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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The firm got an expensive new AI toolset and I’m tasked with trying it out. I am feeling *very* safe about the immediate future of my job, y’all. They touted its ability to write legal pleadings, so I asked it to draft a reply. It took OC’s position. Wrote a whole memo taking their side.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thought that came to me on the edge of sleep: a back scratcher would be a good Christmas gift for a centaur. Those hind quarters must be impossible to reach.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder how much of “taxi for your burrito” culture is driven by the apparent cultural taboo among (largely younger) people against eating out solo.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading NYT’s list of the 100 greatest TV shows of the 21sr century. These lists are always navel gazing but… I think these reviewers and I have similar navels. I read backwards from 1 and got into the 20s before it hit a show I seriously disagreed with.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was talking to my mother about this. She was horrified that millennials would cut off parents, which she thought was inconceivable. This woman was literally sued by her own father over land he wanted back. And I had to tell her, if she ever did the same… it’s over between us.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Framing legendary award-winning actor Erika Ishii as a “controversy” is absolute small brained goon behavior, Polygon what the hell

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a Who’s on First style sketch in this, I’m sure of it.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is 78 degrees out but my office is still blasting AC. I guess when you have a whole summer of 100 degree weather that refuses to budge you get gun shy about turning the air back down. Glad I left a coat up here back in March.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I for one hope Parker Molloy eventually comes back. I think her contributions had immense value, regardless of one vile crash out. For the same reasons…

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Parliament of owls, pride of lions, old people buffet of jellyfish.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me, watching my daughter do the absolute most basic finger picking on a guitar it is humanly possible to: “Prodigy.”

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know nothing at all about software development, so this has been fun to tool around with. I evaluated the first phase after a week of operating. I was hoping it would be ready to deploy, but nope. It finds new ways to fail pretty much daily. But it does feel like it’s getting closer.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One surprise for me as a parent is that Little Bit often *doesn’t* share my foibles and hangups. I was so ADHD by pre-K that I was basically unteachable until I was medicated in the second grade. Watching her concentrate for a 30-minute lesson blows my mind.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorbet: the most underrated of all the frozen deserts.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We enrolled Little Bit in Suzuki guitar lessons. We are only four weeks in, but the process is impressive. They worked in tiny steps, I almost didn’t realize how it was adding up to playing anything at all. And then this week, suddenly the curtain opens and like… that’s recognizably guitar playing.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In light of recent events I will also not be playing with Ed Sheeran.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A few months ago I started working on my Mid-Life Crisis Plan by taking up journaling and also collecting fountain pens. ✒️ I gotta say, I’m still months out from 40, but I’m feeling pretty good with the shape this crisis is taking. Fountain pens freaking rule.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I returned to private practice (mostly; stayed an adjunct) a year ago after a couple years full-time in a low-paid academic job. I’m starting to get angry on pay days. Where the hell was all this money when I was doing good in the world? And then I park in the faculty lot and see Lyft stickers. 🤬

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Has anyone seen a $50 bill recently? I just realized I couldn’t remember the last time I saw one. I had kinda forgotten they existed.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think I just burned myself touching this hot take.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If there was one vital lesson we learned out of 2024, it was that is sometimes significantly easier to demoralize your opponent’s base than to fire up your own.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This AI stuff is starting to get a little scary. Maybe somebody should write some laws of robotics or something to rein it in.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shocking that no one has thought to do this yet.

Using ChatGPT to solve the Voynich Manuscript

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An iPhone I would actually want to read a book on is such an appealing idea, but at a $2,000 price point I’m just going to keep buying an iPhone and an iPad. If they ever bring the folds down to where it is cheaper to own just one device, then some decisions will need to be made.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am not opposed to the state of Oklahoma as a concept. I am merely opposed to its people, places, and things.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have a spare Bluesky account I set up ages ago as a fan account for my alma mater, and I’m toying around with seeing if a local AI can pull RSS feeds and post relevant links. It’s buggy as hell still, but it uses less energy than a light bulb, so I don’t think I’m burning down any rainforests.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“But now jurors are coming forward to say…” No. Don’t. Touch grass.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t know why the hate train for the new Zelda game surprises me. Every single game in the series gets one, it seems. I was even a hater of WW myself before I played it. But this remake looks so good to me. Squarely in my nostalgia sweet spot.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Communi-grater is hilarious. Might have to get one and put it next to my old think geek pizza cutter.

Star Trek pizza cutter shaped like the starship Enterprise

Star Trek communi-grater. A grater shaped like the communicator

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Whoever at Apple was in charge of the Home app UI should be sacked. I wanted to pause an alarm before it woke my daughter, but for some reason that setting is placed completely separate from all others in a hidden area you just have to magically know how to swipe to without any signposting.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some people struggle with the idea that a finite subset is indistinguishable from 0 as a fraction of an infinite set. I invite these people to try cleaning my house.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dream idea: Biological evolution wants to create crabs. Artificial evolution wants to create bulletin boards. If there is an intelligent designer, we should be looking for messages in the crabs.

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am begging anyone who thinks the Lindsay Clancy case was an easy one with an obvious verdict to touch grass and show some grace for the jurors. All of them, even the ones that disagreed with you.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally getting around to watching the end of Stranger Things. It’s so sad to see a show I loved so much come to an end like this. This finale is a bloated mess.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don’t care if it is 100 degrees outside, it is fall in my heart.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m declaring an Indie Folk Fall. Things are about to get real acoustic and melancholy up in here.

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s an iron law of politics that the democrats can never be less than 50% responsible for something. They can be 100% responsible! If measles were spreading because of something democrats did, they’d sure tell us that. But if republicans are 100% responsible, suddenly it’s “both sides.”

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The way my whole life falls apart when my cleaning lady gets sick and misses a week 🫠 She doesn’t know it, but she basically holds the fate of my marriage in her hands.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every story I read about Abdul El-Sayed, from either side of the political spectrum, seems to boil down to “why isn’t the racist messaging against him working?” And I get it from the Rs, but for real, Ds, what the hell? The tone of panic coming off of some of these commentators is… very concerning.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Given the numerous recent food recalls and the public’s increasing awareness of food safety as a problem, the ”solution” the administration is likely to land on is the same one they’ve come up with for almost all their other problems. They’re just going to stop telling us stuff.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Even for an AI generated ad image, this is just… the most cursed.

A breakfast burrito that appears to be infested with Lovecraftian horrors.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Uh oh, we are definitely in rule of threes territory here. Someone needs to check in on Harrison Ford, STAT!

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

First day of a new semester. Kinda bummed. When I started teaching seven years ago it was an open air knife fight to get parking each morning. Now… spaces everywhere. I think we lived through peak education. It’s all downhill from here. Also, I had to put on pants, so I’m bummed about that too.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I found my first actual use for an agentic AI. I have tried several times to set up a Kavita instance that can serve books to my iPad for reading. I could never diagnose the problem on my own. But OpenClaw diagnosed it and made me a fix that works.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ve said this before, but it is shocking that there is not a single usable “plex for books” app. Approximately 20 million weekend programmers have taken a shot at it, and every single one either has a beautiful UI that cannot successfully retrieve a single book, or is a sin against eyes.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m toying around with OpenClaw to get used to the concept of agentic AI. I get now why Apple has been dawdling on adding the stuff to their products. Nowhere near ready for primetime, aggressively user unfriendly. Hallucinates like it’s 2023 again.

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Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I had a dream last night that the real reason McConnell won’t agree to be filmed is that he has been turned into a vampire and no longer shows up in photos or videos. Which is… plausible. Probably not a big life change for him.

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