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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's getting about time for me to take up a new career, and i'm thinking chestnut farmer this time

Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i recently read something in which a bunch of bay area EA/rats are interviewed and one of them is scott alexander and he says, "oh yeah we did all the hard stuff already with AI so now it's just finishing the easy stuff, the lizard brain stuff" and i was like hold up

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my husband and i both use Claude routinely, although for different purposes, and every time i see people talking about "AI," both pro and con, i just have no idea what anyone is talking about. nothing anyone says seems to line up with mine or chris's actual experience of using the thing.

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i keep feeling awful that my son seems to have inherited my ADHD and is kind of suffering from it right now and jesus god it hurts seeing him suffer and then otoh reminding myself that when i was his age my parents were just shitty to me whereas i am showing up to give him appropriate support so idk

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

have recently discovered that United Healthcare has really terrible mental health coverage, specifically, and, well, that does make some events easier to understand

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ah yes my old friend matt "women just like to do housework they don't really need to do, can't explain that" yglesias

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

the america A/america B thing is really people who have bullshit jobs and people who don't

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what hanania's story illustrates is that there is no social cost to misogyny, and i'm glad @aselrod.bsky.social noticed, if no one else has. liberals do discuss it as specifically a right-wing/Trumpist theme, but don't take enough responsibility for their own role.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/09/2026

"but as the map recursively improves, eventually it becomes..." *clicks to final slide in the pitch deck* "...the territory!"

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i don't think i have too many haskell people following me here anymore, but just in case:

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i haven't finished reading this yet but i have to post it for the cover art alone substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick

Why not put some whale facts chapters in your WIP?

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Chris Martin @chris--martin.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

"I never thought leopards would pirate MY content" - everybody who generously seeded the leopard to leopard distribution network

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

love to exercise at home, love when i'm doing my flexibility and breathing exercises there on the floor while the cat vomits next to me. can't get that in a yoga studio.

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the book is called The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, seems innocent enough. picked it up thinking it was going to be a straightforward history sort of thing, instead i am instantly thrown into the Trash Can of Ideology.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Many of the people Labor Day is celebrating don't get Labor Day off, so if you go out to eat on Labor Day leave an unreasonably big tip. That way we can preserve the spirit of the holiday.

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

gonna start making the birds that visit my elderberries sign an agreement that they can have all the elderberries (and/or insects) they can eat so long as once per hour they pose for a nice photo for the nice lady watching through the windows

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

boosting this because we have an urgent need to figure out what to do for this person whom we love who is really struggling atm

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i admit i used to think the paperclip maximizer thing was stupid, because, jfc, just pull the plug! shut down the grid if that's what it takes to save us from the paperclip maximizer! but now i see that any people who might be able to make that decision would spend the last days of humanity arguing.

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i have succeeded in getting myself scheduled for an MRI, but i have not as yet any promise that i will ever be allowed to see a doctor who knows anything about headaches

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

most of them are western tanagers and i didn't recognize them at first because there aren't any of the males with the characteristic blaze on their heads. where have the boys gone? no idea but the gals are absolutely demolishing my elderberries, god bless. get fat for winter ladies, love you.

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry in the Unsettling of America: "It is rarely considered that this average citizen is anxious because he *ought* to be... He ought to be anxious, because he is helpless."

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

i am never going to get over the fact that i have talked to so many doctors about my "insomnia" and the best they can do is tell me to try to relax (i did finally coax some ambien out of one) and within two hours of using Claude to dig through stuff i knew what was wrong with me and how to fix it

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Chris Martin @chris--martin.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I mean, come on, you know what school was like. None of your classmates read jack shit. Your doctors and therapists probably didn't either.

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

sometimes i sit down here at the machine and i'm like, Ah Yes I am going to catch up now on the latest news, but there's some kind of yellow warblers or yellowthroats in my elderberry bushes and they fly around very fast and i'm sorry but nothing on the internet is as important to me as they are

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

doctor has asked me previously if i have "tried taking melatonin" and didn't ask anything else about it when i said it didn't help Claude: from what you're describing, taking low-dose melatonin earlier, 6-8 p.m. would help, here are some links to SciHub (I CANNOT HOWEVER DIAGNOSE YOU)

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

migraines seem to have slipped over from being episodic to chronic and my doctor is still like, "oh sure there are some medications that might help but you don't want that"

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Chris Martin @chris--martin.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Yardwork is one of the places where the tradeoffs of mechanization are most visible to me. There are powered machine that make fairly quick and complete work of laborious chores, but they do so by turning a pleasant day of a family working together into one intense noisy activity dad does by […]

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

very offensive to me that the bots have been allowed to say things that humans say for performative casualness reasons ("hang tight," "no worries") bots have no reason to speak this way! there is no casualness to perform here!

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

difficult to know where to hide money now that literally every adult has lost their entire goddamn minds

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

we must keep and protect weirdos who do stuff like this

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

as we're waiting in the queue to go up and receive communion, everyone who is on their way back to their seat is touching friends on the shoulder or arm in greeting, shaking hands, smiling at each other. i think i don't care if anyone believes in god, more people need this in their lives.

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Chris Martin @chris--martin.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

We will be remembered as the era that talked about the end of scarcity while enjoying the last of the abundance

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

thinking about designing a utopia, hmu if you want in

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sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If you would like to make your five-year-old daughter scream, location is in the alt text.

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

unfortunately (or fortunately?) i managed, in homeschool, to convey to my kids very intuitive understandings of a lot of science and math concepts and not a lot of "answer 10 multiple choice math questions in 5 minutes" kind of skill. i'm not super convinced the latter is useful outside school.

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

this is really neat! saving this to use with my grandkids lol

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

the strange thing is, i'm starting to feel this way about almost all online writing, not just LLM-generated writing. almost no one has anything new to say! no one is ever off the computer so everything they have to say is just recycled stuff people say on the computer!

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

chris has this memory for exact quotes, particularly when he heard them rather than read them but even from reading he seems to remember exact details, while i never remember exact quotes or details because my mind seems to always be "gisting" everything

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

one of my least popular opinions, surely, is that science fiction is pretty awful as a genre, but neal stephenson is an exception

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

i read a whole article about trying to recapture platinum from roadside dust just because they kept using the phrase "the complexity of the dust matrix"

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

good thread, and interesting to me that reid and chris landed in such a similar place on this topic

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

i said my husband talks about Claude a lot, and this is the upshot: it's about as helpful in his job as IntelliJ was 16 years ago, maybe a little more just because LLMs, with a deep history of machine translation, help with the translation tasks between the various languages a programmer has to know

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

me: why am i so tired chris: because you have been working ceaselessly for 20 years

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

i'm never going to recover from the incident in which i was re-telling James Marriott's "Post-Literate Society" to a table full of people younger than me and one bright young zoomer said, "oh yeah i think i saw a video about that"

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

i'm not quite at this stage, but, look, if your husband works with Claude, he is going to talk about Claude a lot and you, well, you're still going to be in the desert of the real

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

it's crazy to have lived through this cycle where shipping wasn't usually fast, through the onset of modern Amazon-driven logistics, to now it's so "over-optimized" that it's become unreliable again so now if i actually need something i have to go to a store, no matter how far away it is

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Monoid Mary @argumatronic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

we're going to democratize app-making what that means for you, the consumer, is that soon you'll be pestered by your neighborhood lemonade stand kids and church youth pastors to install their apps

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