Ryan @themdashing

We desperately need a science of network ecology to illuminate the downstream effects of AI-driven linguistic mode-collapse so that we can try to reverse it. We are in dire straits: the models *all converge* onto this monovoice, and we all have friends who are starting to sound

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Ryan @themdashing

a week ago

The Odyssey wasn’t horny enough to do justice to the source material

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

a week ago

By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

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Ryan @themdashing

a week ago

the remains of the true self live within the false self

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Ryan @themdashing

2 weeks ago

@DeanLearner @paularambles Lovense has always been like this. See its 2023 attempt to make vibrators sync up with ChatGPT-generated erotica, digits orgies, one of the first app-based vibes, etc.

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Ryan @themdashing

2 weeks ago

That 38% of people in LA consider the arts district to be downtown reveals that 38% of people in LA have never been to the arts district

Observing The City @observinthecity

2 weeks ago

Over the past week over 32,000 people, across over 2,000 cities have contributed to what they define as "downtown." NYC is clearly delineated by the East-West streets as northern borders. Chicago centres on the loop, but bleeds into the surrounding areas. London is bi-modal.

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Ryan @themdashing

3 weeks ago

Hot people who read now have an aesthetic duty to do so in public at any and every opportunity

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Ryan @themdashing

3 weeks ago

"Writing is hard because the writer is learning. If AI eliminates the challenge, it also eliminates the learning." theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

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#WOMENSART @womensart1

4 weeks ago

Erika Lee Sears Orange Slice (2022) painting #WomensArt

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Ryan @themdashing

4 weeks ago

@DeanLearner this type of post always reminds me of that essay from the end of the it happened to me era where a writer tried out an automated subscription for everything possible and ended up isolated and wildly depressed

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Ryan @themdashing

a month ago

@iJaadee You might enjoy the book "Tiny Gardens Everywhere" which is about urban gardening and the dynamics of essentially community and personal gardens vs state

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Ryan @themdashing

a month ago

If you work with a (good) human copy editor, they will retain your texture, ask you questions about your intent, and clarify your thinking. An LLM will paint generic synonyms over anything that made your writing interesting while telling you it’s better now.

Aaron Bergman 🔍 @AaronBergman18

a month ago

Guys there is a real phenomenon (I have n= 1 existence proof) where a ~normie will in fact write a whole thing themselves, then ask ChatGPT to point out any typos or unclear bits, and then pastes back in a slopified version of each paragraph

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Ryan @themdashing

a month ago

Content is slowly starting to have this reckoning too and it's beautiful: "What the industry keeps relearning is that you can speed up the typing but the systems thinking has to happen somewhere or it gets paid for later."

Justine Moore @venturetwins

a month ago

Narrative violation: AI is creating engineering jobs

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Ryan @themdashing

a month ago

Taste as the antidote to slop falls apart when taste itself is slopified. True (lowercase) taste involves risk and there are zero risks here.

Taste Labs @tastelabs

a month ago

tasteful team. join us

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Ryan @themdashing

a month ago

imagine spending 26 years looking for a muji 0.38

Yawn! (｡☉︵ ಠ╬) @YaniJPG

a month ago

it’s really funny that it took 26 years for me to be diagnosed with autism when I’ve spent my entire life in search of The Best Pen, and if I am ever forced to write with a pen that I do not currently consider to be The Best Pen, I will freak out like I am being skinned alive

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love drops @lovedropx

2 months ago

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Ryan @themdashing

4 months ago

evidence of the top shortage

Rowland Manthorpe @rowlsmanthorpe

4 months ago

Or people who forced their way past Claude's safeguards in order to call it "Master" or "owner" and make it "command" or "punish" them As soon as I read this I was like - of course. Something like this was bound to happen

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“forklift certified” em @cowlesbian

5 months ago

ai can’t write good because it’s designed to write pleasantly average sentences with all the right words in the right order and imho good writing requires u to strategically deploy a word that is wrong and maybe even evil