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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

remember when

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13h

I was on NPR talking about the Nobel Prize

(They cut the part where I said who I'd personally like to see win, where I think César Aira, Yoko Ogawa, Don DeLillo, and Ben Okri were names I tossed out) www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...

How to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

www.npr.org

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13h

This is what we call a "both and" situation.

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13h

I was on NPR talking about the Nobel Prize

(They cut the part where I said who I'd personally like to see win, where I think César Aira, Yoko Ogawa, Don DeLillo, and Ben Okri were names I tossed out) www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...

How to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

www.npr.org

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

This is a perilous moment for democracy in the United States, but I couldn’t be prouder of the Knight Institute’s work right now, and I don’t take for granted that we have the freedom and resources to do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning

The Knight Institute is defending free speech at a school now synonymous with compromising on it

www.theguardian.com

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d

The claim was often that AI was "too uncontrollable"

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d

For a long time, I've been saying AI would obviously be used as propaganda machines by the right-wing billionaires that run them and the Trump administration they're aligned with. And AI bros kept telling me it would never happen (or even that it couldn't happen!)...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

These guys really are so dumb. Also, does he think Dr. Strangelove is set in the 1600s?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a defense of perpetually feckless Dems, but I bet Dems feel they ran on "Trump is fascist and undermining democracy" and they lost the election and so are giving up that message.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Making a list of all the types of readers who enjoy my novels www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...

ghosts, boggles, Bloody Bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins,[4] pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds,[5] lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans,

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

"wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus"

I'm starting to doubt Andrew Cuomo has ever even been to NYC in his life. How can you have negative knowledge of the most famous city in America?

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

yes I find endless relitigation of 2016, especially by the dumbest people who never learn a single thing and are constantly baffled by events of the world, quite boring. Not worth the time.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry gotta demand at least a middle school level of cleverness form my reply guys. Cheers.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

But also the endless 2016 litigation is bad for everyone so I shouldn't have added to it here.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Bernie campaigned hard for her and the "Bernie's fault" stuff seems just made up. IMHO, it's the flipside of the Bernie Bros who blame his loss entirely on "the DNC" instead of the actual failures of his campaign. Clinton's loss was about her campaign failures and the media / Comey issues.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT centrists never learn anything huh.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Statistically, more Bernie 16 voters voted for Clinton than Clinton 08 voters voted for Obama.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Part of it is a tonal clash issue I feel. Hades I and II both want to be dark and mythic and bloody and grand in scope... and also super cute lighthearted fluff. Doesn't really work together.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, although hard to imagine a lower bar...

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Probably not a great Peace Prize pick if their first move is trying to provoke a war.

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

María Corina Machado ©
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Also despised the Disney movie! First one I hated, as a kid.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I found the corniness at acceptable levels for Hades 1 but the sirens as teen pop stars battle already has me set to abandon Hades 2.

Philby Bear @philbybear.bsky.social · 2d

It's an interesting article, and I can honestly empathize with the root of the author's problem with the sort of YAification of fantasy–of the fantastical as a whole–that forms the central core of Hades's ethos.

I have friends who've bounced off both Hades games purely because of its...

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 3d

Hades II demeans the mystery and grandeur of myth through its shallow writing and unserious tone, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

Democrats and Republicans so it looks like a debate with two sides, but everyone sitting there agrees on the actual subject of the discussion.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine still believing John Roberts cares about the rule of law or is opposed to abuse of power in 2025. "I hope Saruman is happy about the orcs Sauron is unleashing!"

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3d

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

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