Many people are arguing…

"what landed" "doing the real work" "the x is real"

Using LLMs in writing is like anal sex. Those against it are vehemently against it. Those who do it really don't want to talk about it.

It's shaping up to be a great time for the pitchforks-and-torches industry

Don't take rides from the kind of people who make rocketships.

What if Ross Barkan used an LLM to "rejigger" the stories under investigation. Does that make it worse, or is it a win for humans?

I was going to join a group called "End Purity Culture Now", but I didn't qualify. They said I could sign up to be an ally, though.

What's the paradigm, Kenneth?

I never quote post.

That's an excellent observation. It's not a slop problem, it's a prompt problem. That's the line. That's the take.

I was thinking of having a hot take on Bluesky-post editing implementation situation, but then I remembered I don't work in tech anymore, and I really didn't give a shit.

I do not miss CRTs with failing flyback transformers. The tinnitus makes sure of that.

I have become incapable of listening to people giving talks. I think it's that people have been infected with Slowtalk Virus. Some also suffer from the comorbid Long Anecdote Syndrome. Why are we still hearing about your dog?

Why is it so [dim|loud] in this place? I don't recognize any of the ingredients in this menu. When you say "cringe", is that more like "pathetic" or more like "sad"? It's astonishing how often I find myself in a geezer cliche.

I'm on the west coast for #writeTheDocs and it's pretty bizarre to be seeing reports about the Met Gala while it's practically lunchtime here.

you kids crack me up

I'm not really comfortable, but at least I'm not hurting

I hate that my father's not alive to see this

When I think of the GitHub outages, I try to remember that it's an outfit with infinite money and resources and direct technical contacts to the vendor (they are the vendor) and they cannot move from AWS to Azure without damage.

I have always hated zany madcap slapstick comedy and absurdist nihilism, yet here I am

just another S A T-U-R D A Y NIGHT youtu.be/7BKKaKT_dtM?...

Why does every Klingon on the planet speak Klingon? Why does every Vulcan speak Vulcan? Are there accents, dialects? Is there a filioque-deep rift between northern vulcans who empasize "long" and southern Vulcans who empasize "prosper"?

I have Claude write a summary of what we talk about, in this case translations of a Brecht poem. I didn't know who one of the translators was. Claude thought that was important enough to save Scott Horton is not a rando

Every once in a while someone I've followed for a long time drops the mask

You know all that stuff that should never ever fall into the wrong hands? Too late. It's all in the wrong hands now.

some days I can hear social media even with all the windows closed

"What a horrible deal. I'm going to tear it up, start a war, and get a much better deal." "They've accepted my new deal that is not quite as good as the old deal. But the really good news: I have stopped another war!"

I seem to be drawn to equestrian metaphors though in truth I don't care much for horses. Except for these two. twohorses.lol

If I had known that
the price of poetry
was humiliation
would I have been
happy with doggerel

I only go to the Nazi bar for lunch. I would _never_ go there after 8.

After your third or fourth decade, they all run together

tl;dr: this injustice has been gnawing at me, and it's important that you know the details

I've spent the last week reading that Walter Benjamin paper with my trusty 🦙to make sense of the structure, the style, and oh my god the argot. I was rhyming 1935 with 2026, the convulsing world, the threat of a culture-shattering technology. Predicting the future of a new medium is impossible

I got a pair of Allbirds in 2016 because shoes made of wool were disruptive. I still own that pair. They're my indoor shoes. I really like them. It's the only pair of Allbirds I ever bought. You were expecting repeat sales, and I let you down. I'm so sorry. Good luck on your AI venture.

My ability to name Indian dishes I like outpaces my ability to eat them

Is this terrible editing or epic editing?

Marcus Welby, LLC

It's April 1970 and I'm watching the Apollo 13 splash down on the black-and-white TV in my elementary school cafeteria. Its April 2026 and I'm watching a crystal clear LIVE video feed on a handheld device of a spacecraft descending through the atmosphere, its chutes deploying before my eyes.

Sometimes I look in here to see if either the asteroids or the missles are on their way, but no, it's just Game of Trumps, special Melania episode

I think that I need to live in a more entertaining place.

The zeitgeist: It's worse than that. You see, the homework ate my my dog.

Five Timers sketch on SNL I recognized only Tina Fey & Candice Bergen and wondered if Steve Martin is still alive this show is a fuckin bowstring across my life

His context window is getting full, compaction is leaving only the silly stuff, and he's a hallucinating on a massive scale.

Who else was thinking about Walter Cronkite, Wally Schirra, Jules Bergmam, and John Chancellor?

Did you know - I compile my own Haggadah? Here it is: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bgc7j...

Today's episode: Cricket's Revenge I hate this show, but it's on every channel

Look, I just don't care for either Tracy or Hepburn

Britain: "Look, you do you, but I have told you about that Suez escape. Cost me my entire self respect." US: "Nah, bro, you just don't have the savoir-faire Americaine"

Reminder that the only people who will ever betray you, are people you trust

if you yourself didn't raise from hatchlings the geese you use to fashion your quills, can you really call yourself a writer?