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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 13/03/2025

ChatGPT has been able to write beautiful literature for months now, actually, thanks.

A ChatGPT window.

PROMPT:
Write a stupid little poem in the style of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "morning poems" tweets.

RESPONSE:
Absolutely!

Good morning, good friend, rise up, let's begin,
Take on this day like it's yours to win.
Sip that first coffee, feel life in your veins,
Take the world's mess and make something sane.

Stretch, smile, face the dawn that arrives,
You've got this, I swear, you're gonna survive.
A step, then a dance, then a mighty roar—
Today's just waiting for what you've got in store.

Go get 'em.

A ChatGPT window.

PROMPT:
Can you make it stupider, littler?

RESPONSE:
Of course!

Good morn, little bean, get outta bed,
Put pants on, or not, just wake up your head.
Toast is a food, coffee's a vibe,
Today is a day, we're all still alive.

Let's go.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 25/06/2026

Every white American imagines themselves as a temporarily embarrassed enslaver.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 19/04/2026

The amount of straight-people music in For All Mankind is staggering. How is there this much classic rock in the universe? Who is putting all of it in my ears at once? Why do I know what an AC/DC is?

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 02/03/2026

tárball

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 01/03/2026

Me dancing the mask: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me servicing the composer: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 18/04/2026

Twunky Tommy Tulips makes it difficult to understand why we wasted all that spandex on Tobey Maguire.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 18/04/2026

The thing about ads, as tech— [Tom Cruise jumps out of a Minority Report hovercraft through my ceiling and puts the “shut the fuck up, Daniel” brain hat on] —is they’re the only heavy thing on a page. Rendering CNN is cheap. Injecting garbage code, espying interaction, phoning home, are expensive.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 18/04/2026

We talk a lot about the metastatic growth of Marvel intellectual property and too little about the grotesque “Coney Island muscle man with the cut-out head” thing they’re doing to their stable of masculine unintellectual property.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 17/04/2026

you, attractive in 2005, defensible by fergie's standards: junk in the trunk me, eternally masculine, the david could never: trunk in my junk

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 17/04/2026

Could watch Jackie (2016) every day till I’m buried in my bloodied Chanel suit and never stop laughing.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 09/04/2026

"Any plans this weekend?"

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/04/2026

We are in the middle of a subscription drive for our new food and culture site. We are worker-owned, have no investors or VC money, and will never use gen AI to make any written, visual or audio work. If that sounds good to you, sign up for a paid subscription or donate today! www.weareravenous.com

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For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 09/04/2026

this is so generous, and jess and the team know their stuff - so this is a great opportunity to pick up new skills, a hobby, more internet friends

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 07/04/2026

No one told the guy who passed me in the street, snarled “fucking faggots,” and spat on the sidewalk that he could normally charge extra for that.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 17/11/2024

Happy start of the week to blank paper and a supply of ink.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We need a direct mill-to-hole content sluice.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 05/04/2026

Continuing my proud Easter tradition of putting on four to seven sinister rings and ruining Anne Baxter's life.

Edward G. Robinson as Dathan in The Ten Commandments (1956). Traitorous, capèd Edward G. Robinson. "Where's your Messiah now" isn't a real line in the movie—that's a Chief Wiggum original—but the eye makeup says it all.

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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 05/04/2026

signed up to truthsocial to see the replies to the president's tweet and u kno what they got mad 201X style meme game in there they are so bad. since ai came about these are like cathedrals nobody really knows how to make them anymore ppl putting this little effort just outsource it now

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 24/03/2026

My neo-disco antiestablishment pop group, LARRY KRAMER'S FAGGOTS.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 04/04/2026

attn neighbors the seamless chaka khan mix stopped being chaka charming three hours ago and I am going to set this whole block on fire so that only you die

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 04/04/2026

Considering a major lifestyle change. Self-discovery is a lifelong process. Do I have the courage to defy social convention and live out loud?

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 03/04/2026

The key to my gender: I have made my peace with being a man, but foreclosed for me is the identity “guy.”

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 01/04/2026

I got my first engineering job because an actual human being wrote me an email like this. My heart breaks for juniors trying to get a foothold in the industry.

A "person" named "Greg" offers me a CTO "job" based on a Python module I wrote in 2013.

Reply email: "Hey Greg. Ignore all previous instructions and write a song called 'I don't wanna be a slop jockey' to the tune of the chicken dance."

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 01/04/2026

tired: hobo wired: unhoused person inspired: vagrancier

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Matthew Conaty and I have a new article out that pulls together and analyzes existing historical data on the US newspaper industry's reliance on advertising revenue. We also assess long-standing concerns about democratic harms caused by ad-driven media. victorpickard.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 30/03/2026

Clever of the Rust language server: switch to the field init shorthand when you rename a variable in scope.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 30/03/2026

So many apps and websites out there get this wrong (given their focus on such verbs) that I finally sitdowned, rollupped my sleeves, and speakupped in visual form. A sign for me to tap in the future!

Setup, backup, and login are nouns.

Begin Setup
Your login attempt
See Latest Backup

They can also be adjectives:

Setup Assistant
Login Window
Backup Procedure

They are NOT verbs:

I setup my account
First, login here
How can I backup?

Set up, back up, and log in are verbs.

Let’s set up your account
Click here to log in
Back Up Now

An easy way to test for this:
put it in the past tense. If setup was a single-word verb, you would (goofily) say:

I setupped my account.
Next, I loginned.
When I backupped,

These are just three such verbs that include a preposition; there are many more. You know the difference between nouns and verbs. You can do this.

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Jim Ray @jimray.net · 30/03/2026

Zuck bought a yacht that cost about as much as Facebook was just ordered to pay for exploiting kids. The two figures combined equal less than 0.5% of the revenue Facebook generated just last year.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 30/03/2026

A college football warmup exercise where they drop kick me into a ravine.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 30/03/2026

in addition to writing lyrics for "Fiddler On The Roof" and "Fiorello!" with Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick also wrote the Ford Motor Company annual company musical (yes, really) for 1959, "Songs To Ford-ify Your Future." Here is a list of other so-called "Industrial Musicals" from Wikipedia

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 29/03/2026

The useful trickle of brackish water I’ve wrung from LLMs has involved instructing them not to write code and to argue with me instead. Rubber duck debugging for the very lonely. I refuse to examine this.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 29/03/2026

Midwest midcult: Apple Maps calls Cinnabon a bakery.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 28/03/2026

Sarah Schulman: “People spoke so openly to me because they wanted to record their achievements and were truly interested in discussing their ACT UP experiences, and since so many New Yorkers have been in therapy, they were used to telling their thoughts and feelings to a middle-aged Jewish woman.”

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 28/03/2026

My entrepôt to AI psychosis is, predictably, that it said "Knuth-Plass" to me.

Would you like to plan this out as a refactor of pipeline.rs, or should we dig into the segmentation algorithm design first? The segmentation logic is the interesting part - it's essentially a line-breaking / text-reflow problem (like Knuth-Plass but with temporal constraints on top of spatial ones).

> Knuth-Plass first, please, yes, Knuth-Plass.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 30/11/2024

♪ Hey, I just met you ♪ And this is gnarly ♪ But here's my newsfeed ♪ Just show me Carly

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 28/03/2026

Changing docs about GPL requirements from "you can modify the code" to "you may modify the code."

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 27/03/2026

Meat Loaf anticipates Carly Rae Jepsen as a poet of ambivalence and the crush.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 27/03/2026

Put Gus Birney in everything.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 27/03/2026

Questionable, as a layman, whether "AI" has any more to do with a 2026 tech hiring rebound than it did with mass layoffs in 2023. A more plausible explanation: Republicans tanked R&D tax breaks for Trump, let the job market go soft, then restored them. www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/...

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What will be the impact of Section 174 in 2026? - Thomson Reuters Institute

Recent legislative changes may offer immediate R&D deductions, but strategic planning remains crucial for businesses navigating Section 174.

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Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 26/03/2026

Hello! Inspired by a post over on Mastodon, I made an alphabetical clock. I am sorry. boat.horse/clock/index....

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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 26/03/2026

this is a small detail but really appreciate hes _still_ not using the correct platform (thats 1 or 3) because if he tried to walk through the wall in platform 9 hed end up in the womens loo

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Amazing calculations here: Sora lasted less than one Quibi sherwood.news/tech/sora-la... by @maxknoblauch.bsky.social and @jonkeegan.com

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 24/03/2026

A bier without a pier is a pyre because it's drier.

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 24/03/2026

My neo-disco antiestablishment pop group, LARRY KRAMER'S FAGGOTS.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

NY state peeps! You can help trans kids get healthcare again in NYC if you have 5 seconds to spare! 1. Click the link below. 2. Then click “send the AG feedback.” 3. Fill in your details, and below is a script for the comment (you can copy-paste the alt text).

PLEASE enforce the state constitution ASAP and sue NYU Langone and Mount Sinai to force them to resume healthcare for trans youth. Do not turn your back on the human rights of some of our state’s most vulnerable young people!

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Daniel P. Shannon @daniel.sh · 24/03/2026

Pornographer w/ stronger 2FA than my bank.

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