Willis Walker

Medical economist, digital nomad, expat Montanan

[Willis Walker @thewilliswalker]

Thank you @donhertzfeldt

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Lemon ricotta pancake, leftover Basque cheesecake, crunchy peanut butter. The week that doesn’t exist, on a plate.

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@zarathustra5150 I’m always amused by how freely midwits speak about generational geniuses as though they’ve actually ever worked in an environment where they had any chance of encountering one. People like this obsess about raw intelligence to a parasocial degree and it’s honestly embarrassing.

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@jakehightower34 @Srirachachau I read a long time ago that the Ambrose Bierce short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (and the excellent Twilight Zone ep based on it) is a great skeleton key for a lot of Lynch. I also think that Dumbo (1941) is kind of like Lynch training wheels-dream/kabuki/identity.

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@YourFriendTina You can just listen to Dracula on repeat for hours and never get bored

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@DDDrewDaniel Don’t ever let someone make you apologize for your own literacy and complexity.

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The term makerspace is the final boss of the new sincerity

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@NoamChompers Extraordinary

[flux @fluxtheorist]

Quantum mechanics is easier than classical field theory but only because linear algebra is less annoying than vector calculus

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

If you’ve never read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, it’ll change you

[Zach Schonfeld @zzzzaaaacccchhh]

Me: I hate this heat.

My imaginary 4-year-old: Really? 'Deceit' is one of the most profoundly disquieting post-punk artifacts to emerge from the—

Me: Go to your room

[Amanda Natividad @amandanat]

This Craigslist ad for a 1999 Toyota Corolla is a masterclass in copywriting.

[The Paranoid Style @paranoiacs]

Fifty-six years after the fact, VU’s ‘White Light/White Heat’ remains a miraculous shotgun wedding between weapons-grade avant-garde and barrelhouse blues, paving the nefarious bridge between Fats Domino and Albert Ayler that no one else was insane enough to see. The Gift indeed.

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@_motherslug Lungs is an all time favorite

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

This response is correct. Many of the results of complex geometry (e.g. degeneration of the Hodge-to-de Rham spectral sequence for smooth projective varieties) do not require complex analysis, and can instead be be proved via reduction to positive characteristic.

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@QueenCityJamz Such a killer show

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Oh absolutely hell yes. Caught up with Cindy Lee in the middle of a cross country road trip. Kinda feel like I got away with something here.

[𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚢’𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚎𝚕 @SalvadorDafti]

Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem pour un con

French, funky and frequently filthy; a man who just loved to push buttons with a quite brilliant kiss-off.

1968

[Willis Walker @thewilliswalker]

So nice to be back in New Hampshire - where a childish problem with authority counts as a personality.