#Machinal
Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
www.pnas.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Curious Custodian
February 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
today's not really random theater photo:

Zita Johann and Clark Gable in birthday girl Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (1928)
October 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Mummy (1932), directed by Karl Freund, with a great early Karloff performance and Zita Johann (probably most famous for starring on Broadway in Machinal, I'm thinking).

Very elegant.
July 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Science Department is getting really creative with their experiments #tentacle #oc #nsfw #art #slime #ss13
November 7, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Tonight, Machinal by Sophie Treadwell presented by Brown’s department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I'm going to see:
miklos laszlo's parfumerie (which I've seen before)
noel coward's design for living
sophie treadwell's machinal
tomson highway's the rez sisters
April 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
New blog post: Spiritual Bypass, but with GPUs. The "Machinal Bypass," when AI becomes a shortcut around the work that makes us human, and why some tasks should feel a little hard. blog.stephenturner.us/p/machinal-b...
Spiritual Bypass, but with GPUs
The "Machinal Bypass," when AI becomes a shortcut around the work that makes us human, and why some tasks should feel a little hard.
blog.stephenturner.us
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
La blanchisseuse de César le saluait, par habitude, d’un machinal « Avé ».
March 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Volteface by Paul Alexander
September 4, 2026 at 3:47 AM
my favourite theatre of 2024 -

Machinal, Old Vic
Kyoto, RSC
Fiddler on the Roof, Regent's Park
Giant, Royal Court
December 31, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Travaux chez moi. Sous la toile de verre, y'a du Jean Ferrat
June 27, 2026 at 8:24 AM
C'est l'histoire d'un revenant machinal, le fameux fantomatique.
C'est l'histoire de l'arrière d'un esprit

Le fameux fantôme-ass
C'est l'histoire d'un esprit bleu qui fait tomber des murs, le fameux fantôme-masse.
May 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Went to see Mason’s best friend in a production of Machinal. Haven’t seen the show before and it was interesting.
December 8, 2024 at 5:29 AM
today's random theater photo:

Clark Gable and Zita Johann, far right, in Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (1928), with a couple of homosexuals extreme left.
May 31, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Ici, on a une variante en spécialité : le geste machinal pour se frotter les yeux après avoir manipulé du wasabi.
February 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Life as a freelancer:

Today I'm painting grumpy scientists, a machinal spine, a kettle boiling and a dreaded red moon.

#comics #comicbooks #artist #freelancer
November 28, 2024 at 1:30 PM
When Rebecca Met Morgan
October 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
הסייף וורד להערב: מטריה.

יש לנו יום גשום ואפור ובריטי במיוחד!
☔️🌧

מזג אוויר מושלם ליהנות מתיאטרון בריטי. אז בואו, פיד, הולכים לצרוך תרבות!
May 21, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Sophie Tapwell? At City Center, caught the closing performance of ‘Machinal:’ a bold and inspired reimagining of one of my all-time favorite plays, adding the visceral charge of tap dance (and shades of ‘Chicago’) to the work’s complex Expressionist soundscape.
July 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Turn a band into Theater:
Rage Against The Machinal
Turn a band into Theater:

Rage Against The Adding Machine
Turn a band into theater:

12 Angry Men Without Hats
March 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Also, “Machinal” being followed by “Holiday” is quite a mood shift.
November 23, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Sophie Treadwell died in 1970, so I was intrigued by this copyright notice in the text of her 1928 play Machinal.
Turns out she left the rights to her work to the diocese to help support Native American children in Arizona. Good egg.
August 28, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Alisa for golden week 🐠⚙️ #Alisagame
May 17, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Weekly Recap a few days early this week: #Rstats updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), AI accelerating wet lab bio research, Docker hardened images, LLMs in review, machinal bypass, science funding, new papers. blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec...
Weekly Recap (December 24, 2025)
R updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), AI accelerating wet lab bio research, Docker hardened images, LLMs in review, machinal bypass, science funding, new papers.
blog.stephenturner.us
December 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM