RadioShaq
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Scrappy poster. My promise: no AI slop here (with possible exception for quotations or reposts). I have subscribed to a lot of blue sky starter packs hence my large follow count. I am almost completely certain I’m not a bot
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somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this
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"It always made me feel less alone." I've heard this said by other MST3K fans, and I think it's just about the most gratifying thing you can hear about something you worked on.
Recently I got to talk to Bill Hader about his love of bad late-night movies and #MST3K in particular. Find out his surprising connection to MITCHELL, and whether he was going to be involved with the most recent incarnation of the show, in this fascinating and very funny Q&A.
The Silver Screen Interview: BILL HADER | Hooked to the Silver Screen
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September 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"It always made me feel less alone." I've heard this said by other MST3K fans, and I think it's just about the most gratifying thing you can hear about something you worked on.
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little fall writing pep talk if you need one ❤️https://1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/dont-mind-me-im-just-chasing-the
Don’t Mind Me I’m Just Chasing the Morning Light
A fall pep talk.
1000wordsofsummer.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
little fall writing pep talk if you need one ❤️https://1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/dont-mind-me-im-just-chasing-the
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Another casualty of the LLM revolution.
In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."
In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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November 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Another casualty of the LLM revolution.
In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."
In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."
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"I think that writing ought to make the writer more compassionate, give him a greater understanding of people. You don't become flip, and you don't toss out quick judgments about a man if you're trying to recapture him and his mood in an atmosphere that is also re-created."
William Manchester
William Manchester
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"I think that writing ought to make the writer more compassionate, give him a greater understanding of people. You don't become flip, and you don't toss out quick judgments about a man if you're trying to recapture him and his mood in an atmosphere that is also re-created."
William Manchester
William Manchester
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Halloween Radio: Tales From the Crypt
Adapts EC stories w/solid actors, good production values...and uber-schmucky scripts. Exceptions are the fun "Fare Today, Followed by Increasing Clottiness" w/Keith David and Aasif Mandvi, and "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon", ok fun until a too dumb ending.
Adapts EC stories w/solid actors, good production values...and uber-schmucky scripts. Exceptions are the fun "Fare Today, Followed by Increasing Clottiness" w/Keith David and Aasif Mandvi, and "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon", ok fun until a too dumb ending.
Tales from the Crypt (Radio Series) : EC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Tales from the Crypt is an American radio series spun off from the HBO series of the same name based on the 1950s EC Comics, which ran for eight episodes in...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Halloween Radio: Tales From the Crypt
Adapts EC stories w/solid actors, good production values...and uber-schmucky scripts. Exceptions are the fun "Fare Today, Followed by Increasing Clottiness" w/Keith David and Aasif Mandvi, and "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon", ok fun until a too dumb ending.
Adapts EC stories w/solid actors, good production values...and uber-schmucky scripts. Exceptions are the fun "Fare Today, Followed by Increasing Clottiness" w/Keith David and Aasif Mandvi, and "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon", ok fun until a too dumb ending.
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You are underestimating how popular Alf once was.
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You are underestimating how popular Alf once was.
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Books should not be categorized by genre but by style. Or maybe both.
When I find a writer I like, I want to be able to find more books that read like that, not more books with the same kind of settings and subjects.
When I find a writer I like, I want to be able to find more books that read like that, not more books with the same kind of settings and subjects.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Books should not be categorized by genre but by style. Or maybe both.
When I find a writer I like, I want to be able to find more books that read like that, not more books with the same kind of settings and subjects.
When I find a writer I like, I want to be able to find more books that read like that, not more books with the same kind of settings and subjects.
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I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html
Dr. Demento - Streaming
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October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html
Another great read from the Digital/Analog Antiquarian. I’m loving this ongoing series, feels like perfect timing too, given the current discourse around science and truth. Reading Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson right now, it’s a nice pairing
This week on The Analog Antiquarian: "The Theory of Heliocentrism, Chapter 5: The New Star" analog-antiquarian.net/2025/10/10/c...
Chapter 5: The New Star – The Analog Antiquarian
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October 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Another great read from the Digital/Analog Antiquarian. I’m loving this ongoing series, feels like perfect timing too, given the current discourse around science and truth. Reading Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson right now, it’s a nice pairing
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Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting
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Today I talk to Matt Groening on the show! Portland psychedelia, cartooning, Zappa, the real Homer Simpson, rescue cats. Great talk! Listen up! wtfpod.com
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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October 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Today I talk to Matt Groening on the show! Portland psychedelia, cartooning, Zappa, the real Homer Simpson, rescue cats. Great talk! Listen up! wtfpod.com
Great discussion, of interest for anyone in retro games or Text adventures looking forward to checking out more episodes of this podcast
I had a long talk recently with some nice folks at the DOS Game Club podcast. Our subject was the Infocom game Planetfall. My thanks to the hosts for their kind invitation, and to the other guests for their patience with my rambling! (I'm told that this is the longest episode of the podcast ever.)
DOS GAME CLUB Podcast
Monthly online discussion and roundtable podcast featuring one DOS game per episode.
www.dosgameclub.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great discussion, of interest for anyone in retro games or Text adventures looking forward to checking out more episodes of this podcast
Happy Nebraska day
“I got to wondering, What the hell am I doing?”
Released on this day in 1982, and the subject of a new biopic starring The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, MOJO's David Fricke unearths the real story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s stark masterpiece, Nebraska...
Released on this day in 1982, and the subject of a new biopic starring The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, MOJO's David Fricke unearths the real story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s stark masterpiece, Nebraska...
The Making Of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: “What the hell am I doing?”
Ahead of a new biopic charting its creation starring Jeremy Allen White, MOJO unearths the real story behind Springsteen’s stark masterpiece, Nebraska.
www.mojo4music.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Happy Nebraska day
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Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books
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Folks, it is not good...
Great writeup by @thelincoln.bsky.social on how major book clubs—Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, George W. Bush's daughter—are warping the publishing industry. I would go further and say this influence is very, very bad!
The Book Club Industrial Complex, Speculative Detectives, Remembering Maxine Clair, and Other Sunday Sundries
A Sunday roundup of writing-related things from the past week.
countercraft.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Folks, it is not good...
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“Each incidence of *workslop* carries real costs…. For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.”🧪
September 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“Each incidence of *workslop* carries real costs…. For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.”🧪
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Wishing a very happy birthday to Nick Cave. Celebrate the dark lord of goth turned towering modern day master of song with MOJO’s pick of Cave’s 30 greatest songs...
Nick Cave’s 30 Greatest Songs Ranked
MOJO's team of experts rank and rate Nick Cave's greatest ever songs. 30. Stranger than Kindness 29. Breathless 28. Leviathan...
www.mojo4music.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Wishing a very happy birthday to Nick Cave. Celebrate the dark lord of goth turned towering modern day master of song with MOJO’s pick of Cave’s 30 greatest songs...
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ON THIS DAY IN BEST SHOW HISTORY:
2015: Lil Bub calls the show
2015: Lil Bub calls the show
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ON THIS DAY IN BEST SHOW HISTORY:
2015: Lil Bub calls the show
2015: Lil Bub calls the show
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A library is a graveyard where the dead still speak.
September 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A library is a graveyard where the dead still speak.
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Oh, also -- I would think this would go without saying, but just in case it needs saying, here are two principles of cover design:
1. Don't put anything on a cover that isn't important.
2. If it's important, present it in a way that will best fulfill its purpose.
1. Don't put anything on a cover that isn't important.
2. If it's important, present it in a way that will best fulfill its purpose.
September 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Oh, also -- I would think this would go without saying, but just in case it needs saying, here are two principles of cover design:
1. Don't put anything on a cover that isn't important.
2. If it's important, present it in a way that will best fulfill its purpose.
1. Don't put anything on a cover that isn't important.
2. If it's important, present it in a way that will best fulfill its purpose.
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That's how it works, even now. Does it feel right on the page?
The numbers are irrelevant to the sense of story rightness.
The numbers are irrelevant to the sense of story rightness.
September 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
That's how it works, even now. Does it feel right on the page?
The numbers are irrelevant to the sense of story rightness.
The numbers are irrelevant to the sense of story rightness.
A+ interview with Adam Friedland. Highly recommend immediately listening to the Torres and Steiny interviews right after on the Adam Friedland show
TODAY on The Best Show:
🏄 @adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social chats with Tom
🎳 Sara Hennessey chats her new special, Sara For Once with director Clare O'Kane
🎻 Calls on the topic, WHAT WEIRD SONG MAKES YOU SAD?
Watch live here: youtube.com/bestshow4life
🏄 @adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social chats with Tom
🎳 Sara Hennessey chats her new special, Sara For Once with director Clare O'Kane
🎻 Calls on the topic, WHAT WEIRD SONG MAKES YOU SAD?
Watch live here: youtube.com/bestshow4life
September 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A+ interview with Adam Friedland. Highly recommend immediately listening to the Torres and Steiny interviews right after on the Adam Friedland show
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This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
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I wouldn’t quite say this, even more nicely. But ideas aren’t the hard part.
Some people don’t have them, or more likely don’t recognize them when they do — realizing that you’ve got an idea you can develop is a skill, and once you develop it you’ll never run short of ideas.
And developing them…
Some people don’t have them, or more likely don’t recognize them when they do — realizing that you’ve got an idea you can develop is a skill, and once you develop it you’ll never run short of ideas.
And developing them…
As Kurt Busiek once said (in kinder words):
"Ideas are garbage. Everyone has a million ideas a day. The only thing of value is the ability to turn those ideas into something someone is willing to pay for."
"Ideas are garbage. Everyone has a million ideas a day. The only thing of value is the ability to turn those ideas into something someone is willing to pay for."
anyway to all the ideas guys out there: mine are better and I have the chops to bring them to life, too. get good or leave me alone
August 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I wouldn’t quite say this, even more nicely. But ideas aren’t the hard part.
Some people don’t have them, or more likely don’t recognize them when they do — realizing that you’ve got an idea you can develop is a skill, and once you develop it you’ll never run short of ideas.
And developing them…
Some people don’t have them, or more likely don’t recognize them when they do — realizing that you’ve got an idea you can develop is a skill, and once you develop it you’ll never run short of ideas.
And developing them…