Roger Vaillancourt
@rogerjva.bsky.social
Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026) and "Un-ruined" (2022) novels from Malarkey Books
https://asterismbooks.com/product/un-ruined
https://asterismbooks.com/product/un-ruined
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
THICKLY SETTLED RAISED CASTINGS
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
THICKLY SETTLED RAISED CASTINGS
Home sick from school in 1977, dreading triaminic, wishing robitussin, watching every PBS show no matter what it is, this music for the interstitials
Al Newman (Powerhouse) - Late Summer [UK, Jazz Funk/Fusion/Library] (1975) Peer International Library
https://redd.it/q1awmh
https://youtu.be/VCw-hy80Q8E
https://redd.it/q1awmh
https://youtu.be/VCw-hy80Q8E
Al Newman (Powerhouse) - Late Summer [UK, Jazz Funk/Fusion/Library] (1975) Peer International Library
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Home sick from school in 1977, dreading triaminic, wishing robitussin, watching every PBS show no matter what it is, this music for the interstitials
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The moment I realized in grad school that there is complete power in asking questions when you don't know what something means. Turns out, it's a baller move.
Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The moment I realized in grad school that there is complete power in asking questions when you don't know what something means. Turns out, it's a baller move.
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
Criminally underappreciated in the US
Remembering Henri-Georges Clouzot on his birthday 🎂
📷 Sam Lévin
"I do not like the happy police film. To play with death is to cheat, and that is indecent."
📷 Sam Lévin
"I do not like the happy police film. To play with death is to cheat, and that is indecent."
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Criminally underappreciated in the US
Mobject's Boiler Room set is straight fire
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Mobject's Boiler Room set is straight fire
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Wrote a little about difficult books, short books, and short and difficult books. countercraft.substack.com/p/short-litt...
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
countercraft.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wrote a little about difficult books, short books, and short and difficult books. countercraft.substack.com/p/short-litt...
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Commerce St, Greenwich Village NYC
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Commerce St, Greenwich Village NYC
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If you give money to a poor person: 100% of it moves along into The Economy, fostering jobs and growth
If you give money to a rich person: the money is gone now, it will never leave the vault, perhaps it might eventually become an empty condo in downtown Vancouver they'll never visit
If you give money to a rich person: the money is gone now, it will never leave the vault, perhaps it might eventually become an empty condo in downtown Vancouver they'll never visit
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you give money to a poor person: 100% of it moves along into The Economy, fostering jobs and growth
If you give money to a rich person: the money is gone now, it will never leave the vault, perhaps it might eventually become an empty condo in downtown Vancouver they'll never visit
If you give money to a rich person: the money is gone now, it will never leave the vault, perhaps it might eventually become an empty condo in downtown Vancouver they'll never visit
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A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
"Here at the Western World" hits real different in 2025
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"Here at the Western World" hits real different in 2025
My pivot to video is immediately closing the tab when the first ad starts
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My pivot to video is immediately closing the tab when the first ad starts
Incredible new ways of not getting the joke
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Incredible new ways of not getting the joke
Nothing "MacMillan & Wife" were getting up to could have ever sufficiently delivered on the promise made by the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie Opening theme
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Nothing "MacMillan & Wife" were getting up to could have ever sufficiently delivered on the promise made by the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie Opening theme
John Constantine burned in hell so that #TheCandler could commute to and from it
Please quote tweet this or reply and say “ #TheCandler will guide us home” so we can get some buy in from Amazon
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
John Constantine burned in hell so that #TheCandler could commute to and from it
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The only true retired Bond film is Bonjour Tristesse
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The only true retired Bond film is Bonjour Tristesse
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No Adobe, I do not want to read the "Generative AI Summary" of this script I'm reading. I will in fact never, ever, ever want to read a "Generative AI Summary" of anything ever.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
No Adobe, I do not want to read the "Generative AI Summary" of this script I'm reading. I will in fact never, ever, ever want to read a "Generative AI Summary" of anything ever.
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They really have aged a lot between seasons 1 and 5
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
They really have aged a lot between seasons 1 and 5
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Oh look, its the 400ft magazine changing bag for my Arriflex 16BL
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh look, its the 400ft magazine changing bag for my Arriflex 16BL
And on the fourth night, if you have not yet repented of your ways, you shall be visited by the silver swan
I have shown you a fake automaton today, but do you want to see what probably is my favorite actual automaton?
This is the Silver Swan, an 18th century invention by John Joseph Merlin, now in the Bowes Museum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB8o...
This is the Silver Swan, an 18th century invention by John Joseph Merlin, now in the Bowes Museum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB8o...
Bowes Museum Silver Automaton Swan
YouTube video by Sationhund
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November 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
And on the fourth night, if you have not yet repented of your ways, you shall be visited by the silver swan
A four-in-hand rasp. One of the most useful rough carpentry tools, lasts forever. Handles everything between a saw cut and sandpaper.
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A four-in-hand rasp. One of the most useful rough carpentry tools, lasts forever. Handles everything between a saw cut and sandpaper.
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Superintelligence as conspiracy theory or how Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
www.technologyreview.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Superintelligence as conspiracy theory or how Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
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The qualities being attributed to AI are tantamount to religious belief, which is an indictment of both.
November 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The qualities being attributed to AI are tantamount to religious belief, which is an indictment of both.