March 30, 2025
Further failures of AI slop "art", wannabe Ghibli edition
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Gonna post the comment thread from the previous post into a standalone post, to get a new ball rolling, and start some more aesthetics posti...
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March 5, 2025
Treehouses, and friends entering your 2nd-story room through the window, as tropes from the rising-harmony phase of the 50-year civil stability cycle
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While preparing a post on friends vs. frenemies during the rising-harmony vs. rising-strife phases of Turchin's 50-year cycle in civic c...
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February 17, 2025
The truce in the battle of the sexes during peaks of social harmony, 1940s and 1990s, halfway between peaks of social chaos circa 1920, 1970, and 2020
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A topic I've been exploring lately relates to the 50-year cycle that Peter Turchin uncovered in social chaos and civil breakdown in Amer...
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January 20, 2025
RIP David Lynch, who mythologized the normies of Edenic Americana, through saturated dreamy naturalism
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Following up on a series of comments starting here on the topic of "cool vs. weird," and another series starting here on the top...
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December 26, 2024
The Indo-European-ness of Ashkenazi Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, etc.
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I'll get to Christmas and New Year's posting later. For now, to get a new post started, I'll begin with a narrower topic. Earlie...
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