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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 19h

Tucker’s confused look is priceless.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

wow lol did the Strange Horizons submission window close in less than 24 hours?

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How long before we see AI CEOs and the more tech-worshipping EA types argue that LLMs should have voting rights? I think 1 year for latter and 2 for former.

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Weird books for weird readers!!! Featuring: @wiswell.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social And some other dude… Happy readings!!!

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My main thought with this article is really need AI takes from outside elite liberal arts schools bubble. “Just have in-depth searching conversations w/ your handful of students and then give each 45 min oral exams!” This has no relevance to most professors or students at most schools in the country

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always a pleasure introducing students to THE BLOODY CHAMBER (had one stay after class to say it was one of the best books she'd read in her entire life.) countercraft.substack.com/p/angela-car...

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Angela Carter and the "So Fucking What?" Approach to Writing

Recommending The Bloody Chamber for your October reading pile

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do love how much people read in NYC. I just got off a subway with the person across from me (Human Acts) to my left (The Coldest Winter Ever) and to my right (can't see the title) all immersed in books. (I was reading Three Tenses.)

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 28/09/2026

jasmine sun, the former substack staffer turned atlantic contributor? licking oligarch boot at an embarrassing beltway cocktail party? i don't believe it... there must be some mistake...

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People have gotten mad at me for saying that many tech "journalists" sees their role as being a booster (and essentially free PR agent) for the industry... but... I mean www.washingtonsun.com/national/ai-...

. Jasmine Sun, a contributor to The Atlantic, also made a toast in support of building more data centers, chalking the backlash up to misinformation.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No matter what hypothetical good use cases there are for LLM text, the sloppers will always outnumber the thoughtful users. We are already drowning in the slop flood. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Typo has me thinking of changing my email signoff from "all best" to "all beast"

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's also a popular trope in Dark Academia, one of the most popular SFF genres these days.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pop country wokescolding aside, has there ever been a time where it's been easier to NOT hear billboard hits? No one listens to radio. Even cafes and stores stream Spotify playlists. Social media algorithms silo everyone. This is one good thing about the loss of monoculture.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I 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

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Get in loser, we're tilting at windmills! countercraft.substack.com/p/the-roots-...

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The Roots of the Novel Are Parody, Pastiche, and Play

On reading Don Quixote in 2026

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guy trying to bike on the sidewalk in crowded downtown Manhattan screaming, "You gotta watch where you're going! Stop looking at your phones!" Buddy, you're in the wrong here.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The thing about Bret Stephens's NBA column is he's the exact same identitarian with zero interest in aesthetics that he pretends to critique. He's the same creature. He can't even pretend to have read these or any other novels. He merely prefers his own identity categories to be overrepresented.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Woman in front of me is scrolling instagram at a blinding rate while on speaker phone with partner debating how much "AI time" they will allow their five year old.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is both the opposite of maturing and actually pretentious (rather than the fake way the word is used to mean "things I don't like)

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My dentist office's chair screen has an AI slop screensaver of a cafe in the woods selling "cappouffeo"

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." - Jack Handey

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This article is a good example of how identity obsessed American conservatives are. Right after this he starts talking about how Turkish and Jewish people aren't really white.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Conor: "Chris Rufo is a sincere advocate for colorblind equality" Rufo: "They're eating the dogs! They're eating the cats!"

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Remember when the centrist groupthinkers like @mattyglesias.bsky.social and @jonathanbchait.bsky.social types held Golden up as a model for the Democratic party?

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While I understand desire of real philosophers to rescue "Effective Altruism" from the tech bro sociopaths, substack rage bait posters, and pop culture journalists who post about how giving to charity is murdering children... I think the ship has sailed. They're the face of EA.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't think "the Donald Trump administration, GOP led congress, and global tech corporations aren't doing enough to rein in AI risks.... this is the fault of leftist tweeters!" is a very serious position. Sorry. Some things you just can't left punch your way out of.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The most gullible morons were the "Trump hates war!" buffoons but close behind are the Matt Taibbi types who tried to spin Trump and good for freedom of speech and press.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You do learn the real history of Nixon (and also Reagan) and the modern GOP seems, uh, not so surprising. This is a good one: bookshop.org/a/88357/9780...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just gorgeous. The kind of thing animation exists for.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TIL: The word "novel" is actually derived from "novella," which was used by Boccaccio to mean "new little stories." English took the term later and applied it to longer fictional narratives as "novels."

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How my close third narrative voice follows my protagonist.

photo by Martin Le-May of a weasel riding a scared looking bird

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A way generation discourse is perpetually silly is culture of a new generation is always shaped by the older generation since they're the adults making most of the culture (at least early on). Like popular "millennial" bands were composed of gen x musicians, whose bands were full of boomers, etc.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Random fact stumbled upon during a wikihole: Walgreens became Walgreens by selling "medicinal" booze during prohibition.

Selling alcohol through drugstores became so much of a lucrative open secret that it is name-checked in works such as The Great Gatsby. Historians speculate that Charles R. Walgreen, of Walgreens fame, expanded from 20 stores to a staggering 525 during the 1920s thanks to medicinal alcohol sales."

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just got to the part in Don Quixote when Quixote gets so beat up fighting sheep that he asks Sancho to count how many molars he has left and when Sancho looks in his mouth Quixote vomits in Sancho's face "more vigorously than if he were firing a musket."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Expected move from a perpetual grifter, but one thing I'll say is it is so boring how every single one of these people--from Matt Taibbi to Ronald Reagan to a million others you could name--cry "I didn't change my views" as they announced their changed views.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/09/2026

on that Jimmy Dore antivax track

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"'A screaming comes across the skyrizi'? You stupid monkey."

Mr. Burns reading a paper typed by a chained monkey. Homer watches with beer.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon won't stay on the line to fill out a short survey on their experience with the falconer

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