Sounds like some cope by the people you talked to. New College is just small, so that limits what they can hire for and put together as formal programs. (You could do anything you want at NC, but you’d have to put it together yourself, and teach your professors!) 1/
Architecture is so interdisciplinary, spanning the technical through the social through the philosophical. “Not liberal arts” seems a weird claim. /fin
You would have loved it, both for the very personal, ungamified education model, and for the astonishing not-quite-intentional community our living conjured there. It’s a shame we didn’t have an architecture program. Our loss at least as much as yours.
The 8pm track projects the center of the eye coming right over the Sarasota/Bradenton Airport, maybe a mile from the Center of the Universe (Palm Court, #NewCollege). 1/
Close up screenshot of NOAA's forecast track for Hurricane Milton, crossing the grounds of the Sarasota/Bradenton Airport just north of New College.
That's where we used to have our end of the world parties, when lesser storms showed up. The music still echoes, provoking ghost noise complaints from now evacuated neighbors. /fin
Sure is. Ringling estate and museum, including ca d'zan. Caples, Cook, and Crossley mansions, and the mansion that became New College's College Hall. All lined up along that waterfront, with a majestic banyan tree to boot. I.M. Pei's disowned brutalist futurist campus. SRQ airport. Quite a cluster.
Milton's track is within 10 miles of #NewCollege. By far the most wonderful place I ever lived, for the past two years vandals like Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo have been dismantling the college. Maybe the algorithm doesn't like what they've done. Maybe it's helping them finish the job.
Screenshot of NOAA 5pm 2024-10-09 interactive track of Hurricane Milton, annotated with the position of New College a labeling of the track near the college.
it’s the end of the world as we know it. and there are profit opportunities in that! it’s CPI that looms. what else were you thinking? headline from finance.yahoo.com
headline from finance.yahoo.com: Dow, S&P 500 vault to fresh records as CPI looms
The frequency of extreme weather events has increased dramatically. Hypotheses: 1. This is a long predicted effect of global warming. 2. Insidious actors have developed a weather control device which they r weaponizing for mysterious purposes. Which is more parsimonious? Depends upon your priors!
This is some picture. via @michaelrlowry.bsky.social michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/milton-clo...
Photograph of gigantic Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida, the penninsula’s shape framed by the bright lights of its coastal conurbations, with interior cities like Orlando clearly marked.
i demur.
Protip:
Grafitti: “Spread LOVE For No Reason”
Vexation is next on the chopping block.
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agreed, actually. even friends i totally disagree with, but i know are minds genuinely struggling to make sense of all of this.
There is! But very little consensus on what is gold and what is pyrite. Independence is always a lonely place.
Oh, I certainly agree with that! Read very widely, and lots of noninstitutional voices. "MSM" meaning stuff like NYT or CNN is a pretty small fraction of my information diet. 1/
But "non-MSM" is not itself an endorsement. Most writing on matters of public controversy are tendentious, sometimes by virtue of their (our?) own ideology, sometimes because they are paid to reflect and express particular tendencies. 2/
"MSM" alone is a terrible diet, but if you had to choose a single source (please never do, an uncomfortable diversity of sources is our only hope), "MSM" is better than any one randomly chosen "independent" source. 3/
And yes, it's often the case big institutional media pushes a consensus due to institutional imperatives (not crossing the capital that finances it, maintaining access, social capture by particular communities it's expensive + desirable to belong to) rather than evidence, even outright misinforms.4/
But it's even more often the case that "fringe" sources push narratives consistent with their own institutional imperatives and ideologies and audience capture. "MSM" is bad, but it does not then follow that some set of sources that styles itself counter-MSM is good. 5/
They are all at best noisy signals, very often motivated deceivers. An independent understanding requires diversity and ones own hard work. There is no other way. /fin
one thing i really really miss from mastodon is an edit button.
I have several friends (like you!) who've chosen to make the kind of dive you describe. We're not going to agree! 1/
In my experience, the making-sense involves putting together complex unfalsifiable mechanisms that do make sense, because they are motivated by and always consistent with a set of priors so strong… 2/
…that complex chains of deflection and deception by hidden, powerful actors seem natural rather than implausible, as every bit of my own experience with institutions like government, media, and academia suggest. 3/
at least the Curtis-Yarvin-style neoreactionaries, who often come join the same political camp, get that "the cathedral" is simultaneously hegemonic and impotent, that the reach of these institutions is inescapable but the problem is they can't organize bold, coherent action… 4/
…they shrug along reflecting structural biases and imperatives built into the self-interest of these actors, even when doing so engenders contradictions that paralyze the entire system. 5/
"the cathedral" does not control the weather, beyond idiotically pumping carbon into the atmosphere while the institutions that constitute understand with a shrug that is unwise. 6/
there is a lot that's terrible abt our institutions. one thing that is both wonderful and terrible is that there really really is no one person in the drivers seat, no master plan, just a lot of competing bastards who manage to tilt the wheel, swerving us all very often right toward some cliff. /fin
remarkable how the US deep state has secret technologies entirely beyond the limits of what is considered plausible by open science, yet is completely unable to manage domestic discontent, maintain geopolitical order, keep a middle east peace, etc. i guess like god it works in mysterious ways.
“A fully developed hurricane releases heat energy that is the equivalent of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes — more than all the energy used at a given time by humanity, according to National Hurricane Center tropical analysis chief Chris Landsea.” www.oregonlive.com/nation/2024/...
Can humans control the path and power of hurricanes like Milton or Helene? No chance, scientists say
Link Preview: Can humans control the path and power of hurricanes like Milton or Helene? No chance, scientists say: In some corners of the internet, Helene has already sparked conspiracy theories and disinformation suggesting the government somehow aimed the hurricane at Republican voters.
when people describe some piece of information as having “just dropped”, usually it’s best to treat it as droppings.
illegal migrants don’t get anything simply by virtue of being illegal migrants. some get assistance for various reasons. the comparison of quite unrelated things is entirely tendentious, motivated by political priors. 1/
most people who advance claims about the $750 don’t do it in the carefully phrased, maybe arguable way that you do. they lie outright. you’ve backfilled to create a path towards reasonableness that tue original and still predominant claims entirely lack. 2/
overall, i think the assertion that most claims suggesting Americans receive only $750 while illegal migrants receive much more and have depleted FEMA are correctly characterized as deceptive. /fin