Paz Pardo
@pazsays.bsky.social
Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-shamshine-blind-a-novel-paz-pardo/80bf4e7d932a98a6
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Paz Pardo
@pazsays.bsky.social
· Oct 30
My book THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was a Library Journal Top 10 SFF 2023, if you'd like a distraction this week in which folks doing the good work* capsize a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocratic dictatorship this sci-fi/noir/alt-history might be for you
*tracking down caches of illicit feelings
*tracking down caches of illicit feelings
my kindle keeps trying to sell me a book called GALLANTRY IN ACTION by one John J. Spearman with a vaguely phallic spaceship on the cover and I really wonder what about my half-Robin-Mckinley-half-sapphic-sff reading habits made the algorithm decide I am the target audience for this ad
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
my kindle keeps trying to sell me a book called GALLANTRY IN ACTION by one John J. Spearman with a vaguely phallic spaceship on the cover and I really wonder what about my half-Robin-Mckinley-half-sapphic-sff reading habits made the algorithm decide I am the target audience for this ad
I have been sick for the past couple days so I have not managed to marshal my thoughts well enough to post about my discovery that the financial branch of the Argentine Communist Party introduced Coca-Cola to the Argentine market, happy Thanksgiving everybody www.clarin.com/sociedad/fal...
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have been sick for the past couple days so I have not managed to marshal my thoughts well enough to post about my discovery that the financial branch of the Argentine Communist Party introduced Coca-Cola to the Argentine market, happy Thanksgiving everybody www.clarin.com/sociedad/fal...
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THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was meant to be the sort of escapist read one could use as psychological armor to weather arduous thanksgiving family visits, but then the whole “overturning a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocracy” became unfortunately timely
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was meant to be the sort of escapist read one could use as psychological armor to weather arduous thanksgiving family visits, but then the whole “overturning a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocracy” became unfortunately timely
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my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was meant to be the sort of escapist read one could use as psychological armor to weather arduous thanksgiving family visits, but then the whole “overturning a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocracy” became unfortunately timely
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was meant to be the sort of escapist read one could use as psychological armor to weather arduous thanksgiving family visits, but then the whole “overturning a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocracy” became unfortunately timely
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Something like convergent evolution happening as humanities professors respond to ai with a similar set of practices that we each hunkered down and came up with out of desperation over the summer of 2025.
A fantastic piece that gets into the details of what a great Humanities classroom looks like. I love the focus on what to do versus what not to do—and why.
🧍Non-AI summary: it’s human and paper-based.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
🧍Non-AI summary: it’s human and paper-based.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Something like convergent evolution happening as humanities professors respond to ai with a similar set of practices that we each hunkered down and came up with out of desperation over the summer of 2025.
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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Nominating this for the 2025 Pulitzer for photojournalism, captures the year’s ethos beautifully
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Nominating this for the 2025 Pulitzer for photojournalism, captures the year’s ethos beautifully
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there once was a tech bro insanity,
that consumed all our capital capacity,
but their models were undone,
by lyrics and puns.,
and so poets saved all of humanity.
that consumed all our capital capacity,
but their models were undone,
by lyrics and puns.,
and so poets saved all of humanity.
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
there once was a tech bro insanity,
that consumed all our capital capacity,
but their models were undone,
by lyrics and puns.,
and so poets saved all of humanity.
that consumed all our capital capacity,
but their models were undone,
by lyrics and puns.,
and so poets saved all of humanity.
The reason I didn't get a video baby monitor is because a friend had one and, at one point, looked at it and panicked because the baby it was showing WASN'T HERS. The signal was getting crossed with one of her neighbors' monitors. I learned a lot about the security of those devices from that story!
HINSON: As a mom, I think about watching a baby monitor. That's a very intimate moment with your baby and to think the Chinese could be spying on your morning routine
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The reason I didn't get a video baby monitor is because a friend had one and, at one point, looked at it and panicked because the baby it was showing WASN'T HERS. The signal was getting crossed with one of her neighbors' monitors. I learned a lot about the security of those devices from that story!
"are the Fae open source" TURNS OUT THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, NOW DOESN'T IT
So... spells.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.
And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.
The old ways are new again.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"are the Fae open source" TURNS OUT THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, NOW DOESN'T IT
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Thoughts and prayers to Maureen Dowd’s former assistant, cruelly robbed of his destiny as the
Gen-Z Jay McInerney or whatever www.salon.com/2025/11/20/j...
Gen-Z Jay McInerney or whatever www.salon.com/2025/11/20/j...
Legacy media enabled Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein’s "glamorous" New York media milieu was also one where powerful men faced no consequences.
www.salon.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thoughts and prayers to Maureen Dowd’s former assistant, cruelly robbed of his destiny as the
Gen-Z Jay McInerney or whatever www.salon.com/2025/11/20/j...
Gen-Z Jay McInerney or whatever www.salon.com/2025/11/20/j...
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Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
My Own Worst Enemy
Basket Case
Right Now
Basket Case
Right Now
Name 3 Nirvana songs.
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My Own Worst Enemy
Basket Case
Right Now
Basket Case
Right Now
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🚨 UPDATE 🚨
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Angry 5yo: “you’re the worst mommy in the WHOLE UNIVERSITY!”
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
🚨 UPDATE 🚨
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Cuddly 5yo: “I love you more than the whole university.”
Ah yes, all those US tea pickers who will be worried about losing their jobs to AI
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Trump’s tariffs are likely to outlive his administration, sustained by political fears that removing protectionist barriers will alienate workers who fear losing their jobs to off-shoring and AI
Raimondo Says Trump’s Tariffs Hard to Remove for Next President
Former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said President Donald Trump’s tariffs are likely to outlive his administration, sustained by political fears that removing protectionist barriers will alienate workers who fear losing their jobs to off-shoring and AI.
bloom.bg
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ah yes, all those US tea pickers who will be worried about losing their jobs to AI
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My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!
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I mean the thing that Summers resigned over is directly admitting that he was pressuring students into sex (while making racist little jibes about her!) in an email to his notorious paedophile buddy. I do wonder how one could not be incredibly embarrassed to run this kind of pedantry in this case.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I mean the thing that Summers resigned over is directly admitting that he was pressuring students into sex (while making racist little jibes about her!) in an email to his notorious paedophile buddy. I do wonder how one could not be incredibly embarrassed to run this kind of pedantry in this case.
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Aren't all the old stories about the dangers of signing up for a subscription with the Fae?
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Aren't all the old stories about the dangers of signing up for a subscription with the Fae?
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Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
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i try not to get too upset about the way the attention economy moves because i know i do it too but the federal goons never left. they went from 10 raids a day to 1-2 because they don’t have the capacity to do this shock and awe campaign nationwide. but they’re still here
People have largely tried to act like ICE/CBP failed and retreated from LA and that is completely untrue. If it weren’t for the relentless coverage of places like @lataco.bsky.social these stories would be completely under the radar.
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
i try not to get too upset about the way the attention economy moves because i know i do it too but the federal goons never left. they went from 10 raids a day to 1-2 because they don’t have the capacity to do this shock and awe campaign nationwide. but they’re still here
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The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
well now I am imagining the type character that would google this question often enough for health websites to break it out for SEO reasons
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
well now I am imagining the type character that would google this question often enough for health websites to break it out for SEO reasons