Peter Z Grimm
@the-slavsquatch.bsky.social
Writer. Engineer. Leftist. Musical personality. Journeyman bog pervert. Overthinking enthusiast. Semi-professional asker of stupid questions. I've collected some of my writing and thoughts into a little pile at https://quietplaceloudthoughts.net.
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A massive flock of snow geese, who have come from the Arctic to spend the winter in the Skagit Valley near Seattle, gradually taking flight like waves: #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
September 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM
A massive flock of snow geese, who have come from the Arctic to spend the winter in the Skagit Valley near Seattle, gradually taking flight like waves: #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
vis-a-vis the "table flippers" ttrpg discourse, I think the issue that's being danced around is this;
For the game to be fun, you all have to work together, and whether or not someone is really doing their part is not something you can determine with a checklist. It's a judgment call.
For the game to be fun, you all have to work together, and whether or not someone is really doing their part is not something you can determine with a checklist. It's a judgment call.
September 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
vis-a-vis the "table flippers" ttrpg discourse, I think the issue that's being danced around is this;
For the game to be fun, you all have to work together, and whether or not someone is really doing their part is not something you can determine with a checklist. It's a judgment call.
For the game to be fun, you all have to work together, and whether or not someone is really doing their part is not something you can determine with a checklist. It's a judgment call.
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i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
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If you are a woman, cussing someone out may be covered under your health insurance /s
www.sarnoclinic.com/anger-autoim...
www.sarnoclinic.com/anger-autoim...
Emotional suppression affects women’s health - Sarno Clinic
In recent years, researchers have begun exploring a compelling connection between emotional expression - particularly anger - and ...
www.sarnoclinic.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM
If you are a woman, cussing someone out may be covered under your health insurance /s
www.sarnoclinic.com/anger-autoim...
www.sarnoclinic.com/anger-autoim...
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Ahmed Soliman has been missing for six days.
ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to.
Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org
ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to.
Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org
Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool
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September 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for six days.
ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to.
Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org
ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to.
Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org
I want to know what the fuck the creators of this show think the point is.
Netflix has announced a new reality series titled ‘THE NEW STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT’.
The series follows 30 participants who enter a real prison and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners. They must see if they conform to the roles or if morality wins.
The series follows 30 participants who enter a real prison and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners. They must see if they conform to the roles or if morality wins.
September 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I want to know what the fuck the creators of this show think the point is.
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“Carceral reality TV thrives on the negative: toxic relationships and emotional, psychological, and physical violence. It often leans into racist stereotypes that depict Black and brown people as terrifying, uneducated, and violent.”
inquest.org/the-prison-s...
inquest.org/the-prison-s...
September 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM
“Carceral reality TV thrives on the negative: toxic relationships and emotional, psychological, and physical violence. It often leans into racist stereotypes that depict Black and brown people as terrifying, uneducated, and violent.”
inquest.org/the-prison-s...
inquest.org/the-prison-s...
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"Our present global arrangements are not just the result of commercial enterprise, brute force or empire. They were also, to begin with, works of political imagination." -- @davidwengrow.bsky.social
'Imagination,' the operative word, to me. Our world is a product of imagination + will.
'Imagination,' the operative word, to me. Our world is a product of imagination + will.
Iran's new ocean imperium
Are we seeing an end to the "freedom of the seas" in the Strait of Hormuz?
www.newstatesman.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:41 PM
"Our present global arrangements are not just the result of commercial enterprise, brute force or empire. They were also, to begin with, works of political imagination." -- @davidwengrow.bsky.social
'Imagination,' the operative word, to me. Our world is a product of imagination + will.
'Imagination,' the operative word, to me. Our world is a product of imagination + will.
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"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.
September 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.
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so is DEI an all-powerful institution running rampant throughout society or is DEI a pitiably weak enemy that can easily be crushed with the accomulation of power? and is there a pithy explanation of this phenomenon from a prominent midcentury semiotician i can use as shorthand
I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
September 13, 2026 at 1:19 PM
so is DEI an all-powerful institution running rampant throughout society or is DEI a pitiably weak enemy that can easily be crushed with the accomulation of power? and is there a pithy explanation of this phenomenon from a prominent midcentury semiotician i can use as shorthand
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Really truly a moment of oh you're not so big now that you have to deal with a trans women in a country that doesn't have the UK's absolutely unhinged laws huh Lilly Wachowski absolutely fucking rules
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Whether intentional or not, what @lillywachowski.bsky.social has said is *precisely* what needs to be said, at *precisely* the time it needs to be said. This puts Rowling on her back foot at the worst possible time for the HBO series. Brava, Lilly!
Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead
September 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Really truly a moment of oh you're not so big now that you have to deal with a trans women in a country that doesn't have the UK's absolutely unhinged laws huh Lilly Wachowski absolutely fucking rules
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I'd also add that this likely may cost, and Hollywood is a hard place to work right now. This may be a good time to, oh, stream them movies, and give Sense8 another watch, etc.
September 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I'd also add that this likely may cost, and Hollywood is a hard place to work right now. This may be a good time to, oh, stream them movies, and give Sense8 another watch, etc.
"But trauma is not a license to inflict more."
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
www.forever-wars.com
September 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
"But trauma is not a license to inflict more."
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I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
www.forever-wars.com
September 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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So, if Democrats are just going to concede human rights to the fascists (Talarico throwing trans kids to the wolves), what exactly is going to be achieved by supporting them?
September 10, 2026 at 12:18 PM
So, if Democrats are just going to concede human rights to the fascists (Talarico throwing trans kids to the wolves), what exactly is going to be achieved by supporting them?
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Take all these Anthropic and OpenAI resignations and op-eds and put them in a spreadsheet with a column that shows the exact date when the author's final tranche of options vested. I just want to see something
The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another
OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post
Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post
Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
September 9, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Take all these Anthropic and OpenAI resignations and op-eds and put them in a spreadsheet with a column that shows the exact date when the author's final tranche of options vested. I just want to see something
This is the bottom line. At some point, the actual veracity of their wild claims about the technology cease to matter; the tech oligarchy are openly (even proudly) proclaiming and demonstrating an extremely hostile attitude towards the rest of humanity.
I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response
September 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
This is the bottom line. At some point, the actual veracity of their wild claims about the technology cease to matter; the tech oligarchy are openly (even proudly) proclaiming and demonstrating an extremely hostile attitude towards the rest of humanity.
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We've become so inured to being represented either by openly malevolent assholes or at best ineffectual stooges that when someone uses the government as-intended and does basic politics it's a revelation
September 8, 2026 at 7:53 PM
We've become so inured to being represented either by openly malevolent assholes or at best ineffectual stooges that when someone uses the government as-intended and does basic politics it's a revelation
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Not enough to get the policies they want, they also want to be nonstop affirmed by everyone else that it's perfect and moral and the right thing.
September 8, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Not enough to get the policies they want, they also want to be nonstop affirmed by everyone else that it's perfect and moral and the right thing.
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werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
September 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
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we need to identify whichever White House personnel is fucking with our whey protein supply and ice them out at the gym. nobody spot them. no you can't work in. yes I take 30 minutes between sets on that equipment you wanted
Breaking: White House issues three proclamations banning imports of Canadian products including motorcycles, whey, molasses, non-alcoholic beer, and a range of alcoholic beverages
September 9, 2026 at 12:42 AM
we need to identify whichever White House personnel is fucking with our whey protein supply and ice them out at the gym. nobody spot them. no you can't work in. yes I take 30 minutes between sets on that equipment you wanted
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at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry
But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job
billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job
billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
billmckibben.substack.com
September 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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We need to tax the rich, yes, but the real political project is to take power away from capital, period. — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow
Capitalism or humanity, but not both.
open.substack.com
September 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
We need to tax the rich, yes, but the real political project is to take power away from capital, period. — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social