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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 1d

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Untitled (How Does It Feel)

YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 1d

This chapter I'm writing about sexbots is unending

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo, 1974-2025. R.I.P. This is so very sad.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 4d

Good night! - and yes, I love this!

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Berlin Jazzfest - 1991 - New York Is Full Of Lonely People

YouTube video by Evil Monkeys

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 4d

"Krasznahorkai is clearly fascinated by apocalypse, by broken revelation, indecipherable messages. To be always “on the threshold of some decisive perception” is as natural to a Krasznahorkai character as thinking about God is to a Dostoyevsky character;"

Madness And Civilization

The very strange fictions of László Krasznahorkai.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 4d

"For this reason, he is, as a storyteller, fascinated by extremes, by the possibility of apocalypse." (Colm Tóibín on László Krasznahorkai)

Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 4d

And yes, I got my copy of Shadow Ticket today.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 4d

I like how Justin St. Clair in this review of Thomas Pynchon ‘s new novel Shadow Ticket, suggests that we should read Pynchon chronologically in when the novels are set, and that Shadow Ticket thus takes place so-to-speak between Against the Day (2006) and Gravity’s Rainbow (1973).

Good Night and Good Luck | Los Angeles Review of Books

Justin St. Clair reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Daniel Faulhaber @danfaulhaber.bsky.social · 4d

Klaus Theweleit sagt 50 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von „Männerphantasien“:

„Ich hätte damals nicht gedacht, dass wir uns nochmal derart konkret mit Faschismus und Männerpanzer befassen müssen.“

Interessantes Gespräch mit @camlinger.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social @unibas.ch.

Gespräch im Kontext der Konferenz Gegen/Moderne an der Uni Basel zwischen den Soziolog:innen Caroline Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey und dem Kulturwissenschaftler Klaus Theweleit.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 6d

"... those academics and elites sitting in Norway..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Rep. Brian Mast: "Everybody has been talking about, 'Will he get the Nobel Peace Prize?' -- those academics and elites sitting in Norway, that board of people that decide it, they need to give President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize."

(Trump praised Mast for this Fox hit on Truth Social.)

Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 7d

Good night!

John Cage - 4'33" by David Tudor

YouTube video by pezzipez

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 7d

Her: www.berlingske.dk/politisk-mor...

I fire minutter og 33 sekunder blev Mette Frederiksen grillet: »Det der var en helt vild oplevelse« | Video | Berlingske

Dagens politiske morgenpost: Ny sms-afsløring, en »ramsaltet opsang« fra talerstolen og et opsigtsvækkende statsministerinterview. Hele dit politiske overblik her.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 7d

Sandsynligvis har journalisten aldrig endog hørt om John Cage.

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 8d

Good night - and I'm sending good thoughts Dolly Parton's way.

Precious Memories

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 9d

Well worth reading. My colleague @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social on the financial thriller in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Making a Killing | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mikkel Krause Frantzen discusses the future of the financial thriller in an era of cryptocurrencies and climate crisis.

lareviewofbooks.org

Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 9d

Today Bjøro Håland is 82. Here is his 1982 album Bjøro Håland.

I Love Norwegian Country

YouTube video by Bjøro Håland - Topic

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 10d

I am finally reading Stephen Graham Jones's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. It is awesome! @sgj.bsky.social

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 10d

Here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Bu...

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

An instant New York Times bestseller, a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reser...

www.simonandschuster.com

Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 10d

I am finally reading Stephen Graham Jones's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. It is awesome!

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 10d

My current reading:

• H U Gumbrecht, Lives of the Voice (2025)
• S G Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025)
• T W Laqueur, The Work of the Dead (2015)
• B Roeck, The World at First Light (2025)
• R Sennett, The Performer (2024)
• A Walden, Den vinduerliga ordningen (2024)

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 10d

Hoodoo Telemetry

Hoodoo Telemetry, by Vernon Reid

14 track album

vernonreid.bandcamp.com

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 11d

"Healing Power"

Healing Power

YouTube video by The Carla Bley Band - Topic

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11d

A revolutionary history and theory of harmony from music to metaphysics.

Read a free sample of Daniel Heller-Roazen's The Fifth Hammer, now available in #paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World by Daniel Heller-Roazen

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Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 12d

Kafka warned us.