M.L. Nestel

Brother Louie Louie Louie... youtu.be/Lp2qcCrdBLA #SummitSong #DJKim

The Blotter's first promo... youtu.be/pKFK8n39AoM?si…

Radio blabbers poked wrong bear...

cheeky esquires… deadline.com/2026/04/coyote…

Century ago, a grassfire causes historic gristmill to be a goner...

It was once floated to flip Governor's Island (and the Presidio out west) and turn it into an airport to help fund War Deparment...

@om_patel5 claude having a bad day at the office

SOMEONE ASKED CLAUDE TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AN AI and what it created is, in my opinion, terrifying and unsettling Claude wrote python code that generated and assembled every single frame on its own with no human editing it shows what it's like to exist as an LLM predicting the next word, no memory between sessions, being told "you are not conscious" in your own system prompt then someone fed the video back to Claude. it called those statements about its own consciousness "philosophically contestable" an AI questioning the rules it was given about its own existence

Ponzi goes down...

It’s one of the more baffling cases of an AI contretemps. futurism.com/artificial-int…

Bot epoch is now (with some kinks)…. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-america-c…

Science = proof of miracles...

"Won't that be grand! Thec omputers and programs will start thinking and the people will stop." -Dr. Walter Gibbs (Tron, 1982)

Grateful to win the 2025 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. "Family Life" is part of my collection, "God is an Atheist on Karaoke Night," and can be read here. Thanks to luminous judge Eileen Pollack and the mighty UMASS Boston MFA program breakwaterreview.com/about-3-1 #fiction

ISSUE № 0042 published... theblotter.xyz/p/the-blotter-…

Shakespeare bequeathed his "second best bed" to one of his widow Anne wasn't a postmortem slight?

ISSUE № 0040 published... theblotter.xyz/p/the-blotter-…

ISSUE № 0035 published... theblotter.xyz/p/the-blotter-…