Casey Boyle
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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Jimmy Carter's advice to a young person.
My nephew Matthew shared this letter with me yesterday. Five years ago, he wrote to all the living presidents and asked for advice on how to participate in public service. Only Jimmy Carter responded. A precis on how to live a life of service.
My nephew Matthew shared this letter with me yesterday. Five years ago, he wrote to all the living presidents and asked for advice on how to participate in public service. Only Jimmy Carter responded. A precis on how to live a life of service.
December 30, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Jimmy Carter's advice to a young person.
My nephew Matthew shared this letter with me yesterday. Five years ago, he wrote to all the living presidents and asked for advice on how to participate in public service. Only Jimmy Carter responded. A precis on how to live a life of service.
My nephew Matthew shared this letter with me yesterday. Five years ago, he wrote to all the living presidents and asked for advice on how to participate in public service. Only Jimmy Carter responded. A precis on how to live a life of service.
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The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Digital ID cards could be a disaster in the UK and beyond
The British government isn't the only one looking to introduce digital ID cards. There is so much to worry about here, not least the threat of hacks, says Annalee Newitz
www.newscientist.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
We’re hiring an Asst Prof of Instruction in Digital Humanities/Data Science with BSDS + English @UTAustin. Teach Python/R for Humanities, build DH projects, mentor capstones. Starts Fall 26. Repost & share widely.
Apply by Dec 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/175750
#DigitalHumanities #DH
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#DigitalHumanities #DH
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November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We’re hiring an Asst Prof of Instruction in Digital Humanities/Data Science with BSDS + English @UTAustin. Teach Python/R for Humanities, build DH projects, mentor capstones. Starts Fall 26. Repost & share widely.
Apply by Dec 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/175750
#DigitalHumanities #DH
Apply by Dec 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/175750
#DigitalHumanities #DH
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"Through his mode of life...Diogenes exposes himself absolutely to domination, to murder. He can be crushed like a snail is crushed underfoot. He can be broken, reduced to pieces. He can be exiled and tortured. But he cannot be governed."
Catherine Malabou on Diogenes. No notes.
Catherine Malabou on Diogenes. No notes.
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Through his mode of life...Diogenes exposes himself absolutely to domination, to murder. He can be crushed like a snail is crushed underfoot. He can be broken, reduced to pieces. He can be exiled and tortured. But he cannot be governed."
Catherine Malabou on Diogenes. No notes.
Catherine Malabou on Diogenes. No notes.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Did a data center write this?
Over the past few months, Americans have looked aghast at their rising electricity bills and found one clear scapegoat: data centers.
But a new study suggests AI and data centers might not be the problem. Instead, it might be the electrical equipment.
But a new study suggests AI and data centers might not be the problem. Instead, it might be the electrical equipment.
There’s a reason electricity prices are rising. And it’s not data centers.
It’s not data centers or AI, it’s something else.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Did a data center write this?
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Never lean back your seat on a plane.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Never lean back your seat on a plane.
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For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory
Short version first:
I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over
www.gofundme.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
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The temptation to resign ourselves to resignation is never stronger than at a time of overlapping crises, and the AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The temptation to resign ourselves to resignation is never stronger than at a time of overlapping crises, and the AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Of course one should jump into the novels, but this weird assemblage of excerpts isn’t a horrible way to dip into Krasznahorkai.
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Of course one should jump into the novels, but this weird assemblage of excerpts isn’t a horrible way to dip into Krasznahorkai.
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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
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So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
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Videos show panic among onlookers in China’s Liuyang city after a drone show malfunction sent burning embers to the ground, igniting fires.
October 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
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“Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education”
September 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education”
Fewer Good Men
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's loosening disciplinary rules and weakening hazing protections at rare meeting of top military leaders.
Hegseth declares an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US military
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military officials to an in-person meeting to announce directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physical fitness as well as an end to “woke” culture in the military.
bit.ly
September 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Fewer Good Men
Warrior Ethos
Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV
September 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Warrior Ethos
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Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...
deadsimpletech.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
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"Rarely does an esolanger discover the most interesting possibilities of their language on their own; it is others’ experiments that reveal the nuance and character of a language."
(The preface from @dtemkin.bsky.social's excellent new book "Forty-Four Esolangs")
(The preface from @dtemkin.bsky.social's excellent new book "Forty-Four Esolangs")
The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
September 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Rarely does an esolanger discover the most interesting possibilities of their language on their own; it is others’ experiments that reveal the nuance and character of a language."
(The preface from @dtemkin.bsky.social's excellent new book "Forty-Four Esolangs")
(The preface from @dtemkin.bsky.social's excellent new book "Forty-Four Esolangs")
At best, AI is weighted dice…likely to land on expected sides, but not certain to do so.
Suppose you tried to solve math problems by rolling dice to get the answer
Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not.
If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.
Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not.
If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.
September 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
At best, AI is weighted dice…likely to land on expected sides, but not certain to do so.