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I know this sounds like a goof, but I actually found it to be a surprisingly moving poem, maybe colored by remembering my father and uncle's shared reflections on their own discoveries of the horrors they'd actually been fighting against.
hello I wrote a poem. It's called Indiana Jones Learns About The Holocaust. You can read it here, no patreon membership required: www.patreon.com/posts/poem-i...
Ok, well have a good day.
Ok, well have a good day.
Poem: Indiana Jones Learns About The Holocaust | Welcome to Night Vale
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December 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I know this sounds like a goof, but I actually found it to be a surprisingly moving poem, maybe colored by remembering my father and uncle's shared reflections on their own discoveries of the horrors they'd actually been fighting against.
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Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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my favorite meme for this time of the year
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
my favorite meme for this time of the year
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All spicy autocorrect is really doing is ripping the foundations out from under the houses beginning authors will one day want to build. Yeah, you can auto-generate a book, but you won't know HOW to write a book. You won't have it hammered into your heart. And you'll miss the good part.
December 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
All spicy autocorrect is really doing is ripping the foundations out from under the houses beginning authors will one day want to build. Yeah, you can auto-generate a book, but you won't know HOW to write a book. You won't have it hammered into your heart. And you'll miss the good part.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
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This is just to say
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
The “AI” has not read the book.
Even if the book
was in its training data,
it has just absorbed it
as a set
of statistics.
It will juggle you a “summary”
that might
or might not
relate to the conclusions
of the actual text.
The only way
you’ll know
is to read it
yourself.
Even if the book
was in its training data,
it has just absorbed it
as a set
of statistics.
It will juggle you a “summary”
that might
or might not
relate to the conclusions
of the actual text.
The only way
you’ll know
is to read it
yourself.
The “AI” has not read the book. Even if the book was in its training data, it has just absorbed it as a set of statistics. It will juggle you a “summary” that might or might not relate to the conclusions of the actual text. The only way you’ll know is to read it yourself.
December 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is just to say
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
I have read
the book
that was in
your training data
And which
you had absorbed
as mere
statistics
Forgive me
your summary
misses the point
of reading at all.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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When you hear them respond
(and you will)
to this winter wave
of respiratory illnesses
by saying: it’s winter,
everyone always gets sick
in the winter,
it is vital that you remember
that there was a time
when even in the winter
everyone didn’t always get sick.
(and you will)
to this winter wave
of respiratory illnesses
by saying: it’s winter,
everyone always gets sick
in the winter,
it is vital that you remember
that there was a time
when even in the winter
everyone didn’t always get sick.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
When you hear them respond
(and you will)
to this winter wave
of respiratory illnesses
by saying: it’s winter,
everyone always gets sick
in the winter,
it is vital that you remember
that there was a time
when even in the winter
everyone didn’t always get sick.
(and you will)
to this winter wave
of respiratory illnesses
by saying: it’s winter,
everyone always gets sick
in the winter,
it is vital that you remember
that there was a time
when even in the winter
everyone didn’t always get sick.
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When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
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Productivity hack: do not fill your day with boredom busters. Ditch the mobile games, the doomscrolling, the TV binge, and whatever else you noodle on when you're bored.
Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.
Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Productivity hack: do not fill your day with boredom busters. Ditch the mobile games, the doomscrolling, the TV binge, and whatever else you noodle on when you're bored.
Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.
Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.
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These anti-vaxxers will kill babies.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
These anti-vaxxers will kill babies.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
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Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.
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A quick tip: AI is notably bad at menorahs.
(Special mention for the blue glasses of Traditional Hanukkah Beverage)
(Special mention for the blue glasses of Traditional Hanukkah Beverage)
December 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A quick tip: AI is notably bad at menorahs.
(Special mention for the blue glasses of Traditional Hanukkah Beverage)
(Special mention for the blue glasses of Traditional Hanukkah Beverage)
A beautiful little story
My newest short story is out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Hooray! Read it here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/to-s...
To Speak in Silence - Uncanny Magazine
On the pump organ in the formal parlor sat two chickens carved in clay in the place in which, were this another home, one might find candles. The one on the right had a rooster’s comb and was shiny wi...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A beautiful little story
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Do audiobooks count as reading? No. Nothing counts as reading. You're not in school anymore, that's not how this works.
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Do audiobooks count as reading? No. Nothing counts as reading. You're not in school anymore, that's not how this works.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
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I will never use spicy auto-correct in my writing, because if I can't be arsed to write it myself, how can I ask you to read it? All the fuck-ups and typos are my own, and always will be.
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I will never use spicy auto-correct in my writing, because if I can't be arsed to write it myself, how can I ask you to read it? All the fuck-ups and typos are my own, and always will be.
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Absolutely contact your reps about this. For an easy way to do so, use this @resist.bot link (IG DMs work). When you sign this, it will send the letter to your reps. resist.bot/petitions/PZ...
I found a really good summary of why the White House's demolition process is illegal. It's in the comments of this architect trade journal/forum archinect.com/forum/thread...
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Absolutely contact your reps about this. For an easy way to do so, use this @resist.bot link (IG DMs work). When you sign this, it will send the letter to your reps. resist.bot/petitions/PZ...
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Srsly. Signal-boost, like/comment. And a big part of that support?
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.
Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Srsly. Signal-boost, like/comment. And a big part of that support?
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.