Kevin C. Moore
@kevncmoore.bsky.social
Advanced Lecturer and Notation in Science Communication Coordinator @ Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Writing about science and rhetoric, propaganda studies, Ralph Ellison. Opinions my own.
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Bring Back Editing
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Bring Back Editing
Finally a form of techno-optimism I can get behind.
a little bit obsessed with the zipper upgrade, and also with the fact that YKK's founding principle is the "cycle of goodness." can I please live in a country where companies believe in the cycle of goodness
The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Finally a form of techno-optimism I can get behind.
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Happiness really is shocking sometimes.
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Happiness really is shocking sometimes.
Feeling more optimistic than I have in a year.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Feeling more optimistic than I have in a year.
Going with Vice.
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Going with Vice.
So much for my belief in the Easter Bunny. #sanfrancisco
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
So much for my belief in the Easter Bunny. #sanfrancisco
As an aficionado of unreliable narrators, can appreciate one with real teeth (where teeth = the potential for invisible ink!). Not sure how it took me so long to get to this one… #thesympathizer @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As an aficionado of unreliable narrators, can appreciate one with real teeth (where teeth = the potential for invisible ink!). Not sure how it took me so long to get to this one… #thesympathizer @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
Excited to share this new piece, out today in the inaugural issue of ContraSTS, about the dubious Vesuvius Challenge competition, where participants supposedly used AI to unroll charred scrolls from a buried Herculaneum villa. Basically my position statement on AI.
contrastsmag.net/article/the-...
contrastsmag.net/article/the-...
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Excited to share this new piece, out today in the inaugural issue of ContraSTS, about the dubious Vesuvius Challenge competition, where participants supposedly used AI to unroll charred scrolls from a buried Herculaneum villa. Basically my position statement on AI.
contrastsmag.net/article/the-...
contrastsmag.net/article/the-...
In case you needed a segue.
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In case you needed a segue.
Now *this* is what the internet is for.
September 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Now *this* is what the internet is for.
Hell of a speech.
Allende’s Last Speech
Salvador Allende died 46 years ago today in a US-backed coup. Here's his final address, broadcast over the radio while he was barricaded in the presidential palace.
jacobin.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hell of a speech.
BRILLIANT.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
BRILLIANT.
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stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
it's not a distraction
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
TIL this etymology. Feel like I should have known this.
Where Did the Term “Gerrymander” Come From?
Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he's best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin
www.smithsonianmag.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
TIL this etymology. Feel like I should have known this.
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Headline writer finally gets it right: ‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion www.kqed.org/news/1205152...
‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion | KQED
University of California President James Milliken said President Donald Trump’s proposal would “completely devastate” the system.
www.kqed.org
August 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Headline writer finally gets it right: ‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion www.kqed.org/news/1205152...
Excellent question for the MONSTERS who covered the marvelous Michael Jang on my block.
August 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Excellent question for the MONSTERS who covered the marvelous Michael Jang on my block.
"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.
“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...
Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")
Close Readings · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
Disturbing new tactics in San Francisco, but this is a community victory.
Last night, federal immigration officials sent text messages instructing immigrants to appear at an unmarked ICE office at 478 Tehama Street this weekend — an unusual move outside standard weekday operations.
In response, hundreds of community members gathered at 7 a.m. to protest.
In response, hundreds of community members gathered at 7 a.m. to protest.
June 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Disturbing new tactics in San Francisco, but this is a community victory.
Important investigation on SF’s “blueprint for displacement.”
San Francisco is moving towards a citywide ban on RVs.
Our year-long investigation reveals how the mass eviction of a Latinx RV community became the city’s blueprint for displacement — and made the crisis worse.
Read here: bit.ly/4loeWFt
Our year-long investigation reveals how the mass eviction of a Latinx RV community became the city’s blueprint for displacement — and made the crisis worse.
Read here: bit.ly/4loeWFt
June 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Important investigation on SF’s “blueprint for displacement.”
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San Francisco is moving towards a citywide ban on RVs.
Our year-long investigation reveals how the mass eviction of a Latinx RV community became the city’s blueprint for displacement — and made the crisis worse.
Read here: bit.ly/4loeWFt
Our year-long investigation reveals how the mass eviction of a Latinx RV community became the city’s blueprint for displacement — and made the crisis worse.
Read here: bit.ly/4loeWFt
June 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
San Francisco is moving towards a citywide ban on RVs.
Our year-long investigation reveals how the mass eviction of a Latinx RV community became the city’s blueprint for displacement — and made the crisis worse.
Read here: bit.ly/4loeWFt
Our year-long investigation reveals how the mass eviction of a Latinx RV community became the city’s blueprint for displacement — and made the crisis worse.
Read here: bit.ly/4loeWFt
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It’s so plainly and obviously righteous to resist mass deportations with force that I think the people who want to convince us to be more afraid of the protestors than of ICE must imagine their audiences to be very stupid.
The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.
June 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It’s so plainly and obviously righteous to resist mass deportations with force that I think the people who want to convince us to be more afraid of the protestors than of ICE must imagine their audiences to be very stupid.