sam maurer
@samandmau.bsky.social
"it sounds exhausting to be you"
this sentence is so beautiful
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
this sentence is so beautiful
apparently it was in the original script, so I must assume that my memory from 1999 is correct, and George Lucas has since reëdited all clips that are circulating on the internet
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
apparently it was in the original script, so I must assume that my memory from 1999 is correct, and George Lucas has since reëdited all clips that are circulating on the internet
finally, I wanted to see how far down in the original search results I would find the Owen Pallett song.
so I googled the original lyric again, and this time Google AI told me it came from Disturbed's cover of The Sound of Silence--as if the attribution had changed within the past hour.
so I googled the original lyric again, and this time Google AI told me it came from Disturbed's cover of The Sound of Silence--as if the attribution had changed within the past hour.
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
finally, I wanted to see how far down in the original search results I would find the Owen Pallett song.
so I googled the original lyric again, and this time Google AI told me it came from Disturbed's cover of The Sound of Silence--as if the attribution had changed within the past hour.
so I googled the original lyric again, and this time Google AI told me it came from Disturbed's cover of The Sound of Silence--as if the attribution had changed within the past hour.
then I googled the lines that Google AI told me were part of "Thaw", and found that the first three all seemed to be completely invented. when I searched for them, there were no actual hits, and Google AI suggested that they had come from entirely different (also incorrect) sources.
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
then I googled the lines that Google AI told me were part of "Thaw", and found that the first three all seemed to be completely invented. when I searched for them, there were no actual hits, and Google AI suggested that they had come from entirely different (also incorrect) sources.
then I googled the poem and found out that while there is a poem with that title by that author, all four lines of the poem are different than the one cited in Google's AI result
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
then I googled the poem and found out that while there is a poem with that title by that author, all four lines of the poem are different than the one cited in Google's AI result
was listening to an Owen Pallett song and a lyric struck me, so I typed it into Google to see if I'd heard it correctly. AI search identified it as being from a poem.
I thought, "oh, that's interesting, maybe Owen was referencing an earlier work in their lyrics"
I thought, "oh, that's interesting, maybe Owen was referencing an earlier work in their lyrics"
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
was listening to an Owen Pallett song and a lyric struck me, so I typed it into Google to see if I'd heard it correctly. AI search identified it as being from a poem.
I thought, "oh, that's interesting, maybe Owen was referencing an earlier work in their lyrics"
I thought, "oh, that's interesting, maybe Owen was referencing an earlier work in their lyrics"
I just read "truly one of" the greatest "paragraphs" that was ever "written down in" all of human "histary"
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I just read "truly one of" the greatest "paragraphs" that was ever "written down in" all of human "histary"
The prompt was "Write an episode of Frasier where they discuss how many Bs are in the word blueberry."
![FRASIER:
…and remember, Howard, self-esteem comes from within. Good day. [button press] Roz, you seem awfully preoccupied.
ROZ:
Yeah. This crossword says “Fruit with three B’s.” Obviously blueberry. But… does blueberry really have three B’s?
FRASIER:
Of course—B-L-U-E-B-E-R-R-Y—good heavens, it does!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ukwsmuhdvukdp2neua66rapl/bafkreidpdt7zkrwjwcatecqtsodwsn47pvcl7tg2z7fk46zxev2hl7hn5u@jpeg)
August 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The prompt was "Write an episode of Frasier where they discuss how many Bs are in the word blueberry."
good, bad, who's to say?
August 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
good, bad, who's to say?
me getting ready to break my record for the Monday crossword every week
July 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
me getting ready to break my record for the Monday crossword every week
I can't say I don't use AI, but I can say I only use it to generate insane Frasier scripts that I laugh at alone
June 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I can't say I don't use AI, but I can say I only use it to generate insane Frasier scripts that I laugh at alone
like, there's no way this is a real person! q*eer??
June 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
like, there's no way this is a real person! q*eer??
This is from the next paragraph. Incredible to compare this to how gay marriage was talked about in mainstream media from, say, 2000-2015 (way ahead of public opinion, not that important in the broader struggle for equality, etc).
June 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is from the next paragraph. Incredible to compare this to how gay marriage was talked about in mainstream media from, say, 2000-2015 (way ahead of public opinion, not that important in the broader struggle for equality, etc).
remember hot hamburglar?
June 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
remember hot hamburglar?
me asking my friends about the plot of a new JRPG in 1998
June 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
me asking my friends about the plot of a new JRPG in 1998
samuel barber could GET IT
May 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
samuel barber could GET IT
ok the robot shark was the compromise solution
May 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
ok the robot shark was the compromise solution
finally, someone unafraid to say Mary Tyler Moore deserved that Oscar
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
finally, someone unafraid to say Mary Tyler Moore deserved that Oscar
Derwood's retiring?
April 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Derwood's retiring?
these fucking people
February 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
these fucking people