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Jeff Van Computers

@vandreasonable.bsky.social

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Co-creator of Greater Boston: an audio fiction podcast about people trying to do their best in an increasingly challenging world. Writer, sound designer, educator, parent.

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · Jul 11

It's a Perfect Sentence summer!

What's your favorite written or spoken sentence in all of literature, poetry, philsophy, film? Here's a few of mine in the form of an audio fiction concept album about grief, memory, regret, misinformation, and love:

open.spotify.com/album/59C8k5...

The Perfect Sentence

Jeff Van Dreason · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 8h

The reason people think AI can do the job of writers is because they have no concept of what writing is. They think writing is content and anyone can make it. They have no respect for it as a craft. They hate that it's difficult and want it to be easy, but being easy doesn't mean it's any good.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 9h

listen chill the fuck out Tim

A screen shot of an email that says “you have 646 notifications about Tim and others.”

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 13h

lol imagine thinking DSA could be threat to anyone other than themselves (speaking as a member, mind you)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 1d

What's the future of audio fiction? FILES! BANDCAMP! BONUSES!

Grab a cuppa with Ms. Shipton, won't you?

Local Files Club @localfiles.club · 1d

The first Local Files Club release is now available to pre-order on Bandcamp!

Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop is a five-part audiodrama from Skadi’s Symphony, the creators of Kane and Feels, starring Greta Clarkson as the eponymous witch.

localfilesclub.bandcamp.com/album/ms-shi...

Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop, by Skadi's Symphony

21 track album

localfilesclub.bandcamp.com

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 2d

egg man clapping back

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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 2d

DEVELOPING: People were seen being detained at a pro-Palestinian rally that started on Boston Common and later moved through city streets Tuesday evening. on.nbcboston.com/rf08Qxz

People seen being detained at pro-Palestinian rally in Boston

A pro-Palestinian rally that started on Boston Common was moving through city streets Tuesday evening.

on.nbcboston.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 3d

1.37 million people protesting in Belgrade for Gaza

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 4d

can the world stop trying to sell me mushroom coffee please

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 4d

puuma man

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Tal | TAFCON @starplanes.bsky.social · 5d

Wouldn't it be cool if someone adapted Frankenstein with an entire cast of trans actors?

Oh hey, we're doing that! But we need your help to fund it!

igg.me/at/refrank

Re: Frankenstein

An audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, from the team behind Re: Dracula! | Check out 'Re: Frankenstein' on Indiegogo.

igg.me

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 6d

whenever I see a bald boy? i think i'm back in the pants

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 6d

all that passing looked like peak celtics basketball

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 8d

Avatar: Fire and Ash - or as it should have been called - LAVATAR

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 8d

well that seems like a totally normal and extremely non-suspicous way to die

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 8d

Awe, but Moe, the dank. The DANK!

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 8d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 8d

They make an astonishing number of poor choices!

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 8d

What hotel?

Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 9d

cheese ball to the face - POW

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 10d

OMG SCIENTISTS CURED BRAIN CANCER (IN MICE) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Post-resection delivery of a TLR7/8 agonist from a biodegradable scaffold achieves immune-mediated glioblastoma clearance and protection against tumor challenge in mice

Nature Communications - Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive tumor characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment. Here, the authors present a therapeutic approach based on the implantation...

www.nature.com

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 10d

this is the most miserable woman alive. she’s alienated herself from everyone who ever loved, respected, or trusted her and sees any attempt at conciliation as an underhanded attack. she is in a mind jail of her own creation that will just grow more and more isolated as she marches to the grave

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 10d

It does indeed rip, as does every second of this standout show. Rip it up with the hybrids, won't you?

Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 10d

GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 Episode 8, "You Have Ten Months" (written by me), is live now wherever you get your podcasts. Our hybrid heroes face their deadliest challenge yet: working a regular job. I'm being glib, but that is part of it. The point is it rips, and you should listen to it.

Quote from Season 3 Episode 8 of Give Me Away:
"Where was this taken?"
"We don't know, which is kind of a problem, 'cause... doesn't that look like a box full of guns?"

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 19d

The next two minutes of video show me offering to walk off with him since he's not being detained. He declines, because he "doesn't want to be rude". Less than two minutes later, they place him in cuffs with no explanation and stuff him into a car with NY plates.

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 11d

Which cut do you think they're streaming? Maybe it'll be the one from the end of The Perfect Sentence.

You know, the one that ends with an information apocalypse? Yeah. That one.

[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · 11d

Link:

The World’s Greatest Sinner

The World’s Greatest Sinner on Criterion Channel

www.criterionchannel.com

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Jeff Van Computers @vandreasonable.bsky.social · 11d

Can't wait!