I read “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” by Herman Melville, sophomore year in college, for my English minor.

I found it very amusing when recently looking at old organic chemistry notebooks, to see “I would prefer not to” scribbled in the margins.

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Bartleby the Scrivener is an anarchist story. Straight up refusing to thrive is the most praxis that’s ever been written.

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"Bartleby The Scrivener" paid $85 open.substack.com/pub/johnnogo... #HermanMelville #BartlebyTheScrivener #AmericanLiterature #AmericanAuthors #JohnNogowski

We need the entire country to just go full Bartleby, The Scrivener. Oh, ICE wants assistance in any way? I’d prefer not to. #generalstrike #BartlebytheScrivener #meverMAGA

Free ebook: Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?: A Primitivist Phenomenology by Pilar Martinez Benedi and Ralph James Savarese. #mobydick #BartlebyTheScrivener #melville #neurodiversity https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93580

Yesterday I was testing #Deepseek-R1 locally for coding and was surprised when it gave me the same code back after I'd requested changes. Very #BartlebyTheScrivener Looking at the reasoning I could see where it started talking itself out of the request after generating 'I'm still a bit confused...':

Bartleby with the forever vibe ✨

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I guess De’Vondre Campbell told Kyle Shanahan “I would prefer not to,” last night @bartlebythescrivener

I'll lead another library zoom discussion on Thursday night, starting 6:30 pm. Join us! *By the Sea* by Nobel prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah was extremely well done and I recommend it. #zanzibar #bartlebythescrivener https://mcpl.libnet.info/event/10715681