James Felix Black

James Felix Black

@tft.io

A large person, in Canada. Father to two, smaller persons. Wife guy. Dual citizen, a modicum of discipline. Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.

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James Felix Black
@tft.io

I have a setup but no punchline Marshall Sahlins, Gananath Obeyesekere, and Captain Cook walk into a bar …

Kristin Wilson@kristin-wilson.bsky.social

Tell me your nerdiest joke that people either don’t get, or think less of you for thinking it’s funny. Here’s mine: Descartes is sitting at a bar drinking a beer. The bartender asks if he’d like another one. Descartes says, “I think not” and instantly vanishes.

James Felix Black
@tft.io

God if only

Revan@revan.eurosky.social

I am now going to imagine a Canadian general election contested by Peter O’Toole and Pierre Trudeau

James Felix Black
@tft.io

Hard same. “Pay your own freight” and “solve the first order problem first”

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I’m mean “poorly” is a given but I feel like Mr Elon Goes To Washington is going to be highly, highly entertaining

James Felix Black@tft.io

I’m just really curious about how he’s going to react to his first congressional subpoena.

James Felix Black
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Peter Adamson@histphilosophy.bsky.social

We're done with early modern French philosophy for now and up to the Dutch! We kick off this series with a look at the historical context that gave us Grotius and Spinoza, among others: historyofphilosophy.net/podcast/earl... #philosophy #podcast #historyofphilosophy #hopwag #philsky

James Felix Black
@tft.io

We’ve extirpated their natural predators and so they’re experiencing a population surge. Soon they’ll have stripped the local environment and mass starvation will result. A cull is necessary but the humane solution is to reintroduce Anabaptists.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Seems a touch brutal.

James Felix Black
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“Act like your choices matter” — chef’s kiss.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact

Yeah that’s the case Just don’t believe people who post doomer stuff. If they’re right somehow, we’re doomed and we can’t do anything, so why even think about it? Act like your choices matter

James Felix Black
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I’m not claiming that u had it uniquely hard, but rather, that the baseline level of existential horror can change much faster and more radically than we can believe.

James Felix Black@tft.io

It is difficult for me to explain to Kids These Days what, exactly growing up in the late Cold War was like; all I can say is that I am so delighted that kids today do not have to grow up under the threat of those two miserable swords of Damocles.

James Felix Black
@tft.io

It is difficult for me to explain to Kids These Days what, exactly growing up in the late Cold War was like; all I can say is that I am so delighted that kids today do not have to grow up under the threat of those two miserable swords of Damocles.

James Felix Black@tft.io

As a child of the 80s, AIDS was a death sentence! It is astonishingly great that it simply isn’t these days.

James Felix Black
@tft.io

We all knew, we were rock solid CERTAIN, that we were going to die at a time and a place not of our choosing; we’d either be incinerated by nuclear hellfire or we’d live long enough to get HIV and die that way.

James Felix Black
@tft.io

I can sort of see why a lot of folks dislike LaMelo but he just looks to me like a classic point guard, Mark Jackson or something, and man I love to see it.

James Felix Black
@tft.io

I was just talking to my wife about this; I went to a house party with Jason “Hey Man Nice Shot” Patrick in like 92 because I was macking on a girl who was invited. I pitched my shitty startup to Will.I.Am and Hammer. I had breakfast with Michael Stipe in 94! It’s all so weird and random.

James Felix Black
@tft.io

Cars are so much better it beggars the imagination

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

James Felix Black
@tft.io

LFG

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social

To-do list for SD Mayor Pete and DSD Uncle Frank (and the transition team): - at 1201 rip down the stupid fucking sign, regardless of whether Congress has officially changed the name (not looking good for the 27 NDAA lol) - at 1202 issue orders to rename all the confederate bases back*

James Felix Black
@tft.io

I say this totally unironically, @andrewhickey.500songs.com’s podcast is like something cooked up in a lab for exactly the kind of weirdo I am. I could not recommend it more highly. Kick our man a few ducats, it’s money well spent.

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Lookit this dumbshit

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social

It really knocks you on your ass when you realize the problem is that the fascists are largely made up of a bunch of grown men in arrested development who spend their adult lives playing pretend and making everyone miserable as they LARP through the world.

James Felix Black
@tft.io

This whole Alberta foofaraw is just Smith doing dumb shit, right? Like there are some grievances that are specific to Alberta, some common to Western Canada, and some just bog-standard federalism gripes, right? It can’t all be special pleading, can it?

James Felix Black
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AES has it man holy shit.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Abdul El-Sayed on JD Vance: "I think America is big enough for all of us. His view of America is small like him. It's about pointing to other people and making the argument that the reason *you* don't have is because of *them.*" El-Sayed came on our pod. It's good: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

newrepublic.comAbdul El-Sayed’s Viral Takedown of GOP Heckler Shows How to Fight MAGAIn an interview, El-Sayed talks about the state of the Michigan Senate race, his recent battles with JD Vance, his big moment with a GOP plant—and how it all reflects his theory of MAGA politics.

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Snitty 🎃
@clofsnitville.bsky.social

I know I've been on this bullshit before and I know this is an audience that largely agrees but I just have to yell at this particular cloud today: it is an absolute failure on the part of major news organizations that we have so little reporting on the president's physical and cognitive health.

James Felix Black
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Great thread. Butt/non-butt is pretty much the ideal rubric.

Micah@rincewind.run

in honor of NBA opening day, I am going to do an NBA season preview where I break down every team's best player, a fun player, and whether or not the team is butt if you do not wish for a lot of basketball content in your feed (boo), go ahead and mute the thread

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James
@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social

Replying to @eliasisquith.blog

We’ve talked enough about our own risk tolerance. It’s time to talk about Russia’s risk tolerance.

James Felix Black
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I love the idea that a driver being mildly inconvenienced is a reasonable spur to plain red-handed murder

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James Felix Black
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I am the rare Car Guy who wants more bike lanes! I want the city to lower the speed limit to 30 kmph at most on city streets! More red light and speeding cameras, please!