Blue wave and all, yes, but the specificity here is something else. May / November.
November 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Blue wave and all, yes, but the specificity here is something else. May / November.
The specificity in this is cracking me up.
I imagine people just flying to this with a "honey, I'm late, I have to get to The Bean."
I imagine people just flying to this with a "honey, I'm late, I have to get to The Bean."
November 7, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The specificity in this is cracking me up.
I imagine people just flying to this with a "honey, I'm late, I have to get to The Bean."
I imagine people just flying to this with a "honey, I'm late, I have to get to The Bean."
it's the specificity of 'bandana' that is sending me
November 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
it's the specificity of 'bandana' that is sending me
I admire the specificity of this event.
November 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I admire the specificity of this event.
yes. I crave specificity. There are real harms at play here!
I wish reporters would retire the "culture war" shorthand, which shaves the hard edges off reality. "Culture war" signals meaningless sideshow, obscuring the reality: This was a campaign to roll back the civil rights of LGBTQ students, whitewash history lessons, attack academic freedom, etc, etc
November 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
yes. I crave specificity. There are real harms at play here!
Based on the specificity of this complaint, I'm going to say a particularly bad birthday clown when he was 10.
November 8, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Based on the specificity of this complaint, I'm going to say a particularly bad birthday clown when he was 10.
high quality specificity
November 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
high quality specificity
Every iteration of Kendall was just inspired acting. They all made sense and we're all awful dudes played with such specificity
God I love Succession
God I love Succession
November 8, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Every iteration of Kendall was just inspired acting. They all made sense and we're all awful dudes played with such specificity
God I love Succession
God I love Succession
When someone posts about a very specific group of people or a particularly niche topic…the main point lies in the specificity.
When you take that post and generalize it to apply it widely to “all people”, you aren’t adding to the conversation; you’re changing it, which feels rudely dismissive.
When you take that post and generalize it to apply it widely to “all people”, you aren’t adding to the conversation; you’re changing it, which feels rudely dismissive.
November 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
When someone posts about a very specific group of people or a particularly niche topic…the main point lies in the specificity.
When you take that post and generalize it to apply it widely to “all people”, you aren’t adding to the conversation; you’re changing it, which feels rudely dismissive.
When you take that post and generalize it to apply it widely to “all people”, you aren’t adding to the conversation; you’re changing it, which feels rudely dismissive.
They were so organized. Each window with 2348209348 tabs in it was labelled with AuADHD specificity and beauty.
Why does this keep happening.
Why does this keep happening.
November 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
They were so organized. Each window with 2348209348 tabs in it was labelled with AuADHD specificity and beauty.
Why does this keep happening.
Why does this keep happening.
Harrison keeps pulling off a pretty remarkable literary card trick where he writes about extreme ambiguity in prose of flinty precision and specificity. Which, somehow, just makes everything more unsettling.
November 9, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Harrison keeps pulling off a pretty remarkable literary card trick where he writes about extreme ambiguity in prose of flinty precision and specificity. Which, somehow, just makes everything more unsettling.
So I wanted to sidestep the whole “are they conscious” kerfuffle and turn to medium specificity to address the agentic apocalypse—
—turns out though that’s not a whole lot more comforting; not when the medium is language, and language itself is the attack surface.
—turns out though that’s not a whole lot more comforting; not when the medium is language, and language itself is the attack surface.
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Commonwealth Professor of Artificial Intelligence and English at the University of Virginia, traces a line from 1970s phone phreaking to today’s agentic AI: in both, the vulnerability is the porous boundary between language and code.
In the AI Era, Language is Now an Attack Surface
Language and code now flow back and forth across the executable boundary condition all but interchangeably, writes Matthew Kirschenbaum.
buff.ly
November 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
So I wanted to sidestep the whole “are they conscious” kerfuffle and turn to medium specificity to address the agentic apocalypse—
—turns out though that’s not a whole lot more comforting; not when the medium is language, and language itself is the attack surface.
—turns out though that’s not a whole lot more comforting; not when the medium is language, and language itself is the attack surface.
emma™ 😔
i'm-not-dutch and dutch-is-gungan jokes have here conspired to snare me in a prison of ironic specificity 😔
i'm-not-dutch and dutch-is-gungan jokes have here conspired to snare me in a prison of ironic specificity 😔
November 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
emma™ 😔
i'm-not-dutch and dutch-is-gungan jokes have here conspired to snare me in a prison of ironic specificity 😔
i'm-not-dutch and dutch-is-gungan jokes have here conspired to snare me in a prison of ironic specificity 😔
I feel like reading a lot of modern stuff published in the last few years is like reading echoes of backwash of things, like the tropes and the beats are there but the specificity isn't and it really freaks me out.
November 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I feel like reading a lot of modern stuff published in the last few years is like reading echoes of backwash of things, like the tropes and the beats are there but the specificity isn't and it really freaks me out.
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
I'm sorry we'll need more heck'n specificity on which heck'n you're heck'n about
I'm sorry we'll need more heck'n specificity on which heck'n you're heck'n about
November 4, 2026 at 6:11 AM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
I'm sorry we'll need more heck'n specificity on which heck'n you're heck'n about
I'm sorry we'll need more heck'n specificity on which heck'n you're heck'n about
Good morning #5amWritersClub. I'm looking for some of that specificity that makes a character really start to come alive. Happy writing, everyone!
November 6, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Good morning #5amWritersClub. I'm looking for some of that specificity that makes a character really start to come alive. Happy writing, everyone!
Every. Single. Girl. Girl, specifically. You can tell this is about controlling all trans people - and cis girls/women. The stunning gender specificity is what gets me here. They didn't even pretend they wanted to "protect" boys. Nope. They just want to molest and scare trans people and little girls
November 8, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Every. Single. Girl. Girl, specifically. You can tell this is about controlling all trans people - and cis girls/women. The stunning gender specificity is what gets me here. They didn't even pretend they wanted to "protect" boys. Nope. They just want to molest and scare trans people and little girls
echoing this in one specificity: how Musk being such an evil, genocidal asshole has made so many people relentlessly opposed to space development because since he's for it, they have to be against it
Genuinely, I'm so mad at techbro dipshits for taking all the wonder I used to have for scifi and absolutely tainting it. I feel like the solution is probably just to read *more* and rediscover that feeling through people writing cool shit and actually being excited about what-ifs
November 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
echoing this in one specificity: how Musk being such an evil, genocidal asshole has made so many people relentlessly opposed to space development because since he's for it, they have to be against it
specificity is charming and a hallmark of comedy
Nekoichi-san came from space to tell everyone about Daiichi Sankyo’s self care supplements and skin creams. On Earth, he looks like a cat, but no one knows his true form. He has one whisker on the right and three on the left, which he arranged on purpose to create a conversation starter.
November 6, 2026 at 1:28 PM
specificity is charming and a hallmark of comedy
im dizzy bro im dizzy... hua cheng going underwater... the specificity of this makes it the most explicit thing I've ever heard BRO
I'm gonna have to try to draw this. we all are. its homework now
I'm gonna have to try to draw this. we all are. its homework now
November 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
im dizzy bro im dizzy... hua cheng going underwater... the specificity of this makes it the most explicit thing I've ever heard BRO
I'm gonna have to try to draw this. we all are. its homework now
I'm gonna have to try to draw this. we all are. its homework now
Thank you. Specificity matters in this area.
November 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Thank you. Specificity matters in this area.
"fandom culture has always had a racism problem" + remove all specificity = "wow this person says ALL fanfic is morally wrong, unlike me an ADULT who votes(?)"
no i said racism, why do you feel so compelled to erase that specificity?
no i said racism, why do you feel so compelled to erase that specificity?
November 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
"fandom culture has always had a racism problem" + remove all specificity = "wow this person says ALL fanfic is morally wrong, unlike me an ADULT who votes(?)"
no i said racism, why do you feel so compelled to erase that specificity?
no i said racism, why do you feel so compelled to erase that specificity?
Especially in one on one communication !!! More specificity in form and expression signals more intimacy and more value and trust
November 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Especially in one on one communication !!! More specificity in form and expression signals more intimacy and more value and trust
And in the 35 yrs since, every single NAD specificity reengineering study continued to report outcomes as a fold specificity change, a number that conceals that it stems from destroying original, while barely boosting desired activity. And kcat_design << kcat_native
November 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
And in the 35 yrs since, every single NAD specificity reengineering study continued to report outcomes as a fold specificity change, a number that conceals that it stems from destroying original, while barely boosting desired activity. And kcat_design << kcat_native
British accents are crazy in their geographic specificity
November 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
British accents are crazy in their geographic specificity