealers don't need that kind of validation 000
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026i always give a shout-out to "Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence" (Briggs, 1985) when stuff like this come up, even if it's not quite right 🙃 www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Knowle...semanticscholar.org 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Reminds me of the classic exam question joke: Define 'universe'. Provide two examples. 010
Misha @panoptic.bsky.social · 27/04/2026of course, because it's Bill Hicks, the conclusion to the monologue is "Here's Tom with the Weather." www.youtube.com/shorts/rFcTP...youtube.comBill Hicks positive LSD story #billhicks #comedy #standupcomedyYouTube video by BobSeger1981 011
