Paying tribute to Sam Kieth. www.tcj.com/sam-kieth-ja...

Read this now: Hanchung Lee, “The AI Great Leap Forward.” leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0... I’ve seen this posted and reposted, and while preserving the links on that chain feels good and honest attribution, not a one of them named the actual human author, Hanchung Lee.

SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS

Ashamed, I say that I’ve been teaching Tolstoy’s *Death of Ivan Ilyich* for years and missing one critical point: He died at 45. 45! It’s a mid-life crisis story, as well as a death story!

So just started *Call for the Dead*. Turns out, John Le Carré can write pretty good. Who knew, right?

I just can’t even with the APA sometimes. An article in a journal: no formatting for article title, italics for journal title. That same article preprint on ArXiv: italics for article title. I just can’t.

Then, it was with a country about the size and population of California. Now it’s with a country the size of Alaska and twice California’s population.

I listened to #CiboMatto’s third/final album *Hotel Valentine* when it came out, but not much since then. *Stereotype A* was always my jam, but of course *Viva! La Woman* is great. But now I’ve been really getting into *HV*. IT’S SO GOOD!! The production throughout and of course the vocals.

Welcome to the Public Domain, ARCTIC ANTICS (1930) ❄️ 🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️ Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

It’s crazy that the same guy wrote the Charlie Brown Christmas album and also Breaking Bad

CHARLIE BROWN: The deal agreed upon today contains major concessions. Lucy, for example, has agreed to give me two attempts at kicking the football tomorrow. But to me? What matters most is that I can at last continue with my important work on the pitcher's mound

as a man whose spent his entire professional life in libraries, i can confirm this. it rules.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Fun fact about the Rapture…. It wasn’t a thing until 1827, when John Nelson Darby got into a horse riding accident and suddenly he had an idea. So a bunch of people are really excited about an idea a guy had 198 years ago when he basically got into a fender bender.

My friends, I implore you. You don’t have to post about everything.

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

I think society really fell when people started to pretend posting was work instead of what lazy people did

always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books

You’ll grow things. You’ll lose things. You’ll become something you don’t recognize. Neverway trailer is out. Wishlist now on Steam

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

#Kraftwerk show in #Memphis!!! I could barely sleep last night; never seen them before!

Chrono Trigger, or as I call it, "Narrative Design: The Game" came out 30 years ago. Whew. My book on the game was originally published 12.5 years ago. It is my most popular book, by far. People mostly say they use it to help build their D&D campaigns. www.routledge.com/Reverse-Desi...

Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing? Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

I inherited these versions from my dad, and they’re lovely!

Of course I get sick after a really productive weekend. Still, ONWARD!

NEW RELEASE! Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy -in which a man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up over a century later in a socialist utopia. #satire #ebook #sciencefiction Find a CC0 copy here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edward-bellamy/looking-backward

I did a thing: standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwar...

This is outstanding and you should all play it. It’s short, and it is a primer for why being cooperative (not nice, but cooperative) defeats even the most hardened norm violating cheater movements. We got this. We just have to keep being ourselves. Now play this link.