Gnarlygeek (aka Tom)
@gnarlygeek.bsky.social
DEI is a moral imperative. US, IT/Eng, Science, Atheist, Grandpa, Married, LGBTQ+ and Neuro advocate. If you don't like what I post, tell me, I'm here to share and to learn. #earworm #musicski #writingcommunity #writers #bookski #fantasy #scifi
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I may not you follow back. It's not personal. I have a day job. I'm here for what interests me, and my time is limited. I never follow if there's no profile, or no posts, or only sex pics, or if it's clear the intent is to sell porn or ask for charity - I do give to my preferred charities.
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I’m sorry, what?
‘the company warns that users should "only enable this feature if you understand the security implications, "and has confirmed that because of the potential dangers, it'll be off by default.’
‘the company warns that users should "only enable this feature if you understand the security implications, "and has confirmed that because of the potential dangers, it'll be off by default.’
I do this ish for a living, I am an AI developer and researcher, and *I* don’t fully understand the security implications. What hope do regular users have?
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I’m sorry, what?
‘the company warns that users should "only enable this feature if you understand the security implications, "and has confirmed that because of the potential dangers, it'll be off by default.’
‘the company warns that users should "only enable this feature if you understand the security implications, "and has confirmed that because of the potential dangers, it'll be off by default.’
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I feel seen.
Emotionally Distant Husband Would Rather Watch ‘Stargate SG-1’ Than Have Honest Conversation About ‘Stargate SG-1’
BOSTON—Describing the behavior as an avoidance strategy used to ignore difficult subjects, local woman Sophia McKabe told reporters Thursday that her emotionally distant husband Doug seemed to prefer ...
theonion.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I feel seen.
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Polygamy: Not even once!
Because technically that would be monogamy
Polygamy: Not even twice!
Because technically that would be monogamy
Polygamy: Not even twice!
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
Pope Leo and the Vatican reject polygamy in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
www.sltrib.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Polygamy: Not even once!
Because technically that would be monogamy
Polygamy: Not even twice!
Because technically that would be monogamy
Polygamy: Not even twice!
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I want this moment for us
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I want this moment for us
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So, she disobeyed a direct legal order. Gosh--do ya think the president will call for appropriate punishment?
Kristi Noem made call to hand over deported men to El Salvador, DOJ says
The disclosure adds a wrinkle to the murky timeline surrounding the unprecedented deportation effort.
www.politico.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So, she disobeyed a direct legal order. Gosh--do ya think the president will call for appropriate punishment?
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Scalzi™️ runs on dry cereal and Coke Zero. This is even more energy efficient than his previous solar powered functions, which didn’t pan out because he doesn’t go outside.
Well, yes, that's the problem. It wouldn't be helping, it would just be making more work for me because I would have to clean up its prose. I want to write my own stuff, not edit what an LLM puts out. Plus I am more energy efficient.
I anticipate that if you asked an AI to help you write anything, the quality would be LESS than if you just did it yourself.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Scalzi™️ runs on dry cereal and Coke Zero. This is even more energy efficient than his previous solar powered functions, which didn’t pan out because he doesn’t go outside.
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The news report about the book in my local paper made it to the front page of the printed edition!
www.leavenworthecho.com/stories/nove...
#Reading #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writer 📚💙⚡️
Find out more here: www.rkbentonwrites.com
www.leavenworthecho.com/stories/nove...
#Reading #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writer 📚💙⚡️
Find out more here: www.rkbentonwrites.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The news report about the book in my local paper made it to the front page of the printed edition!
www.leavenworthecho.com/stories/nove...
#Reading #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writer 📚💙⚡️
Find out more here: www.rkbentonwrites.com
www.leavenworthecho.com/stories/nove...
#Reading #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writer 📚💙⚡️
Find out more here: www.rkbentonwrites.com
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Writers love socialized books (libraries)
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Writers love socialized books (libraries)
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To anyone in this administration with even a scintilla of conscience left (and access): Go the full Daniel Ellsberg, steal the files, and release them before they look like copies of Ad Reinhardt paintings.
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact the Jeffrey Epstein Files Revealed - NewsBreak
Newly released internal emails show the FBI mounting a costly overtime-fueled sprint to analyze the Epstein files as political pressure grew to release the
www.newsbreak.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
To anyone in this administration with even a scintilla of conscience left (and access): Go the full Daniel Ellsberg, steal the files, and release them before they look like copies of Ad Reinhardt paintings.
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"Look, it was made very clear to me that this was a knife fight; I thought I was going to be the ONLY person bringing a gun, and I'm pretty sure it's cheating if other people did that." --the GOP, apparently.
The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Look, it was made very clear to me that this was a knife fight; I thought I was going to be the ONLY person bringing a gun, and I'm pretty sure it's cheating if other people did that." --the GOP, apparently.
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My BBS handle back in the day was "EdwinBooth," named for a famous ancestor who was the greatest actor of his generation and who did NOT assassinate a beloved president, unlike his no-good brother of whom we do not speak.
Did 1986 Scalzi have a cool BBS handle?
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My BBS handle back in the day was "EdwinBooth," named for a famous ancestor who was the greatest actor of his generation and who did NOT assassinate a beloved president, unlike his no-good brother of whom we do not speak.
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When Trump is asked about the leaked Witkoff call with Russia, he doesn’t realize Witkoff was giving Russia advice on how to play Trump. People working for TRUMP are helping the OTHER PARTIES get one over on Trump.
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
When Trump is asked about the leaked Witkoff call with Russia, he doesn’t realize Witkoff was giving Russia advice on how to play Trump. People working for TRUMP are helping the OTHER PARTIES get one over on Trump.
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FUN FACT: Steve Shenbaum, who is in the picture above with me (along with our friend Debbie) actually made a go of acting for a while, and showed up in some shows and commercials. Here is in the last two seconds of an AMEX ad, with Superman and Jerry Seinfeld.
youtu.be/dUupQEY5vmI
youtu.be/dUupQEY5vmI
Superman & Jerry Seinfeld American Express Commercial (1998)
YouTube video by Rare Action Figures
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November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
FUN FACT: Steve Shenbaum, who is in the picture above with me (along with our friend Debbie) actually made a go of acting for a while, and showed up in some shows and commercials. Here is in the last two seconds of an AMEX ad, with Superman and Jerry Seinfeld.
youtu.be/dUupQEY5vmI
youtu.be/dUupQEY5vmI
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Let no grift go ungrifted.
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Let no grift go ungrifted.
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Is anyone surprised?
Trump Family Dragged After Promise Of 'Trump Mobile' Phones 'Made In The USA' Goes Up In Flames
www.comicsands.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Is anyone surprised?
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Let no grift go ungrifted.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Let no grift go ungrifted.
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Dang are there (for me) some serious omissions on this list -- Clue? Friday? Galaxy Quest?? The Bill & Teds??
Hell -- Knives Out/Glass Onion, 40-Year-Old-Virgin, UHF, plus some newer movies like Friendship, Babes, Bottoms, Booksmart, the newest Fletch.
Hell -- Knives Out/Glass Onion, 40-Year-Old-Virgin, UHF, plus some newer movies like Friendship, Babes, Bottoms, Booksmart, the newest Fletch.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Dang are there (for me) some serious omissions on this list -- Clue? Friday? Galaxy Quest?? The Bill & Teds??
Hell -- Knives Out/Glass Onion, 40-Year-Old-Virgin, UHF, plus some newer movies like Friendship, Babes, Bottoms, Booksmart, the newest Fletch.
Hell -- Knives Out/Glass Onion, 40-Year-Old-Virgin, UHF, plus some newer movies like Friendship, Babes, Bottoms, Booksmart, the newest Fletch.
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Also congrats to @aptshadow.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social and @nnedi.bsky.social, among the others, whose work also made the finalist list in this category! It is lovely to be in your peer group.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Also congrats to @aptshadow.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social and @nnedi.bsky.social, among the others, whose work also made the finalist list in this category! It is lovely to be in your peer group.
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye is in the final round for the Goodreads Choice Award, in the category of science fiction! If EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU would go vote for it, I would appreciate that, although if there's another finalist you prefer, okay, vote for that one:
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
Final Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Science Fiction of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Science Fiction in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When the Moon Hits Your Eye is in the final round for the Goodreads Choice Award, in the category of science fiction! If EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU would go vote for it, I would appreciate that, although if there's another finalist you prefer, okay, vote for that one:
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
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The good news: Bath & Body Works "black tea" scented lotion really does smell like black tea!
The bad news: Now that I'm wearing it, I'm worried I smell like an old lady 😅
The bad news: Now that I'm wearing it, I'm worried I smell like an old lady 😅
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The good news: Bath & Body Works "black tea" scented lotion really does smell like black tea!
The bad news: Now that I'm wearing it, I'm worried I smell like an old lady 😅
The bad news: Now that I'm wearing it, I'm worried I smell like an old lady 😅
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(Inspiration credit: @jon-snow-420.bsky.social)
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
(Inspiration credit: @jon-snow-420.bsky.social)
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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NOW it's accurate
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
NOW it's accurate
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Let me see how many of you want to send a signal to Trump, that says, "Hey...Donald, Stick it up your ASS!" for his threats to Mark Kelly...and others?
Give me a "Yep. #HOLDFAST"
Give me a "Yep. #HOLDFAST"
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Let me see how many of you want to send a signal to Trump, that says, "Hey...Donald, Stick it up your ASS!" for his threats to Mark Kelly...and others?
Give me a "Yep. #HOLDFAST"
Give me a "Yep. #HOLDFAST"
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White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/