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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wrote a sonnet about the whole "don't anthropomorphize AI" thing.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote a sonnet about pacing the frontier.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote a sonnet about self-improving superintelligence.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hey we saw you across the bar and really dig your vibe.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I wrote a sonnet about working with him/ her

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I wrote a sonnet about our unlimited amounts of older stuff.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ah, to be 45. Still able to ride a hilly weekend half century at 28kph but also able to render oneself incapable of riding a weekend half century by somehow massively tweaking one's lower back doing a water change for a fish tank.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This image represents Pittsburgh in roughly the synechdochic manner as the Eiffel Tower represents Paris.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wrote a sonnet about changing the name of Lake Ontario.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There is a place, called Pittsburghhttps://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/f1da5a95e11180b899f76e1abe07dd57-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152.webp

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I haven't really looked at or paid attention to any results, but I'm pleased to say that, whatever they were or are, they strongly validate precisely whatever it is I've been saying.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is the purest form of true Pittsburgh architecture and home design. Don't ask me to explain. If you know, you know.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I wrote a sonnet about Telemachus racing Spider-Man.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Marvelous, often lovely stuff, but unfortunately it is mostly hokum..." I reviewed Robert Wright's new book about AI: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

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Adopt AI or Die?

In his new book “The God Test,” Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I wrote a sonnet about taking this longevity thing too far.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I wrote a sonnet about the most progressive parents in American giving theirchildren the most traditional names.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Truly one of the great stages of the Tour.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

They're calling it "a hard summer rain in rural Carolina."

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Firmly against the death penalty except for every single spectator currently overcrowding the course on the Alpe d'Huez.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I wrote a sonnet about whether the average person should be more afraid of the American rich, or Maoism.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Gently, but firmly, instructing my design-build firm to make my new home approximately 95% more ominous.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Given their respective outputs, I think that Christopher Nolan and Robert Eggers should team up and make the Kalevala.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My take on the Odyssey and also the trailer about Brad Pitt and the Dog is that all male actors are converging on becoming Josh Brolin.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Beautiful day for Quinn Simmons though.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Poor Jonas. What a shame. You hate to see it!

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What a stroke of historic luck to be alive at the same time as Tadej Pogacar.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Obsessed with everything that's going on here.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The world may be complicated and unpredictable, but I take comfort in the solid, immovable certainty that there will always exist, in the Pittsburgh suburbs, a kind of house whose bland suburban exterior conceals an interior design deeply and firmly rooted in the unimaginable power of COCAINE.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I wrote a sonnet about being called an idiot for directly sending Elon Musk $25.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"No obvious blunders" is a fascinating and charming Britishism for the American "totally exonerated."

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A few years back I decided to really focus my public writing on book reviewing; enormous thanks to @lauramarsh.bsky.social and @newrepublic.com for giving me a regular forum. Could not do it without great editorial partnership.

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I wrote a sonnet about our very large pool.