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I’m always the only guy at the romance book club; because of that I have cool new friends and acquaintances who are women. I bond with women who read romance because I’m not a pretentious ass. I read dense, heavy nonfiction all day for work and I like to read about love when I get home.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was fun. The book is good and the movie was different but also good. We had good conversations and laughed and swooned. I don’t care what people who don’t read/write romance have to say about the genre. It’s no coincidence that people think it’s slop & that it’s read/written mostly by women.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Contribution to the romance novel discourse: I was recently the only guy at a bookstore party for the movie premiere of The Love Hypothesis, based on Ali Hazelwood’s book of the same name, about a grad student who falls in love with the scary professor. The book originally began as a Reylo ship.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My spouse refers to Claude as a foppish crab (I made a discord script that had a crab for its avatar around the same time Claude hit the public eye and she never disentangled the two)

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a bearded American it is a strange honor to be placed on a list among friends

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is the reporting in the room with us right now

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Linguistic anthropology deeply vindicated (language contains a world + universal grammar machinery not necessary for language learning) is one of the cooler outcomes of the LLM era

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve only heard it because of TikTok

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Hm this offer seems too good to be true” The LLM cross referenced a half dozen housing websites and a massive number of “how to tell if this is a scammer” websites and conclusively determine that the offer was in fact a scam

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of poasts about how LLMs will enable fraud/scams and that’s true, but my friend has been looking for housing and was able to use an LLM to detect fraud instantly and efficiently

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the love hypothesis movie was good, definitely an adaptation, strange choices made in some parts. one of the charms of the book is that it depicts academics in a realistic way (no surprises, it's written by an academic) as opposed to the Big Bang Theory version; movie doesn't do that quite as well.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

extremely difficult to find divorce content for men that isn’t “gym up, hit the lawyer”. listening to Conscious Uncoupling and theres an extended anecdote in chapter two about a lady that rips a dude’s balls off

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They would have rooted for Talarico btw

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The emotional climax of the NHJ story is when she realizes that she hasn’t been listening to her daughter and has instead been responding defensively. the article is pretty clear that NHJ thought her privilege would outweigh the school’s shortcomings but did she think her intelligence was heritable?

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The boss is out, alongside three or four other people, and it’s raining. Really starting to seem like a work from home day

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also “next word prediction“ is a nontrivial task! In order to predict the next word, an insane amount of structure and information is banana. I mean, necessary.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

as a public service of 'the kind of thing you can get AI to do that is useful' this takes Claude a couple of minutes to run every day: a annotated list of trending stories on the Chinese internet + stories notably missing but in diaspora media. A few days here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Chinese Internet Round-Up — 2026-09 September.md

Chinese Internet Daily Round-Up — September 2026 One entry per day, newest first. Maintained automatically by the daily scheduled task. Chinese Internet Daily Round-Up — Sunday, 20 September 2026 Me...

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I grew up in a town that had three stoplights and they feel the same way

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I respect Nikole Hannah-Jones and her work; I think the 1619 Project was (and is) important. But this article is such a frustrating read.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I never thought the school would fail MY children," rages woman who placed her child in the Failing People's Children School.

There was nothing exceptional about what I witnessed at P.S. 307. I had observed and reported on similar educational malfeasance in Detroit, in Durham, in St. Louis, in Tuscaloosa, in Birmingham. But I was no longer a mere observer of this system wreaking havoc on other people’s children. Now I was experiencing it with my own.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is my number one issue, that we don’t end up legally defining these terms in ways that deny huge numbers (literally millions or billions) of people the status of sentient beings

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't know if I could handle opening up the paper and seeing that the headline is calling me a gullible loser

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fictional characters are routinely referred to using the appropriate pronouns. It doesn’t bestow humanity or reality upon them to do so.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is the analysis in the room with us right now

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Feel free to start demonstrating that at any time rather than vaguely gesturing at fucking Said

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Minor issue on the whole, but I like his valuing of life based on whether it is "economically productive," measured by contribution to GDP. Measured directly, Paul Erdős's "economic productivity" was basically negative as he crashed on people's couches doing meth. But his true value is enormous.

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"probably" appears 2x; once speculating whether Ronny Hernandez is your "pimp" and once already mentioned. "possibly" appears 1x, context is whether HPMOR is the highest impact religious text of the modern era "potentially", "perhaps" 0 hits "maybe" 3 hits, none vitiate any central claim

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hyperpop anthems about football? The world isn’t ready

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

there's a video going around on tiktok where a guy is playing a game and his AI assistant keeps asking him what strawberries taste like

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

that's outside of my expertise but if I find anything out I will send it your way

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Tripping the Light Fantastick @ttlfb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

without doxing myself...i work in this space and had heard for years about a donor with deep pockets whose identity was totally top secret. none of us could deduce who it was. and then the news broke that it was her. seriously life-changing amounts of money for Native American communities.

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