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Kris Miranda

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Professional lore nerd, slow (and not professional) writer, Asian American cat person in Los Angeles.

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Kris Miranda

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"So, inconstancy, fallibility, forgetfulness, suffering, failure — these, apparently, are the unautomatable gifts of our species. Well, sure. To err is human. But does the AI skeptic have nothing else to fall back on than an enumeration of mankind’s shortcomings? Are our worst qualities the best we can do? It’s hard not to read the emphasis on failure as an ambivalent invitation for the machines to succeed. The final notes of the AI-and-I essay are cowed resignation, awed acquiescence, and what Trotsky called the “terrifying helplessness” of cultural production at “the beginning of a great epoch” — all from the very writers best placed to condemn AI’s creep into literary life. “What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?” Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?"

September 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM

Kris Miranda

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nymag.com/intelligence...

What’s remarkable about the U.S. position in all this is its assumed passivity, as if somehow the most powerful country in the world were composed of people with no power. The dance of politics, the obsession with optics, the influence of lobbies, petty careerism, ambition — all of this has eroded something more fundamental: the government’s grasp of the seriousness of life. It has also destroyed any last semblance of accountability. “Elite impunity is the sole remaining area of bipartisan consensus,” said Matt Duss, Bernie Sanders’s former foreign-policy chief and the executive vice-president of the Center for International Policy. “They understand that whatever they do, it’s not going to really hurt them because, you know, Donald Rumsfeld died in his bed.”

June 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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If only everyone in Hollywood could/would be as candid all the time as Tony Gilroy. Although I guess it would also help if everyone were also as smart as Tony Gilroy. (here interviewed by the great @kvanaren.bsky.social)

www.vulture.com/article/tony...

Kathryn VanArendonk: l that attention to detail, I find, has shaped so much of how I remember the show, and how I think about it tonally. There’s this tendency to combine absolutely devastating moments with some little bit of Star Wars–y fabric that shifts the perspective or makes it just a touch absurd. The one that stuck with me for some reason is the shot of Lonni Jung’s corpse on the bench, and then this adorable, ridiculous alien corgi thing wanders by and sniffs at him.

Tony Gilroy: You would be so happy to know how many meetings there were on that stupid dog. I think I approved three different dogs. Like, “Yeah, that dog is fine for me.” “Okay, that dog is also fine for me.” Then people kept raising their hand: “I think it looks like a raccoon.” “I don’t like this dog.” And then Johnny [Gilroy’s brother John, an art designer] would call up and go, “Dude, I think you could push these guys further, because they’re not happy with the dog.” And then what the dog sounds like — I think I approved like three different sounds for the dog. And then they want to name the dog. For the credits! Oh my God, I gotta tell my brother you asked about the dog. He’s gonna laugh.

Kathryn Van Arendonk: Wait, what’s the dog’s name?

Tony Gilroy: I have to go back and look. [Shaking head in exasperation.] I don’t know. I don’t know what the dog’s name is.

May 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM

Kris Miranda

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🙃🙃🙃

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"OGE is many things—a dismantling of the federal government, a political project to flex power and punish perceived enemies—but it is also the logical end point of a strain of thought that’s become popular in Silicon Valley during the boom times of Big Tech and easy money: that building software and writing code aren’t just dominant skills for the 21st century, but proof of competence in any realm. In a post on X this week, John Shedletsky, a developer and an early employee at the popular gaming platform Roblox, summed up the philosophy nicely: “Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn’t we run it?”"

February 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM

Kris Miranda

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I mostly really like the new Monster Manual and don't particularly miss the orc stat blocks, but a book that has a bunch of cool as hell, rigorously playtested orcs with rad art is @hellomcdm.bsky.social's Flee, Mortals! shop.mcdmproductions.com/collections/...

The Orc Godcaller from Flee Mortals, a long-haired orc with fiery veins, playing a big metal war horn, with a smaller horn on their hip.

The Orc Rampart from Flee Mortals, an orc warrior with scale armor, a shield, a spear, and a blue cape.

February 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM

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Text from a receipt confirming a $50 donation to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

January 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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cat

A brownish-gray and white shorthair cat lying on a wool blanket and directly facing the camera

November 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM

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timeline cleanser

A brown and white shorthair cat sitting in a Desk Nest cat bed, which attaches to a desk with an adjustable metal clamp

November 5, 2024 at 10:49 PM

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September 16, 2024 at 6:01 AM

Kris Miranda

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I don't regret cancelling my NYT subscription (got this via gift link in the excellent newsletter Culture Study) but man, no one does it like Caity Weaver