Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 8hjacobbacharach.com/2026/10/13/m...jacobbacharach.comMen, obviouslycan read and enjoy books by women butthere is a sticky biological reality:Mars and Venus, baby, that’s the tea—Jane Austen doesn’t make the boyfriend cutand girls prefer online vampiric smutto Don … 060
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 8hI wrote a sonnet about the sticky biological reality that, on blance, women will probably probably prefer reading women, and men may prefer reading men. 1121
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Pittsburgh's absolutely unmatched commitment to interior design. 4291
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why can't colleges and universities just ban fraternities? I try to explain. nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comWhy Don’t Colleges Just Ban Fraternities?As the university system buckles under various pressures, Greek life has become even more central to the business of higher education. 4191
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/10/04/sf/jacobbacharach.comSFpeople are increasingly conflating “RSI”with “foom.” I went to pee, came back, and doomwas suddenly the subject of the freaked-out Zoom.Although the Pope refused to bless AIwith moral rights derive… 060
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wrote a sonnet about SF people increasingly conflating RSI with foom. 1216
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/09/26/p...jacobbacharach.comPolis. Language.The whole “don’t anthropomorphize AI”thing is very Woke 1.0.Machines may think, but can they really knowanything? Well, true, can’t say for sure. But myLinnaean urge leads me to c… 161
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I wrote a sonnet about the whole "don't anthropomorphize AI" thing. 48117
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/09/12/r...jacobbacharach.comRequiem SaaSWe Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a newessay on why the AI industryshould slow down. Machine-made mimicryis doing what once only bards could do,and threatens now to copy Alexander too,slicing… 010
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote a sonnet about pacing the frontier. 1153
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/09/10/s...jacobbacharach.comSoup, or Intelligence?I resigned from Anthropic today.The stuff my bosses claimed was very scary.The shoe that bangs the desk self-says we’ll buryyou, and make a world where we are free to playmath games, and chess, and… 000
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I wrote a sonnet about self-improving superintelligence. 2335
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Hey we saw you across the bar and really dig your vibe. 2420
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/09/04/m...jacobbacharach.comMe TwoIt was an honor to work with him/ herand later to be guest on a showalways worth watching. The gods all knowthat in creation’s time-distilled longueur,all ticking days and seconds’ dullard whir,emb… 051
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I wrote a sonnet about working with him/ her 4445
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 01/09/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/09/01/t...jacobbacharach.com 010
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I wrote a sonnet about our unlimited amounts of older stuff. 1254
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Well, at least I got to watch a really heroic ride by Enric Mas. 050
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ah, 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. 1460
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This image represents Pittsburgh in roughly the synechdochic manner as the Eiffel Tower represents Paris. 94910
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/08/25/t...jacobbacharach.comTo Doing Much BusinessThe United States is giving serious considerationto changing the name of Lake Ontario.Its damned Canucking name has gotta go.A lovely Iroquoian derivationyes, but it offends our maddened nation—hea… 010
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I wrote a sonnet about changing the name of Lake Ontario. 3256
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 21/08/2026There is a place, called Pittsburghhttps://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/f1da5a95e11180b899f76e1abe07dd57-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152.webp 5131
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/08/09/c...jacobbacharach.comConcept TwoU willl see Beth no more See black that’s fromelectrical sparks. It’s not safe to useanymore. GOOD BYE BETH. Your fusewent out. Your hummed and rattling mouth is dumb.The motored heart that used to… 010
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I 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. 0578
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is the purest form of true Pittsburgh architecture and home design. Don't ask me to explain. If you know, you know. 4170
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 03/08/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/08/03/t...jacobbacharach.comTom, Haul, AndTelemachus and Spider-Man are racing,one by web, and one by wine-dark sea.The mermaids that refused to sing for meare rapt, and with their watery coin are placingbets. Both fatherless and self-effa… 020
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I wrote a sonnet about Telemachus racing Spider-Man. 1306
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...newrepublic.comAdopt 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. 0135
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 30/07/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/07/30/m...jacobbacharach.comMany, Many Tekel UpharsinBeen thinking things over and wonder if I’vetaken this whole longevity thing too far.I could’ve watched the World Cup in a bar.I could’ve passed on potions, had some FiveGuys. What pleasure’s waste… 020
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I wrote a sonnet about taking this longevity thing too far. 1204
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 28/07/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/07/28/a...jacobbacharach.comArose, By Any Other NameThe most progressive parents in the United Statesare giving their children the most traditional names.They force their maids to choose from Hunger Gameswhile they stick to their Toms and Beths and … 040
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I wrote a sonnet about the most progressive parents in American giving theirchildren the most traditional names. 1161
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Turns it into almost a mini-Classic crossed with a crit. And you can deplore the politics that built Sacré-Coeur, but it's a helluva backdrop. 010
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Incredible class for Pogacar to take all those pulls in the last 5K too. 050
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Truly one of the great stages of the Tour. 2131
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/07/2026They're calling it "a hard summer rain in rural Carolina." 0180
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Double death penalty for anyone who sets off a smoke bomb. 161
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Firmly against the death penalty except for every single spectator currently overcrowding the course on the Alpe d'Huez. 1171
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026jacobbacharach.com/2026/07/21/a...jacobbacharach.comAsk AbundanceShould the average person be more afraidof the American rich, or Maoism? Dunno.The round earth’s gotta have imagined corners, though.Blow, Angels! What Kampuchea bought and madeis back, reforming f… 070
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I wrote a sonnet about whether the average person should be more afraid of the American rich, or Maoism. 17816
