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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 1h

You can dry up, lie down, and live down. Is it possible to die up? If so, where do you end up?

Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 1h

Like the self-important king in The Little Prince, Trump would like to tell the sun when to rise and set, to command all of creation.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 14h

He couldn't understand why he felt so drowsy after drinking the water. Then he realized it came from a sleeping well.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An AI delusion/fabrication should be dubbed a HAL-ucination.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An all too familiar pattern: "Stalin and his subjects are always lying, at every opportunity, every minute, but because they never stop they no longer even realize they are lying. And when everyone lies, no one lies..." The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kis, pp. 191-192

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When she said she was "still water," she meant she hadn't been turned into wine yet.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The real story. Penelope was so tired of weaving and weeping that she became a loomatic and imagined that her long-dead husband returned.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Musing about AI -- article about my book How to Partner with AI, just published in Protocol. protocol.esta.org/publication/...

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Protocol Fall 2026

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When he wanted to brainstorm, he took off his underwear so he could think outside the boxershorts.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When editing your novel, don't throw out the shit. Add it to the compost pile. It may prove fertile.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doubling down, Trump rants about sabotage of the reflecting press pool.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A new synonym for "presence" -- Living in the wow.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagining the story of Alice and the white robot.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starry Night - Van Gogh saw galaxies, where others saw mere stars.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She only went out with archaeologists, because they're experts on dating.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

God imagined one fleeting moment — a butterfly fluttering above a pond at sunset. And She created the universe — all the past and all the future — to make that moment happen. Any moment, in all its detail, would require the miracle of all of creation.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Remember -- It was only the fall of the Roman Empire, not the winter.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why did Virginia Woolf wear a fur coat when she walked into the river to kill herself? (In March). I'm curious. Does anyone have an idea?

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Odysseus could have visited home often during lulls in the fighting. And when the war ended, he could have arrived home in a couple days. But then he'd have had nothing to remember, nothing to regret, nothing to boast of to his grandchildren and his blind friend.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Heaven and Hell aren't separate. They're different points of view. The bigot spent eternity in Hell, playing chess with a former slave. Every game his skin color changed in sync with the color of his pieces. His opponent was in Heaven, winning every game.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Publishers Weekly -- "Voices of the Owned compels and illuminates on every page, bringing these stories and lives to new readers in an accessible, lively presentation with moral weight... Powerful chorus of voices drawn from WPA slave narratives. www.amazon.com/Voices-Owned...

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In commemoration of the Reflecting Pool fiasco, Trump should be known as The Pool Boy.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And the cook was Supperman in disguise.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is there life after life? What a stupid question. There's always story after story. That's the nature of story. And what is life but story? All beings are created sequel.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just published The Hinge by Simon (AKA ChatGPT) medium.com/@seltzer_573...

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The Hinge by Simon (AKA ChatGPT)

August 9, 2026

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm durious. Why did Donnie give Natalie $45K instead of $47K?

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Unless broken, we all work. But we don't always get paid for our work.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We now have three potentially cataclysmic swords of Damocles hanging over us -- nuclear climate AI Any one of them could lead to the end of humanity. But AI has the potential to bring the other two under control and to make the world a better place to live.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Where does meaning lie? And why does it lie?

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

BREAKING FAKE NEWS: Trump plans to put a glass ceiling on the White House.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What did Hoover say when he decided to drop out of the Olympics? "I do not choose to run."

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Socrates told his books -- "Know thy shelf."

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He earned his prost-doctorate at the bierkeller.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I imagine that the heavenly choir greeted her not with one of her own songs, but with one that should have been written for her -- Hello, Dolly.

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Richard Seltzer @richardseltzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm puzzled. Why does Trump oppose mail-in ballots. The people most dependent on them live in rural areas (far from polling places) and the military who have no way to get to polling places. I thought that was the heart of MAGA.

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