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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

How can you be against AI when it says stuff like this

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

word of the day: eierlegende Wollmilchsau

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Ingres, Portrait of the Countess of Tournon (1812)

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

olaf stapledon's graph of a two hundred billion year time scale for his novel Last and First Men (1930)

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I thought this "welcome to Turkey, we invented bread!" promo on Turkish Airlines had to be hyperbole, but I stand corrected

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

let's bring back book titles with five "et ceteras" in them

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

i think i've set a record with my library fines

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Please, NYT cooking…not gochujang snickerdoodles…I can’t take it anymore…

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

George Eliot on AI (1879): "the planet may be filled with [inorganic] beings who...will execute changes as...complicated as those of human language...without sensitive impression: there may be...mute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions, and no consciousness there even to enjoy the silence"

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We should have anticipated that AI models would become the "fastest depreciating asset in human history" purely from the fact that the university of chicago purchased one

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

He regularly shows up at 7pm to demand I stop working

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Darwin to Hooker, 1865: "how funny men's minds are! he says he is chiefly converted [to my views in Origin of Species] because my books make the Birth of Christ, Redemption by Grace, etc., plain to him!"

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I love a table of contents that is also a poem

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"the Kosmos, in whose joints we are but moss and fungus" is so dramatic. (Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et Umbra")

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

just imagine if your name were "Cloudesley Brereton"

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Reveries of World History: From Earth's Nebulous Origin to its Final Ruin, or, The Romance of a Star

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

found a one-sentence horror movie in an 1879 psychology manual: "such unfortunate individuals are sane only when confined in an asylum"

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

So brave of Top Banker to put his name to this quote

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Samuel Butler came up with the idea of artificial intelligence in 1863 and then wrote a novel about people who banned it because they knew how disastrous it would be

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

love that this little press went with a sexy greek astronaut illustration for their SF series

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Arthur Symons, "The Decadent Movement in Literature": "Healthy we cannot call it, and healthy it does not wish to be considered."

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Apple Intelligence thinks this is a bagel

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The Wedgwood cabbageware is a “need” not a “want”

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is mortifying but in my defense I got two cats this year

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Every story about someone “outsmarting” their cat is a story about a cat training its human

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Now that I have a cat, I know exactly where the warmest spots in my house are

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My thanksgiving tradition is tormenting the children with upsetting ice cream flavors. This year I am making matcha/black sesame swirl!

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Ok, who hired Stephen Sondheim to write their ad copy?

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

They don’t make them like this anymore

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Struggling to to think of something more dystopian than TJ Maxx using “digital gait analysis” to profile potential shoplifters

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

When this happens it’s actually illegal to get up before the cat does

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Hmmmm which gay novel do I take on my big trip

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

Bought a house so that I can replace all the normal light switches with these

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

You can’t make baba ghanoush without roasting some 🍆🍆🍆🍆

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Donna Tartt’s The Secret History makes passing reference to “a study of Victorian murderesses put out by the Harvard University Press,” and the book actually exists! (but not from HUP)

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Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

if my name were Steven Sleeper, I too would want to manage an inn in Provincetown

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