Byron Gilman-Hernandez
@gilmanhernandez.bsky.social
Adjunct Professor in English in St. Louis
Rather famously, the Duke of Aquitaine in 740 had only a single compilation of scooter fails, now on display in the Louvre. It's hard to imagine a time where that was a display of considerable wealth and status.
I tried to warn you
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Rather famously, the Duke of Aquitaine in 740 had only a single compilation of scooter fails, now on display in the Louvre. It's hard to imagine a time where that was a display of considerable wealth and status.
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Water your tree.
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Water your tree.
I mean "task an external party to produce a section of writing, knowing that you'll alter what they write to fit publication" is a job that existed before AI. It's called being an "editor" and it's a unique skillset that builds on your expertise as a writer.
man, there's an irony in the AI discourse that will make absolutely everyone angry, which is that the people who are likeliest to use these tools effectively are not devs or programmers, they're writers and artists with good read/write communication and perception skills.
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I mean "task an external party to produce a section of writing, knowing that you'll alter what they write to fit publication" is a job that existed before AI. It's called being an "editor" and it's a unique skillset that builds on your expertise as a writer.
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Shakespeare got in on making fun of this shit 400 years ago.
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Shakespeare got in on making fun of this shit 400 years ago.
"a mental object ie mobject." is gonna sit in my head for a while
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"a mental object ie mobject." is gonna sit in my head for a while
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Happy Feast of the Saints and Blessed of the Society of Jesus! May they pray for you and be your models of Christian life. AMDG.
Image: Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.
Image: Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy Feast of the Saints and Blessed of the Society of Jesus! May they pray for you and be your models of Christian life. AMDG.
Image: Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.
Image: Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.
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Congratulations to Kansas City for opening a major expansion of its streetcar system today, increasing the total length of the system by more than 50%!
KC Streetcar was already one of the most successful small rail systems in the US, seeing 2M riders per year, and has more expansions in the works!
KC Streetcar was already one of the most successful small rail systems in the US, seeing 2M riders per year, and has more expansions in the works!
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Congratulations to Kansas City for opening a major expansion of its streetcar system today, increasing the total length of the system by more than 50%!
KC Streetcar was already one of the most successful small rail systems in the US, seeing 2M riders per year, and has more expansions in the works!
KC Streetcar was already one of the most successful small rail systems in the US, seeing 2M riders per year, and has more expansions in the works!
Chants I heard in St. Louis:
"Pro-Palestine, Provel
All fascists go to hell!"
"314/Says No More!" "636/Trump Gets Nixed!"
"Pro-Palestine, Provel
All fascists go to hell!"
"314/Says No More!" "636/Trump Gets Nixed!"
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Chants I heard in St. Louis:
"Pro-Palestine, Provel
All fascists go to hell!"
"314/Says No More!" "636/Trump Gets Nixed!"
"Pro-Palestine, Provel
All fascists go to hell!"
"314/Says No More!" "636/Trump Gets Nixed!"
Maybe my sign got ruined, maybe my bus was late, maybe it's raining cats and dogs out here in St. Louis, that's no reason not to show for the protest #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Maybe my sign got ruined, maybe my bus was late, maybe it's raining cats and dogs out here in St. Louis, that's no reason not to show for the protest #NoKings
"File wasn't working"
Kristi Noem's controversial shutdown video isn't airing at Lambert St. Louis International Airport, but airport officials aren't saying why www.stlmag.com/news/kristi-...
Noem's controversial shutdown video isn’t airing at St. Louis airport
As of yesterday, TSA checkpoints at St. Louis Lambert International Airport were not showing a video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blames the current government shutdown on Democrat...
www.stlmag.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"File wasn't working"
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Ebony and Usury is the serious dark horse here, it's such a good name something.
Vertigo have just announced ten new titles at #NYCC. Fine. So will I.
COELACANTH FIGHTER #1
LET'S BUY DECKCHAIRS #1
SUPERSTAR COBBLER #1
THERMOSTAT 3000 #1
THE GNOMIC NINE #1
BALTIMORE HUG PATROL #1
EBONY AND USURY #1
FLABÉLOS WARRIORS #1
PORTNOY THE PUNK #1
LINGERIE JONES #1
Collect them all!
COELACANTH FIGHTER #1
LET'S BUY DECKCHAIRS #1
SUPERSTAR COBBLER #1
THERMOSTAT 3000 #1
THE GNOMIC NINE #1
BALTIMORE HUG PATROL #1
EBONY AND USURY #1
FLABÉLOS WARRIORS #1
PORTNOY THE PUNK #1
LINGERIE JONES #1
Collect them all!
October 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Ebony and Usury is the serious dark horse here, it's such a good name something.
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A shitlib is going to protest—will you?
I think the most useful political activity most of us can engage in rn is to encourage as many people as possible to attend the Oct 18 protests.
October 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A shitlib is going to protest—will you?
Not a fan of the Ceiling Hole in my classroom. Combines ominous energy with inscrutable darkness.
September 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Not a fan of the Ceiling Hole in my classroom. Combines ominous energy with inscrutable darkness.
The intersection of singular and plural in "You" feels like a root of our current moment. "I'll fight for You" capitalizes on it, that I'm fighting for You (individually), but by the nature of an ad, it's always You (plural). It is both a simple task and a self-contradictory one.
September 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The intersection of singular and plural in "You" feels like a root of our current moment. "I'll fight for You" capitalizes on it, that I'm fighting for You (individually), but by the nature of an ad, it's always You (plural). It is both a simple task and a self-contradictory one.
This is how you know Trump voters are fundamentally insincere in their beliefs: "I think abortion is murder, I think you, very literally, murdered a baby, but... that's nothing to end our friendship over" is a completely insane thing to say, but a necessary statement for this poll.
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is how you know Trump voters are fundamentally insincere in their beliefs: "I think abortion is murder, I think you, very literally, murdered a baby, but... that's nothing to end our friendship over" is a completely insane thing to say, but a necessary statement for this poll.
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
A lot of responses to this are focusing on the hypocrises of OP's supposed worldview, but it's really no deeper than "How dare you know more about something than me?" So much of Discourse isn't any more coherent than the primal rage at being made to feel bad in any way.
I've seen discourse you people wouldn't believe
August 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A lot of responses to this are focusing on the hypocrises of OP's supposed worldview, but it's really no deeper than "How dare you know more about something than me?" So much of Discourse isn't any more coherent than the primal rage at being made to feel bad in any way.
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“This meeting could have been an email” has been a corporate proverb for decades now. Why would we want to have meetings WITH THE COMPUTER to do basic tasks
August 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“This meeting could have been an email” has been a corporate proverb for decades now. Why would we want to have meetings WITH THE COMPUTER to do basic tasks
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“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”
August 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”
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🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.
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can't have an approval ceiling if you're standing on the roof
August 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
can't have an approval ceiling if you're standing on the roof
There's a connection between the data economy and the gong farmer that might make a good essay. In both, the leavings of people's day-to-day activity fuels the fundamental economic engine, but they're on completely opposite ends of social regard.
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
There's a connection between the data economy and the gong farmer that might make a good essay. In both, the leavings of people's day-to-day activity fuels the fundamental economic engine, but they're on completely opposite ends of social regard.