Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 106100092446
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”thecut.comHow Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.” 231534535
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 4830181054
Reposted by Michael Meir Saltzman💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New sword commission! This one for @saltzman.bsky.social ! The request was for a sword that was extremely long, curved, and otherworldly. The starting point was an odachi, but the final design has more in common with a Dacian falx, which is awesome. Want a fantasy sword? They are $50! 34321
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is a sword from my 15+ year D&D campaign and I can’t believe how fucking good it looks. Allison was phenomenal to work with, extremely attentive to detail (I mean you can see it from her work), kind and easy, and sickeningly talented. This came out better than I imagined!!! 12810
Reposted by Michael Meir Saltzmanmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4990111657
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanJohn Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It has been fun to watch “Theyre video games made by a bunch of Finnish theatre people (derogatory ) swing to They’re video games made by a bunch of Finnish theatre people (complimentary) “ 2484
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanCarolyn Page @jacuzzitubbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026shoutout to artists on bsky yall really are so talented and inspiring. I simply love looking at the work. It makes me feel things. 2654
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My only thought re: Texas song discourse is that I spent a lot of life being told I was a snob. But in reality I really liked music & sharing it & some ppl would react hostilely to my “weird” music. At the same time, I was fully bullied for not liking top 10 pop. 290
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sometimes I think about Phantom Liberty and get very sad like I actually saw all that shit happen 150
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026Moed Tov! Суккот муборак! Today I joined Rabbi Shlomo Nisanov in Kew Gardens to distribute free food to New Yorkers in honor of Sukkot. Thank you to Rabbi Nisanov for the reminder that community and service deepen our most joyful holidays. 514282660
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is your reminder that the Witcher III remaster launches free for everyone who owns the game at 6am Eastern tomorrow. Including the Hearts of Stone + Blood & Wine DLCs, even if you never bought them previously, which are frankly big enough to be their own full-priced game. 4646
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanC. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...undark.orgAI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ ProblemOpinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment. 48243
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No Gods. No Kings. No Rules. Just right. 1110
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026there’s a psychological phenomenon where you will genuinely convince yourself that the best strategy for a football team would be to prioritize the guy on your fantasy team 1656412
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information 1304902565
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh. My. God. 1323442
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Me: I dunno, I think I look pretty cool Wife: DO YOU? Hold on (gets out her camera and takes this picture) 3380
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 561899459
Reposted by Michael Meir Saltzmansam @samthielman.com · 13/12/2025Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous 112858433
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanJosh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been seeing a lot of new characters on billboards in the SweetJames Multiverse and I don’t like it. I want only the original, somewhat unsettling, Sweet James. 2036628
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor. 623738732
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026(Taking my 7yo to buy her 1st pack of Pokémon cards ever) Her: this pack Me: Because it has Pikachu on it? Her: Yeah Me: Just so you know you almost definitely wont get Pikachu Her: As long as a I get a rare Me: You probably won’t get that either (She opens it & gets a hyper rare Pikachu) 8553
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026(Cradling my Pokémon after it’s been assassinated at the Pokémon Union Strike in the middle of a Pokériot that has broken out as a result) Me: Who did this to you?? Pokémon (dying breath): it was a… 070
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Got to see DJ Shadow do a live show of Endtroducing last night and it was so fucking good 030
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s wild how late they are. Cute was the aesthetic move fifteen years ago, now dominated by korean and Chinese producers. And also that thing isn’t that cute www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/fro...koreajoongangdaily.comFrom minimal to magical: Playful designs, cute collaborations reshape K-beauty marketingKorea's beauty industry is ramping up collaborations with cute, popular characters for limited-edition merchandise to generate hype on social media and drive sales. The shift reflects the industry’s f... 313818
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one 201213208
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026time to rip off the bandaid of trying not to make tech oligarchs mad. 1132258
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that. 101315221
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why did no one tell me how anime the Broken Earth Trilogy is 450
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanThe Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026“I remember seeing him on TV and thinking, ‘No, that can’t be Kash,’ but sure enough, there he was, addressing the nation about a missing person case.” — Daisy, local golden retriever theonion.comDog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBIWASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was... 282469369
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Two things: - I’d demand a verbal confirmation before every answer that I’m not currently speaking to Isaac Chotiner - I’d arbitrarily pick one person in the room to disagree with 100% of the time & make it very clearly personally about them 1210
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just described Lavos from Chrono Trigger as a kind of “kaiju antichrist” if anyone is looking for a good new band name 1111
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think the main issue here really is that lots of nice polite mainstream figures in media think quietly agree with him about this stuff or find it unobjectionable bsky.app/profile/asel... 13698149
Reposted by Michael Meir Saltzmanrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026there should be no such thing as ‘elite journalists’ incentives are ass backwards that way. a journalist should be a grubby and suspicious little fuck 411524165
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913440925
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 685248945505
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We are the daughters of the witches you could not burn (they made plea deals + also my specific witch mom framed another witch mom due to a longstanding witch feud) 2140
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanTashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You all gotta see this 2484987
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026 102351254
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanThe Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 23/09/2026“Pharoah came into the studio … he did one take all the way through, 40 minutes. Just sat there and played the one take. Then we had lunch from a pastrami place downtown, Langer’s, his favorite place in L.A. … did one more take, and that was it.” Floating Points — Sam Shepherd’s Vision:tapeop.comFloating PointsAlthough I had heard of Floating Points, the project of London-based musician Sam Shepherd, it was the 2021 album Promises – made in collaboration with Pha 0172
Reposted by Michael Meir SaltzmanAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari... 421306176
Reposted by Michael Meir Saltzmanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago 511772282
Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026To all my friends who have been subjected to my “the self is actually a hive mind” rant: fukn told you 370