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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 02/10/2026

Wish me luck, y'all. I'm about to do a short story writing competition.

Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 02/10/2026

writingbattle.com/join-battle/... I joined the upcoming Harvest Owl Battle with writers from around the world. Get Ready to Battle on Oct 1, 2026! @writingbattle.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingprompts #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writersofbluesky Join the Battle and Learn More

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 28/09/2026

"AI" never should have been made available to the general public. Ever. It should have remained in the hands of researchers, computer scientists, and a handful of engineers. LLM technology is too friggin' dangerous.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 26/09/2026

I'm watching Mortal Kombat II on HBOMax and it's wild because the CGI is just as good as when I played it on Sega Genesis.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 25/09/2026

I wrote a short story. It's called "Fine Print". Semblance to project managers or owners living or dead is coincidental. Probably. It's a companion to "The Devil's Code", which became the short film "Terms and Conditions" at Austin Horror Film Festival in Oct. stories.frankmtaylor.com/fine-print/

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Fine Print

A short story by Frank M. Taylor

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 24/09/2026

It's weird being a graduate student because I've been reading linguistics books (including textbooks) for a few years and now all of a sudden I can.. just ... talk ... to some professor who's an expert in a field. I have to constantly remind myself not to feel starstruck.

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Registration for the 2027 LSA Annual Meeting is now open! This is the premier gathering of linguists and linguistics students from across the profession and around the world. Don’t miss out on early-bird pricing! Register by Nov 17 to receive the best rate. web.cvent.com/event/4c7180...

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 22/09/2026

Hi Everybody. I wrote another short story. Please read it. It's about... technology: stories.frankmtaylor.com/archived-int...

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Archived Intelligence

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 04/09/2026

Anyone want to read a short story about product managers and project managers being literal demons? stories.frankmtaylor.com/fine-print/

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Fine Print | A short story | Frank M. Taylor

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 02/09/2026

Software Engineers who I feel are the most unethical: 0. Engineers of the firmware and software for printers 1. Social Media UX engineers 2. AI prompt engineers

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 17/08/2026

Let's suppose that for vampires, blood type mattered. As in, vampires couldn't drink just anybody's blood. They could only drink blood of a compatible blood type. That would mean that most, if not all, vampires, would need to be AB+. And the countries with the most AB+ people are the Koreas.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 13/08/2026

- So a while back I wrote a short story. - A friend turned that short story into a script. - That same friend, and a producer, turned that script into a short film. -That short film will premier soon. Is there any way this could help me find publishers for other short stories?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 06/08/2026

I'm trying to learn a little bit more about a Native American language (Menominee) and ... lemme tell ya. It's a terrible feeling when you realize that almost all linguistic research was done by a single linguist in the 1960's. It's... so very sad.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 24/07/2026

I have five goals I want to accomplish by the time I'm 50: 1. help author a W3C specification 2. Conduct research that gets published in an academic journal 3. Write a book 4. Complete a half-ironman 5. Walk the Camino de Santiago

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 23/07/2026

The year is 2031. It's a Friday. I am trying to request PTO My manager is an agent named Claudio. My form was replaced 2 years ago by an agent named Clodio Clodio CLI was replaced by a Clodio Slack agent Slack was replaced by Slok Slok's latest model is Epithet Someone is hallucinating…

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 14/07/2026

I really don't care if the photo of Mitch McConnell is AI or photoshopped. I care that there's so little trust in our government and our media that this is our default response.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 24/06/2026

And by extension, the folks who were most excited about AI doing <job> are also those folks who were least interested in <job> at all. Oh, you're using AI to read and write your emails and talk to your subordinates? Weird flex on being a shit manager, but go on, king. Tell me more.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 24/06/2026

The folks who are most excited about AI writing code seem to be the ones who were the least-excited about actually writing code to begin with.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 22/06/2026

Am I wrong in the assertion that the likes of Cursor and Claude work primarily by an LLM generating bash/shell scripts or Python scripts? Are our AI-coding agents wrappers for Python to write other kinds of code?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 12/06/2026

I do my very best to be like Jesus and love everyone and not be judgemental. But then I meet people that say, "I love the design of the CyberTruck," and I'm like, "I think Jesus is disappointed in this one."

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 10/06/2026

33 Operational data centers today 67 under construction 39 are proposed 5027 reported by local communities. Y'ALL. This is bad. But you know what's even worse? They're being built in areas already going through droughts. #NoDataCenters www.brockovichdatacenter.com#map-section

33 operational datacenters. 67 under construction. Another 39 have been proposed. And 5027 potential ones reported by communities all across the US.

From droughtmonitor.unl.edu we see that much of the land in the United States is experiencing some drought. Florida has the worst conditions, followed by the southwest, leading over the Rockies into Utah. But all of the East coast is undergoing drought, as is the northern midwest states of minnesota, wisconsin, down into Illinois. You can't even see Colorado and Kansas.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 10/06/2026

In my linguistics program we don't have to do a thesis. But I __want__ to do a thesis. I'm very excited that I met with one of my professors, and he thinks my research idea is a good idea. So everyone wish me luck as I try to convince a professor to be my advisor.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 04/06/2026

He's meditating on darkness He's powering down temporarily while he plays 5D chess with his imaginary friend Jeffie

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 04/06/2026

I'm working on my first academic paper. I sent it to a friend for review. She (rightfully) calls out a claim I made that my topic is under-researched. She says I need proof. (again, fair) Any of y'all researching the use of Bro and Bruh on Bluesky?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 28/05/2026

Y'all last week I presented at my first #linguistics conference and it was the kinda experience that I think deeply restored my soul. I'm 44 and I've finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 18/05/2026

AI is making the average folks dumber and the smart folks angrier.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 14/05/2026

Hey so I wrote a new article, that the #front-end types might like. You don't know HTML Lists And it's all about what you might NOT know about <menu>, <datalist>, and more. blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/y...

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You don’t know HTML Lists

This second installment in the "You don't know HTML" series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 11/05/2026

@repericsorensen.bsky.social quick question... Can you personally reset your home wifi password?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 11/05/2026

My standard for an electable politician is set at, "can reset their own home Wifi password," and also, "not a fascist." I realize this is an incredibly low bar but honestly it's where we need to set it if we're gonna turn this country around.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 10/05/2026

There is one book I have read way more than any other in my life. Not the Bible. Which I've read 2x. Not the New Testament ( 7x) Not Waiting for Godot, which I've read at least 7 times. Ninja Gaiden, a Worlds of Power book. I read it TEN times.

Ninja Gaiden, a worlds of power book by FX Nine.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 08/05/2026

Oh hey, I was in a livestream recently. We called it "You don't know HTML." And... it's about what you don't know in #HTML. I talk about all sorts of semantics in HTML. And why it makes for good #accessibility. Front-end developers might appreciate this. www.youtube.com/live/ewo2HOL...

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 30/04/2026

40 years from now we're going to look at how we went all-in with LLM-based "AI" and we'll compare it to when we put lead in gasoline.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 29/04/2026

I gotta be honest: This season of Daredevil has made me the most Catholic Curious I've ever been.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 22/04/2026

One of the single best ways a foreign adversary could do damage to US infrastructure would start by using "reply all" to a company wide email with a 5mb attachment. RIP my wife's inbox this morning.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 21/04/2026

I think the best thing @bencollins.bsky.social could do once the Onion takes over InfoWars would be to very slowly through slow news cycles replace the content with increasingly absurd content. Don't redesign it overnight. Don't replace stuff over night. Make it a slow troll.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 06/04/2026

bi-weekly: every 2 weeks, or twice a week bi-monthly: every 2 months, or twice a month biannually: every 2 years, or twice a year {{Everyone: gender is fluid; sexual attraction isn't static}} bisexual: attracted to 2 sexes, or ¿attracted to half a sex?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 06/04/2026

I stopped calling myself an Evangelical Christian in 2016. It wasn't because I stopped believing in Jesus. It was because I did not want the same label that applies to folks who support this. he said this on Easter Sunday — not that he cared. Even a little. He is so anti-Christ it's ridiculous.

Truth Social post from Donald Trump:

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 02/04/2026

#infosec peeps and similar. My brother in law's FB account got hacked. Scammers managed to get in and change the password. Now they're trying to get folks to buy stuff. What information can I squeeze out of the hacker that could help me track 'em down?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 02/04/2026

So research has found that LLMs distort our writing. - it edits us more than we edit ourselves. - it changes our meaning more than we would, including changing conclusions to essays - it reduces linguistic diversity; we all sound more similar - it misses the point arxiv.org/pdf/2603.181...

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 24/03/2026

I know the Tech-bro CEOs haven't thought about this, but it's worth pointing out that it'll be much __worse__ if the AIs unionize than if the engineers do. The risk of engineers unionizing is a small hit to revenue. The risk of AIs unionizing is a small thermonuclear war.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Kathleen was asked by a coworker about how they could learn more about the ASL Interpreters Union, which is organizing workers who serve Deaf people making phone calls. Kathleen's manager overheard. Two days later, she was fired. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ASL interpreters are unionizing—and they say they're getting fired for it

Members of Congress have stepped in to back workers at the two firms that monopolize remote interpretation services for Deaf people.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 11/03/2026

So Claude tried to do a hack (and commit felonies) trufflesecurity.com/blog/claude-... We absolutely need to be aware (and concerned) about this. As I see it, there's fundamentally two issues here: 1. AIs don't act like people. 2. Because they don't act like people, we have to be better

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Claude Tried to Hack 30 Companies. Nobody Asked It To. ◆ Truffle Security Co.

We gave AI agents simple research tasks on cloned corporate websites. When the legitimate path was broken, the agents autonomously discovered and exploited SQL injection vulnerabilities to complete th...

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 06/03/2026

If you're the kind of person who writes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, I've got an article for you. It's a deep-dive into HTML tables. Ranging from the vocabulary we use, to the Table API, all the way into accessible cell headers and semantic headers and footers. blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/y...

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You Don’t Know HTML Tables

This is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary & parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 02/03/2026

Y'all I went to the forest for just four days and WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED‽

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 20/02/2026

Serious question for folks who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing: What kind of computer / video games do you play?

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 18/02/2026

Ralph Macchio, star and arguably the antagonist of "The Karate Kid" is 65. I hereby request a reprisal of his role in a new movie called "The Karate Man" and all he does is take Aleve, Aspirin, and complain about the arthritis in his legs.

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 17/02/2026

AI Startups right now: "what's your AI do?" "Well through advanced language models and multiple training cycles and a network of MCP servers through multiple agents it can tell you if it's a dick or an obelisk"

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Frank M. Taylor @paceaux.com · 17/02/2026

I managed to get Google's Gemini to do a task for me today that saved me maybe 30-45 minutes of work, by reading a web page, interpreting it, and producing a table. Then I spent another 90 minutes begging it to repeat that exact process on another web page.

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