Vincent Szopa
@fledglinguistic.bsky.social
Writer, techie, macrodata refiner, movie guy, fun inspector. Not a linguist. 💉: Yes 🇺🇦
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This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.
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Damn.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Damn.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
As I exit a small apartment...
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
As I exit a small apartment...
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I've seen dips you people can't imagine. Aioli glittering with minced garlic. Puddles of soluble oils atop unstirred hummus. All these moments will be lost like tears in rain.
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've seen dips you people can't imagine. Aioli glittering with minced garlic. Puddles of soluble oils atop unstirred hummus. All these moments will be lost like tears in rain.
PLUR1BUS is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. It’s intriguing and deep, too, but Vince Gilligan’s gift for chuckle-worthy, knowing comedy (and there are lots of laugh out loud moments), is profound. And Rhea Seehorn is a force of nature!
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
PLUR1BUS is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. It’s intriguing and deep, too, but Vince Gilligan’s gift for chuckle-worthy, knowing comedy (and there are lots of laugh out loud moments), is profound. And Rhea Seehorn is a force of nature!
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“Fame” by Jorge Luis Borges
(trans. Alastair Reid)
(trans. Alastair Reid)
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Fame” by Jorge Luis Borges
(trans. Alastair Reid)
(trans. Alastair Reid)
I find it even easier to wait for creatives to put love, sweat and toil into work I can enjoy. I’ll even pay for it!
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I find it even easier to wait for creatives to put love, sweat and toil into work I can enjoy. I’ll even pay for it!
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What are you looking at with your head tilted
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
What are you looking at with your head tilted
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something which doesn't get enough attention: as anyone who deals with elderly people knows, *any* upgrade - software or forced hardware - is like a nuclear bomb on their existence and is enraging
yah even 'better camera' which was the selling point for higher price/newer models has plateaued. at some point my decision will be 'replace battery or replace phone' but i won't actually need a hardware improvement
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
something which doesn't get enough attention: as anyone who deals with elderly people knows, *any* upgrade - software or forced hardware - is like a nuclear bomb on their existence and is enraging
Boxing up books for moving is one long delirious test. How not to reconnect with, browse, flip, and sniff old friends and volumes yet to be explored?
youtu.be/ygiizPJg_iY
youtu.be/ygiizPJg_iY
♫♪ 396 / Tom Waits - »Temptation« (live 1987)
YouTube video by Echidna
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Boxing up books for moving is one long delirious test. How not to reconnect with, browse, flip, and sniff old friends and volumes yet to be explored?
youtu.be/ygiizPJg_iY
youtu.be/ygiizPJg_iY
Do you read Sutter Cane?
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Do you read Sutter Cane?
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
On the second watch of One Battle After Another, the payoff of the Trust Devices brought instant tears to this non-parent. Even without kids, I suppose an optimist is someone who is in love with the future itself, a state that requires both anxiety and devotion to another’s success no matter what.
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
On the second watch of One Battle After Another, the payoff of the Trust Devices brought instant tears to this non-parent. Even without kids, I suppose an optimist is someone who is in love with the future itself, a state that requires both anxiety and devotion to another’s success no matter what.
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*shakily removing glasses*
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
*shakily removing glasses*
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OpenAI generated slop being fed to Facebook and monetized, it's like grinding up cows and feeding the slop to other cows. What could possibly go wrong?
Made a slight update to this piece to highlight that these are all Sora videos, which I think is important. I had thought they were Sora videos but a few readers and @chadloder.bsky.social pointed out that the superimposed text goes above where Sora watermarks are
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Sora Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
OpenAI generated slop being fed to Facebook and monetized, it's like grinding up cows and feeding the slop to other cows. What could possibly go wrong?
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
Am I an insensitive clod because I love FLW’s overall designs but not all of his details? Now you can decide. Still a very special place.
franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/
franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/
About Taliesin West - Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Taliesin West is Frank Lloyd Wright's Wright’s beloved winter home and desert laboratory in Scottsdale, AZ.
franklloydwright.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Am I an insensitive clod because I love FLW’s overall designs but not all of his details? Now you can decide. Still a very special place.
franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/
franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/
Another time, another place
light as a feather
adrift in space
light as a feather
adrift in space
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Another time, another place
light as a feather
adrift in space
light as a feather
adrift in space
Her work puts a spell on me - especially the paintings and drawings.
www.architectmagazine.com/design/what-...
www.architectmagazine.com/design/what-...
What Zaha Hadid's Paintings Reveal about Her Legacy
An exhibition at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery highlights how the architect's early work informed her vision.
www.architectmagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Her work puts a spell on me - especially the paintings and drawings.
www.architectmagazine.com/design/what-...
www.architectmagazine.com/design/what-...
Most conspiracy theories are dreams of belonging and of salvation out of chaos.
November 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Most conspiracy theories are dreams of belonging and of salvation out of chaos.
Fall is for looking wistful in earth tones and layered clothes giving off attractive "ready to nest" energy, not scowling with smoldering rage at a society gone feral on the vapors of cruelty, immorality and fingers-in-ears denial.
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Fall is for looking wistful in earth tones and layered clothes giving off attractive "ready to nest" energy, not scowling with smoldering rage at a society gone feral on the vapors of cruelty, immorality and fingers-in-ears denial.
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.