Ironwort
@ironwort.bsky.social
40ish, ae/aer, not especially interesting.
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Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Vasilis Papakonstantinou
Ensemble Phoenix Munich
Devo (with prev, of course)
Alkinoos Ioannidis and Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Lenine (I think we were supposed to get something signed at that one, heh)
Vasilis Papakonstantinou
Ensemble Phoenix Munich
Devo (with prev, of course)
Alkinoos Ioannidis and Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Lenine (I think we were supposed to get something signed at that one, heh)
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
devo
adult.
the dead milkmen
melt-banana
"weird al" yankovic
devo
adult.
the dead milkmen
melt-banana
"weird al" yankovic
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
Less Than Jake
The Get Up Kids
Jets To Brazil
My Chemical Romance
Manchester Orchestra
(All of these were in sub 250 cap venues)
Less Than Jake
The Get Up Kids
Jets To Brazil
My Chemical Romance
Manchester Orchestra
(All of these were in sub 250 cap venues)
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Vasilis Papakonstantinou
Ensemble Phoenix Munich
Devo (with prev, of course)
Alkinoos Ioannidis and Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Lenine (I think we were supposed to get something signed at that one, heh)
Vasilis Papakonstantinou
Ensemble Phoenix Munich
Devo (with prev, of course)
Alkinoos Ioannidis and Eleftheria Arvanitaki
Lenine (I think we were supposed to get something signed at that one, heh)
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signed up for ko-fi as well if people want to financially support my writing and my poetry and my posting
preview is broken for some reason so heres just the url
ko-fi.com/neurosismancer
preview is broken for some reason so heres just the url
ko-fi.com/neurosismancer
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
signed up for ko-fi as well if people want to financially support my writing and my poetry and my posting
preview is broken for some reason so heres just the url
ko-fi.com/neurosismancer
preview is broken for some reason so heres just the url
ko-fi.com/neurosismancer
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ive just published my first ever chapbook of #poetry
40 pages of poems and photography in a name-your-own-price pdf on itch.io
its called hymns of survival and rage and its some of the most emotional poetry ive written over the last year
neurosismancer.itch.io/hymns-of-sur...
40 pages of poems and photography in a name-your-own-price pdf on itch.io
its called hymns of survival and rage and its some of the most emotional poetry ive written over the last year
neurosismancer.itch.io/hymns-of-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
ive just published my first ever chapbook of #poetry
40 pages of poems and photography in a name-your-own-price pdf on itch.io
its called hymns of survival and rage and its some of the most emotional poetry ive written over the last year
neurosismancer.itch.io/hymns-of-sur...
40 pages of poems and photography in a name-your-own-price pdf on itch.io
its called hymns of survival and rage and its some of the most emotional poetry ive written over the last year
neurosismancer.itch.io/hymns-of-sur...
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what is the connection between nostalgia, ai slop, and fascism?
find out for yourself in my new essay: synthetic ghosts of a past that never was
neurosismancer.neocities.org/80snostalgia...
find out for yourself in my new essay: synthetic ghosts of a past that never was
neurosismancer.neocities.org/80snostalgia...
Synthetic Ghosts of a Past that Never Was: Nostalgia, Fascism, and AI Slop - An Essay by Nora Neurosismaner
neurosismancer.neocities.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
what is the connection between nostalgia, ai slop, and fascism?
find out for yourself in my new essay: synthetic ghosts of a past that never was
neurosismancer.neocities.org/80snostalgia...
find out for yourself in my new essay: synthetic ghosts of a past that never was
neurosismancer.neocities.org/80snostalgia...
You know that feeling of being trapped and kind of panicky when you don't know where the exit is? Yeah, that. To the point that being conscious of what methods I have available makes me want to use them a lot less.
It seems innocuous but people’s answers to this question are gonna keep me single by choice forever. it’s not just because of people choosing option 3, it’s my allergy to stupid hallmark sentiments in lieu of a developed personal philosophy or actually reckoning with one’s own mortality
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You know that feeling of being trapped and kind of panicky when you don't know where the exit is? Yeah, that. To the point that being conscious of what methods I have available makes me want to use them a lot less.
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I posted more on depth on this here regarding asexual representation vs the ever present sexless heroine in fiction.
bsky.app/profile/mori...
bsky.app/profile/mori...
I used to say this on the old site and it's time to say it here:
Heroine in fiction that never has romance, never feels desire is not inherently feminist. It's not aromantic or asexual* representation.
It's just an old, tired way of creating female characters "safe" for guys to watch 1/2
Heroine in fiction that never has romance, never feels desire is not inherently feminist. It's not aromantic or asexual* representation.
It's just an old, tired way of creating female characters "safe" for guys to watch 1/2
October 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I posted more on depth on this here regarding asexual representation vs the ever present sexless heroine in fiction.
bsky.app/profile/mori...
bsky.app/profile/mori...
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Anyways, here is your reminder that the sexless warrior maiden (not to be confused with an actual asexual character), is a patriarchial male fantasy .
October 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Anyways, here is your reminder that the sexless warrior maiden (not to be confused with an actual asexual character), is a patriarchial male fantasy .
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This absurd overestimation takes place with basically all minority groups. In 2022, Americans thought 30% of the US was gay or lesbian, 29% was bisexual & 21% was trans. They also thought 27% were Muslim, 30% were Jewish & 41% were Black.
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This absurd overestimation takes place with basically all minority groups. In 2022, Americans thought 30% of the US was gay or lesbian, 29% was bisexual & 21% was trans. They also thought 27% were Muslim, 30% were Jewish & 41% were Black.
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Did you know that your city almost definitely has a deal with the phone app "Libby" where you can enter your city library number and get access to an enormous number of ebooks? This is great because if there's a day you don't want to be on social media, it gives you somewhere to sink your attention.
Libby, the Library App - Apps on Google Play
Meet Libby. Discover and enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from your local library.
play.google.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Did you know that your city almost definitely has a deal with the phone app "Libby" where you can enter your city library number and get access to an enormous number of ebooks? This is great because if there's a day you don't want to be on social media, it gives you somewhere to sink your attention.
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There might be another name for this but I think of it as the Socrates fallacy because this was basically his method -- we have a word, so let's clarify the definition so that we can correctly identify the real thing in the world that it names.
August 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There might be another name for this but I think of it as the Socrates fallacy because this was basically his method -- we have a word, so let's clarify the definition so that we can correctly identify the real thing in the world that it names.
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Just b/c history has given us these two words doesn't mean that speculative literature naturally falls into two distinct categories that can be correctly labeled with these words. Likewise attraction to more than one gender doesn't necessarily come in two distinct forms just b/c we have two words.
August 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just b/c history has given us these two words doesn't mean that speculative literature naturally falls into two distinct categories that can be correctly labeled with these words. Likewise attraction to more than one gender doesn't necessarily come in two distinct forms just b/c we have two words.
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Sci-fi vs fantasy debates fall into the same fallacy as bi vs pan -- the assumption that because we have two words, there must be two real things in the world that they correspond to.
if we're discussing what sets apart sci-fi and fantasy again I get to restate the only correct answer which is 'it's extremely vibes-based and fundamentally case by case because any attempt to quantify it will see so many exceptions the definition becomes meaningless'
August 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Sci-fi vs fantasy debates fall into the same fallacy as bi vs pan -- the assumption that because we have two words, there must be two real things in the world that they correspond to.
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Happy weekend!
Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍
From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍
From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
August 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Happy weekend!
Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍
From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍
From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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It appears that we are entering a vicious cycle where slop translation makes the world outside English seem ever more more inaccessible and ugly, so we want to engage it less, so there is less demand for translation, language-learning, language-crossing experience
August 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It appears that we are entering a vicious cycle where slop translation makes the world outside English seem ever more more inaccessible and ugly, so we want to engage it less, so there is less demand for translation, language-learning, language-crossing experience
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… and less desire to explore no less understand what is happening outside the confines of our own native language, or perhaps the screen of our phones
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
… and less desire to explore no less understand what is happening outside the confines of our own native language, or perhaps the screen of our phones
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Thinking about @burrata.bsky.social ‘s question of “who’s studying the opposite of globalization rn, and what’re the keywords for the opposite of globalization” and reading these dispatches from professional translators suggests we are entering a world siloed by language in which there is less …
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Thinking about @burrata.bsky.social ‘s question of “who’s studying the opposite of globalization rn, and what’re the keywords for the opposite of globalization” and reading these dispatches from professional translators suggests we are entering a world siloed by language in which there is less …
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when people looking at medieval europe perceive paganism they're mostly just looking at medieval merry-making with a specifically and inescapably catholic context whose cultural signifiers have been eroded without the merry-making going away
August 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
when people looking at medieval europe perceive paganism they're mostly just looking at medieval merry-making with a specifically and inescapably catholic context whose cultural signifiers have been eroded without the merry-making going away