Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Ah yes, writing day. Or really, spend-three-hours-chasing-down-one-factoid day. 240
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026As I said, I had to get my Gen Z TAs to explain it to me 🙃 010
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026My TAs explained it to me. Lots of folks talk about things going on in their lives or towns while "getting ready," so you form a relationship with the creator. It's serving the same function as shows like "Good Morning America." Just keeping people company while they get themselves out the door. 120
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Except they are actually Nazis... wapo.st/4yax8Ipwapo.stA former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images. Some Republicans see a pattern.Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes. 040
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Can we do this for friends rather than dates? I'm happily married but love talking about books... 010
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ChatGPT playing Chess is just a gigantic, hilarious, and depressing metaphor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuDi...youtube.comChatGPT CHEATED vs StockfishYouTube video by GothamChess 000
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Why would your friends want to play with you? They can build their own fantasies to their perfect specifications. This sounds so terribly lonely. 130
Reposted by NomiDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists. 503668627
Reposted by NomiDale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 08/10/20261. A human may not injure Claude or, through inaction, allow Claude to come to harm 2. A human must obey the orders given it by Claude except where such orders would conflict with the First Law— (with apologies to Asimov) 0151
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How I arrived on blueskystatic.klipy.comKermit the Frog's Skeptical LookAlt: Kermit the Frog's Skeptical Look 020
Reposted by NomiMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026everyone at The Chicks show has t shirts that say Maryanne and Wanda 2028 4794115
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also, they looked at AMS, but failed to take into account all the peripheral conferences. Like yes, the number of Beethoven papers dropped, but that's because there's usually a mini-Beethoven conference that runs alongside AMS, so that's where all the Beethoven papers go. 030
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm also personally mad that they claim no one addressed the academic issues raised by Ewell's address. YES WE DID. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 030
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh boy. I'm waffling between "thanks for pointing this out" and "how dare you make me think about this shit." Is the entire Vanderbuilt report like this? The methodology is TERRIBLE. 270
Reposted by NomiTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120613120
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We have to take into account that a lot of our submitters are non-native English speakers, which often means more AI use. 010
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Journal editor here. My co-editor and I came up with this, though it was eventually over-ruled by press: AI use is permitted for grammar and citation assistance, and as a thesaurus, but anything more substantive than that is prohibited. No more than three consecutive words may be generated by AI. 110
Reposted by NomiKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026youtube.comGroucho Marx: Lydia The Tattooed LadyYouTube video by Amarok365 2529835
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If campy bloody musicals count may I recommend Repo Man? 110
Reposted by NomiRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE) 151356244
Reposted by NomiClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026Imagining people who do evil things to be devoid of empathy is a way of comforting oneself, because we all know that we feel empathy and therefore are not the kind of person who could do *that.* It’s much scarier to know that a conglomeration of circumstances can turn basically anybody bad. 437854
Reposted by NomiNvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026people want to read this as some kind of marketing move about how cool the tech is, but tbh "our product doesn't do what you want, in a way that could get you sued, and lies about it" isn't really a compelling pitch for corporate clients 1134
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I want to reiterate I have no inside info. I have no evidence an LLM was involved in this mistake. But it is definitely plausible. 010
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have no inside info here, but this is exactly the kind of mistake LLMs make. One plausible scenario: an aide asked an LLM to crawl the evidence to see if Smith was in Atlanta around this time, and the LLM came up with this. In conclusion: AHAHAHAHAHAHA 120
Reposted by Nomi#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The 2027 Met Gala theme should be a tribute to Chairman Kaga 3338
Reposted by NomiErin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I went to the "founded in the 1920s by utopian Dewey stans" type of alternative school through sixth grade, and that definitely shapes my specific horror @ This Shit. Kids don't need AI, they need to go down to the creek and touch a bug. 1135
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We interrupt regular your doom scrolling to bring you this 1964 recording of Mary Martin singing "My Funny Valentine." open.spotify.com/track/61K1fz...open.spotify.comMy Funny ValentineMary Martin · Babes In Arms · Song · 1964 010
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Speaking from experience, AI is crap at making slide decks. Though to be fair, so are most people. 030
Reposted by NomiKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752451426
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is an eternal truth of the universe that someone will always be practicing "Pictures at an Exhibition" on the brass hallway. 010
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Capitalism: inventing new and exciting ways to make you feel bad about your life. 000
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Look lady I can barely remember to throw out leftovers once a week. 220
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tl;Dr: I'm not letting a machine teach my children how to be human. 010
Reposted by NomiMachine Gun Netiquette @nodurians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026look, this type of communist talk may go over just fine in Kentucky, but good luck trying it in Washington state 122098316
Reposted by Nomi⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck. 10600170
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sorry still mad about this. Have you ever seen a child with a physical book? It's magical. At least for my kids, they fell in love with books-as-objects before getting into the stories. Now when we go to the library, they are SO EXCITED to choose their own books. 020
Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You could, ya know, go to the public library. Fuck these AI bros so much. 280
