Moss Collum

Somerville polyamorous community out here like en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PG5_(mo...

Just slipped up and called Linkin Park “LinkedIn”, and honestly I’m not even sorry

ICYMI: (This time with the correct release date!) Weston Wei's delightful cover for my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space, animated!
Repairing physics that has gone awry! Delicious food! Choices no one should ever have to make! Release date: 4/7/2026

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Also considered: 85 gecs

Slightly diminish a band:

Fairport Meetup

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE won a Shirley Jackson! What an ending for the book @omgjulia.bsky.social and I thought up in our first interaction on a defunct social media site!

I can't thank our amazing contributors enough. And our publisher @ericraglin1992.bsky.social. And our Kickstarter backers!

You heard it here, folks: WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology. Hugely proud of Nadia, Julia, and every single writer who made this book the spectacularly scary, dark, and stunning anthology it is!

My 11-year-old daughter, unhappy with the snacks and the long lines at camp, decided to start her own business with a couple of her campmates. I found this document on my computer.

Peace Listen to Peace by Grim Mollusc Viols #np on #SoundCloud

Spent a couple of hours this weekend using synthesizers to make twenty two minutes of just the most awful droning noise, and unfortunately it turns out to be perfect for helping me focus. on.soundcloud.com/0vZBg7o0VTVR...

Screenshot of notifications about new releases: “Antonio Vivaldi released a new album ‘Air - Baroque Dances’” and “Johann Sebastian Bach released a new album ‘A Classical Summer’l

YouTube Music has importance updates for me

The Gilded Age: the best actresses and actors of our day portraying the worst people of the 1880s

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Geoffrey this is impeccable work. Usually when people post things like this they fuck up the meter terribly

Most of the court’s docket orders do not list who voted where, and there’s no way to know from the outside anything except “more than five” (or in the cases of cert grants, “more than four.”)

This docket order happened to have writing that told you three of the people who voted for.

I’ve seen a couple of people say that the Supreme Court was 9-0 in Abrego Garcia’s case, and I don’t believe we know that.

It was in regard to an administrative stay, and not an opinion of the court, so Justices could not have voted for the stay and chosen not to write a dissent.

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It’s also his username both on Twitter and here

Amazon workers on strike from Black Friday to Cyber Monday (WFXR) – Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

I remember musing, while listening to the SHWEP some months back, that if the ancient Greeks had LLMs they would 100% have used them to make talking statues of gods. But I honestly wasn’t expecting to see it happen irl

Me trying to travel on a budget, skipping the currency exchange desk and just walking around the airport breaking open every crate I can find till I have enough money for cab fare

A picture of Aristotle looking through a hole in your ceiling, with the caption "Ceiling Aristotle is watching you bloviate."

Just found this file on my computer from 2006

We’re out and dinner instead of at the Hugos and the whole table erupted in cheers when we heard

HOLY SHIT STRANGE HORIZONS FINALLY GOT A HUGO THIS IS THE BEST!!!

Never forget that the Michelin Man has a name and it is for some reason Bibendum

I’m rereading Murderbot again, and I’d just like to take a moment to appreciate the amount of world-building accomplished by the repeated use of the phrase “humans and augmented humans”. Just succinctly implies so much about the various fucked up power hierarchies of the Corporation Rim.

Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

A homemade Caesar salad in a wooden bowl.

Happy Caesar Salad Day! (www.npr.org/2024/07/04/n...) We are observing with a delightful homemade one. Photo courtesy of Moss, who is also the chef.

Anyway, in conclusion, what we cannot speak of, we must pass over in silence