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Great question!
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
January 13, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Great question!
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.
The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
January 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Wordle isn't worth it
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Wordle isn't worth it
$630 boots is not only *not* luxury, it’s below the middle range offered by the NYT this fall
Boots Made For More Than Just Walking
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
$630 boots is not only *not* luxury, it’s below the middle range offered by the NYT this fall
Bluesky is great
Oh hello! I wrote the OED entry for this, and found the earliest known example, which is 1927, in a Mae West play. It's also in A Farewell to Arms (1929); Orwell uses it in the 1930s. These examples are all clear. So, definitely established by the 1920s.
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Bluesky is great
Ai is now a laundromat
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ai is now a laundromat
I think we’re reaching a new, even worse turn of the Ai cycle, in which students who have been exposed to so much Ai in their short conscious lives are already imitating the sound of it, even when not actually using it
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I think we’re reaching a new, even worse turn of the Ai cycle, in which students who have been exposed to so much Ai in their short conscious lives are already imitating the sound of it, even when not actually using it
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I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Employers seemingly disregard etiquette, laying off employees right before the holidays
The once common ritual fell out of fashion following the Great Recession, until this year.
www.hr-brew.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
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Don’t care what happens to the economy or if I lose my house as long as I get to say I told you so about “AI”
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Don’t care what happens to the economy or if I lose my house as long as I get to say I told you so about “AI”
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shout out to men on the subway with ereaders. you may not get the attention men with physical books get for some reason but i appreciate that you're signaling to the world "moving apartments is a lot easier for me"
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
shout out to men on the subway with ereaders. you may not get the attention men with physical books get for some reason but i appreciate that you're signaling to the world "moving apartments is a lot easier for me"
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it’s nine PM on the east coast and polls have closed
bring me the head of andrew cuomo
bring me the head of andrew cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
it’s nine PM on the east coast and polls have closed
bring me the head of andrew cuomo
bring me the head of andrew cuomo
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the president has begun ranking generals out loud by fuckability
September 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the president has begun ranking generals out loud by fuckability
I'm Isaac Chotiner welcome to my hoist did you bring your petard
September 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I'm Isaac Chotiner welcome to my hoist did you bring your petard
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I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet
and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains
forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
The Redford tribute you've been waiting for
Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
September 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The Redford tribute you've been waiting for
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Amazingly enough I am on this list *multiple times* because of scholarly articles I coauthored. You should really check and see if you’re on it too.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Amazingly enough I am on this list *multiple times* because of scholarly articles I coauthored. You should really check and see if you’re on it too.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Student calls book we're reading a hundred years old, and, Reader, dammit if she wasn't correct. 1925 if you're doing the math rn
August 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Student calls book we're reading a hundred years old, and, Reader, dammit if she wasn't correct. 1925 if you're doing the math rn
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True story: on official university forms that ask what technology I use in the classroom, I sing the praises of the codex, still the best tool for teaching literature in a group setting
August 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
True story: on official university forms that ask what technology I use in the classroom, I sing the praises of the codex, still the best tool for teaching literature in a group setting
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The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
July 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
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Not sure about this new Andrew Cuomo ad
July 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Not sure about this new Andrew Cuomo ad
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I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
June 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
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The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
June 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
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You love to see this happen to a guy who is absolutely parked in a bike lane right now
June 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You love to see this happen to a guy who is absolutely parked in a bike lane right now
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