David Ellison
@davidellison.bsky.social
Interested in: books, language, computational linguistics & NLP, music, my cat
📍Seattle
📍Seattle
Fredric Jameson on Gene Wolfe:
"The work of Gene Wolfe, richly developing in the spaces between fantasy and SF, can perhaps serve as a central exhibit in these debates: for myself, I acknowledge its quality but feel a deep reluctance to abandon these generic distinctions."
"The work of Gene Wolfe, richly developing in the spaces between fantasy and SF, can perhaps serve as a central exhibit in these debates: for myself, I acknowledge its quality but feel a deep reluctance to abandon these generic distinctions."
August 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Fredric Jameson on Gene Wolfe:
"The work of Gene Wolfe, richly developing in the spaces between fantasy and SF, can perhaps serve as a central exhibit in these debates: for myself, I acknowledge its quality but feel a deep reluctance to abandon these generic distinctions."
"The work of Gene Wolfe, richly developing in the spaces between fantasy and SF, can perhaps serve as a central exhibit in these debates: for myself, I acknowledge its quality but feel a deep reluctance to abandon these generic distinctions."
the empty string is invisible to the naked eye
May 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
the empty string is invisible to the naked eye
Happy Birthday to the late, great Gene Wolfe! Here’s to many reads, and many rereads.
May 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Happy Birthday to the late, great Gene Wolfe! Here’s to many reads, and many rereads.
Best book I’ve read so far this year
February 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Best book I’ve read so far this year
Drinking an outrageous amount of Taiwanese oolong lately
February 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Drinking an outrageous amount of Taiwanese oolong lately
Shiva came into my life unexpectedly about a month after my beloved Sylvia left it, and I’m so glad she did
February 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Shiva came into my life unexpectedly about a month after my beloved Sylvia left it, and I’m so glad she did
Last night I read an explanation of Jameson’s “ideologeme” as being like a phoneme for class discourse and it felt like a light bulb coming on
December 12, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Last night I read an explanation of Jameson’s “ideologeme” as being like a phoneme for class discourse and it felt like a light bulb coming on
daydreaming about a multi year sabbatical to work on my emacs config and catch up on reading
December 5, 2024 at 7:15 PM
daydreaming about a multi year sabbatical to work on my emacs config and catch up on reading
Picked up my dearest Sylvia’s ashes today. I miss her so much
November 26, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Picked up my dearest Sylvia’s ashes today. I miss her so much
Reading all day long to get in the mood for the death metal show later
November 9, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Reading all day long to get in the mood for the death metal show later
My beloved Sylvia left the world last night and I will love her forever
November 6, 2024 at 2:46 AM
My beloved Sylvia left the world last night and I will love her forever
My beautiful Sylvia
October 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
My beautiful Sylvia
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Two new Norm Chambers releases on the anniversary of his passing 🙏 panabrite.bandcamp.com/album/seasid...
Seaside Variations, by N Chambers
5 track album
panabrite.bandcamp.com
October 30, 2023 at 10:16 PM
Two new Norm Chambers releases on the anniversary of his passing 🙏 panabrite.bandcamp.com/album/seasid...
This talk title from the Emacs conference is my sleeper agent activation phrase
October 26, 2023 at 11:38 PM
This talk title from the Emacs conference is my sleeper agent activation phrase
Loscil and Lawrence English last night
October 25, 2023 at 8:59 PM
Loscil and Lawrence English last night
My sweetheart Sylvia
October 18, 2023 at 4:21 PM
My sweetheart Sylvia
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hi everyone. please sign this petition encouraging songtradr to recognize bandcamp united: actionnetwork.org/petitions/so...
Demand a fair and timely union election for Bandcamp United
Workers at Bandcamp, an online record store and music community that prioritizes support to artists, are unionizing with OPEIU Local 1010. Workers filed for an election with the National Labor Relatio...
actionnetwork.org
October 4, 2023 at 9:50 PM
hi everyone. please sign this petition encouraging songtradr to recognize bandcamp united: actionnetwork.org/petitions/so...
drafting a post: the "rules based international order" was when all the linguists implemented their models in prolog. okay never mind, bear with me please i'm still working on it
October 3, 2023 at 7:43 PM
drafting a post: the "rules based international order" was when all the linguists implemented their models in prolog. okay never mind, bear with me please i'm still working on it
had one of those one hour "technical phone screen" job interviews early this morning and my beloved cat jumped up on the table right behind me and threw up on camera 20 minutes in, i completely lost track of what i was talking about
October 3, 2023 at 5:38 PM
had one of those one hour "technical phone screen" job interviews early this morning and my beloved cat jumped up on the table right behind me and threw up on camera 20 minutes in, i completely lost track of what i was talking about
I heard a good sentence the other day with "the ways in which that," double complementizer style. Really wish I'd written it down
September 27, 2023 at 9:50 PM
I heard a good sentence the other day with "the ways in which that," double complementizer style. Really wish I'd written it down
One of my crackpot theories is that my cat likes my drone records. Today I put Stuart Dempster on and she lies down on the couch right in the best listening spot where the speakers point
September 19, 2023 at 6:42 PM
One of my crackpot theories is that my cat likes my drone records. Today I put Stuart Dempster on and she lies down on the couch right in the best listening spot where the speakers point