Gregory Crosby
@monostich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
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"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation."
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
December 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation."
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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Another way AI leads to suicide is that hearing people talk about it makes you want to jump into a jet engine
December 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Another way AI leads to suicide is that hearing people talk about it makes you want to jump into a jet engine
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this is one of the things that sucks most about the Internet at large. it is not for people who get off on mystery
If you decide to watch ytube videos about cosmic horror they usually try to define it which is exactly what cosmic horror is all about not being able to do
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this is one of the things that sucks most about the Internet at large. it is not for people who get off on mystery
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‘Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.’
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
‘Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.’
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December 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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A) Fruit of a poisoned tree. Regardless of how you use AI and what your intentions are, the LLMs were trained on stolen intellectual property whose owners were never asked for permission nor reimbursed.
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Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
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December 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A) Fruit of a poisoned tree. Regardless of how you use AI and what your intentions are, the LLMs were trained on stolen intellectual property whose owners were never asked for permission nor reimbursed.
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happy last #smallpoemsunday of 2025! 💜
feel free to share small poems you wrote and/or small poems you love by someone else :)
here’s W. S. Merwin, from “Song of Three Smiles”~
feel free to share small poems you wrote and/or small poems you love by someone else :)
here’s W. S. Merwin, from “Song of Three Smiles”~
December 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
happy last #smallpoemsunday of 2025! 💜
feel free to share small poems you wrote and/or small poems you love by someone else :)
here’s W. S. Merwin, from “Song of Three Smiles”~
feel free to share small poems you wrote and/or small poems you love by someone else :)
here’s W. S. Merwin, from “Song of Three Smiles”~
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Bluesky was generally better when we all more or less agreed to simply block dumb accounts and move on rather than quote dunk on them for clout.
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Bluesky was generally better when we all more or less agreed to simply block dumb accounts and move on rather than quote dunk on them for clout.
Can someone recommend a solid daily newspaper with international coverage that isn’t in bed with evil or owned by rapacious billionaires? Because I can’t think of any.
Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.
Could AI relationships actually be good for us?
From companionship to psychotherapy, technology could meet unmet needs – but it needs to be handled responsibly
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Can someone recommend a solid daily newspaper with international coverage that isn’t in bed with evil or owned by rapacious billionaires? Because I can’t think of any.
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🤯obsessed with this framing
[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
December 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🤯obsessed with this framing
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In Norway we call the time between Christmas through New Year "romjul," which translates to "space Christmas." I find that so delightful. It's so fitting.
December 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In Norway we call the time between Christmas through New Year "romjul," which translates to "space Christmas." I find that so delightful. It's so fitting.
When love walks in the room
Everybody stand up
Oh, it's good, good, good
Like… BRIGITTE BARDOT
Everybody stand up
Oh, it's good, good, good
Like… BRIGITTE BARDOT
Pretenders - Message Of Love (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Pretenders
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December 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When love walks in the room
Everybody stand up
Oh, it's good, good, good
Like… BRIGITTE BARDOT
Everybody stand up
Oh, it's good, good, good
Like… BRIGITTE BARDOT
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You With a Crack Running Through You ~ Kim Addonizio
December 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You With a Crack Running Through You ~ Kim Addonizio
Forgot to post my Xmas swag.
December 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Forgot to post my Xmas swag.
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I'm Tired Madeline Kahn Blazing Saddles
YouTube video by metaphysician1
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
One Bubble to rule them all, One Bubble to find them, One Bubble to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
One Bubble to rule them all, One Bubble to find them, One Bubble to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Started watching Stranger Things under mild protest (they really should have wrapped this up last season).
December 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Started watching Stranger Things under mild protest (they really should have wrapped this up last season).
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
Four years ago today, My Brilliant Girlfriend (since 2012) became My Brilliant Wife, when we eloped during a poetry reading in the haunted basement of a bar just off the Bowery. Best reading ever.
December 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Four years ago today, My Brilliant Girlfriend (since 2012) became My Brilliant Wife, when we eloped during a poetry reading in the haunted basement of a bar just off the Bowery. Best reading ever.
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flying into dawn
Kinereth Gensler
Kinereth Gensler
December 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
flying into dawn
Kinereth Gensler
Kinereth Gensler
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If you had told me just about anything, ten years ago, about where my life or where the country would be in 2026 I would have reasonably assumed you were stark raving mad.
December 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If you had told me just about anything, ten years ago, about where my life or where the country would be in 2026 I would have reasonably assumed you were stark raving mad.
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Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...
Cheap, Fast, and Easy
We’re snowbound here in the wilds of Connecticut, stuck in place until the guy with the truck comes to plow us out.
michaelianblack.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...
Snowstorms in December are so much more delightful than snowstorms in February (or March).
December 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Snowstorms in December are so much more delightful than snowstorms in February (or March).
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.