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Husband, father, writer, wandering ninja, menagerie inmate, graduate physics student. Lurking at lanceschonberg.com, sometimes even posting.
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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
Someone once wrote that life goes in several cycles of birthday parties, weddings, and funerals. Not thinking about it too hard, but my kids are entering the first cycle of weddings and I'm coming into the second. Oldest daughter's best friend's wedding today.
August 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Someone once wrote that life goes in several cycles of birthday parties, weddings, and funerals. Not thinking about it too hard, but my kids are entering the first cycle of weddings and I'm coming into the second. Oldest daughter's best friend's wedding today.
Hello Blue Sky. I have been neglectful and I'm sorry. Today is a new day.
August 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Hello Blue Sky. I have been neglectful and I'm sorry. Today is a new day.
My oldest daughter is binge watching Star Trek Voyager, and has burned through a season and a half. In the last few days. I've been in the room in the enough to realize I'd forgotten just how inconsistent the writing was for Neelix in the early seasons.
July 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My oldest daughter is binge watching Star Trek Voyager, and has burned through a season and a half. In the last few days. I've been in the room in the enough to realize I'd forgotten just how inconsistent the writing was for Neelix in the early seasons.
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NEW MONTH, NEW MURDERS
Are you obsessed with all things morbid? Do you love the idea of having a custom story? Want to support human authors?
Hire me to write you a death scene! ko-fi.com/post/New-Mon...
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Are you obsessed with all things morbid? Do you love the idea of having a custom story? Want to support human authors?
Hire me to write you a death scene! ko-fi.com/post/New-Mon...
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New Month, New Murders
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July 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
NEW MONTH, NEW MURDERS
Are you obsessed with all things morbid? Do you love the idea of having a custom story? Want to support human authors?
Hire me to write you a death scene! ko-fi.com/post/New-Mon...
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Are you obsessed with all things morbid? Do you love the idea of having a custom story? Want to support human authors?
Hire me to write you a death scene! ko-fi.com/post/New-Mon...
1/4
Disturbing considering the generally untrustworthiness of those summaries, like anything else produced by "AI". There are better search engines that don't seem to manipulate my results and a couple of them seem to not even do ads.
Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
![Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfoctmk4guq56gensuermj7q/bafkreihrwrukrvisav54a24jeuv7tlhfwe62yvui5d27gxhnopbdworowe@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Disturbing considering the generally untrustworthiness of those summaries, like anything else produced by "AI". There are better search engines that don't seem to manipulate my results and a couple of them seem to not even do ads.
A piece at a time, I'm trying to divest myself of some big tech influence. Liking Vivaldi browser so far and experimenting with a couple of non-US search engines.
July 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A piece at a time, I'm trying to divest myself of some big tech influence. Liking Vivaldi browser so far and experimenting with a couple of non-US search engines.
Trying to relax and build the strength to just let today's political wreckage wash over me. But experience has taught me, in the immortal words of Howard Jones, time will wear away the stone.
July 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Trying to relax and build the strength to just let today's political wreckage wash over me. But experience has taught me, in the immortal words of Howard Jones, time will wear away the stone.
Hanging out in the local Service Ontario to get an official answer I already know.
July 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Hanging out in the local Service Ontario to get an official answer I already know.
I may be too jaded for a cheesy cinematic superhero romp. The messaging is great. I enjoyed the soundtrack, the casting was good, the acting solid, the effects excellent, the writing… well, the casting was good, the acting solid, and the effects excellent. And the messaging is great. #Superman
July 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I may be too jaded for a cheesy cinematic superhero romp. The messaging is great. I enjoyed the soundtrack, the casting was good, the acting solid, the effects excellent, the writing… well, the casting was good, the acting solid, and the effects excellent. And the messaging is great. #Superman
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xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
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July 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Apparently, today is the 49th anniversary of the first public performance by The Clash. I wasn't there, but somehow it makes me feel old.
July 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Apparently, today is the 49th anniversary of the first public performance by The Clash. I wasn't there, but somehow it makes me feel old.
How I spent my afternoon.
June 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
How I spent my afternoon.
This is seriously good advice, and not just for writing, I think, but for any endeavor, whether it's perceived as creative or not. Writing, science, martial arts, you name it. Suck, put in the work, get better. That middle piece is important.
Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.
June 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is seriously good advice, and not just for writing, I think, but for any endeavor, whether it's perceived as creative or not. Writing, science, martial arts, you name it. Suck, put in the work, get better. That middle piece is important.
So I'd like to be shocked at the giant step the Orange Menace has taken us all towards WW III, but I'm not.
June 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
So I'd like to be shocked at the giant step the Orange Menace has taken us all towards WW III, but I'm not.
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Donald Trump bombed Iran tonight, not because they are about to have nuclear weapons (they are not), but because he needed a distraction from his tanking poll numbers and his deeply unpopular "Big Beautiful Bill."
He doesn't care who gets killed, Iranians or Americans, to help HIM.
He doesn't care who gets killed, Iranians or Americans, to help HIM.
June 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Donald Trump bombed Iran tonight, not because they are about to have nuclear weapons (they are not), but because he needed a distraction from his tanking poll numbers and his deeply unpopular "Big Beautiful Bill."
He doesn't care who gets killed, Iranians or Americans, to help HIM.
He doesn't care who gets killed, Iranians or Americans, to help HIM.
So dandelion wine is a thing I can make now, but gods is it sweet.
June 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So dandelion wine is a thing I can make now, but gods is it sweet.
At the vet this morning with one of the Feline Overlords. She is not happy about the peasant uprising that had her wind up here but refuses to dignify the situation with a reaction, instead staying in the carrier and waiting to be carried home again.
June 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
At the vet this morning with one of the Feline Overlords. She is not happy about the peasant uprising that had her wind up here but refuses to dignify the situation with a reaction, instead staying in the carrier and waiting to be carried home again.
I don't watch a lot of actual TV, but sometimes when you're stuck in a hotel and your eyes hurt from staring at the computer screen for too long, you need to look at something farther way.
And seriously, how is hockey season not over yet?
And seriously, how is hockey season not over yet?
June 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I don't watch a lot of actual TV, but sometimes when you're stuck in a hotel and your eyes hurt from staring at the computer screen for too long, you need to look at something farther way.
And seriously, how is hockey season not over yet?
And seriously, how is hockey season not over yet?
I don't think you could pay me to travel to the US right now. And if my institution wanted to send me for some kind of conference, I would politely say no. I have friends south of the border, and whether I've said anything to them or not, I worry about them quite regularly in the current climate.
June 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I don't think you could pay me to travel to the US right now. And if my institution wanted to send me for some kind of conference, I would politely say no. I have friends south of the border, and whether I've said anything to them or not, I worry about them quite regularly in the current climate.
Not at all surprised, but rather glad he's left the country.
Donald Trump arrived in Canada and demanded that Russia be admitted into the G7. He falsely claimed Canada had Russia kicked out.
He refused to work out a deal with allies on the Middle East crisis and he left town before President Zelensky showed up.
Surprised?
He refused to work out a deal with allies on the Middle East crisis and he left town before President Zelensky showed up.
Surprised?
June 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Not at all surprised, but rather glad he's left the country.
I'm a huge fan of imposter syndrome. I work really hard so no one sees how hard I'm working just to keep up.
But I'm so tired right now and it's hard to cut myself any slack.
But I'm so tired right now and it's hard to cut myself any slack.
June 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'm a huge fan of imposter syndrome. I work really hard so no one sees how hard I'm working just to keep up.
But I'm so tired right now and it's hard to cut myself any slack.
But I'm so tired right now and it's hard to cut myself any slack.
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everyone else at the G7 summit
June 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
everyone else at the G7 summit
Sadly saying goodbye to Halifax this morning, but I do have to get back to summertime normal by Monday.
And the pups are going to be so excited to see me. My family too, maybe.
And the pups are going to be so excited to see me. My family too, maybe.
June 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sadly saying goodbye to Halifax this morning, but I do have to get back to summertime normal by Monday.
And the pups are going to be so excited to see me. My family too, maybe.
And the pups are going to be so excited to see me. My family too, maybe.