Carla Miriam Levy
@carlamiriam.bsky.social
Fledgling fiction author; once and future over-analyzer of Hindi movies; cat person; anthropologist of obsessions. Can't resist a good cocktail. Apparently is preposterous.
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I didn’t take a picture but tonight’s drink was the Arnaud Martini thanks to Anders Erickson. It’s equal parts gin, blanco vermouth, and crème de cassis. Tasty, though next time I might cut back on the cassis.
youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...
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How to Make the Arnaud Martini
YouTube video by Anders Erickson
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I didn’t take a picture but tonight’s drink was the Arnaud Martini thanks to Anders Erickson. It’s equal parts gin, blanco vermouth, and crème de cassis. Tasty, though next time I might cut back on the cassis.
youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...
youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...
Google used to get this query right. Another triumph for AI
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Google used to get this query right. Another triumph for AI
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Please join me 11/20 for a memorial reading for Esmond Harmsworth, literary friend to many. We’ll be at @portersqbooks.bsky.social. Readers include Jedediah Berry, Lisa Borders, Christopher Castellani, Michelle Hoover, Emily Franklin, Milo Todd, & more. portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
Esmond Harmsworth Memorial Reading
The following writers will each read a selection of their work: Jedediah Berry, Lisa Borders, Gary Braver, Christopher Castellani, George Harrar, Michelle Hoover, Emily Franklin, Sarah Smith, Milo Todd, and Liza Tully.
portersquarebooks.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Please join me 11/20 for a memorial reading for Esmond Harmsworth, literary friend to many. We’ll be at @portersqbooks.bsky.social. Readers include Jedediah Berry, Lisa Borders, Christopher Castellani, Michelle Hoover, Emily Franklin, Milo Todd, & more. portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...
One of the writer teams I am working with these days is in Bangalore. They are great folks and their product area is new to me and interesting. I love working with them. But the time difference is a bear. I just finished a meeting that began at 6AM my time. 😑
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
One of the writer teams I am working with these days is in Bangalore. They are great folks and their product area is new to me and interesting. I love working with them. But the time difference is a bear. I just finished a meeting that began at 6AM my time. 😑
@dfphil.bsky.social and I once went to a restaurant that prided itself on its wine pairings. We asked the server for his recommendation based on what we ordered and he said, “Well, halibut just *screams* Chardonnay.”
do you ever have things that someone has said to you that live forever in your head (non-serious edition)? some older boomer hippie guy said “hahmmus gives you fahts” to me 26 years ago at a free fridge and i think of it every fucking single time i buy hummus to this day.
October 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
@dfphil.bsky.social and I once went to a restaurant that prided itself on its wine pairings. We asked the server for his recommendation based on what we ordered and he said, “Well, halibut just *screams* Chardonnay.”
LLMs: Doing a shitty job of what Markov-chain models were tolerably good at, since 2023.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
LLMs: Doing a shitty job of what Markov-chain models were tolerably good at, since 2023.
I spent some time over the weekend making sure our stock was correctly entered in the app, so tonight I just tapped the button that showed me drinks we could make with what we had on hand.
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I spent some time over the weekend making sure our stock was correctly entered in the app, so tonight I just tapped the button that showed me drinks we could make with what we had on hand.
Unusual drink. Wouldn’t want it too often, but I liked it. The drink also has an absinthe rinse (I used Pernod because I was out of absinthe)
Via Robb Report we made the Growing Old with 2 oz Cynar, 1 oz rye, 1 pinch of salt, and 5 lemon peels in the mixing glass plus one expressed on the glass. Very different and tasty.
youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...
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How to Make a Growing Old, the Rule-Breaking Cocktail That Negroni Fans Will Love
YouTube video by Robb Report
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Unusual drink. Wouldn’t want it too often, but I liked it. The drink also has an absinthe rinse (I used Pernod because I was out of absinthe)
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You don’t hate John Roberts enough.
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
You don’t hate John Roberts enough.
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Now we can talk about the Chinese Room for a week without worrying that we don’t understand it. I definitely don’t though I thought it was obvious when I read it in “The Mind’s I”
John Searle, influential philosopher in the history of Analytic philosophy with works in philosophy of mind and language, has passed away. R.I.P. (1932-2025)
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Now we can talk about the Chinese Room for a week without worrying that we don’t understand it. I definitely don’t though I thought it was obvious when I read it in “The Mind’s I”
Nintendo is sending me cruel, offensive emails. Why do they want to hurt me?
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nintendo is sending me cruel, offensive emails. Why do they want to hurt me?
I just started Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
It's Monday again and today I'm about to start A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
alt text in images please
What book(s) are you reading this week?
💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
alt text in images please
September 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I just started Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor
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Tonight’s drink is the Barbados Cocktail: rum, lime, and Falernum. It’s a lot like a daiquiri but the falernum adds an interesting finish
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Tonight’s drink is the Barbados Cocktail: rum, lime, and Falernum. It’s a lot like a daiquiri but the falernum adds an interesting finish
Slightly diminish a book:
As I Lay With a Bad Headache
As I Lay With a Bad Headache
Slightly diminish a book:
Zen And The Art Of Tricycle Maintenance
Zen And The Art Of Tricycle Maintenance
Slightly diminish a book:
Interview with a Phlebotomist
Interview with a Phlebotomist
September 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Slightly diminish a book:
As I Lay With a Bad Headache
As I Lay With a Bad Headache
Susan Sarandon, best known as spokesperson for the "Together" line of decorative bathroom tissue dispensers.
September 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Susan Sarandon, best known as spokesperson for the "Together" line of decorative bathroom tissue dispensers.
We lost my mother this week. I’m a way, I had already lost her, because she was very sick and for the last couple years her mind wasn’t what it had been. But it’s still a big milestone, and it doesn’t quite feel real yet.
August 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We lost my mother this week. I’m a way, I had already lost her, because she was very sick and for the last couple years her mind wasn’t what it had been. But it’s still a big milestone, and it doesn’t quite feel real yet.
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looking through some old posts and stumbled on this. the other day chris murphy said the military occupation of dc was a distraction from epstein. a month ago, they were calling epstein a distraction.
Nancy Pelosi characterizes the Epstein scandal and seeming coverup as "a distraction" from kitchen table issues
August 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
looking through some old posts and stumbled on this. the other day chris murphy said the military occupation of dc was a distraction from epstein. a month ago, they were calling epstein a distraction.
Folks, take a moment to look at this thread. 😂
my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)
August 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Folks, take a moment to look at this thread. 😂
Emily Dickinson would like a word.
(Also, if em-dashes weren’t common before LLMs, how do they get into LLM output?)
(Also, if em-dashes weren’t common before LLMs, how do they get into LLM output?)
People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
August 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Emily Dickinson would like a word.
(Also, if em-dashes weren’t common before LLMs, how do they get into LLM output?)
(Also, if em-dashes weren’t common before LLMs, how do they get into LLM output?)
Another train ride, so another installment of the music project today: listening to ~11,000 mp3s on my computer in alphabetical order by album. Next up is "Cool City Production vol.6" by 90s Jpop superstars Zard. I might not make it through this one -- a little much at this early hour
August 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Another train ride, so another installment of the music project today: listening to ~11,000 mp3s on my computer in alphabetical order by album. Next up is "Cool City Production vol.6" by 90s Jpop superstars Zard. I might not make it through this one -- a little much at this early hour
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The hot trend for summer is epistemic violence
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The hot trend for summer is epistemic violence
He had to lift the phone over his head. We can’t see the musicians from where we are standing. But they sound great! I always love Hiromi, a Newport stalwart
The Harbor stage at #NewportJazzFest is completely packed for Hiromi. Here’s the closest I got
August 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
He had to lift the phone over his head. We can’t see the musicians from where we are standing. But they sound great! I always love Hiromi, a Newport stalwart
Really enjoying this set so far
Over to the harbor stage for Ekep Nkwelle. She’s laying down some powerful blues
August 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Really enjoying this set so far
He’s mixing in some funk and soul now
It’s the third day of #NewportJazzFest and Isaiah Sharkey opens on the quad stage with some rock n roll
August 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
He’s mixing in some funk and soul now
Sunset over the harbor in Newport yesterday evening. Now, waking up for the third and final day of #newportJazzFest with @dfphil.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Sunset over the harbor in Newport yesterday evening. Now, waking up for the third and final day of #newportJazzFest with @dfphil.bsky.social