Andrew Alan Johnson

My ivory tower, tweed-clad, Ivy-educated self has just gotten another royalty check. This one can buy me:

4 sandwiches.
1 nice dinner (without wine, dessert, or appetizer).
3 pints of beer.

(But not all three).

“The new smashing pumpkins” is now 30 years old.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Cicadas are mostly 17-year adventists.

Hinduism

God this is awful - look at the pips on the cards.

Yes. Or a worse version of that to come.

Wounded knee had almost 300 dead left unburied in the snow. I had thought that our worst sin would be forgetting it. But now apparently we’re lauding it.

There is no salvaging, no "other side" to Wounded Knee. It is an example of "we told our soldiers lies to frighten them / they did atrocity because of their fear / we gave them medals to convince everyone they acted rightly."

Let's think about how that might play out today.

"How to stop shootings?"
"How to solve water crisis?"
"What is lamp?"

Ask AI! Fixed, done. Back to staring into space.

This is the "put a bird on it" of tech-conservative takes.

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Thai Lawyers for human rights have kicked off their "Class of 2020" interview series in which they talk to young people from the 2020 protest movement about their reflections. This one is with a student from Bad Student, who now lives in Vancouver.

Find the kind of friend who will do a fascism to avoid talking about (his involvement in) your crimes.

Tell your dogs I said hi

I am in Austria. This apparently is illegal.

Hey Buddy. Hey big guy. Who’s a good boy?

(Adjust for gender)

I will look at your dog as you pass by where I’m sitting, maybe whisper “hey buddy”, get ready for a head scratch. I will not apologize for this.

I actually found a new platform that works pretty well. You interact with people in your area (within 5-10m or so) and your messages are deleted immediately after sending. I call it “actually talking to people.”

Does break down quite a bit though.

Ok ok. I’m in Vienna right now and the original is on display here at the Albertina.

Absolutely to all this. Also great pfp.

Anything to keep from saying the name “Epstein.”

Its uselessness was directly linked to Musk’s takeover. Verification linked not to credentials but to payment meant useless (to me) accounts proliferated. The business model was wrong. People with money =/= interesting people.

This principle also applies to Musk himself.

Twitter simply became useless to me. I use social media to get information on other projects and books and to promote my own writing. I don’t want parasocial or irrelevant stuff. I go to Twitter now and it’s either Nazi stuff or videos of horrible accidents. It has no more value.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Water leaks in library, contingent faculty, hiring freezes, no research support. And a top-ranked football team.

it's true

Sleep Now in the Fire - Wikipedia

1) Yes
2) Hell yes
3) I did not know the story of the video shoot but HELL yes

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When I lived along Jones Falls, we had osprey and water snakes, deer along the banks. Jones Falls is an urban gem.

Oh god they made you a white dude.

The AI summary (I think Gemini) of my book, Mekong Dreaming, describes it as a novel of escape from Laos (“the land of death”) to Thailand (“the land of life”) to realize “the dream.”

Absolutely bizarre. Like fully fever dream riffing on the title.