Jeffrey Moro

@jeffreymoro
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PhD student in digital studies at UMD; infrastructure, ecology, speculation. Increasingly only toots about my cat
my web loghttps://jeffreymoro.com
you can call meAl (he/him)

did some dissertation brainstorming this evening and now looking at a non-zero chance that completing my PhD in English is going to involve learning at least a sprinkling of differential equations

why did no one stop me from this career path

speaking of
this is a pretty regular occurrence in my house at this point

I’ve been riding high all day on a minor victory I won over my landlord so I decided to celebrate by watching the 1994 classic SPEED

holy shit y’all SPEED is a shockingly good movie

me (listening to jonny greenwood's magisterial score for 'phantom thread'): please speak up, i'm struggling to hear you over the sound of jonny greenwood's magisterial score for 'phantom thread'
heyyyyyyyyy
(yes that's two separate copies of War and Peace behind her, my partner needed one to take on the metro lol)
Agatha, the lunch cat
“Anything can happen for some weird reason; yet also, without any reason, nothing at all can happen.” Negarestani in Cyclonopedia channeling Meillassoux’s speculative materialism.

and now this afternoon I come to the by-far weirdest book on my exam list: Reza Negarestani's CYCLONOPEDIA.

I've started and stopped it a number of times before and now I'm excited to sit back and let the eldritch mathematics wash over me lol