A dog’s will to live is its raison d’être. Dogs do not suffer Albert Camus’s “one truly serious philosophical problem” of suicidal ideation. The canine affirmation is automatic and compulsory — a dog will never choose to end his or her life. It simply can’t. Dogs live, and only live.…
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[real life] real fake truth
“fake” is the opposite of “real,” not of “truth”
We don’t live different lives in one reality. We all live the same life, but in different, discrete realities.
“Conspiracy theories” are battles among competing realities, not between truth and lies. Truth also requires conspiracy to be accepted en masse.
[dispatch] sidewalk snippet 120216.1008
08:24. 3rd Ave. Aroma wholesaler load dock. Knit cap. S7 Edge: "…so now i lose her to a fervent Catholic? Do you think he knows about me?"
— ../westy (@westyreflector) December 2, 2016
December 02, 2016 at 10:08AM
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[dispatch] 1st hand robot witness 051916.1854
Costumes by @CatMThomas IRL. Xclnt to witness 1st hand, tho now I'm an amnesic incognito only comfortable in Tails. https://t.co/5asAWK9LBd
— westy (@westyreflector) May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 06:54PM
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[dispatch] drug wars 042116.1838
the war on drugs is a symptom of addiction to the war drug
— westy (@westyreflector) April 21, 2016
April 21, 2016 at 06:38PM
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[dispatch] 041816.1056
5th Av @ 9th, Dunkin iced, cig-dangle, russet frizzle, 40s, to phone: "Didn't you see my tweet that Shakespeare's so overrated? No? Well…"
— westy (@westyreflector) April 18, 2016 at 10:56AM
[dispatch] call to arms 041416.1026
The word "literally" is a call to arms against analogy and fiction. Every time it's uttered an imagination dies.
— westy (@westyreflector) April 14, 2016
April 14, 2016 at 10:26AM
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[dispatch] running the place 040716.0942
9:14. Bodega. Puffy-eyed mid-level leaning on dairy fridge. iPhone 4S: "You keep doin' that over and over and you'll be running the place!"
— westy (@westyreflector) April 7, 2016
April 07, 2016 at 09:42AM
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[dispatch] cynical sharknado 040316.1724
16:48, brown Uggs, leaving a Park Slope salon, fresh blunt bangs, to friend: "Sharknado was just too cynical for me to let the kids watch."
— westy (@westyreflector) April 3, 2016
April 03, 2016 at 05:24PM
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[img] 5th Ave Bingo exit, 10:12p
5th Ave Bingo exit, 10:12p.
“Geraldine, you have a Valium on you?”
“No.”
“That’s ok, I got tranquilizers at home.”
March 26, 2016 at 10:35PM
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[dispatch] genes 032416.0459
genes endow not destiny, only chemistry
— westy (@westyreflector) March 24, 2016
March 24, 2016 at 04:59PM
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[dispatch] ZX81 membrane 030316.1120
one-letter keyword entry through a Sinclair ZX81 membrane was decent conditioning for this autocomplete world
— westy (@westyreflector) March 3, 2016
March 03, 2016 at 11:20AM
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[words] sidewalk snippet 022316.1853
9th St, Woz look, ivy cap, green wide corduroys, into 6S: "Kelly knows the stakes… but that telephone's ancient… yeah, BlackBerry 10."
— westy (@westyreflector) February 23, 2016
February 23, 2016 at 06:53PM
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every statistic
Every statistic aspires to silence an exception.
— westy (@westyreflector) February 22, 2016
from Twitter https://twitter.com/westyreflector
February 22, 2016 at 09:40AM
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i tell kids not to emulate me
i tell kids not to emulate me because i have no idea what emulator i'm running
— westy (@westyreflector) February 19, 2016
2016.02.19.13:05
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#SidewalkSnippet 020216a
Frowzy 40ish man, outside C-Town Market, under a 'Tilapia Blowout!' sign, into phone:
"The answer is, in a vacuum, yes."#SidewalkSnippet
— westy (@westyreflector) February 2, 2016
Sy5t3mP4tch1
// Sy5t3mP4tch1
$illusion = $choice->load("party");
function setVoter(iceCream)
{
document.getElementById("illusion").value = iceCream;
}— westy (@westyreflector) February 1, 2016
SidewalkSnippet 020116a
"What am I supposed to do, walk around in airplane mode for a week?" | SidewalkSnippet020116a
— westy (@westyreflector) February 1, 2016
#SidewalkSnippet 012516a
9th St @ 4th Ave. Woman into phone, other hand gestures into space: "…the one thing I know is -" [salt truck roars by] "- so stop caring!"
— westy (@westyreflector) January 25, 2016
[words] deposition reflections
Truth over time becomes elusive – and relative – so lawyers ply their trade in the fuzziness of memory. Justice relies on absolute truth, and pursuit of it is mere human invention – absurd and Sisyphean as any other attempt to stanch the entropy of the universe.
Yesterday, after four hours of being probed, prodded, picked apart and piecemealed by opposing counsels, I walked out of my attorney’s office thinking of Kurt Vonnegut’s observation that “only humankind is running out of time.”…
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