Being a writer is like…

“So when the AI expands the three sentences in your prompt into 100,000 words or 1,000,000 pixels, it isn't adding any of its intention to the finished work, it's diluting the intention you fed to it.“ pluralistic.net/2026/06/02/m...

1st derivative of position with respect to time is velocity. 2nd derivative is acceleration, the change of velocity. 3rd is jerk, change of acceleration. 4th is snap, 5th is crackle, 6th is pop. Something to consider next time you eat your cereal 😂

I still like me a good Johnny Cash, but “staying true to my values and standing up for the little guy—unless Mr. Trump tells me not to” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Great. All we need to do is figure out how to make people into corporations

Logistically this seems unenforceable. At what point is someone dressing as the “wrong” gender. I propose a bill that would require every school to set up a committee. That committee would assign every student a masc/fem score as they walk in the building. Then we send that home to parents.

This account is beautiful

a bill to mandate a nationwide end to partisan gerrymandering would also pair well with a bit of jurisdiction stripping, given the court's own view that partisan gerrymandering is outside of their remit

Year 2126: Breaking! In a stunning twist, Supreme Court decides people have right to free speech because people are corporations. (Guys I figured out how we get out of this mess.)

Went to the DMV today AND started a new book. Big day for me. I’d the DMV weren’t so loud, it would be one of my favorite places in the world. Where else do you get to go and just see…people. It makes me sentimental.

Just started James by Percival Everett after reading two books back to back by James McBride. So far it seems that both authors have a wildly different take on language in relation to the power dynamics they seem to agree on. 1/6

what if we made the whole country out of ballroom

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

Found Martin Luther’s burner account.

Anybody else get super confused about “Playing this Tuesday at 9/8 central and pacific” or whatever? I never understood and the stakes were so high! What about East!?! I’m just a child! I don’t know what you mean but I *have* to watch the new Jackie Chan adventures!

my 2011 ford galaxy could have done it in about five minutes

3 days to go until the official release of A Basquet of Cats. While you wait, read the free prequel graphic novelette, Cat Charm", set in the world of A Basquet of Cats, a.k.a the Whiskerverse at www.bieck.fr/cat-charm/ #cats #fantasy #graphicnovel

If Sam Altman were in the place of Oppenheimer: *Invents a harmless roc that glows in the dark* “I am death!”

For the super nerds out there, I love this guys pov. This one is about Anthropic’s scary new model. Just a straightforward look. youtu.be/urkVFZAhz3U?...

In my mind, the biggest danger of LLMs is not that they will develop super intelligence, but that we will believe them when they say they have.

I'm worried a fast-talking AI salesman will convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that *can't* do your job (the salesman will be pushing on an open door, since if there's one thing bosses hate, it's paying workers). 11/

I worry that technology is used to spy on and immiserate workers. I just don't think we need AI to do those things. I think we should *already* be worried about those things. 5/

lol why is this my favorite story. They were just talking about the economic viability of liberal arts colleges! Typical sports bro behavior.

If Sam Altman were in the place of Oppenheimer: *Invents a harmless roc that glows in the dark* “I am death!”

I need you to understand that I have written like 50 books and sold 38 of them or so, and every. dang. time. I write a book, I send it to my agent and think, THIS ONE IS PERFECT. And every time, I get a big ol' honkin' edit letter. So if you're bummed because every book involves work, ME, TOO.

My Prometheus joke was fire, but now I’m paying for it.

Things Anthropic’s legal department doesn’t want you to know.

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

I thought I was crazy for thinking this. What a huge fucking breath of fresh air this article is. Underrated line, “I am just always suspicious of anything homogenized for women”

You can’t spend all your efforts avoiding paying taxes and then expect us to be sad when you leave. I would love for those 500mill mansions to be turned into condos, but they’ll just get bought up by a multi millionaire who always dreamed of a park-side penthouse and is fine with the taxes.

I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.

Oh great. Now all I can think about is writing a story about an AI getting lost at Disney World. And getting nothing artistic out of it.

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend”

Super hard to remember on draft 5 (draft 10? Who knows at this point). But when I take a step back, you know what? I still kinda like the dang thing.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Literature of Dostoyevsky Philosophy Intermediate Latin (got some Cicero and Aeneid, it was great) Physics Calculus I’ve always been a bit of a split person.

Watching Andor season 2 ep 8. So do you think Steven Miller and Kristi Noem watch this episode every night or every other night.

Deliver unto the bag the things that are bagged and unto the slow cooker the things that cook slow.

Ran into Spike Lee in manhattan when I lived there. At least I’m pretty sure it was him. Somebody hunt Spike down and ask him if Spike was in New York any time between 2015-2018.

all at once a queer accident happened

FWIW, fits my experiences exactly. Granted, me and my friends weren’t in the 80s.

Talked to my son's best friend's mom who, I would guess, speaks better Chinese than English. I took two weeks of Chinese in 2005. Translation apps open up worlds that were not open a handful of years ago. Translating works of art, is a work of art. Let's leave that to the artists.

Genuinely worried that writing books is going to be like the Olympics (if you test for doping you are automatically disqualified even if it was cold medicine). I don't think art should work like that. Art is like sports in some ways but not quite in that way.

Lol

another way would be showing all the thousands of really good artists that spend days on a picture and get fuck all likes

Nice try. I've been trying all year to develop this art style.

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

I'd go a step further. There's nothing inherently unethical about language models (ie LMs vs LLMs). You can do so much just by mapping the relationships between words on data in the public domain. You don't need to steal and replace artists. You also don't need a little robot to talk to.

Until we reach some kind of actual immortality, we've got to be okay letting people die.