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D-Mod @d-mod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Random 💬s: -‘philosopher of play’ C. Thi Nguyen eg ‘The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game’ (2026). His pod convo w Chris Hayes (‘Siren’s Call…” 2025) was especially great - Techdirt’s series on ‘the metric is not the mission’

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D-Mod @d-mod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just don’t use an Acme piano

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Would be an interesting Gospel seeing as how Coyote seems the ultimate shape-shifting trickster destroyer creator…..doesn’t a Gospel by definition have to hold *something* steady? 🤔😏

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😳. I did not know that

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A couple of thoughtful #MindscapePodcast listeners have set up useful web pages for those who want to dig into the vast trove of past discussions. Summary here: www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll...

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New Useful Web Pages | Sean Carroll

Listener Andy Jiang has thoughtfully set up a web site where anyone can search through all the AMAs: http://mindscapesear.ch/ Meanwhile Max

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 30/09/2026

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

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BTW did you read Lopez 1st book on Wolves—& what did you think? I can’t even remember if it was a particularly good book or not, but speaking of ‘new’ genres, I do remember thinking at the time that this Many-Roads approach was interesting and impressive

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Matthew Kerns @matthewkerns.com · 18/09/2026

Matthew I’m still wrasslin w a Dillard post of my own...but can’t get past the ‘adolescent rambling journal entry’ stage so.. might not make it I do however re-read yours every few days and think ‘yeah—that’s what I mean. That’. Could do a lot worse than just let that stand

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Annie Dillard died Tuesday at 81. I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in high school, because I thought I liked nature writing and I thought that's what this book was. I read her wrong, and it took about a quarter of a century before I read her right. www.matthewkerns.com/blog/annie-d...

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Annie Dillard 1945-2026

The Wrong Angle Annie Dillard died on Tuesday at her home in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, in a house that looks out over a cove. She was 81. I read a couple of obituaries in the New York Times and...

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D-Mod @d-mod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Matt your essay is SO so beautiful…& you captured much of what made her a special writer, which 98% of today’s obits simply missed, imo I’ll be along later with some thoughts of my own. Dillard snapped open my eyes at an impressionable age and few other writers shaped my innards as she did

D-Mod @d-mod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“indefensible” is one word for it “Unimaginable” might be another “WTF is anybody *thinking* these days🤯?” even closer

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Don’t look at us 😏

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TBH and SFM, the firmament cracks every time “it’s been nine years” enters awareness

These days, it seems harder and harder to talk about any one point on the “AI” continuum without activating strong feels about the whole AI bucket 2/2

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O sir, would you mind sliding that lid off that anthill over there? 😏 But seriously, “use of AI” falls into buckets, & on a continuum eg: - ‘cleaning up’ rough live audio/video - adding instruments (eg horns) that never existed - entirely new AI-gen SD “songs” .. and everything in between 1/2

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D-Mod @d-mod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

… or each waiting for the other to make a move 😏 BTW, photo by Sandrine Lee

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Hey — where’d everybody go?