Richard Garfinkle
@rgarfinklesff.bsky.social
Writer and Computer Programmer. I write science fiction, fantasy, and popularizations / textbooks for science, math, and computer programming.
No AI.
He/Him They/Them
No AI.
He/Him They/Them
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You can’t fake honesty. You can’t automate honesty.
You have something the fascist slop machines will never have. You have humanity. You have a point of view. You have a heart.
You have something the fascist slop machines will never have. You have humanity. You have a point of view. You have a heart.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You can’t fake honesty. You can’t automate honesty.
You have something the fascist slop machines will never have. You have humanity. You have a point of view. You have a heart.
You have something the fascist slop machines will never have. You have humanity. You have a point of view. You have a heart.
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The main issue with the box o art is the supplies in it aren't even crayola level functional.
An experienced artist will know this, appreciate that your heart was in the right place, and then never use it.
A beginning artist will not know this and blame themselves when their art is bad.
An experienced artist will know this, appreciate that your heart was in the right place, and then never use it.
A beginning artist will not know this and blame themselves when their art is bad.
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The main issue with the box o art is the supplies in it aren't even crayola level functional.
An experienced artist will know this, appreciate that your heart was in the right place, and then never use it.
A beginning artist will not know this and blame themselves when their art is bad.
An experienced artist will know this, appreciate that your heart was in the right place, and then never use it.
A beginning artist will not know this and blame themselves when their art is bad.
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I'm a programmer and an author. They are both arts I practice, learn by doing and know that what I make is my work and comes from my mind in ways that I hope will be interesting and useful to other people.
Why would I wish to stop doing what makes my mind spark and create?
Why would I wish to stop doing what makes my mind spark and create?
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm a programmer and an author. They are both arts I practice, learn by doing and know that what I make is my work and comes from my mind in ways that I hope will be interesting and useful to other people.
Why would I wish to stop doing what makes my mind spark and create?
Why would I wish to stop doing what makes my mind spark and create?
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On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: Red's unique style gets put on blast by her coworker and her own sister. No fashionista is safe.
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: Red's unique style gets put on blast by her coworker and her own sister. No fashionista is safe.
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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The AI evangelists don't mention how much randomization is going on in their software.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The AI evangelists don't mention how much randomization is going on in their software.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
The AI evangelists don't mention how much randomization is going on in their software.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The AI evangelists don't mention how much randomization is going on in their software.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
"Randomly Generated stories, art, reports, scientific conclusions, legal briefs, and legislation" doesn't inspire confidence the way,
"AI Generated..." does.
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Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by our table this #PAXUnplugged ! It was a pleasure to meet friends old and new in Philly, hopefully we’ll catch each other out on the Astral Sea! Or at least, at the next PAXU
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by our table this #PAXUnplugged ! It was a pleasure to meet friends old and new in Philly, hopefully we’ll catch each other out on the Astral Sea! Or at least, at the next PAXU
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And checking again on my ipad, it has only Celestial Matters and All of an Instant before segueing into things like a book about Art Garfunkel. /3
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And checking again on my ipad, it has only Celestial Matters and All of an Instant before segueing into things like a book about Art Garfunkel. /3
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But my laptop has my Amazon publishing access, so there's more relevant information on my laptop, but it still kept using the wrong search to happen to produce the correct results, which is a telltale sign of an LLM rather than a regular search engine./2
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
But my laptop has my Amazon publishing access, so there's more relevant information on my laptop, but it still kept using the wrong search to happen to produce the correct results, which is a telltale sign of an LLM rather than a regular search engine./2
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It seems to have been Amazon. It insisted on searching for garfinkel, not garfinkle. On my ipad it didn't find most of my books. When I switched to my laptop, it still insisted on - el searches but then found all my books.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It seems to have been Amazon. It insisted on searching for garfinkel, not garfinkle. On my ipad it didn't find most of my books. When I switched to my laptop, it still insisted on - el searches but then found all my books.
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Amazon's current search function insists on autocorrecting my name and substituting different searches for other authors.
I can no longer search for my own books.
I can no longer search for my own books.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Amazon's current search function insists on autocorrecting my name and substituting different searches for other authors.
I can no longer search for my own books.
I can no longer search for my own books.
Amazon's current search function insists on autocorrecting my name and substituting different searches for other authors.
I can no longer search for my own books.
I can no longer search for my own books.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Amazon's current search function insists on autocorrecting my name and substituting different searches for other authors.
I can no longer search for my own books.
I can no longer search for my own books.
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#PAXUnplugged day 2! We’re low on prints but high on spirits! Stop on by!
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#PAXUnplugged day 2! We’re low on prints but high on spirits! Stop on by!
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Now with ALT text! The crew of the D&D podcast Rolling With Difficulty has a table at #PAXUnplugged this weekend, along with this fetching muppet of the party bard Oobtaglor Oobtaglorbur, a plasmoid ooze.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Now with ALT text! The crew of the D&D podcast Rolling With Difficulty has a table at #PAXUnplugged this weekend, along with this fetching muppet of the party bard Oobtaglor Oobtaglorbur, a plasmoid ooze.
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Guys my Google image search history is *abominable*.
The amount of propaganda posters I swam through for this video, the search terms I had to type with my own to hands...
youtu.be/z3qD-R5Gapw?...
-B
The amount of propaganda posters I swam through for this video, the search terms I had to type with my own to hands...
youtu.be/z3qD-R5Gapw?...
-B
History Summarized: The World Between the Wars
YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions
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November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Guys my Google image search history is *abominable*.
The amount of propaganda posters I swam through for this video, the search terms I had to type with my own to hands...
youtu.be/z3qD-R5Gapw?...
-B
The amount of propaganda posters I swam through for this video, the search terms I had to type with my own to hands...
youtu.be/z3qD-R5Gapw?...
-B
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Come say hi and trade dice!
The Oob (and crew) have landed! Stop by Brandland at #PAXUnplugged to say hi and have your mysteries solved
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Come say hi and trade dice!
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we're having a lot of fun come say hi -R
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
we're having a lot of fun come say hi -R
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The Oob (and crew) have landed! Stop by Brandland at #PAXUnplugged to say hi and have your mysteries solved
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Oob (and crew) have landed! Stop by Brandland at #PAXUnplugged to say hi and have your mysteries solved
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Join Oob in the City of Tables as Rolling with Difficulty heads to Brandland at #PAXUnplugged ! In addition to a surprise cameo from one of our dauntless detectives, the cast will be hanging out at a table packed with goodies from across the Planescape. So stop by! And we'll catch you out at PAXU...
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Join Oob in the City of Tables as Rolling with Difficulty heads to Brandland at #PAXUnplugged ! In addition to a surprise cameo from one of our dauntless detectives, the cast will be hanging out at a table packed with goodies from across the Planescape. So stop by! And we'll catch you out at PAXU...
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you may know everything I'm going to do, but that won't help you because I know everything YOU'RE going to do! -R
youtu.be/H6Eyq7uazkk?...
youtu.be/H6Eyq7uazkk?...
Trope Talk: Dark Reflection
YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions
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November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
you may know everything I'm going to do, but that won't help you because I know everything YOU'RE going to do! -R
youtu.be/H6Eyq7uazkk?...
youtu.be/H6Eyq7uazkk?...
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always fascinated by idea that i am not being sincere or that my tinglers are a joke or that this is a 'bit'. on one hand i get it because my art is BY DEFINITION unusual, but i just think WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE? what would me being 'fake' even mean? imagine writing 400 books over 10 years for a 'bit'
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
always fascinated by idea that i am not being sincere or that my tinglers are a joke or that this is a 'bit'. on one hand i get it because my art is BY DEFINITION unusual, but i just think WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE? what would me being 'fake' even mean? imagine writing 400 books over 10 years for a 'bit'
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On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: the situation with these "Jack Sprat" memes is fully out of control. It's become a real Jagety Stragety scenario, a veritable Jalamity Scalamity.
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On this episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast: the situation with these "Jack Sprat" memes is fully out of control. It's become a real Jagety Stragety scenario, a veritable Jalamity Scalamity.
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
(The OSPodcast is available on all podcast platforms!)
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On the one hand Chicago is looking at paralyzing amounts of Lake Effect Snow tonight and tomorrow morning.
On the other hand, how well are those Ice and Border Patrol guys prepared for our winters?
Who is going to be paralyzed?
On the other hand, how well are those Ice and Border Patrol guys prepared for our winters?
Who is going to be paralyzed?
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
On the one hand Chicago is looking at paralyzing amounts of Lake Effect Snow tonight and tomorrow morning.
On the other hand, how well are those Ice and Border Patrol guys prepared for our winters?
Who is going to be paralyzed?
On the other hand, how well are those Ice and Border Patrol guys prepared for our winters?
Who is going to be paralyzed?