Claude Code is blowing my mind—the 1st thing I’ve seen amid the AI hype that feels truly transformative One example—we’ve been doing genre classification work & I had the thought "it’d be nice to have a web application that lets users tag newspaper texts"—literal minutes later it exists & works

the bots fuckin found out about religion. call the Turing police. no not the regular Turing police

Snood snoot!

trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

we solved platonic philosophy and they’d rather license Elsa giving Goofy a blowjob

🕯 ✨ ✨ 🕯 🕯 ✨ IT ✨ 🕯 🕯 ✨ ✨ 🕯

It's hard to say how things will play out over the next few decades, whether in this bizarre industry, or the political upheavals of any of our countries, or just life in general. All you can really control is the work, and I for one would like to leave behind a big pile of it

Crowds of protesters across the U.S. mobilized against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Saturday, three days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. trib.al/RXQlxWj

if you get mad at one of my posts please understand the guy who said that is dead. I’m a whole different guy

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Hate it when I wake up in a wider gyre than the one I went to sleep in

Maybe it’ll happen tomorrow

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

There should be massive rallies against this across the country this weekend. How do we make this happen?

I am not expert here, but some papers I see on a quick (chat-assisted) search: arxiv.org/abs/2204.05836 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11380 arxiv.org/html/2408.09...

Is anyone aware of systematic approaches to quotation attribution in literary and non-literary texts that leverage LLMs? I'm doing some testing now, but would be interested in any relevant papers. I don't have JSTOR access anymore, though...

RIP 2025 2025-2025

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

I think its less unethical to use an image generation model with a specific artist as the style reference if the artist in question is dead and their work is in the public domain, especially if you can do so on a model you're running locally. Is this a hot take?

python scripts which use tarot as an entropy source. statements invented by the insane

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

I'm preaching to the choir I'm sure but this is a transformational game that everyone should play. And if you've played this and not IMMORTALITY, that's half off also.

We're about to get an unanticipated test of how robust the worlds' timekeeping infrastructure is to the failure of something that was widely expected to not fail.

Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed #art

one of the greatest books I’ve ever read, absolutely mind bogglingly unique and fascinating and absolutely fucking unhinged

they're making a wedding crashers requel where zoomers stumble upon vince vaughn and owen wilson's old notebooks of wedding crashing strategies and start selling it as a lifestyle on social media. when vince and owen show up to explain they learned it's a hollow existence they get killed with poison

Filling her compact and delicious body with chicken páprika, she glanced at me twice

How ’bout some coffee? Don’t mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

I spent much of 2025 reading every novel by the terrific, prolific @aptshadow.bsky.social and enjoyed almost every one of them! I'll be reviewing my favorites in detail on here, but was esp. excited to find signed copies of SPIDERLIGHT and LORDS OF UNCREATION at The Strand this weekend!

Bro I know it's a bummer sometimes but I think it's actually pretty fucking tight that your bonny lies over the ocean

@pftompkins.bsky.social can I ask what muppet you are going to read for in THE MUPPET SCRIPTMAS CAROL?

sorry Coen brothers but I am forcing you by presidential decree out of your semi-retirement to finally make that adaptation of THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION

<clears throat> www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FP...

Caleb Williams has to have better awareness in that situation. He should never have trusted Falkland. Things as they are, 14; things as they should be, 0.

would this be a setup for an I,Jedi movie? hell yeah it would

if you let me write a star wars movie it would be an adaptation of the rogue squadron/wraith squadron books. post-jedi, early new republic. captains wedge antilles and tycho celchu must assemble a team of pilot/commandos to take out a gathering of high-ranking officers among the imperial remnant

Excited for it just to mean Magic the Gathering again. A return to basics

a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

“Adversarial Poetry, an efficient single-turn general-purpose attack where the poetic structure functions as a high-leverage stylistic adversary.” This is almost too good. arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Are there any catalogers/libraries with documentation for cataloging tarot decks using MARC? I’m writing documentation for our collection and want to make sure that I’m following best practices. I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.

Paul F Tompkins has officially hit 3000 hours of podcasting docs.google.com/spreadsheets... @pftompkins.bsky.social

*setting out for revenge* yeah it's fine I got two funeral urns in my backpack

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.