David
@dchandler.bsky.social
Currently teaching, reading, and writing, in that order. I enjoy looking at old boats.
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David
@dchandler.bsky.social
· Sep 25
A while ago, I decided to take a crack at writing short fiction. Check out my first published story in 'Bitter Become the Fields' from @hornsandrattles.bsky.social !
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Mother Fletcher meant the world to Tulsa. We're gonna miss her.
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Mother Fletcher meant the world to Tulsa. We're gonna miss her.
Chotiner's fighting Smith!
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Chotiner's fighting Smith!
Extremely Donovan singing "Atlantis" voice:
On board were the twelve: a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician and the other disgusting pervs of our legends, though pervs they were...
On board were the twelve: a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician and the other disgusting pervs of our legends, though pervs they were...
Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Extremely Donovan singing "Atlantis" voice:
On board were the twelve: a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician and the other disgusting pervs of our legends, though pervs they were...
On board were the twelve: a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician and the other disgusting pervs of our legends, though pervs they were...
My Friendsgiving guest list
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My Friendsgiving guest list
At long last, have you no decency to delete this?
Your Honor, delete this
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
At long last, have you no decency to delete this?
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
Man, can I just get another dungeons and dragons movie?
A Brand New 'Star Trek' Movie Is Coming From the Team Behind 'Dungeons & Dragons'
A Brand New 'Star Trek' Movie Is Coming From the Team Behind 'Dungeons & Dragons'
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley have been hired to make a whole new 'Star Trek' film.
gizmodo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Man, can I just get another dungeons and dragons movie?
It's honestly a good indication of why this group of people are so heavily invested in AI. They can't communicate like normal human beings, let alone intelligent people.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's honestly a good indication of why this group of people are so heavily invested in AI. They can't communicate like normal human beings, let alone intelligent people.
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can’t wait to tell my students in the middle of class, “hold on—gotta email the chancellor before I can answer your question“
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
can’t wait to tell my students in the middle of class, “hold on—gotta email the chancellor before I can answer your question“
When I grew up, there were few monikers more damning than "snitch." If you called the cops for any reason that wasn't life threatening or having your own property stolen, you were a herb. Surveillance capitalism has turned people into such fucking losers.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When I grew up, there were few monikers more damning than "snitch." If you called the cops for any reason that wasn't life threatening or having your own property stolen, you were a herb. Surveillance capitalism has turned people into such fucking losers.
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I'm gonna need to know more about these goat meat stands, though, because that sounds delicious.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm gonna need to know more about these goat meat stands, though, because that sounds delicious.
Can't wait to go back to not giving a damn about the mayoral race in New York, my God. Glad the good guy is winning, though.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Can't wait to go back to not giving a damn about the mayoral race in New York, my God. Glad the good guy is winning, though.
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I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
Yeah, it's a tech toy for weird little freaks. Not everyone who buys them will do so for little freak purposes, I suppose. But if you wear the little freak glasses, you're playing in the creep pool.
“I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.”
Reader, they are for creeps.
Reader, they are for creeps.
I Can't Help Feeling Like a Creep Wearing Meta's New Gen 2 Glasses
Meta's new display-less smart glasses are quite good, but the vibes are off.
www.wired.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yeah, it's a tech toy for weird little freaks. Not everyone who buys them will do so for little freak purposes, I suppose. But if you wear the little freak glasses, you're playing in the creep pool.
Oh hell yeah.
COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE
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WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Oh hell yeah.
Decades after the worst of white folks burned the Black Wall Street to cinders, they built a highway over the ashes. It has been impossible to rebuild the Greenwood community to its former glory because of that overpass. That was by design.
“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”
Why Do Highways Run Through Black Neighborhoods?
The documentary “Interstate” exposes how highway routes are by design.
wordinblack.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Decades after the worst of white folks burned the Black Wall Street to cinders, they built a highway over the ashes. It has been impossible to rebuild the Greenwood community to its former glory because of that overpass. That was by design.
Do other people not call older family friends "auntie" and "uncle"? Is this new to some people? Hell, every friend of mine my daughter sees regularly is an aunt or uncle. This is dumb.
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Do other people not call older family friends "auntie" and "uncle"? Is this new to some people? Hell, every friend of mine my daughter sees regularly is an aunt or uncle. This is dumb.
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It fucking sucks that journalists are among the most easily-influenced, gullible people in the whole damn country. They wouldn't use Twitter if they were good at their jobs. Alas...
October 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It fucking sucks that journalists are among the most easily-influenced, gullible people in the whole damn country. They wouldn't use Twitter if they were good at their jobs. Alas...
"reimagines"? That's...just the novel.
I'm gonna reimagine my adaptation of Byron's 'Manfred' to be about a wizard's narcissism and melodramatic death drive.
I'm gonna reimagine my adaptation of Byron's 'Manfred' to be about a wizard's narcissism and melodramatic death drive.
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"reimagines"? That's...just the novel.
I'm gonna reimagine my adaptation of Byron's 'Manfred' to be about a wizard's narcissism and melodramatic death drive.
I'm gonna reimagine my adaptation of Byron's 'Manfred' to be about a wizard's narcissism and melodramatic death drive.