David Williamson Shaffer

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I’ e been told I have a resting resting face, unfortunately.

This 👇 This is the most central cultural impact of the Internet era—what we didn’t understand in the 90s or when social media came on the scene. The empowerment of the marginalized was an important and valuable aim — and promise. But it turns out culture requires norms that aren’t self-enforcing.

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Depluralize a movie: One President’s Man

Hey, @itsabbyyep.bsky.social, first time caller here. How come people worry about Armageddon but not Legageddon? I’ll take my answer off air, thanks!

Narrator: Things are going sideways

A thread so good that I decided to follow! Seriously, LLMs can be useful and even more powerful/efficient without being “intelligent” in the way humans are — which is… well, the same as any tool humans use

We should have only set the clocks ahead 45 minutes

. @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @itsabbyyep.bsky.social Mile Heil Club, amirite?

Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Best. Thing. Ever. Also, whoever thought up the kids’ podium deserves a medal

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

@gregsargent.bsky.social @atrupar.com @muellershewrote.com I follow you folks, and I am sincerely asking: Could one of you explain why Walz hasn’t deployed the Minnesota Natl Guard to protect people’s right to protest? There must be a reason, and I’d really like to understand Thank you

Reviewer 2 once told me that I didn’t understand a method I had invented, and suggested that I read more of my own work 🤯

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Make it viral.

Everything is projection. Always

Technology rarely makes things easier. It makes them different

The multimodal aspects of generative AI (we need to stop calling them LLMs because they’re not just about language) have all kinds of profound implications for how we retrieve an create information. Both also raise a host of issues about how we validate the results. This is true… 1/

I wrote about some of 2025's big generative AI developments and their implications for historians: multimodal generation, deep research, and handwriting transcription. In short, we need to stop dismissing this as nothing more than "autocomplete on steroids." cblevins.github.io/posts/gen-ai...

Courts. It what’s for democracy.

Right. I want them to invent a device that automatically cleans the toilet so I have more time to write a novel, not something to write the novel while I clean the toilets

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen. The Proclaimers Ladysmith Black Mambazo Ray Charles John Prine Bailen

Referring to AI here👇 Agree bigly

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Wait. Am I the only one who wears a spotted suit and checked tights to class?

Me too, friend. Me too We mock the things we are to be; we are the things we used to mock