MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Seeing AI discourse this morning made me realize the real issue isn’t whether machines can think. If we have to define what Donald Trump, Elon Musk or, say, any AI company CEO does as thinking, then thinking might be highly overrated. 110
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I find it satisfying that writers like Ray Bradbury are still being taught to freshmen like my son. I find it unnerving that A Sound of Thunder feels too on the nose right now, for so many thematic reasons. 010
Reposted by MoXmas Mark Lerner @ragandboneshop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's out TODAY! 🎵🖤 At rosine.bandcamp.com Also at subvert.fm/rosine and of course all of the streaming sites. If you enjoy it, I would so appreciate you telling others about it. Cover painting by Nancy Howell. 183
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026@johnrogers.bsky.social This fits what I am seeing in other context. curious if it resonates with you. backofmind.substack.com/p/robot-clas...backofmind.substack.comrobot class traitorsthe future and its ownership 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Saw Rush at MSG on Monday. It was excellent. Can’t stop thinking about it. So I’m gonna re-listen to the whole discography. 100
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This article is an inspiration. I want to get a grant to stage a reproduction if this wedding, with a paired cast that also stages Caryl Churchill’s “Far Away”. The prisoners’ Parade of Hats will be SPECTACULAR. 100
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Never been so glad to have no access to broadcast TV @torqpenderloin.bsky.social @kentremendous.bsky.social 010
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026One of the really interesting things about some long term shows like Lost or 24 with very morally dicey protagonists is the pint where that protagonist goes villain and the e writers still want him to be the hero. 100
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I lived in New York for 10 years plus, off and on, Upper West Side, Park Slope, Boerum Hill, West Village, even Williamsburg for a quick hit. Was never a New Yorker. Had pals who got there and were New Yorkers within 4.5 minutes. 100
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The Blanche nomination looks like Ed Meese 2.0, where the only qualification is sadsack loyalty to a wetbrain leader and his corrupt ideas. More example of Trump as a pure Reagan Devolution. 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 20/02/2026For the record, putting a Bears stadium in Porter would be a lot fuckin’ funnier than putting one in Hammond. Either one would better than Arlington Heights. 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This puts The Region at the center of the time-space continuum (Cubs and IU fans) for the win. 021
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026That Broncos interception in OT looked like some serious bullshit, and hearing Gene Steratore explain it to Nantz and Romo made me believe that none of them should have jobs watching football. 010
Reposted by MoXmas John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Also, as we're doing year end, I realized I will not write something better for 2026 better than I wrote for 2024. (the newsletter's coming back, it just lay fallow because John underestimated the stress of "go from murder trial to showrunning to pilot" in 2024.) buttondown.com/kungfumonkey...buttondown.comHey, Go Easy on Yourself in 2024While the rest of you return to your lives today (Tuesday), I return to jury duty. What an intriguing liminal space. So, there's a book about Adam Smith's... 59020
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 15/12/2025@suesswassersee.bsky.social Hey, random question. In your work, when and if you have a specific need for a Bible, which version / translation do you use? (Might be doing a re-read of Matt, Marky, Lucky Luke and Jon Jon over the holiday break.) thanks and please pardon if this is an interruption 210
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Huh! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comOver a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George MonbiotI knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 110
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 08/12/2025When climate change starts affecting Xmas gift giving, maybe it’ll resonate for action? (Probably not.) 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Oh spiffy! Just saw @michael-berube.bsky.social ’s feed. every time I hear a Stones song I think about his lovingly brutal blog post about listening to Charlie Watts drumming. 100
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I have been online for way too long, I think. because account suspension thrashes and meeting facilitation and the Nazi Bar anecdote are all the same elephant. you either moderate behavior or your community context falls apart. 211
Reposted by MoXmas Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/11/2025"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."news.gallup.comRecord Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade. 7538411327
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025After a blue wipeout last night, I am really enjoying that Spotify is serving up a heaping helping of heavy metal. Though it has a passel of Deep Purple and I’m never sure they should count as metal open.spotify.com/track/4gVToz...open.spotify.comHighway Star 010
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025For those of us who had The Caine Mutiny as required reading in high school English, we are in a situation with lots of Keefers and no Maryks, except that our Queeg is an orange man, not a man obsessed with strawberries. 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025This post article was incredible on this topic: www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning...washingtonpost.comHow ‘The Caine Mutiny’ and the paranoid Capt. Queeg influenced the 25th Amendment’s drafters, making it harder to sideline a presidentThe classic novel and film helped convince drafters not to make it too easy to replace an incapacitated president. 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025It really is important to understand how much of our society depends on people having the guts to do, not even what is right, but what it manifestly obvious. The 25th Amendment won’t be the magic Trump eraser, because Vance doesn’t have the honor or the spine. 110
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Section 1—In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. 100
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Oh, just working remotely in a church office, listening to Ozzy. I swear I saw Jesus head banging from a crucifix just now 010
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025There is a lot of great New York pizza but the vast majority of slice places are made for eating at 4am after leaving the bar. It’s enjoyable enough but it’s like advocating that Gray’s Papaya is better than a Milwaukee bratwurst. 100
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025This is every corporate culture I have ever consulted with www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rhYBjU/tiktok.comWe rolled out a shiny new finance system. Janet smiled politely, opened Excel, and rebuilt the entire thing from scratch. Now we have a tech stack… and a Janet stack. Only one of them actually works. ...TikTok video by Jason | Consultant 010
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025When the world is full of sour and stink, bake a Stout Chocolate cake. Guinness and chocolate and cake are good fee what ails us - or at least me and mine Also, the new challenge of never having frosted the side of a cake before was a low stakes mission possible 110
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025STL (west) County: lots of debris and downed trees, stop lights out, heavy haze in the air with a dusty odor. Many blocked roads for Ameren work. Bread Co’s are packed from Town and Country to Chesterfield, and a woman in front of me even ordered her bagels sliced “bread style”. Madness 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I was enjoying Paradise until Billy’s Ned Stark moment in Ep 4. Billy was established as someone who would absolutely not let an enemy strike first,without the Ned Stark excuse of “honor”. So the only reason “Sinatra” is alive was idiot plot armor beating Billy’s character into line. 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 22/02/2025see what being anti-vaccine gets you? Worse than ‘70s style cosmic rays 010
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This morning so far: a store run for bagels, donuts and popsicles; videos of groundhog noises (aka woodchucks and whistlepigs); an interview with Joe Meek from 1967; two cups of “Mardi Gras” flavored coffee; research into DIY deodorant; Alan Moore interview. 110
Reposted by MoXmas Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Incredibly informative thread here. 16897120
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I know this is incredibly minor but ever time a character in SEVERANCE mispronounces “wizened “ I want to turn it off. 030
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024“A boy sees his rich parents killed in a dark alley. His foster parent spends a large amount of money on therapy, and the boy grows up to found a charity that reduces crime through charitable works. Though he still has nightmares about the shooting, he does not regularly think of bats.” 020
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Based on all the Lioness clips I have seen on TikTok, I assume the pitch for the show was “We show how to create war criminals- but it’s girls!” 110
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 17/10/2024“An elite investigative unit is assigned a murder case. They investigate for weeks, but get nowhere. After a 6 week wait for DNA results produces no leads, they put the case on the low priority list and move on. Four years later, the case is untouched and unsolved.” 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 13/10/2024Watching A Quiet Place movies, all I can think is snorers and apnea sufferers would be in real trouble - from other people as much as aliens 010
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 14/08/2024“A former Army sniper settles down after 20 years of military service. He finds a job in healthcare administration and finds the rest of his life entirely satisfying.” 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 14/08/2024A boy on a far away desert planet decides to settle down in hopes of finding a nice partner and inheriting his aunt and uncle’s moisture farm. He does not like flying or droids. 010
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 21/07/2024It was a bit jarring to see the large (tho largely ignored) KENNEDY 24 tent at the Farmer’s Market in Maui. But then I went in and the hippie natural vibe was strong, and it made more sense. 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 13/07/2024Watching a bunch of Hawaii movies and docs, and somehow got to Battleship. I am really impressed how deeply it commits to the question, “What if the first human to make contact with an alien species was a fuckin’ idiot?” 000
MoXmas @moxmas.bsky.social · 01/04/2024“A neurodivergent accountant is prized by his community for his accounting excellence. He never shows off a certain set of skills outside of math. He is hit by a runaway bison a week after his 60th birthday and a community service award is founded in his honor.” 000
