Tim Carmody
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
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Tim Carmody
@tcarmody.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Inside each of us is a little boy, a shy, lovesick girl with a curse, a demon made of fire, and a shape-shifting wizard with no heart.
#OldTweets
#OldTweets
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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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"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
I would have bet that “twerp” was a loanword (not necessarily Yiddish but in that direction) but apparently not www.thesaurus.altervista.org/dict/en/twerp
Definition of word twerp
Definition of word twerp
www.thesaurus.altervista.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I would have bet that “twerp” was a loanword (not necessarily Yiddish but in that direction) but apparently not www.thesaurus.altervista.org/dict/en/twerp
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
LIFE has the biggest “Black people love it”:”White people haven’t seen it” ratio of any movie I know this side of SPARKLE
LIFE has the biggest “Black people love it”:”White people haven’t seen it” ratio of any movie I know this side of SPARKLE
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
LIFE has the biggest “Black people love it”:”White people haven’t seen it” ratio of any movie I know this side of SPARKLE
LIFE has the biggest “Black people love it”:”White people haven’t seen it” ratio of any movie I know this side of SPARKLE
Many years ago, my uncle asked my teenaged brother to “toss” him a roll, so Sean threw it across the room and it hit my aunt (said uncle’s wife) smack in the side of her face
The shared opinion was that if she’d been born into our family she’d have had better reflexes and caught it
The shared opinion was that if she’d been born into our family she’d have had better reflexes and caught it
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Many years ago, my uncle asked my teenaged brother to “toss” him a roll, so Sean threw it across the room and it hit my aunt (said uncle’s wife) smack in the side of her face
The shared opinion was that if she’d been born into our family she’d have had better reflexes and caught it
The shared opinion was that if she’d been born into our family she’d have had better reflexes and caught it
Photography
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Photography
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if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
I am quite moved (if not yet totally convinced) by the notion that our mechanistic philosophy of nature has collapsed and we have to return to a gods-and-monsters cosmology
An argument that we are now in the "Chthulucene" ...
... or the period where, after having dug up and burned so much carbon ...
... "Gaia is responding to our having released such titanic forces from their confinement"
item #10 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
... or the period where, after having dug up and burned so much carbon ...
... "Gaia is responding to our having released such titanic forces from their confinement"
item #10 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I am quite moved (if not yet totally convinced) by the notion that our mechanistic philosophy of nature has collapsed and we have to return to a gods-and-monsters cosmology
One reason why WSJ and other press are becoming more skeptical about future AI growth is that it's shifted from a potential startup bubble (who knows! That's a VC problem!) to bond financing and big partnerships between public companies, whose risks they understand much better
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One reason why WSJ and other press are becoming more skeptical about future AI growth is that it's shifted from a potential startup bubble (who knows! That's a VC problem!) to bond financing and big partnerships between public companies, whose risks they understand much better
Deserve’s got nuthin’ to do with it, Charlie Brown
I have no mouth and I must scream, Charlie Brown
Someday a real rain will come, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Deserve’s got nuthin’ to do with it, Charlie Brown
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"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Jerry invented Weird Dad Bluesky and every once in a while he returns to his roots
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Jerry invented Weird Dad Bluesky and every once in a while he returns to his roots
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A toddler when in a moment of exhaustion and weakness you let them have or do something you normally wouldn’t:
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A toddler when in a moment of exhaustion and weakness you let them have or do something you normally wouldn’t:
INTERCEPTION YES
SHUT THEM OUT
SHUT THEM OUT
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
INTERCEPTION YES
SHUT THEM OUT
SHUT THEM OUT
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this is going to happen because of how prestige systems work, it already happened in the OxBridge system _ages_ ago
resulting in that incredibly weird and disconnected emphasis on latin and greek in the upper classes of the UK
resulting in that incredibly weird and disconnected emphasis on latin and greek in the upper classes of the UK
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
this is going to happen because of how prestige systems work, it already happened in the OxBridge system _ages_ ago
resulting in that incredibly weird and disconnected emphasis on latin and greek in the upper classes of the UK
resulting in that incredibly weird and disconnected emphasis on latin and greek in the upper classes of the UK
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Strangely, despite being set in its suburbs, SFW was not released in any theaters in metro Detroit
Strangely, despite being set in its suburbs, SFW was not released in any theaters in metro Detroit
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Strangely, despite being set in its suburbs, SFW was not released in any theaters in metro Detroit
Strangely, despite being set in its suburbs, SFW was not released in any theaters in metro Detroit
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We have lost a great man. My parents wouldn’t get me Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots (“You’ll knock his BLOCK off”) but they did get me Mousetrap. Years later my kids heard my story of unrequited yearning and got me “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We have lost a great man. My parents wouldn’t get me Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots (“You’ll knock his BLOCK off”) but they did get me Mousetrap. Years later my kids heard my story of unrequited yearning and got me “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
As a man in the market for a new wallet, it’s disappointing to discover that high-end leather goods rarely get Black Friday discounts
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
As a man in the market for a new wallet, it’s disappointing to discover that high-end leather goods rarely get Black Friday discounts
This might be unpopular but it needs to be said: You can just like going to the gym. It doesn’t also have to be framed as an essential part of the resistance to fascism. You look good, you feel good, you do stuff you couldn’t do before; all that is justification enough.
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This might be unpopular but it needs to be said: You can just like going to the gym. It doesn’t also have to be framed as an essential part of the resistance to fascism. You look good, you feel good, you do stuff you couldn’t do before; all that is justification enough.
These machines aren’t perfect, but one of the best things about them is that you can listen to Smog’s brilliant 2003 album Supper any time you want youtu.be/QtYlSkPmur8
Truth Serum
YouTube video by Smog - Topic
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
These machines aren’t perfect, but one of the best things about them is that you can listen to Smog’s brilliant 2003 album Supper any time you want youtu.be/QtYlSkPmur8
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No. Kevin McAlister is a newly emancipated humanity reckoning with the death of God. The Wet Bandits are the ancestral fears he must overcome in order to create his own value system.
Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
No. Kevin McAlister is a newly emancipated humanity reckoning with the death of God. The Wet Bandits are the ancestral fears he must overcome in order to create his own value system.
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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Tired: Be gay and do crimes
Inspired: Be gay and move to Philly
Profile of @corinnelow.com by @zoegberg.bsky.social 🎁🔗
Inspired: Be gay and move to Philly
Profile of @corinnelow.com by @zoegberg.bsky.social 🎁🔗
Her path to ‘having it all?’ Be gay and move to Philly, a Wharton economist says.
In her new book "Having It All," Corinne Low uses data to explain the pressures on women and how to resolve some of them.
share.inquirer.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Tired: Be gay and do crimes
Inspired: Be gay and move to Philly
Profile of @corinnelow.com by @zoegberg.bsky.social 🎁🔗
Inspired: Be gay and move to Philly
Profile of @corinnelow.com by @zoegberg.bsky.social 🎁🔗
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Im a sucker for the copy on the RL website
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Im a sucker for the copy on the RL website