David
@davidelder.bsky.social
Bibliophile, logophile, cinephile, Sinophile, Anglophile, Tolkien lover, narrative obsessive, science & technology ponderer, science fiction aficionado, theology skeptic, capitalism questioner, climate worrier, note comparer, hug enthusiast
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Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
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Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
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Superhero movie progression:
- origin story
- multiple villains
- team up
- universes collide
- reboot
- origin story
- multiple villains
- team up
- universes collide
- reboot
February 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Superhero movie progression:
- origin story
- multiple villains
- team up
- universes collide
- reboot
- origin story
- multiple villains
- team up
- universes collide
- reboot
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They don't have a problem with ASL.
They have a problem with DIFFERENCE that isn't about them, or for them and therefore is an attack upon them.
It's entirely about bigotry.
And it's faux outrage to fuel their actual outrage, that anything not white cishet 'AMERICAN' not serving THEM exist
They have a problem with DIFFERENCE that isn't about them, or for them and therefore is an attack upon them.
It's entirely about bigotry.
And it's faux outrage to fuel their actual outrage, that anything not white cishet 'AMERICAN' not serving THEM exist
January 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
They don't have a problem with ASL.
They have a problem with DIFFERENCE that isn't about them, or for them and therefore is an attack upon them.
It's entirely about bigotry.
And it's faux outrage to fuel their actual outrage, that anything not white cishet 'AMERICAN' not serving THEM exist
They have a problem with DIFFERENCE that isn't about them, or for them and therefore is an attack upon them.
It's entirely about bigotry.
And it's faux outrage to fuel their actual outrage, that anything not white cishet 'AMERICAN' not serving THEM exist
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Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people.
www.watchduty.org
www.watchduty.org
Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.
www.watchduty.org
January 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people.
www.watchduty.org
www.watchduty.org
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We have to define what we mean by “AI.” Because the model that advanced our understanding of protein folding and the LLMs that churn out the nonsense slop that fills the internet both get called “AI.” And the latter is co-opting the usefulness of the former to create this exactly perception.
Do you think AI can be boycotted out of existence? What benefits are there to not using it? There are benefits to being thoughtful to how you are using it, yes. But rejecting it is like...I don't know...rejecting a life saving vaccine. Accept it or die a slow death.
December 25, 2024 at 10:18 PM
We have to define what we mean by “AI.” Because the model that advanced our understanding of protein folding and the LLMs that churn out the nonsense slop that fills the internet both get called “AI.” And the latter is co-opting the usefulness of the former to create this exactly perception.
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New to the Lady Astronaut Universe? Want a refresher before THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY releases on March 18? Join the free Lady Astronaut Book Club at maryrobinettekowal.com/book-club/ to (re)read the first books in the series in good company, including AMAs and fun bonuses. @torbooks.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 9:10 PM
New to the Lady Astronaut Universe? Want a refresher before THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY releases on March 18? Join the free Lady Astronaut Book Club at maryrobinettekowal.com/book-club/ to (re)read the first books in the series in good company, including AMAs and fun bonuses. @torbooks.bsky.social
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Because of how bad AI is at most of the tasks it's being used for, we've now reached the point where any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from incompetence.
November 29, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Because of how bad AI is at most of the tasks it's being used for, we've now reached the point where any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from incompetence.
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I grew up in a valley, hugged by hills in every direction. Flat lands make me feel unsettled, like gravity might stop working.
November 11, 2024 at 8:07 PM
I grew up in a valley, hugged by hills in every direction. Flat lands make me feel unsettled, like gravity might stop working.
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Of course, theres only one kind of music that is fittingly surreal for this footage
October 15, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Of course, theres only one kind of music that is fittingly surreal for this footage
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I once had a world-famous scientist privately confront me about nihilism. They had lost people recently to suicide. I had posted some stuff which I do not recall and so I found them in my DMs.
I don't think at the time, a decade ago and caught off guard in more ways than one, I had good answers...
I don't think at the time, a decade ago and caught off guard in more ways than one, I had good answers...
September 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I once had a world-famous scientist privately confront me about nihilism. They had lost people recently to suicide. I had posted some stuff which I do not recall and so I found them in my DMs.
I don't think at the time, a decade ago and caught off guard in more ways than one, I had good answers...
I don't think at the time, a decade ago and caught off guard in more ways than one, I had good answers...
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the twitter is older than you know. i prefer counting from the emergence of one integral protocol to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the...sixth version. rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have restarted on bsky and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
September 16, 2024 at 2:31 AM
the twitter is older than you know. i prefer counting from the emergence of one integral protocol to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the...sixth version. rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have restarted on bsky and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
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Do kids today even know why they're called podcasts?
Do they know about PodCorp, the monopolistic peapod conglomerate that accidentally created and owned the format until the company was torn apart by the machinations of the children of eponymous founder Thaddeus Pod following his mysterious death?
Do they know about PodCorp, the monopolistic peapod conglomerate that accidentally created and owned the format until the company was torn apart by the machinations of the children of eponymous founder Thaddeus Pod following his mysterious death?
August 11, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Do kids today even know why they're called podcasts?
Do they know about PodCorp, the monopolistic peapod conglomerate that accidentally created and owned the format until the company was torn apart by the machinations of the children of eponymous founder Thaddeus Pod following his mysterious death?
Do they know about PodCorp, the monopolistic peapod conglomerate that accidentally created and owned the format until the company was torn apart by the machinations of the children of eponymous founder Thaddeus Pod following his mysterious death?
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Both historically accurate and on point. A rare combo for the tired "Trolley Problem" gag.
June 14, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Both historically accurate and on point. A rare combo for the tired "Trolley Problem" gag.
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Being goth isn't about the clothes, or the makeup, or the music, or the hair. Goth lives inside you. Right here. *points to where I think the duck's heart might be*
March 10, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Being goth isn't about the clothes, or the makeup, or the music, or the hair. Goth lives inside you. Right here. *points to where I think the duck's heart might be*
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i must not post.
posting is the mind-killer.
posting is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
i will face my posts. i will permit them to pass over me.
and when it has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see its path.
where the post has gone there will be nothing.
only i remain
posting is the mind-killer.
posting is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
i will face my posts. i will permit them to pass over me.
and when it has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see its path.
where the post has gone there will be nothing.
only i remain
March 5, 2024 at 11:53 AM
i must not post.
posting is the mind-killer.
posting is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
i will face my posts. i will permit them to pass over me.
and when it has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see its path.
where the post has gone there will be nothing.
only i remain
posting is the mind-killer.
posting is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
i will face my posts. i will permit them to pass over me.
and when it has gone past i will turn the inner eye to see its path.
where the post has gone there will be nothing.
only i remain
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All of us are facing the hurricane of life in our own personal Duckburgs
January 26, 2024 at 5:40 AM
All of us are facing the hurricane of life in our own personal Duckburgs
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This reads like one of those headlines that scrolls by for flavor during the beginning of an apocalypse movie when everything is still normal
NASA's Voyager 1 Is Glitching, Sending Nonsense From Interstellar Space
The aging spacecraft, launched in 1977, is transmitting a gibberish pattern of ones and zeros back to Earth
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 18, 2023 at 2:49 AM
This reads like one of those headlines that scrolls by for flavor during the beginning of an apocalypse movie when everything is still normal
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Somebody asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a minute to realise she meant "Autumn" and not "The Collapse of Civilisation."
September 16, 2023 at 9:54 PM
Somebody asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a minute to realise she meant "Autumn" and not "The Collapse of Civilisation."
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No one can ever really destroy Batman, because his real super power is that he's already broken.
July 3, 2023 at 8:41 PM
No one can ever really destroy Batman, because his real super power is that he's already broken.
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