Stephanie Burt
@notquitehydepark.bsky.social
poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. New super gay book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674273115Podcast: https://teamupmoves.com
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Great point! Pohl's *Gateway* explores the complexities of AI and human emotion. “The most important thing is to learn how to think.” How do you see AI evolving in literature? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Gateway
This is correct. Science fiction can offer plenty of examples for non-biological persons who choose to listen, but we haven't built them yet (and may never). Any one else read (or teach) Fred Pohl's GATEWAY?
I think human freedom is the point of conflict here. A human psychotherapist chooses to listen reflectively, and that choice is what really matters. Therein lies the human connection that cannot genuinely be made with a real machine. 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Great point! Pohl's *Gateway* explores the complexities of AI and human emotion. “The most important thing is to learn how to think.” How do you see AI evolving in literature? 🪐📚 #SciFi #Gateway
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The wizard stops by the bakery and gets a fried bread with lilac and hard tangy cheese for lunch. He sits under the big oak to eat it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The wizard stops by the bakery and gets a fried bread with lilac and hard tangy cheese for lunch. He sits under the big oak to eat it.
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Indeed. The DimWit proposal is also proof Ru isn't winning-- they're asking for a bit less than they demanded in Istanbul in 2022. Not because they're compromising; it's an opening from where they will demand more, but still the opening is weaker than when the Ru army was right outside Kyiv.
The Russian army is exhausted too. Russia is taking far higher casualties than Ukraine, and after 3.5 years has barely moved the front line. The idea that Russia is “winning” is simply not supported by the evidence. As I told DW News.
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Indeed. The DimWit proposal is also proof Ru isn't winning-- they're asking for a bit less than they demanded in Istanbul in 2022. Not because they're compromising; it's an opening from where they will demand more, but still the opening is weaker than when the Ru army was right outside Kyiv.
This is correct. Science fiction can offer plenty of examples for non-biological persons who choose to listen, but we haven't built them yet (and may never). Any one else read (or teach) Fred Pohl's GATEWAY?
I think human freedom is the point of conflict here. A human psychotherapist chooses to listen reflectively, and that choice is what really matters. Therein lies the human connection that cannot genuinely be made with a real machine. 1/2
You don't have to become a spiritual dualist to notice how far the ELIZA effect extends! A Turing test only works if you know how to use it. And you can't *prove* we're not machines. (A materialist monist might say that unlike ChatGPT we are the kind of machines that deserve respect as persons.)
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is correct. Science fiction can offer plenty of examples for non-biological persons who choose to listen, but we haven't built them yet (and may never). Any one else read (or teach) Fred Pohl's GATEWAY?
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Redbone www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1...
50 years ago, 'Come and Get Your Love' put Native culture on the bandstand
Redbone's hit cracked the Billboard Top 5 this month in 1974. It was a first for a band with all Native and Mexican American members — but the song itself had a quietly political message, too.
www.npr.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Redbone www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1...
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Without labor, nothing prospers.
"Arnulfo" shares, "These are heads of broccoli that I've harvested. I've been working in the fields of CAs Central Coast for 21 years. I plant and grow broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower, and other vegetables you probably will see on your #Thanksgiving tables." #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Without labor, nothing prospers.
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Pokemon Thanksgiving says trans rights
It's kind of neat how Eevee has been around since the first days of Pokemon and, despite always being popular to a degree, has only elevated to became a co-face of the franchise alongside Pikachu only AFTER 20 years.
It's never too late to take that next step.
It's never too late to take that next step.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Pokemon Thanksgiving says trans rights
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Imagine a world in which all politicians spend time in soup kitchens & shelters, offer pro bono legal clinics, work on low-income housing sites, volunteer in hospitals, at daycare centers, literacy classes — because the priority of a real political party should be to build & support community.
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Imagine a world in which all politicians spend time in soup kitchens & shelters, offer pro bono legal clinics, work on low-income housing sites, volunteer in hospitals, at daycare centers, literacy classes — because the priority of a real political party should be to build & support community.
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Shooting Nat Guard is bad, the perpetrator should be brought to justice.
Troops are in DC only for Trump's political stunt, based on lies, creating not reducing dangerous situations.
Far from the worst act of political violence in the US this year, but will get more attention.
All true at once.
Troops are in DC only for Trump's political stunt, based on lies, creating not reducing dangerous situations.
Far from the worst act of political violence in the US this year, but will get more attention.
All true at once.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Shooting Nat Guard is bad, the perpetrator should be brought to justice.
Troops are in DC only for Trump's political stunt, based on lies, creating not reducing dangerous situations.
Far from the worst act of political violence in the US this year, but will get more attention.
All true at once.
Troops are in DC only for Trump's political stunt, based on lies, creating not reducing dangerous situations.
Far from the worst act of political violence in the US this year, but will get more attention.
All true at once.
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There needs to be a version of "do it scared" for writers that equates to "write it, even if you worry you're not good enough to write it"
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
There needs to be a version of "do it scared" for writers that equates to "write it, even if you worry you're not good enough to write it"
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MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS KING OF KINGS
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS KING OF KINGS
Stealth William Empson fanposting here
My hot take on politics and history and religion this year is that a religion which is actively about a child sacrifice should consider shutting the fuck up about a narrative of stopping child sacrifices.
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Stealth William Empson fanposting here
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First, fuck ICE.
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
First, fuck ICE.
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
Second, hell of a way to learn those shits are in your fucking town!
Feels like the first time
Mamma Mia!
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Feels like the first time
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone hiding in a bathroom as long as possible to escape family who you can hear asking where you are.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone hiding in a bathroom as long as possible to escape family who you can hear asking where you are.
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we are machines, biological ones, but I think a lot of people think our brains work like computers, which they don't.
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
we are machines, biological ones, but I think a lot of people think our brains work like computers, which they don't.
I don't think that everyone *has to* make these historical facts central to this day in the US in 2025 (so many just use the day to see birth families), but we should at the least all know why some people do make these facts central, notice them, and not deny them.
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I don't think that everyone *has to* make these historical facts central to this day in the US in 2025 (so many just use the day to see birth families), but we should at the least all know why some people do make these facts central, notice them, and not deny them.
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This makes me even more rageful that a friend just had to pay $800 because her insurance denied coverage of her 19 year old's HPV vaccine, claiming that it is no longer recommended. Appeals were denied. I can only assume RFK Jr had something to do with this???
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This makes me even more rageful that a friend just had to pay $800 because her insurance denied coverage of her 19 year old's HPV vaccine, claiming that it is no longer recommended. Appeals were denied. I can only assume RFK Jr had something to do with this???
This is how it's done
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is how it's done
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Macy’s Parade knows its target age demographic: people on Bluesky
Not me marking out for Busta Rhymes AND the literal Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Macy’s Parade knows its target age demographic: people on Bluesky
You don't have to become a spiritual dualist to notice how far the ELIZA effect extends! A Turing test only works if you know how to use it. And you can't *prove* we're not machines. (A materialist monist might say that unlike ChatGPT we are the kind of machines that deserve respect as persons.)
one of the things Weizenbaum really nails is that our propensity to believe machine intelligence rivals our own is embedded in a deeper view of humans as being basically machines, that the ELIZA Effect is in part a product of our spiritual and cultural empoverishment... it seems the woke pope agrees
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You don't have to become a spiritual dualist to notice how far the ELIZA effect extends! A Turing test only works if you know how to use it. And you can't *prove* we're not machines. (A materialist monist might say that unlike ChatGPT we are the kind of machines that deserve respect as persons.)
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 23,1944
November 23,1944
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 23,1944
November 23,1944
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thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle
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There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.