buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: demons, consonants, 1990s, wheat, capsules, pizza, Oculus, geophysics, villa, tomato, xenophobia-free, enthusiasm, discreetly, brains

Read a blog post by Bill Gates on the Gates Foundation website about AI and 1) OpenAI built chatGPT as a demo for him specifically to secure MSFT investment so this is your fault dude 2) if everyone knew I'd gotten an STD on Epstein Island I would simply withdraw from public life??

no no you misunderstand the left didn't get carried away with pronouns, they were carried away BY pronouns, a swarm of them like Lilliputians, stronger than you'd expect for a bunch of consonants and vowels

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: worst, flatter, lobsters, less, podcast, geopolitics, iron, highlighting, ops, weight, range, serious, wolf, problem

ai workplace complain 

being told that i have to and "train" Gemini for it to be an effective support for my job is so goofy

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: bittersweetness, radiation, werewolves, refute, pipeline, ramp, excoriate, wigs, gourd, mud, qualified, off-putting, pigeons, glow, toaster

Checking in on my downstairs neighbor's cat this weekend and I have never been more desperate for an animal's approval than Wellington the cat's

Sometimes being an elder is cool 

We got approved for a mortgage? Never thought that would be a thing I'd do

@jztusk @listrophy I wonder if this is an after effect of dead internet theory in action, like there's a bunch of blanket checking of accounts as "human"

@jztusk @listrophy apparently today after 3 years on the platform Buttondown has put my account "under review"?? I am not sure what changed, I did get an uptick of subscribers recently but not like a gargantuan increase

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: horny, nostalgic, point, moons, parties, rill, despairing, professorial, simply

slop problems 

@murtaugh yeah really don't know what the fuck to say

slop problems 

oh nooo my mom has figured out how to make little slop art, she sent us one of her as a superhero and said it was her "fighting cancer"

Can't wait to listen to some dad rock about the 1990s then watch a psychosexual thriller steeped in teen slasher horror tropes, these are the two wolves inside me

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Just realized that the movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and the Mountain Goats album Days are releasing the same day, this Friday

Love when my favorite artists time things nicely for me, personally

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: hair, horrible, twilight, swords, ether, maritime, God, elsewheres, mouthfeel, nave

If the Oates be Hall, sailor's good call
If the Oates be Joyce Carol, sailors in peril

Cool news! A network of smart people in my part of Canada won a huge grant to set up a global environmental humanities network for critical perspectives on climate politics and sustainability. We'll be recruiting a PhD student at Trent soon with a nice pot of funding :)

https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/competition-results/award-recipients/2025/partnership-grants.aspx

Hit me up if you're looking for a debt-free PhD and are into getting real weird about the UNFCCC/COP process...

Utterly stumped by this #manhole cover. Definitely communications, it kind of looks like a rotary dial with an “N” in the center? Seen in Philadelphia.

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