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Erik Lars Myers

@eriklarsmyers.com
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Author, artist, giant nerd. I used to make beer, cider, and mead professionally. Now, I'm Managing Director of a small theater company in North Carolina. He/him. I have friends everywhere.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 11h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 01/10/2026
Am I the only one who hates the boring ass shades of grey that are on every single new vehicle?
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 30/09/2026
This is true. Men don't talk about it much, I guess maybe out of shame or fear of exclusion or something. I guess I'm old enough now that I don't care if I don't make any more male friends than I already have. This bullshit has been true everywhere in my whole life.
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 29/09/2026
I don't understand why people seem so damn eager to live in a surveillance state.
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 29/09/2026
Honestly, fuck this talking point off into the sun. "I know that some of you will die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 29/09/2026
Grocery prices are up, not "way down" says anyone who has actually been in a grocery store.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff"
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026
Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 27/09/2026
Great thread on something I have been increasingly concerned about with those in power in AI right now.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026
I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those boycotting Tillamook Cheese and anything else that is “Halal,” I want you to know that fruit, vegetables, fish, air and water are also halal. ☪️😅.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a wonderful story, weaving together historians, hippies, old apple tree fanatics and DNA sequencers to reveal how French immigrants in Maine brought along one of the ancestors of American apples 🧪
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 23/09/2026
I've been thinking this nonstop.with an extra helping of "always try to put the positive kindness you want into the world" in a death cage match with "lol rofl GOOD"
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 22/09/2026
I really just think that there has never been a more important time to continue to make art and tell stories. Go write a story. Go make music. Go put on a play. Creativity is implicitly human and anti-fascist. Come on, everyone. Let's go fucking make stuff.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 20/09/2026
These advent calendars, regardless of creature, have never disappointed. They are amazing and support a great organization. Go get thee snail facts!
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 20/09/2026
Honestly true of every industry I've ever worked in. Just make a damn decision. If it doesn't work out, just make another one.
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Edgar Allan Hoe @dlcrumbdump.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No, AI isn’t gonna kill us all in the next 10 years. No, LLMs don’t keep going rogue. No, general AI superintelligence isn’t anywhere close and we’re not even on the path toward it with LLMs. All that shit is ultimately propaganda about how powerful and cool these systems supposedly are.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams
You just let the machines get on with the adding up,” warned Majikthise, “and we’ll take care of the eternal verities thank you very much. You want to check your legal position, you do, mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we’re straight out of a job, aren’t we? I mean, what’s the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives us his bleeding phone number the next morning?It occurs to me that running a programme like this is bound to create an enormous amount of popular publicity for the whole area of philosophy in general. Everyone’s going to have their own theories about what answer I’m eventually to come up with, and who better to capitalize on that media market than you yourself? So long as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and slagging each other off in the popular press, you can keep yourself on the gravy train for life. How does that sound?”
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 11/09/2026
X are asking A.I. Chatbots About Y. The Answers Can Vary By User. Yes. Exactly . That is precisely the problem with LLMs for literally everything.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
All maps are wrong because they're projections of a globe. Mercator is great for navigation. It is bad for politics. And, I believe, 99% of the reason Trump wants Greenland.
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Lew Bryson @lewbryson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Read this gift article. Trump's encouragement of imported mystery beef is supposed to be about consumer prices. Maybe. But if you don't blurt out "WTF!" at least once while reading this, you're either exceptionally well informed, or totally jaded. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Amanda Lee Scherle @amandaleescherle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I drew this based on that prompt. Right here, tonight. My brain can create prompts and images based on those prompts. And my hands can receive that information and I can create things that *I* like. I will not relent on this. 🪐❇️🧀 #noai
You don't need AI to prompt an image. You can just say words to a human and force them to imagine it in their heads. 

Saturn Devouring A Mozzarella Stick A hand drawn color pencil drawing of the planet Saturn, with hands, eating a mozzarella stick. Words say, "Saturn eating a mozzarella stick." signed ALS (amanda lee scherle)
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 05/09/2026
Free range.
A brewhouse and fermenters sitting in a field on a sunny day. Weeds grow up among the tanks.
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 05/09/2026
Oh ffs.
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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 03/09/2026
With a ton of help, I tried to tackle one of North Carolina's greatest mysteries: Why are there so many Chinese restaurants next to Food Lions? I learned a lot! www.ncrabbithole.com/p/there-real...
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There really is a Chinese restaurant next to nearly every Food Lion
It's been a meme for years. But one man actually ran the numbers and found proof that the correlation is very real in North Carolina. So, in this Rabbit Hole investigation, we enlisted others to help ...
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 02/09/2026
The humans do this ceremony where they enter a dark room and are forced to account to some sort of priest for their past transgressions, and every time they speak they must eat a poison meat that causes them incredible pain. That is how I think an alien would see Hot Ones.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 01/09/2026
I got laid off from my contributing editor gig at VinePair last week, which was a big chunk of my income. Now more than ever, every paid subscription to Fingers really counts! If you like my work and you've been thinking about upgrading, here's a Bluesky discount: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...
meme. photo of a dog balancing a beer on his head. the beer is labeled "fingers," the dog is labeled "friends of fingers," the onlookers are labeled "free readers" and "instagram followers"
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Steers That Look Like Pete Hegseth
Pic of a Hereford steer facing directly into the cameraPic of Pete Hegseth looking head-on into camera
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New in PNAS today: we projected how climate change will reshape the body size of marine life across the entire ocean. 23,329 mollusc species, every ocean basin. The headline everyone expects is "life shrinks." The real answer is far stranger. 🧪 #marinelife www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Nonuniform resizing of marine life under climate change | PNAS
Global warming is often predicted to drive universal declines in animal body size, but empirical evidence remains equivocal. This is particularly t...
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this is gonna upset so many of y’all
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If you need a reason to keep going, look up the ages of Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Narendra Modi Vladimir Putin Xi Jinping I can’t guarantee the world gets better but you can sure watch it get *different* if you hold on
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 30/08/2026
This just in 🙄
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 28/08/2026
Dave is a great journalist (and a great guy) and even though I've been out of the industry for a while I still subscribe to his newsletter, Fingers. You should consider it!
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
folks SAY they want kindness but this is not always the case. the most controversial thing that i ever post is 'the best way to make inroads in any creative profession is to be kind'. i get SO much pushback, because it is a scary idea for those who have trained themselves to be unkind as a defense
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
First Dolly and now Tim Curry?! Folks, check in on the theater kids in your life.
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 26/08/2026
The grim reaper is really fucking this year up. Wrong fucking 80 year olds, bro. Get it together.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There’s so much Dolly-discourse about the proper uses of wealth and fame and legacy, and some harsh comparisons to others who also have or had those advantages. See @clairewillett.bsky.social for a vivid example. But there something nicer going on, worth mentioning:
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
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Erik Lars Myers @eriklarsmyers.com · 23/08/2026
Et mon hache!
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