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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Nor do they exhibit items in a particular order to create a narrative, wish they would!
That Samsung AI ad where the guy goes to a museum and his phone tells him about all the art is such a good idea. I hate when you go to museums and they never tell you what any of the stuff is
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Nor do they exhibit items in a particular order to create a narrative, wish they would!
I have thought recently about what media I would recommend to a young man these days and I am so glad I just read @zeets.bsky.social’s “The Minotaur at Calle Lanza.” There is so much in Zito’s story, struggles, and insights I think young men can learn from today.
December 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I have thought recently about what media I would recommend to a young man these days and I am so glad I just read @zeets.bsky.social’s “The Minotaur at Calle Lanza.” There is so much in Zito’s story, struggles, and insights I think young men can learn from today.
Forget which college football coach is married to a Kelsey, but just thought of @amandamull.bsky.social wondering if she is the oldest Kelsey when I learned the BYU coach is married to a Timberly.
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Forget which college football coach is married to a Kelsey, but just thought of @amandamull.bsky.social wondering if she is the oldest Kelsey when I learned the BYU coach is married to a Timberly.
😭 RIP Claude - No trip to the Academy of Sciences was complete until I saw you.
Rest in peace to a San Francisco legend, Claude the albino alligator 🐊🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
😭 RIP Claude - No trip to the Academy of Sciences was complete until I saw you.
When I was a kid my Dad took me to Notre Dame vs BC in South Bend, after church after the game we saw a group of guys skipping crushed beer cans off the ground trying to to make it through blowup uprights and I thought, “I can’t wait to go to college.”
Besides cornhole and pitching a football around, what are some other tailgate sports?
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
When I was a kid my Dad took me to Notre Dame vs BC in South Bend, after church after the game we saw a group of guys skipping crushed beer cans off the ground trying to to make it through blowup uprights and I thought, “I can’t wait to go to college.”
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Physics ain't played nobody. History has a better strength of resume imho
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Physics ain't played nobody. History has a better strength of resume imho
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This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
The monster’s mom is Surfing Dracula, that’s why they got the Netflix deal.
Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. The monster’s name is Dracula Frankenstein
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The monster’s mom is Surfing Dracula, that’s why they got the Netflix deal.
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
This is a fantastic piece, I recently learned one of the reasons Palmerston didn’t push publicly to support the Confederacy was the need to keep grain shipments from the Union, thanks to the recently passed Corn Act, all while thousands of British arms ran blockades and would kill Union troops.
In 1862, @saulelbein.bsky.social writes, suffering textile workers streamed into a Manchester meeting hall. At stake: whether Britain should join the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. Proponents of "kitchen table politics" can learn a lot from what happened next.
New, on Heat Death!
New, on Heat Death!
Lions at the Kitchen Table
Saul considers the Lancashire Cotton Famine, political mythmaking and the cynical trap of "affordability"
heat-death.ghost.io
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a fantastic piece, I recently learned one of the reasons Palmerston didn’t push publicly to support the Confederacy was the need to keep grain shipments from the Union, thanks to the recently passed Corn Act, all while thousands of British arms ran blockades and would kill Union troops.
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Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
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as I've said many times, he's one of our foremost public historians
And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...
Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA
The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.
www.historians.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
as I've said many times, he's one of our foremost public historians
Self representation?
October 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Self representation?
Wonderful! I still think about There There, and need to read Wandering Stars.
Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Tommy Orange
Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.
www.macfound.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Wonderful! I still think about There There, and need to read Wandering Stars.
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people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram
August 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram
@talkinghenry.bsky.social @bobservo.bsky.social Was watching the Simpsons stream last night and may have found a “Simpsons predicted Labubus” when Homer had to buy $10 of gas to get a blind box Happy Little Elves toy for Maggie in S22 E5.
August 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
@talkinghenry.bsky.social @bobservo.bsky.social Was watching the Simpsons stream last night and may have found a “Simpsons predicted Labubus” when Homer had to buy $10 of gas to get a blind box Happy Little Elves toy for Maggie in S22 E5.
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we could really use a major Hollywood picture about union soldiers being turbo woke pilled
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
August 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
we could really use a major Hollywood picture about union soldiers being turbo woke pilled
Nice to see he finally put this down.
August 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Nice to see he finally put this down.
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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic