Sarah Emerson
@loveallthis.bsky.social
Product person, mom, knitter, crank. Seattle.
Putting the “Con” in “DEFCON 1” is this anything
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Putting the “Con” in “DEFCON 1” is this anything
Introducing the new Trump-appointed Labor Secretary, Robert Drop Table
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Introducing the new Trump-appointed Labor Secretary, Robert Drop Table
“‘Tranches’?”
[smokes cigarette]
“…haven’t heard that term in a while.”
— me, last laid off during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis slash WGA strike
[smokes cigarette]
“…haven’t heard that term in a while.”
— me, last laid off during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis slash WGA strike
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“‘Tranches’?”
[smokes cigarette]
“…haven’t heard that term in a while.”
— me, last laid off during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis slash WGA strike
[smokes cigarette]
“…haven’t heard that term in a while.”
— me, last laid off during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis slash WGA strike
So is the West Wing now just… The Wing
October 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So is the West Wing now just… The Wing
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I don’t get a ton of opportunities to promote my video game, but any time redaction is in the news…
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mrgan.com/blackbar/
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October 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I don’t get a ton of opportunities to promote my video game, but any time redaction is in the news…
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mrgan.com/blackbar/
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mrgan.com/blackbar/
omg are LLMs a type of antimemetic SCP
I really believe generative AI is a cognitohazard to an entire column of humanity. I don't know, there's a something it fucking does to people that displaces their own entirely-capable cognition and independence, further they seemingly cannot perceive the deficits of. This is not a moral argument.
October 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
omg are LLMs a type of antimemetic SCP
Blew through this over the last day; now considering starting Apocalypse Book Club to make me feel a little better about how our world is going. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041...
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm: 9780593983751 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Blew through this over the last day; now considering starting Apocalypse Book Club to make me feel a little better about how our world is going. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041...
Had a dream that I cried at work because Google Maps got a redesign
Probably worth unpacking that one a little
Probably worth unpacking that one a little
September 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Had a dream that I cried at work because Google Maps got a redesign
Probably worth unpacking that one a little
Probably worth unpacking that one a little
Chotiner? I barely know ‘er
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Chotiner? I barely know ‘er
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For Seattle folks… I’m giving a talk tonight at Obec Brewery (6:30) about science funding, the history of human computer interaction, and the future of AI. I’m off the clock, so I may get a little spicier than usual. If you’re around, please come!
September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For Seattle folks… I’m giving a talk tonight at Obec Brewery (6:30) about science funding, the history of human computer interaction, and the future of AI. I’m off the clock, so I may get a little spicier than usual. If you’re around, please come!
Will never get used to how @kevinroose.com pronounces “frontier”
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Will never get used to how @kevinroose.com pronounces “frontier”
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Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
I’m grasping at a metaphor about infections and monocultures, it’s definitely something
Starting to think letting nine companies run all the media in our country was a bad idea.
September 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’m grasping at a metaphor about infections and monocultures, it’s definitely something
Who called it a TENS machine when “cramplifier” is right there
September 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Who called it a TENS machine when “cramplifier” is right there
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“But why can’t I pay per article??”
Because you won’t. You think you will and that other people will too but you won’t and they won’t. People hate them.
rreisman.medium.com/the-case-aga...
Because you won’t. You think you will and that other people will too but you won’t and they won’t. People hate them.
rreisman.medium.com/the-case-aga...
“The Case Against Micropayments” — From Fear and Surprise to The Comfy Chair
Micropayment hope springs eternal. Clay Shirky and Andrew Odlyzko drove a stake in its heart way back in the dot-com era, but here it is…
rreisman.medium.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“But why can’t I pay per article??”
Because you won’t. You think you will and that other people will too but you won’t and they won’t. People hate them.
rreisman.medium.com/the-case-aga...
Because you won’t. You think you will and that other people will too but you won’t and they won’t. People hate them.
rreisman.medium.com/the-case-aga...
literally DARVO
took time away from the social media drip today, but, it is wild that the right has turned 'these shooters are destroying our college campuses' into 'these college campuses are destroying our shooters'
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
literally DARVO
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Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
Has anyone written an essay comparing the human condition of being too online to the way LLMs start to fail when their context windows get too large
feels topical
feels topical
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Has anyone written an essay comparing the human condition of being too online to the way LLMs start to fail when their context windows get too large
feels topical
feels topical
Ted Cruz, of course, is now confirmed to have contributed to the Epstein birthday book
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Ted Cruz, of course, is now confirmed to have contributed to the Epstein birthday book
Googling “how to mute an image”
September 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Googling “how to mute an image”
Spotted: portable air conditioner in the alley next to the recycling bins.
Fall has truly arrived in Seattle.
Fall has truly arrived in Seattle.
September 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Spotted: portable air conditioner in the alley next to the recycling bins.
Fall has truly arrived in Seattle.
Fall has truly arrived in Seattle.
feels like we’ve been right about here all weekend
September 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
feels like we’ve been right about here all weekend
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Labor Day of course marks the end of the New York Times print edition’s use of summer kerning, a slightly looser spacing to let the text breathe
September 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Labor Day of course marks the end of the New York Times print edition’s use of summer kerning, a slightly looser spacing to let the text breathe
Just in case you were hoping to enjoy Gas Works Park today: there’s a hate group holding a rally and they’re looking for a fight, and they brought cops. Stay clear, IMO.
The scene at Gas Works Park at 9am, prior to Sean Feucht and his band of assholes. There is already a police presence and crowd control barricades.
August 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Just in case you were hoping to enjoy Gas Works Park today: there’s a hate group holding a rally and they’re looking for a fight, and they brought cops. Stay clear, IMO.
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What’s deeply strange is that this was all very well understood as little as five years ago. People talked all the time about training data bias. But then they slapped the label AI on a chatbot and everyone’s got amnesia
August 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
What’s deeply strange is that this was all very well understood as little as five years ago. People talked all the time about training data bias. But then they slapped the label AI on a chatbot and everyone’s got amnesia