Michael G
@michaelgulden.bsky.social
I didn't know I (Type 1 Diabetic + elder millennial) needed an angry big sister, but boy did I find a great stand-in for one in @maris.bsky.social.
'I Want to Burn This Place Down' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I didn't know I (Type 1 Diabetic + elder millennial) needed an angry big sister, but boy did I find a great stand-in for one in @maris.bsky.social.
Gol dang Budgie is so charismatic.
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie - Los Angeles (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Gol dang Budgie is so charismatic.
The @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is so rad
Hare and hedgehog costumes, from the 1862 fairytale-themed ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maskenfest/
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is so rad
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This person is a charlatan. Why is there so much uncritical coverage of this obvious nonsense? Where is the actual journalism?
A.I. is changing classrooms. We spoke to the co-founder of Alpha Schools about how her private K-12 schools are using A.I. to generate personalized lesson plans and enabling teachers to spend their time motivating rather than teaching students. nyti.ms/3JHIZub
September 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This person is a charlatan. Why is there so much uncritical coverage of this obvious nonsense? Where is the actual journalism?
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New Substack about late night standup sets and the jokes I love from them. With late night in mortal peril, I want to celebrate the really outstanding tight fives it’s given us.
My first comic is @joshgondelman.Bsky.social and his 2018 Seth Meyers set.
open.substack.com/pub/thatsthe...
My first comic is @joshgondelman.Bsky.social and his 2018 Seth Meyers set.
open.substack.com/pub/thatsthe...
An Introduction
RIP late night comedy. Long live late night comedy.
open.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
New Substack about late night standup sets and the jokes I love from them. With late night in mortal peril, I want to celebrate the really outstanding tight fives it’s given us.
My first comic is @joshgondelman.Bsky.social and his 2018 Seth Meyers set.
open.substack.com/pub/thatsthe...
My first comic is @joshgondelman.Bsky.social and his 2018 Seth Meyers set.
open.substack.com/pub/thatsthe...
Look how they frame the "ethics" of AI copyright infringement. Throwaway mention of infringement of copyrighted material. NO concern for the university's academics, writers and artists whose work was stolen to build these tools designed to replace them.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Look how they frame the "ethics" of AI copyright infringement. Throwaway mention of infringement of copyrighted material. NO concern for the university's academics, writers and artists whose work was stolen to build these tools designed to replace them.
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner - I'm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today's microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow's microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. Recently I was watching a livestream of a local microwave salesman.
www.colincornaby.me
August 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
I forgot how great this soundtrack is! It doesn't even have "Grow Old with You"
August 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I forgot how great this soundtrack is! It doesn't even have "Grow Old with You"
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#PeoplePower works! The backlash has forced WeTransfer to remove the rights grabby clause 6.3. Here is the awful clause that was in the TOS last night, and what it is now. The AI and derivatives chunk of text is gone.
Well done everyone!
Well done everyone!
July 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#PeoplePower works! The backlash has forced WeTransfer to remove the rights grabby clause 6.3. Here is the awful clause that was in the TOS last night, and what it is now. The AI and derivatives chunk of text is gone.
Well done everyone!
Well done everyone!
Here's a super-useful "starter pack" for these ideas (namely, that LLMs are an information-processing technology that can't think any more than a market or bureaucracy can, and we should listen to the people who already study these huge systems)
July 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here's a super-useful "starter pack" for these ideas (namely, that LLMs are an information-processing technology that can't think any more than a market or bureaucracy can, and we should listen to the people who already study these huge systems)
OWL chose a great example of a review for their citation guide. I assume this is a huge honor for @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
OWL chose a great example of a review for their citation guide. I assume this is a huge honor for @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Holy cow this thread is good
Oh, this is a good topic!
There is an element of 'consent' to pitched battles, but it's not the old myth of generals agreeing to have a battle before tea time.
And to the question - a better Roman general would presumably have refused battle at a place like Cannae.
But let's talk about it. 1/
There is an element of 'consent' to pitched battles, but it's not the old myth of generals agreeing to have a battle before tea time.
And to the question - a better Roman general would presumably have refused battle at a place like Cannae.
But let's talk about it. 1/
I don't think I really understand "pitched battle." It was once common that opposing armies agreed upon, or knowingly converged upon, a specified battleground?
Polybius says the Romans engaged at Cannae because of inexperience. Would experienced leaders ever agree to the same battle conditions?
Polybius says the Romans engaged at Cannae because of inexperience. Would experienced leaders ever agree to the same battle conditions?
July 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Holy cow this thread is good
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Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s
June 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
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It is beyond frustrating to try to debate these chowderheads about human rights -here's a very satisfying skewering to read.
Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
February 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It is beyond frustrating to try to debate these chowderheads about human rights -here's a very satisfying skewering to read.
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Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
I just got the digital+print (for students/educators) priced for $6. Print edition is going to my in-laws for some solidarity
Digital subscriptions are currently $5/year. Come on.
None of the big papers, for all their resources, has been covering the (incredibly stupid and vile) chaos that Musk and his strike-force of libertarian Beavises nearly as well as Wired. It's an extremely cheap subscription (and a very good print product as well) and I recommend it.
February 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I just got the digital+print (for students/educators) priced for $6. Print edition is going to my in-laws for some solidarity
I LOVE Interlibrary Loan. Very excited to browse this one from @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social and Wendy MacNaughton
January 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I LOVE Interlibrary Loan. Very excited to browse this one from @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social and Wendy MacNaughton
It may not be the right media moment for a new anthology TV series, but this would be perfect for that medium #dnd
Dungeons & Dragons Comments On Possibility of Future Movie Projects
Wizards of the Coast is "exploring" the possibility of new Dungeons & Dragons movie and TV projects. In the build up to the release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Hasbro seemed to have an...
www.enworld.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It may not be the right media moment for a new anthology TV series, but this would be perfect for that medium #dnd
@dantelfer.com is great and deserves more than he'll get. And he's the DM on my favorite D&D podcast Nerd Poker!
Thank you to anyone who can spare some change, preferably once you have already helped someone who has lost everything.
I have gigs lined up, I am just trying to make it to Groundhog Day when paydays start happening.
gofund.me/7e7bb984
I have gigs lined up, I am just trying to make it to Groundhog Day when paydays start happening.
gofund.me/7e7bb984
Donate to Help Recover from LA Wildfires: Support Needed, organized by Dan Telfer
Due to the Los Angeles wildfires, I lost work, paid for evacuation costs, an… Dan Telfer needs your support for Help Recover from LA Wildfires: Support Needed
gofund.me
January 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
@dantelfer.com is great and deserves more than he'll get. And he's the DM on my favorite D&D podcast Nerd Poker!