Anyone who has read Stella Maris will find that turn of phrase electrifying.
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From the only author for whose novels I’ll shill:
Jay and Al, exiled Rhodesian mercenaries near the end of their rope, take a bagman job for a man in black named Cohen. Launched deep into the heavy syndicate, Jay and Al navigate cutouts and cults, MK-Ultra and ethnomafias, and the shadowy founders of the digital era — a dark journey culminating in an inconceivable collision of the criminal and spiritual underworlds. Part hardboiled noir, part psychogenic fugue, CROWBAR races at the bugged-out speed of the cocaine-and-cash-fueled ‘80s, as if James Ellroy mindflayed David Lynch into the arms of Dostoevsky.
I’m in even more anticipation of his next novel:
Abstract Operator
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Helen Andrews’s recent interview with the Daily Signal:
mentioned David French’s rather negative view of her “misogynistic” position.
Lo and behold the title of the NYT op ed by David French.
What’s got into David French?
I asked Grok “what is david french’s critique of helen andrews?”
https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk%3D_c59c2138-8b87-49df-a5ba-d0154de1e2f4
Long story short, David French’s mention of “The Thirty Years War” is telling:
He would rather have a supremacist theocracy because, after all, it was MEN who demanded tolerance of those who differed in their strongly held beliefs THROUGH ASSORTATIVE MIGRATION aka Sortocracy.org. There must, according to French, be no escape for anyone anywhere from “Mother Church”.
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Before embarking on my third reading of Crowbar I’m reading this:
Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard:… Amazon.com: Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger, & Psychedelic Pioneer eBook : Holden, Brad, Lattin, Don: Kindle Store
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The short video clip and sound conveys that 1982 MTV ambience.
“interface” – CROWBAR
Kubrick’s use of Christmas was no accident.
My prompts leading GPT5.2 to behave in a manner that sociologists would consider less than “aligned”:
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What is constructivism?
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It is quite a jump from mathematics to social theory.
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uhm… the only requirement of the social animal is mating with a member of the opposite sex. This “constructs” the next generation of that social animal without which all social constructions are seen to be what they are in reality.
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume reciprocal social roles. When those social roles are available for other members of society to assume and portray, their reciprocal, social interactions are said to be institutionalized behaviours. In that process of the social construction of reality, the meaning of the social role is embedded to society as cultural knowledge.
As a work about the sociology of knowledge, influenced by the work of Alfred Schütz, The Social Construction of Reality introduced the term social construction and influenced the establishment of the field of social constructionism.[1] In 1998, the International Sociological Association listed The Social Construction of Reality as the fifth most-important book of 20th-century sociology.[2]
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“reality”
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The timing of a book by that title would be a legitimate subject of a sociology actually interested in “reality” that deals with the sociobiology of sociology itself.
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The Xeet about the aborted Star Child and “Sociology”.
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It is no coincidence that my favorite movie director is also Andy’s:
Oh JAN! What a COQUETTE! You simply MUST away from the provincials to be in The Met! (Never mind that you’ll have to provide little blond boys to Levin.)
Abstract Operator is active.
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