greg gibson
@hellogreg.bsky.social
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Even though it never had any noticeable effect, I feel like we as a society lost something important when we stopped needing to defrag our hard drives.
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Even though it never had any noticeable effect, I feel like we as a society lost something important when we stopped needing to defrag our hard drives.
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Democratic pols always say things like, “We can’t be distracted by [some non-economy issue]. My constituents are worried about feeding their families.” They can’t even comprehend that many of us also care about people we’ll never know. And that’s why we hate—and want them to fight—Republicans.
things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Democratic pols always say things like, “We can’t be distracted by [some non-economy issue]. My constituents are worried about feeding their families.” They can’t even comprehend that many of us also care about people we’ll never know. And that’s why we hate—and want them to fight—Republicans.
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every song in Moana was a fucking bop, credit where it's due. the problem with LMM is that he is very talented but his entire being is suffused with cringe, and he must be carefully monitored and controlled to avoid the cringe taking over again
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every song in Moana was a fucking bop, credit where it's due. the problem with LMM is that he is very talented but his entire being is suffused with cringe, and he must be carefully monitored and controlled to avoid the cringe taking over again
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Another excellent point from the article
![Text reads: “My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want it to have the arrogance of Victor [Frankenstein] be similar in some ways to the tech bros. He's kind of blind, creating something without considering the consequences and I think we have to take a pause and consider where we're going. ...”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ockrei52p4jp26e7gl7yih4h/bafkreicgi4nhpmej32pqew3epsvqku6mide7uwnodznre3hy7ziyuprume@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Another excellent point from the article
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script
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Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
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Estimated about 10,000 people at the Naperville #NoKings rally. Both pastors who spoke said we can’t go back to the way things were. We need to build a better country for everyone. Tons of cute dogs. A bunch of us helped someone push their stalled car out of an intersection. It was great.
October 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Estimated about 10,000 people at the Naperville #NoKings rally. Both pastors who spoke said we can’t go back to the way things were. We need to build a better country for everyone. Tons of cute dogs. A bunch of us helped someone push their stalled car out of an intersection. It was great.
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I’m going and you should be too. No excuses.
No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I’m going and you should be too. No excuses.
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If there's one thing Covid should have demonstrated to everyone, it's that there are lots of people who would rather put their own communities & families at risk, would literally rather *die*, than submit to the call for solidarity. It's that repellant to them.
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If there's one thing Covid should have demonstrated to everyone, it's that there are lots of people who would rather put their own communities & families at risk, would literally rather *die*, than submit to the call for solidarity. It's that repellant to them.
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West burbs are getting radicalized, you wouldn’t believe the level of interest and support in further left than dem orgs we are getting from all sorts of folks out here. Folks in fucking Naperville are pissed because some roofers were snatched off a job in Cress Creek subdivision.
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
West burbs are getting radicalized, you wouldn’t believe the level of interest and support in further left than dem orgs we are getting from all sorts of folks out here. Folks in fucking Naperville are pissed because some roofers were snatched off a job in Cress Creek subdivision.
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Remember: there's no audience for AI-produced content. Nobody in the AI ecosystem is there to read or listen - only to publish their own slop.
The real pitch, of course, isn't to consume the slop, but to join the exalted ranks of slop producers. The typical slop middleman makes an "AI company" - they run the gamut from Grammarly to Synthetic Users - and resells the processed slop with the same pitch: you too can now make slop.
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Remember: there's no audience for AI-produced content. Nobody in the AI ecosystem is there to read or listen - only to publish their own slop.
Me after playing Parasite Eve in 1998:
August 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Me after playing Parasite Eve in 1998:
I just finished an album I’ve been working on for the last ten months. It comprises 20 ambient tracks spanning seven hours, recorded from my electric piano to cassette. You can buy it (along with everything else I’ve ever released) for a buck. 🧡 hellogreg.bandcamp.com/album/commun...
Communicore Midwest, by Greg Finn Gibson
20 track album
hellogreg.bandcamp.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I just finished an album I’ve been working on for the last ten months. It comprises 20 ambient tracks spanning seven hours, recorded from my electric piano to cassette. You can buy it (along with everything else I’ve ever released) for a buck. 🧡 hellogreg.bandcamp.com/album/commun...
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there’s something in the air because i was just chatting about this with a coworker. there was fear & uncertainty but there was also this incredible sense of “we’re in it together”. people went outside, distilleries churned out sanitizer, friends knit masks. bet the New Deal felt like that.
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
August 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
there’s something in the air because i was just chatting about this with a coworker. there was fear & uncertainty but there was also this incredible sense of “we’re in it together”. people went outside, distilleries churned out sanitizer, friends knit masks. bet the New Deal felt like that.
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
If you play Mr. Crowley backwards, you hear Ozzy saying, “There’s this incredible new thing. It’s American and it’s called pizza.”
July 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
If you play Mr. Crowley backwards, you hear Ozzy saying, “There’s this incredible new thing. It’s American and it’s called pizza.”
The last decade really has retroactively wrecked every movie/show/book where the good guys win by publicly releasing a recording of the villain stating their monstrous plans and opinions, and said villain is ruined, jailed, and/or never heard from again.
July 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The last decade really has retroactively wrecked every movie/show/book where the good guys win by publicly releasing a recording of the villain stating their monstrous plans and opinions, and said villain is ruined, jailed, and/or never heard from again.
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I’m reading the adventure novel The Swiss Family Robinson, and my god, this family is gleefully murdering every animal in their new island paradise. One son just punched a crab to death. Disney really sanitized things for the movie. 😂
July 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’m reading the adventure novel The Swiss Family Robinson, and my god, this family is gleefully murdering every animal in their new island paradise. One son just punched a crab to death. Disney really sanitized things for the movie. 😂
If you haven’t unsubscribed from the Washington Post yet, now’s a great time. Their top “Week in Ideas” story for the week is three authors using AI to fact-check the president—instead of just actually fact-checking him. Devaluing their own expertise for clicks.
July 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you haven’t unsubscribed from the Washington Post yet, now’s a great time. Their top “Week in Ideas” story for the week is three authors using AI to fact-check the president—instead of just actually fact-checking him. Devaluing their own expertise for clicks.
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every day i'm thankful these morons glommed onto lord of the rings and not the aubrey/maturin series
Peter Thiel is founding yet another company named after something from Middle Earth.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
Peter Thiel joins tech billionaires backing new lender Erebor to rival Silicon Valley Bank
Start-up named after the dragon’s mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’
www.ft.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
every day i'm thankful these morons glommed onto lord of the rings and not the aubrey/maturin series