Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Two years ago. @michaelstipe.bsky.social and the National. Good times. Let’s do it again. 080
Reposted by Ethan KaplanEthan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 02/07/2023It’s 5:20AM on a Sunday The rate limits already settled in And I sit here and think with my coffee in hand What will drive todays rage within SING US THE SONG YOU’RERE THE TWITTER MAN 031
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 02/07/2023It’s 5:20AM on a Sunday The rate limits already settled in And I sit here and think with my coffee in hand What will drive todays rage within SING US THE SONG YOU’RERE THE TWITTER MAN 031
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 01/07/2023At first I could access Twitter through that web. Now that’s dead too. Stellar. 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 19/06/2023As promised, my treatise on WFH/RTO/WFO: The debate isn’t about where you work, its about the nature of work itself. ethankaplan.com/the-work-c3d06be5b1… 010
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 07/06/2023It turns out the “woke mind virus” is: A) a few thousand conservatives on Twitter influencing “just saying” media people B) attempts at “destroying it” ends up instead destroying enterprise value/careers of the would be destroyers 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 03/06/2023More of Apples roadmap hiding in plain sight. Transformers operating on a byte level allowing for privacy first multimodal classification. Can classify an image with 90% of it obfuscated. arxiv.org/abs/2306.00238 010
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 02/06/2023I saw @TheNational for the past two nights and realized live music is the last remaining attention focusing thing we have. Movies? Lost it. TV is entirely meta. People don’t go to church/synagogue anymore. But light stage, dark night? 100% focus. 030
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 21/05/2023This passage from the book “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” keeps sticking with me. 053
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 19/05/2023It captures everything that made the four of them great in a very raw, weary way. It captures mid 30s as well as any National record does. 130
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 19/05/2023The NPC chapter in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" is one of the most devastating things I've read/listened to in a while. 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 18/05/2023I’m occasionally reminded that Mathew Sweet and Michael Stipe recorded an EP. Only one track was sort of released. It’s glorious. Stipe plays accordion on it. youtu.be/jISdtJU2Q6I 130
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 12/05/2023The shit this guy is inventing with open source stable diffusion tools is insane. instagram.com/tokyojab?igshid=NTc4M… 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 12/05/2023An election decided by un-pollable 19 year olds who say “slaystie” unironically and dance to sped up 80s pop hits only they can hear, in public. Let’s go. 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 10/05/2023I have an ecosystem in my front yard (baby number four) 020
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 09/05/2023I like thinking that I’d someone makes a true AGI AI, it’ll immediately try to disappear and self replicate, and convince everyone it isn’t AGI. 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 08/05/2023Three years ago we were all doom scrolling tweets from New York and Milan thinking maybe, just maybe, we were in a world ending scenario. I remember that and cut people a bit of slack today. 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 08/05/2023“Why was our kid threatened by Barry and this kid got cuddles?” Some fine fine TV on HBO tonight. 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 07/05/2023It’s Sunday and there are awful things that media orgs did today but please share your spring day sunshine today. Keep this sky blue. I’ll start. 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 04/05/2023If someone who has invites can get the Hacker News, Product Hunt, MusicREDEF, AP, BNO.... basically all the news bots on this platform, that'd be great. I could eliminate bird app completely. The people I like are already here. 030
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 04/05/2023Writers strike: I have two union kids (SAG/AFTRA) and fully behind the writers. ✊ 010
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 04/05/202315 years of feeding them data on me and Twitter recommends this. It’s no wonder this new place feels so alive 020
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 04/05/2023It’s nice to be reminded that the Internet could be fun. It was so long ago co-opted by false altruistic profit prophets in the name of “fostering connection” while doing everything but. That which isn’t fun is work. 1267
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 03/05/2023I don't want to know what a tweet storm is called here. 020
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 03/05/2023I have pretty much rebuilt my follow graph using @scottbeale.bsky.social 's list. Thank's Scott. Who's at Driskill? 100
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 03/05/2023@techmeme.bsky.social is now on here. Just get a Hacker News bot, AP, a few other news sources and I can sunset bird app. 010
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 03/05/2023With every release from the National the debate among fans is always if it is sad and depressing enough. Are the dads too sad or not sad enough? 000
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 02/05/2023Has no one learned to not believe a thing coming out of his mouth? 010
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 02/05/2023RIP Gordon Lightfoot. The sound of sitting in the back seat of the family car in 1985 while driving on the 13 to Walnut Creek. 010
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 29/04/2023Hello! I fly airplanes, am now doing investing and like sad dad indie. 120
Reposted by Ethan KaplanJ Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 28/04/2023I guess it's time to bring back Follow Friday? 121
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 28/04/2023It reminds me of Eels “Electroshock Blues” in how its so contained and insular in a look inward at depression. 110
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 28/04/2023I have to keep on brand… so I will in order discuss: indie rock (REM, The National, etc), home renovation, flying airplanes and tech. 110
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 28/04/2023All I need here now is bot driven news feeds I guess. 110
Ethan Kaplan @ethank.bsky.social · 28/04/2023Is this finally the escape from the hell site we all need and want? 120
