Nick Seaver
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Nick Seaver
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welcome to my feed
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Good morning, friends!
February 8, 2026 at 11:37 AM
what is "detoxify the dopamine loops"
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 AM
someone taught my children that it’s called “paper scissors rock”
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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Trove Of Emails About Pedophilia Reignites Nation’s Love Of Reading https://theonion.com/trove-of-emails-about-pedophilia-reignites-nations-love-of-reading/
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
the old inverse mechanical turk, great
February 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."

This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Today's Daily Mothra! 🦋

🎥 "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep" (1966)
a close up of a moth with blue eyes and mountains in the background
ALT: a close up of a moth with blue eyes and mountains in the background
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:45 AM
oh hello, Dan Deacon playing in Cambridge on super bowl sunday, is it 40-year-old nerd christmas
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
one of the big issues with Claude Code is that telling a computer what to do in natural language is embarrassing
February 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I asked my daughter what she thought of GODZILLA MINUS ONE and she said, “two words: plot armor.” Raising a hater.
February 3, 2026 at 12:06 AM
they call me the ahab of corduroy, the way I’m searching for that wide wale
February 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
imagine thinking this is bad, did he watch An American Tail as a child and get really mad or something
January 31, 2026 at 7:15 PM
very fun:

1. Systems and Their Theory
2. Anthropology of Sound
3. Art and Ideology
4. The Medieval Book
5. White Masculinity and Sexuality in US Popular Culture
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 PM
nice concretizing of the core idea in the history of information overload: overload isn’t a matter of quantity alone, it requires a certain kind of subject to feel overwhelmed. (the early modern scholar who wants to have read every book in the library, the RSS reader who wants inbox zero)
I love this thoughtful and beautifully presented piece by @terry.social.godier.me.ap.brid.gy (found via @tyfromtheinternet.com’s newsletter), on the anxiety of unread counts and the questionable evolution of app design.

“Phantom obligation — the guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do.”
Phantom Obligation
Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.
www.terrygodier.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 
www.thedartmouth.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
every day of my traps class this semester I think of that tweet that was like "to catch the bus, you have to think like a bus"
January 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM
what... is in it?
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 PM
one of the best things about THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966) is how everyone calls the monsters “Frankensteins”
January 29, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Shout Factory is doing a livestream marathon of Godzilla movies right now, should you need it.

All Monsters Attack (1969)
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
The War of the Gargantuas (1966) (not Godzilla but very awesome)
GODZILLA Movie Marathon | FULL MOVIES @TokuSHOUTsu
YouTube video by Shout! Studios
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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fascists can’t really grasp the power of minimal techno
January 26, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Therapist: “sexy nurse jet jaguar”?

sexy nurse jet jaguar:
January 26, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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When God sings with his creations, will a horrible frog-man abomination not be part of the choir?
Do you reckon he's heaven-bound
January 26, 2026 at 12:27 PM