Jeffrey Zuckerman
@jmz.bsky.social
knight-errant + anti-vampire
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In case you need this, it's "make sure you're right" Monday. #editorsandediting
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In case you need this, it's "make sure you're right" Monday. #editorsandediting
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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"Don't do it with publication in mind, don't do it for posterity, don't do it for the likes…Just write for the sake of it. Write to see what your own thoughts look like when you force them into sentences"
Joan Westenberg on how regular writing debugs cognition www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
Joan Westenberg on how regular writing debugs cognition www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)
Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off
www.joanwestenberg.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"Don't do it with publication in mind, don't do it for posterity, don't do it for the likes…Just write for the sake of it. Write to see what your own thoughts look like when you force them into sentences"
Joan Westenberg on how regular writing debugs cognition www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
Joan Westenberg on how regular writing debugs cognition www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
You want a special Halloween early-voting sticker, don’t you? Go vote Mamdani before the polls close at 4!!! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You want a special Halloween early-voting sticker, don’t you? Go vote Mamdani before the polls close at 4!!! 🎃
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A way to have a good weekend is to go to a local bookstore this afternoons and buy something random and counterintuitive from the staff picks shelf, and spend the next two days reading it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A way to have a good weekend is to go to a local bookstore this afternoons and buy something random and counterintuitive from the staff picks shelf, and spend the next two days reading it.
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Building up: The annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber, in Timbuktu. It was erected in the 14th century during the reign of Mansa Kankou Moussa and is 700 years old.
Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP
Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Building up: The annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber, in Timbuktu. It was erected in the 14th century during the reign of Mansa Kankou Moussa and is 700 years old.
Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP
Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP
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🇦🇺Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub volunteering in Gaza City writes:
“Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide...
“Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide...
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🇦🇺Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub volunteering in Gaza City writes:
“Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide...
“Today’s shift cannot be written down; not even in a hundred years could words capture how horrific it was; not even in the worst imagination of any human being. So, I’ll only write this: This Was The Worst Day Of The Genocide...
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If being anti-fascist is "antiamerican" then supporting America is __________?
September 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If being anti-fascist is "antiamerican" then supporting America is __________?
Such a weird feeling to know that On the Calculation of Volume 6 just came out in Danish a month ago—and NOT want to know anything about it
September 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Such a weird feeling to know that On the Calculation of Volume 6 just came out in Danish a month ago—and NOT want to know anything about it
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More than 50,000 Palestinians have been left homeless in less than a week due to “large-scale destruction” caused by Israeli attacks across Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up
September 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been left homeless in less than a week due to “large-scale destruction” caused by Israeli attacks across Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/eb39up
Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...
September 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...
@jeremytiang.bsky.social: "It’s not an either/or. I commend you, Jacques, for paying your translators well, but you could do that and put our names on the front cover." —On Translation: Como Conversazione VI (Passing Judgment)
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
@jeremytiang.bsky.social: "It’s not an either/or. I commend you, Jacques, for paying your translators well, but you could do that and put our names on the front cover." —On Translation: Como Conversazione VI (Passing Judgment)
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Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬
August 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.
"All of the translators in this conversation, for reasons of temperament and structure, seem to have a masochistic relationship to their work. But as in masochism, the pain is a kind of pleasure, too." —On Translation: Como Conversazione III (Shame, Seams, Scars)
August 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"All of the translators in this conversation, for reasons of temperament and structure, seem to have a masochistic relationship to their work. But as in masochism, the pain is a kind of pleasure, too." —On Translation: Como Conversazione III (Shame, Seams, Scars)
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I'm starting a movement. Every time you, or someone you know, gives AI agency, replace it with "Big Tech". See for example:
"Big Tech" is killing my job.
"Big Tech" is reading my CT scan.
"Big Tech" is writing my paper.
I asked "Big Tech" to be my girlfriend.
Maybe that will speed up regulation.
"Big Tech" is killing my job.
"Big Tech" is reading my CT scan.
"Big Tech" is writing my paper.
I asked "Big Tech" to be my girlfriend.
Maybe that will speed up regulation.
August 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm starting a movement. Every time you, or someone you know, gives AI agency, replace it with "Big Tech". See for example:
"Big Tech" is killing my job.
"Big Tech" is reading my CT scan.
"Big Tech" is writing my paper.
I asked "Big Tech" to be my girlfriend.
Maybe that will speed up regulation.
"Big Tech" is killing my job.
"Big Tech" is reading my CT scan.
"Big Tech" is writing my paper.
I asked "Big Tech" to be my girlfriend.
Maybe that will speed up regulation.
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Just finished ANIMA FATUA by Ana Lidia Vega Serova, tr. @robmunb.bsky.social and pub. @amaurea-press.bsky.social 🕊️
I’ve never read a book like this: it traces the story of a young Cuban-Russian girl growing up in the USSR. Brutal, tender & utterly memorable. Wonderful translation, Robin!
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I’ve never read a book like this: it traces the story of a young Cuban-Russian girl growing up in the USSR. Brutal, tender & utterly memorable. Wonderful translation, Robin!
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August 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Just finished ANIMA FATUA by Ana Lidia Vega Serova, tr. @robmunb.bsky.social and pub. @amaurea-press.bsky.social 🕊️
I’ve never read a book like this: it traces the story of a young Cuban-Russian girl growing up in the USSR. Brutal, tender & utterly memorable. Wonderful translation, Robin!
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I’ve never read a book like this: it traces the story of a young Cuban-Russian girl growing up in the USSR. Brutal, tender & utterly memorable. Wonderful translation, Robin!
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Do you think Medusa could stay underwater forever if she used her hair like little snake snorkels? My guess is that each hair snake would probably have its own little respiratory system and it wouldn’t be enough to oxygenate a full Medusa, but this is an important conversation to have
September 20, 2023 at 10:58 AM
Do you think Medusa could stay underwater forever if she used her hair like little snake snorkels? My guess is that each hair snake would probably have its own little respiratory system and it wouldn’t be enough to oxygenate a full Medusa, but this is an important conversation to have
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CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
August 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation
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In 2016, before Trump secured the GOP nomination, the Boston Globe made a fictional dystopian front page of what a nightmare world it would be if Trump won. And those just pretty much are our actual headlines now.
August 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In 2016, before Trump secured the GOP nomination, the Boston Globe made a fictional dystopian front page of what a nightmare world it would be if Trump won. And those just pretty much are our actual headlines now.
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A friend recently said "I used ChatGPT to look up (I forget what exactly)." My look of disbelief followed by my "You did what?" completely caught them off guard. Like, people just think "well, it's there so that's what we're supposed to use."
Kat hit it here. The sycophantic sentience is the drug.
Kat hit it here. The sycophantic sentience is the drug.
In cases of psychosis involving ChatGPT, people already say it’s the user’s mental health that is the issue, not the technology. I disagree on several counts. First, the technology is intentionally designed to be sycophantic and imitate sentience, so it’s not comparable to other technologies.
August 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A friend recently said "I used ChatGPT to look up (I forget what exactly)." My look of disbelief followed by my "You did what?" completely caught them off guard. Like, people just think "well, it's there so that's what we're supposed to use."
Kat hit it here. The sycophantic sentience is the drug.
Kat hit it here. The sycophantic sentience is the drug.
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Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
July 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
il n'est d'idées que dans les choses
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
il n'est d'idées que dans les choses
"There were empty pools, as old as time itself, where the memory of water still lingered." —Karim Kattan, EDEN AT DAWN
July 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"There were empty pools, as old as time itself, where the memory of water still lingered." —Karim Kattan, EDEN AT DAWN