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Michelle Kasprzak

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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Certain knowledge only exists in desire.” littleearthmountain.substack.com/p/certain-kn...
littleearthmountain.substack.com
“Certain knowledge only exists in desire.”
How a walk on the heath became a bilingual book of poems. Launch: 9 October, San Serriffe
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
his grandma taught him!
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If the joke doesn’t get a laugh, you might as well double down and explain it as fully as possible.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Everybody still talking about AI but it's the quantum computing breaking cryptography thing that is going to really fuck shit up good, that's going to happen within 2-6 years, you heard it here.
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Virtuosity annoys me, it confuses art with prowess." - Édouard Levé
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Sade is extraordinary.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Sweet FA, I got mansplained in 5 minutes. Check to see if anything interesting is happening once a month or less. Happy to see you though!!
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Wow well I made a ton of mistakes and there's no edit button. Oh well. You get what I am trying to say, despite a quote that is pasted in wrong and a numbered list that goes nowhere. 🙃
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
“No, sweetheart,” I said, brushing a stray tear from her cheek. “Monster is never leaving. Not while I’m here.” She searched my face like she was checking for lies, then threw her thin arms around my neck so hard it almost hurt."
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"But Monster isn't scary. He's the only person who doesn't look at us like we're already dead." I knelt down so I was eye-level with the little girl (her name tag read “Lily”). Her lip trembled, and the sight of those huge tears on such a tiny, brave face cracked something open inside me.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
""Are you going to make Monster leave?" Her eyes filled with tears. "The last director tried to ban him because parents said he looked scary." My heart stopped. "What?" "She said his tattoos frightened people. That men who look like that shouldn't be around children." The girl started crying.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
likes, comments, and shares. And of course life imitates "art", so we find content creators on all kinds of social media also aping this kind of stuff. What an incredibly weird content ouroboros. "A little girl tugged my sleeve. She was maybe six, bald from chemo. Text excerpt:
Tough looking guy on a tricycle in what appears to be a pediatric cancer ward.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
cancer ward. I'll include the image and text sample below. The image is so obviously fake, and the story so full of details that are a bit off, it rings false right away. But it still "feels good", what a charming thought or idea. "Don't judge a book by its cover". These stories rake in thousands of
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
feel-good hook and it's never subtle. The war veteran with no money who finds purpose. The humans-having-touching-encounters-with-animals genre. The lonely or mentally ill person finding friendship. Always PG, always kind of pure. One of the latest was about a biker guy who entertains the kids in a
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I'm getting a lot of obviously AI tearjerker, feel-good content on FB. I clicked "read more" on one, and now it's gumming up my feed forever. I don't often do anything anymore on Boomerbook but this phenom is fascinating for a few reasons: (1) what it thinks people want. There's always a deep
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We perform for ourselves.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I would love to know more!
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
speak of that separately. But for now it feels like communication is a kind of ruin, we talk to everyone and no one. We try to reach each other but we don't care, it's just impressions and likes and views. We perform for the (rear-view) mirror.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
What a strange idea. Just come and say something. "What's on your mind?" I think as Twitter used to say. It's random. People still want to squabble about stupid things with people they don't know. For some reason this has me thinking of the tearjerker AI stories that now clog Facebook. Maybe I will
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
(Takes a look around after a long absence) Right, so, looks like the same old thing: reply guys, people discussing v. serious shit, people being ridiculous and funny, people on their very niche subject. The occasional good meme. It's all mixed up like some kind of weird garbage plate.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It became ridiculous and of course they had to add a "jump to recipe" button because it was ridiculous. Anyway, live by the tech, die by the tech
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is also a group of content creators who were very eager to game the algorithm when it suited -- e.g. making enormously long stories before recipes to keep people on the page longer and raise their search engine results.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
anthonymoser.github.io
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I don't like it here and now everyone arrived and is leaving again because these things suck. I know Mastodon is a ghost town but that's because you tried it for 5 seconds and left. At least it isn't owned by the usual shitty people. I'm old and have been through too many of these things.
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a man in a striped shirt and tie is sitting in front of a window .
ALT: a man in a striped shirt and tie is sitting in front of a window .
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Stafford Beer writing what I sometimes mistake for Yoko Ono writing
black text on white paper: HELLO I would like to talk to you / if you have the time / in a new sort of way / about a new sort of world
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Praba Pilar @pilarva.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I invite #educators to share this report on #ai #sweatshops with their students - so far from #meta and #openai in Silicon Valley. Exploited, screening extremely traumatizing content, with no support - and lawsuits over the consequences.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Otherwise all our enterprise is a creature of the fates and all our imagination and invention and care will not be enough to save us." Cormac McCarthy's inscription on The Passenger, given to Augusta Britt archive.vanityfair.com/article/2005...
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Cormac Country | Vanity Fair
Cormac McCarthy would rather hang out with physicists than other writers. He doesn't do blurbs, book tours, or even Oprah. But with the publication of his blood-spattered new novel, No Count...
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"It’s my belief that the raw material of good art is human sorrow, and when that sorrow is another’s, one has the obligation to treat it with great care and dignity. But I also believe the one who is loved is placed under an obligation. To survive and bear these trials with grace and dignity.
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
The Crypto Purse Manifesto post.lurk.org/@mk/11185756...
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Dr. Kasprzak (@mk@post.lurk.org)
The Crypto Purse Manifesto Civilization is built on its fundamental inventions. We think of fundamental inventions and often refer to the wheel, or the sharpened blade. What is rarely mentioned is th...
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
The PANTONE colour of the year is Peach Fuzz and I hate it!
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
I saved this on my phone so I can look at it and feel calm whenever I want
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Happy new year, I hate it here
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
I am much more active and interesting on Mastodon! post.lurk.org/@mk
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Michelle Kasprzak @emkazz.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
I still resent this!
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