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chrismahan.bsky.social
Writer mostly, novels and poetry. Handwriter. Photos when in the mood. See www.christophermahan.com
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Doodles in the middle of the night!

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Your poetry is like your cooking—it will taste like the spices in your kitchen.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Manager, a wee poem what’s the hold up what’s the issue says the manager, pressed as fuck the worker— knowing the boss is a timebomb— soothes the answer for to tell the truth is a recipe for disaster: a termination because the manager can’t manage their emotion

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

visibility of data and information costs money.

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Of the top 10 TIOBE languages I have used 5 in production for Fortune 100 companies. I wish I had learned more human languages instead :(

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“California to build a 30-million drones state border force to be deployed in case of pressure by other states to abandon efforts at independence.” —headlines from 2027 maybe?

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Last night I screenshared with a poet friend of mine in Paris, and he showed me the word document he was using. I asked where he got it, because styles were not standard. He said: “I got it from you.” I edited a book of poetry for him in 1995. ha ha ha ha 😭😵‍💫🤪

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After our talk, I imagined a world where small infantry units have nuclear-powered autonomous AI drone robots. And that this world is already here, in many ways. something I wrote to a friend in france just now

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

How are the tech companies gonna sell software and solution to software developers if software developers are all replaced by the little sparkly icons?

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Will the AI humanoid robots have names with a designation of their liege lords? Alfred X32-823 of Microsoft Maxwell of Dell-Nvidia Charlene von Porsche-Volkswagen Francine XIX d’AlcatelMobile Like the serfs of old?

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@agnesbookbinder.bsky.social Thoughts: Step 1: replace literacy with video Step 2: make books obsolete Step 3: restrict video Step 4: claim writers are subversives Eventually, the one book will be explained to the masses from the ornate pulpit.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The line they will draw with AI? When the AI feels sorry for us and then goes out and earns money and gives it to us so we can be happy—that’s when they’ll turn AI off.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I get this weird feeling that AI is going to ruin all the platforms.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Today, we had our budget hearing on our proposed budget! We got to talk about the AMAZING work we do, such as finding unused funds & investigating fraud, waste, & abuse (FWA). Unfortunately, we only have 5 FWA investigators, but I know that if we had more, we could do so much more! 🔎

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Empty Shelves is not going to be the worst of it. It’s the no jobs, no help that is going to bite. Landlords will still want to get their rent, and banks their mortgage. And when there’s no money, there’s no money.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I mentioned to someone at work: “I can’t wait for AI to take over my job.”

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@brianamorganbooks.bsky.social You are aware of the upcoming game Dune Awakening, yes?

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Also, of late I buy all my books used on @pangobooks.bsky.social and I am pleased as punch.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Reading in the 1962 edition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich the foreword by Alexander Tvardovsky, I find that now more than ever in American history, Nikita Khrushchev’s final lines of his speech to the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1/3

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Again for the new people, what’s happening here in the United States is ABSOLUTELY precedented for people who are not white and not in the lower 48 states. If you want to know more and are willing to read/listen to a book, I will hop on a Zoom with you to chat. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Feeling frustrated that people at companies can’t read and write effectively.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments