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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A plinky-piano Muzak rendition of Smells Like Teen Spirit. I can’t believe my ears, but then my brain would never construct such a horror.

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Next upon the Dort stage at #newportjazz “The Chicago Underground Duo”. Just trumpet and drums! Cool

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We’re kicking off the #NewportJazzFest with Local Jam. Go Rhode Island locals

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Listening to Il Trovatore @metopera.bsky.social’s “Now Playing” stream. The Anvil Chorus really is awesome.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Guess Who’s Coming to My Dinner with Andre

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The Abominable Doc Phibes @ewdocparris.com · 04/06/2026

Merge two movies: All the President's Men in Black

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish the most recent cat picture on your phone.

My father’s splendid cats looking out the window of a sixth-floor apartment in Manhattan. Dorian, on the left, is an orange chaos goblin of moderate size. Humberto, on the right, is a diminutive gray beauty with elegant white shoes of which my mother always said he was very proud.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Got to go to @metopera.bsky.social last night with @dfphil.bsky.social and my brother. The opera was Turandot: incredible music, insanely over-the-top visual design (an orientalist fever dream), and about the dumbest plot imaginable. The building itself is amazing too.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

These videos by @achronalart.bsky.social (in the thread below) are great. Really interesting and well-researched stuff.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here yet, but not three weeks after we had to say goodbye to our sweet kitty Max, we learned that our other cat, the magnificent Squid, also has cancer. It’s not been a fun time.

Black cat with green eyes and a very long outstretched arm

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

That line from Dune is wrong. Context switching is the mind-killer.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Presumably Anthropic knows that its Claude logo looks like Vonnegut's butthole sketch?

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I miss this goofy little cat so much.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

We had to say goodbye to our adorable sweet silly kitty Maxie last week. Just 3 weeks prior, he suddenly fell ill with a very aggressive cancer. Here is Max with @dfphil.bsky.social in better days.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is the best answer to AI slop. What a fantastic duo (if you're into microtonal math rock and weird costumes, but really, who isn't). I admire their commitment to the bit, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I liked this cocktail. Also @dfphil.bsky.social has taken a very nice photo of it. Pardon the raggedy-ass lemon wheel - he was using up a lemon that had already sacrificed its zest to garnishes

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I’m on my way to India for an exciting two weeks of delivering trainings and meeting with colleagues. I’m supposed to be flying through Doha. Except now airspace all over the Middle East is closed and my flight is diverting to Athens. What’s the betting line on when (whether) I’ll get to India

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sadly I don't have the network of desi friends on here that I once had on Twitter, but in case it's of interest: I'm heading off to Hyderabad and Bangalore to meet with some colleagues, so if anyone in either city wants to meet up in the next two weeks, drop me a line.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Anthony Trollope Neal Stephenson Patricia Highsmith Margaret Atwood Anne Tyler

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This was quite nice. As @dfphil.bsky.social says, the St Germain is a much more subtle flavor than the Violette so to balance the drink it needs more St Germain and less Maraschino than an Aviation.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Hey, New York, happy new mayor! 🎉

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

You know, compared to 2025, mid is just fine. I’ll take it.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This happened to us at the same jazz club (different night) where I used the ladies' room at the same time as Anat Cohen and washed my hands at the sink next to her but was too bashful to say anything.

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I’ll go with having Simon Phillips (session drummer for Pete Townshend, Judas Priest, Tears for Fears, Hiromi…) hold the door for me after a Hiromi set.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Here is my pic of the cocktail. It’s yummy.

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

But beware when the cleaners come. I had to learn to carefully put the dabba away where they couldn’t flip it over

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I liked the taste, but I have a psychological block about egg whites. Not because of salmonella, but because it’s uncomfortable to think about my drink being full of snot

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.

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dfphil @dfphil.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I didn’t take a picture but tonight’s drink was the Arnaud Martini thanks to Anders Erickson. It’s equal parts gin, blanco vermouth, and crème de cassis. Tasty, though next time I might cut back on the cassis. youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...

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How to Make the Arnaud Martini

YouTube video by Anders Erickson

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Google used to get this query right. Another triumph for AI

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Michelle Hoover @michellehooverauth.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Please join me 11/20 for a memorial reading for Esmond Harmsworth, literary friend to many. We’ll be at @portersqbooks.bsky.social. Readers include Jedediah Berry, Lisa Borders, Christopher Castellani, Michelle Hoover, Emily Franklin, Milo Todd, & more. portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...

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Esmond Harmsworth Memorial Reading

The following writers will each read a selection of their work: Jedediah Berry, Lisa Borders, Gary Braver, Christopher Castellani, George Harrar, Michelle Hoover, Emily Franklin, Sarah Smith, Milo Todd, and Liza Tully.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

One of the writer teams I am working with these days is in Bangalore. They are great folks and their product area is new to me and interesting. I love working with them. But the time difference is a bear. I just finished a meeting that began at 6AM my time. 😑

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

@dfphil.bsky.social and I once went to a restaurant that prided itself on its wine pairings. We asked the server for his recommendation based on what we ordered and he said, “Well, halibut just *screams* Chardonnay.”

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

LLMs: Doing a shitty job of what Markov-chain models were tolerably good at, since 2023.

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