Michael K. Ingram

@michaelkingram.bsky.social

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:03 UTC

John Roberts is the Roger Goodell of Roger Taneys.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

Henceforth, I'll be referencing Donald Trump, who is a convicted felon, exclusively as "convicted felon Donald Trump."

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

LOL

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] May 08, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

It's wild that in an election cycle featuring the oldest president in American history and a guy whose brain was partially eaten by a parasite, neither is the dumbest candidate in the race.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] May 02, 2024 at 19:00 UTC

Maybe, but it looks like pretty solid writing, is on topic, and trying to get you on the phone, which seems like a group that might recalibrate and try again. Of course, it's impossible to measure the value of security against the immeasurable satisfaction of telling them to piss off.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] May 02, 2024 at 18:45 UTC

My philosophy is "always deal with Ingram. But on a more serious note, speaking as a professional on the topic, I'd consider not giving them tips on how you operate irl. That's likely not spam, but a hand-crafted spearphishing lure. Meaning they may still monitor your social media feeds.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

I don't know... with a presidential platform like that, you might get some write-in votes.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Jan 05, 2024 at 17:34 UTC

A point that is a lot of people across the American political spectrum should consider: Rule of law does not exist to serve democracy. Democracy exists to serve rule of law.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Jan 03, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

Much of technical writing is paying to make sure a catastrophe doesn't happen because of an error in language (and being able to claim due diligence if it does). The hard jobs will remain hard, but the simpler ones make up a large volume of the work and expense.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Jan 03, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

As a technical writer, I think AI will soon be able to replicate "good enough" on a substantial portion of many of the products tech writers produce. If it allows half of the work to be AI written and get a stamp of approval of an engineer, it will take a lot of salary off of the payroll.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

Not that there is even the slightest bit of political will to subsidize artists. Artists are somewhere between "manual horse enseminator" and "member of congress" in terms of how the American public respects various vocations.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 14:23 UTC

Offering meaningful grants and subsidies to human artists would go a long way towards protecting vulnerable human artists while broadening the conceptual corpus that AI training data sets need to produce anything of any value.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 22, 2023 at 20:06 UTC

"My current theory is that these issues are a sign from god that we're not impregnating enough of our close family members."

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 22, 2023 at 19:43 UTC

It took sixteen generations to breed a miniature toy Beavis. Human ingenuity at work.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 22, 2023 at 19:34 UTC

Gaslytia: the only medication designed to combat chronic pain by convincing you that you made it all up, you whiny little liar. Possible side effects may include: BETTER NOT TELL NOBODY ABOUT ME I SWEAR

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Kristy Park Kulski (KP Kulski) @garnetonwinter.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 21, 2023 at 18:36 UTC

Working on a new Substack article: A Single Testicle and a Head Full of Water: Social Darwinism, the Hapsburgs, and the Modern Wealthy Elite. Let this be my Solstice gift to the world.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 13, 2023 at 22:20 UTC

A "90s rap mode" for streaming music that automatically skips 90 seconds of shoutouts, disses, skits, saying what year it is, etc.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 17:00 UTC

Keming is not a victimless crime.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:56 UTC

It's nuts to look at polls that show that Americans "know" that unemployment, crime, and inflation are all at an all-time high when they are at an all-time low, near an all-time low, and historically pretty close to average, respectively. Scary stuff.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:50 UTC

It's part of an extremely concerning trend in the modern digital world where narratives are picked up and consumed at lighting speed and more considered perspectives, if they ever come around, are very slow.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:47 UTC

This isn't to say that the US doesn't have problems. The economics are rigged against the regular people and is rapidly regressing as a democracy. This could eventually impact US power... but not yet. The point is, as is often the case, common knowledge is often as useful as common sense.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:34 UTC

China, being large, populous, and economically fertile, was always going to be a major economy once decades of instability and Maoism were behind it. It's economic rise (and eventual slowing) is independent of US success or failure.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:29 UTC

...a suicide risk. I think people confuse being no longer a unilateral hegemonic power with being in decline. Of course Europe is going to catch up a bit. Those economies were in ruin after WWII, but six decades of reconstruction can do wonders.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:25 UTC

Which isn't to say it's "good" (or "bad"), just that if your expectation for the upcoming decades doesn't include the US as a superpower, you're probably going to make some bad bets. The one wild card is the clownshow that is the US political system, but that's not so much "decline" as it is...

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:20 UTC

...many navigable rivers and deep water points, domestic supply of most critical resources, a huge portion of the most productive farm land, leads or contends in most forms of critical research, and supports the most powerful military in the world, which is a fairly normal portion of anual GDP.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 11, 2023 at 16:14 UTC

"America in decline" is one of those ideas that has seemingly no basis in reality, yet is almost "common knowledge." The US is the richest, most productive, demographically healthy advanced nation in the world, has the 3rd largest population, the 4th largest landmass (+ largest usable landmass)...

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Kristy Park Kulski (KP Kulski) @garnetonwinter.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 07, 2023 at 20:18 UTC

New Substack article! open.substack.com/pub/kpkulski...

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 07, 2023 at 20:41 UTC

Humanity desperately needs more people that understand art and/or philosophy and AI. Too many of the people who understand the latter are literalist pedants. Too many of the former are turned off by the very idea of AI.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 07, 2023 at 20:33 UTC

It's amazing how much we're over-hyping, under-hyping, fearmongering, and sleeping on the existential threat of AI all at the same time.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 07, 2023 at 20:12 UTC

But cheers to those getting either.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 07, 2023 at 20:09 UTC

I'd like to celebrate with one of each, but I lack the required organs for the one and the impetus for the other.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 01, 2023 at 01:16 UTC

"Former official continued talking after job, but is now dead, so likely won't do that anymore. Very sad for family."

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Dec 01, 2023 at 01:02 UTC

Q "Elon, are you concerned about losing advertisers?" A "Xylophone baloney roll." Q "What is that?" A "Ask the Earth" Q "Um, what?" A "Ask Earth planet about xylophone baloney roll. EARTH." This mf'er sounds like he ate a whole Kanye West.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Nov 30, 2023 at 18:30 UTC

Getting mobbed by people who like the crap I do and ignored by genpop sounds like a pretty good career goal.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Nov 29, 2023 at 18:26 UTC

Going to use this on my panhandling sign.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Nov 29, 2023 at 14:44 UTC

I think I could have stuck it out on Twitter for another year, but being forced to open "X" was a constant reminder of the ever-unfolding clustermusk and one day I was grossed out enough to finally jump ship.

Also, the fact that @garnetonwinter.bsky.social sent me a code for this app.

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Nov 28, 2023 at 21:39 UTC

Beef had some really great writing in general, but special shout out to: "Who's the kid?" *amber alert blows up everyone's phone*

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Michael K. Ingram @michaelkingram.bsky.social
[ View ] Nov 28, 2023 at 17:28 UTC

I know there are people who can do these things in like ten seconds, but I'm pretty happy to have figured it out without tips or algorithms.

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