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Howard Miller

@howard1948.bsky.social
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Born to be mild. Profundity free poster. Pronouns: thee/thine.

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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why don't we save the term "superintelligence" until superintelligent AIs come along?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If anyone wants to check when they joined Bluesky, open a browser tab and put this in: public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsk... plus your handle. Mine is howard1948.bsky.social
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'm not sure how this came to pass, but I think requiring ICE to wear these gloves makes perfect sense. My question is, who gets to push the buttons? news.google.com/stories/CAAq...
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More headlines & perspectives - DHS plans to purchase electric-shock gloves for ICE agents - Google News
See the latest updates, context, and perspectives about this story.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
While I'm a big fan of J.M. Straczynski, there are writers who produced stories about AI long before Ellison's story, which was written in 1967. "Moxon's Master" was written by Ambrose Bierce in 1899. "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" is a very well-known work published by Karel Čapek in 1920.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sometimes, he says the quiet part out loud. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I was cold when they were cold. I was hungry when they were hungry. I was sad when they were sad. I was terrified when they were terrified, and I exulted when they exulted. I rarely become as engrossed in a story as I was with this one.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A drone pilot flew straight into an active Icelandic volcano until the heat melted the equipment. The footage it captured before dying is unlike anything you have seen.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The reflecting pool emerges as a hotbed of mutation ...
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
(1 of 2) — Bill Mauldin inked some of the greatest cartoons of the 20th Century, including one in which the Lincoln Memorial is depicted weeping. If Lincoln could see the 250th year of the Union, I believe he would weep, but I doubt he would have regretted the major decisions of his Presidency.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’m thinking that even if Trump and the MAGA forces ultimately fail, the country will not return to ‘what it was before’. Instead the pendulum will swing from far right to far left, and the Union, if it persists, will still be dealing with the aftermath on its 500th anniversary.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🔥 Sometimes all you need is a Yosemite view and a few deep breaths. This place is a reset button for your soul
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@anna1-90.bsky.social You’re in the Army now, You’re not behind a plow You’ll never get rich By digging a ditch, You’re in the Army now!
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Next on the ole to-do list —
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I heard that someone has been wooing Donald away from a third-term bid by offering him a role in the next Bond film.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Who put the currents in currency?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"You are my wife!" -- "Goodbye, city life!"
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/04/2026
We bought the parcel of land next to the church late last year, and today I just bought enough seed that the entire 9k sq. ft. parcel will be covered with "Bee Lawn" and "Ohio Pollinator Native Mix" as soon as our contractor comes to clear the lot of various impediments (bits of former house, etc).
Me in front of a big plot of dirt. This picture was taken in November.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
What I don't understand about web advertising strategy is that I get inundated with offers for something I already bought. In this age of AI, can't they figure out what I'm going to need next and send me adverts for that? It would save so much energy.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If Trump makes an exit from NATO this evening, I hope we're out long enough for NATO to look to another country to become the leader in that organization. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address
The president’s attempt to spell out an endgame comes as an additional 2,500 Marines make their way to the Middle East.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Factor Four Magazine has closed submissions for now. Does anyone know what's going on?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is the first time a First Lady has shared the red carpet with a robot. And it’s somehow unremarkable.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Long may it wave ...
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
In 1992, both Jack Lemmon and James Garner knew what was comming ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zarl...
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My Fellow Americans, 1996 Hail to the Chief
YouTube video by Marie Ruggirello
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I was thinking this morning that if America acts as an aggregate consciousness when it votes, maybe we should look for signs that it is becoming like a person who goes about the house, looking for the pair of glasses perched on their head.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
After reading current news, I turn to the prose poem written by Max Ehrmann: www.desiderata.com/desiderata.h...
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Desiderata: Original Text
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Last night, I was visited by three spirits - Alexa, Siri, and Hey Google.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I want to wish everyone a peaceful Christmas and an uplifting New Year.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Some things you don't have to make up. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Drunk raccoon found passed out on liquor store floor after breaking in
The intoxicated animal suffered no injuries and was released back into the wild by animal protection once sober.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Can’t make this up.
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So. which Stephen king book are we doing today, folks?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If Donald Trump was from Diskworld, could he be sent back?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It's a rainy night in Georgia.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
(Talking about the news) - "It's all lies. Or depressing . Or depressing lies". - Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I started a story once about a distant future where human beings, long since spread over the entire galaxy are all triggered to return home to Earth, causing their bodies to form a black hole. dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/here...
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Here Is the Real Size of a Meatball Made From the Entire Human Race (Spoiler: It’s Smaller Than You Think)
Every person on Earth packed into a single solid sphere is far smaller than you might imagine. The surprising size challenges common ideas about the scale of humanity. This unexpected comparison puts ...
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I wonder how many ICE agents have quit this year?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Cerebrate - cerebrate Think about the music.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Clock of ages Tick for me Wake me up at half past 3 Draw the water for my bath Fix me bacon, eggs and hash Yes I'm talking to my clock Why are you inside that rock?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"When the rule of law diminishes, the strong prey on the weak." Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room. It was published in November of 2017.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is it possible to be a fan of both baseball and Eldritch horror?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I tried to find an original example of this image. Apparently, the one Trump is holding is the only one available. Also, I haven't found any other tattoo like this for any other member of MS-13. What if Abrego Garcia returns and his hand doesn't match this image? Can he sue for slander?
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Well, 𝙄 thought it was funny.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Somebody's never read Lovecraft's "The Colour Out Of Space". gizmodo.com/an-artist-cl...
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An Artist Claims to Have Created Paint in a 'New' Impossible Hue Conjured by Scientists
Olo has become Yolo.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Just parked up a haiku. Taking a complex idea and reducing it to a rigid geometry helps to comprehend the importance of elegance. White wings on the ice, Silent glide on frozen glass, Warm shore embers glow.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Some products have acquired an ominous overtone.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I'm thinking of a short story where ICE attempts to deport Chthulhu, who has been determined to be an illegal alien.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I use ProMeAI for generating AI images ... check it out. www.promeai.pro/u/4260957577...
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Howard Miller[426095757787141] - PromeAI
Share your creative design works with the world and let your design ideas infect more people.
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Howard Miller @howard1948.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I have a feeling that I have only 1 real follower. Raise your hand if you're real and following me. I won't question your motives.
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