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m. r. sauter

@oddletters.bsky.social
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politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - oddletters.com stickers+noise - duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
im kind of obsessed with the graphical abstract of this paper pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Dehydration–rehydration vegetables: Evaluation and future challenges
Keywords: Vegetables, Dehydration, Rehydration, Water migration, Quality, Rehydration model
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
man next go round im coming back as a food scientist they get all the cool toys. its like the large hadron collider but for mushrooms and little bits of cabbage
its a bunch of industrial food freeze dryers! they're very shiny and neat!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
HOWS EVERYONE ELSE'S EVENING www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Improvement of the Quality of Solid Ingredients of Instant Soups: A Review
Solid ingredients of instant soups have received pervasive acceptance worldwide because of convenience and palatability. This paper summarizes the effective approaches to improve the quality of sol...
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is so cool pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Effect of polymer addition on the physical properties of freeze-dried soup solid
The effect of polymers (gelatin, starch, and maltodextrin) on the physical properties of freeze-dried model soup (sodium chloride, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate) was investigated. The polymers wer...
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i *knew* nicola would be on this somehow!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
are there any fun long form articles about developments in freeze drying technology over the past two decades? asking for me because i want to know
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
why is her hair always so fried???
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i dm'ed you!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lol oh very fun. i'm actually interested in the summaries paired with the original stories? i'll dm you
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
why are you in boston when im in toronto 😭
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ooooo is this data set handily exportable? can i look at it?
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
one of my *only* memories of being three(?) years old is the wolf coming out of the wall in that movie. i've apparently blacked out everything else.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
he was sad next to a petri dish of y. pestis and fell on it
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i am all twelve bad men i contain multitudes
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
yessssssssss im very excited about this
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ive very psyched to see these fits!!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
where's that "that's too many battles" viking meme
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
adding or replacing
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it does not look like that he just looks like his clothes dont fit!!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
that jacket does not fit him??
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
...what the fuck is he wearing?
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
wait are you in dc now
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you could just put on all the Bourne movies in order
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
im dm-ing you!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
IT WAS NICE I LIKED IT
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there's no rule saying you cant just *coincidentally* be in toronto next week
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
yep! that's genre!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
more or less, yes
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i mean im using genre here specifically *to* bring social action into this analysis
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"even if its french" loooooooool
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
looks its the most applicable term i have available right now tim
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
but while im sitting on this bus (lol) i will say: im curious what you think the diff is between a "reactive template" and a "performance of a genre-determined character/actant". or more specifically what the diff is between "template" and "genre" and what cuts "character" out of your analysis?
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is a much more complex conversation than i want to thumb type and we should get coffee soon 😂
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i personally *love* figuring out what my book's argument is only when the manuscript is a year overdue.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i'd bet money on that due to or plus unaddressed anterior hip tilt, yeah
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
IM SO FUCKING PSYCHED TO SEE FAT SQUIRRELS NEXT WEEK
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
now im going to pack up and go to campus to teach all day with the perfect faith that nothing bad will happen in my mentions while im gone *surely*
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about given LLM-instances as *active performances of generic characters* (which i would argue requires anthropomorphizing language, like other forms of genre/discourse analysis with actors/actants) helps us anticipate and understand emergent behavior patterns.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i agree and disagree with Weatherby here. if the best was to understand LLMs is as genre-machines, then its productive to think about their actions as *genre-determined (and determining) through character action and speech* with the LLM and the user each taking one part in a genre-defined dyad.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*welcome back! i lived there for, uh, a minute lol. it's why i ended up writing so much stuff about Sidewalk Toronto in grad school
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i can send you the working drafts later in october!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i've got two papers at 4S this year! i'm presenting my working paper on the civic imaginary of AI as part of @zephoria.bsky.social 's All Political Economy of AI All Day panel series on wedneday and my death metal bestie is presenting our working paper on LLM summaries and summarizing on friday!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
oh nooooooooo erin!! no!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the polka one is *so much*
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
why is that man a rectangle
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
weed and sitting on a patio eating fried things?
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
lol i dont drink but i'll hang out anywhere that will sell me an extra strong ginger beer
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bus dm me your venmo
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
yes! i think @sadiecouture.bsky.social will also be there?
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
toronto-toronto for real, in and around the university district
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