Daniel Dvorkin
@danielmedic.bsky.social
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran USAF medic and Army infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, long-ago kickboxer, oldbat goth, vaccinated liberal patriot.
If the nation is *very* lucky, at least some of the six "Justices" currently using the Constitution for toilet paper will live to see the blood and hear the screams and smell the shit.
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If the nation is *very* lucky, at least some of the six "Justices" currently using the Constitution for toilet paper will live to see the blood and hear the screams and smell the shit.
If the Constitution I swore to defend survives their filthy hands, it will be only through fire—much as Taney et al. made inevitable Shiloh and Antietam and Gettysburg and the Crater, and at last Appomattox.
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If the Constitution I swore to defend survives their filthy hands, it will be only through fire—much as Taney et al. made inevitable Shiloh and Antietam and Gettysburg and the Crater, and at last Appomattox.
There have been worse Supreme Courts, including of course the one which issued the Dred Scott decision. But I honestly think there's never been one so venal, so inconsistent, and so cowardly all at once.
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
There have been worse Supreme Courts, including of course the one which issued the Dred Scott decision. But I honestly think there's never been one so venal, so inconsistent, and so cowardly all at once.
I remain impressed to this day by that scene's mind-boggling stupidity.
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I remain impressed to this day by that scene's mind-boggling stupidity.
For the love of God.
Please stop.
Please stop.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
For the love of God.
Please stop.
Please stop.
People do it too.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
People do it too.
But it's not all AI.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
But it's not all AI.
And AI does write like this.
Often.
Often.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
And AI does write like this.
Often.
Often.
Some people say it's all AI writing.
Because that's how AI writes.
Like this.
Because that's how AI writes.
Like this.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Some people say it's all AI writing.
Because that's how AI writes.
Like this.
Because that's how AI writes.
Like this.
It doesn't.
It's boring.
It's boring.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
It doesn't.
It's boring.
It's boring.
Lots of emphasis.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Lots of emphasis.
Writers think this makes their work sound punchy.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Writers think this makes their work sound punchy.
Definitely only one sentence per line.
Nonstandard spacing.
Nonstandard spacing.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Definitely only one sentence per line.
Nonstandard spacing.
Nonstandard spacing.
Maybe two or three sentences if you're lucky.
But no commas.
Never any commas.
But no commas.
Never any commas.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Maybe two or three sentences if you're lucky.
But no commas.
Never any commas.
But no commas.
Never any commas.
One-sentence paragraphs.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
One-sentence paragraphs.
One-clause sentences.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
One-clause sentences.
Flat-earthers who are also SF fans? That strikes me as a deep wrongness in the universe.
December 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Flat-earthers who are also SF fans? That strikes me as a deep wrongness in the universe.
Flat-earthers are weird. Not fun weird like fen (something something dodged sabertooths uphill both ways). Just boring, depressing, will-you-please-go-away weird. Which to be fair, is the reaction some people have toward fandom, but usually when we encounter those people we let them be.
December 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Flat-earthers are weird. Not fun weird like fen (something something dodged sabertooths uphill both ways). Just boring, depressing, will-you-please-go-away weird. Which to be fair, is the reaction some people have toward fandom, but usually when we encounter those people we let them be.
OP is a self-described former atheist who Found Jesus™. I'm always skeptical of that origin story, but if it's true, it's just proof of the old saw that there's no fanaticism like that of the convert.
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
OP is a self-described former atheist who Found Jesus™. I'm always skeptical of that origin story, but if it's true, it's just proof of the old saw that there's no fanaticism like that of the convert.
I think American Christianity is no worse than anywhere else, and Christianity is no worse than any other religion. Majority religions in general are more about power than about virtue. Christians' doctrinal belief that they're always an oppressed minority, though, does add a certain special flavor.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I think American Christianity is no worse than anywhere else, and Christianity is no worse than any other religion. Majority religions in general are more about power than about virtue. Christians' doctrinal belief that they're always an oppressed minority, though, does add a certain special flavor.