My ex asked me to write a short story where every man in the world dies, I wonder why she'd ask me to write such a thing? open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

The Remainder

a woman finishing a calculation

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Rococo's Basilisk: a future superintelligence that doesn't torture you for not helping build it — it just retroactively redecorates your entire life in gilt scrollwork, cherubs, and pastel excess until you're aesthetically obligated to submit.

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My first landlord in San Francisco was a real Dick. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

The Last Building in Manilatown

The Sheriff went to jail rather than do it. Then he did it anyway.

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I wrote this story after reading a blog post or a news story about ChatGPT mentioning goblins in its output more often than statistically average for most LLM outputs. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

Goblin Mode

Nobody put them here.

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Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

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My Substack essay today is about the worst person I ever met. I hesitate to call him human. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

Fred Tokars

Have you ever been questioned by a murderer? I have.

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The building where Sun Yat-sen planned the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty survived the 1906 earthquake without a crack. They tore it down in 1959 for a parking lot, then built the Transamerica Pyramid on top of it. New Long Wharf essay: tjcrowley.substack.com/p/the-monkey...

The Monkey Block

The most interesting building San Francisco ever had.

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*The "Law Firm of Fall, Sacks and Burns." Yeah, it's pretty good. #AI #Trumpistan #commissars

Eric P@prestemon.bsky.social · 2w ago

The AI czars have been Sacks, Burns, and Fall? are they doing a bit?

I was hanging out with a bunch of biohackers talking about playing poker while high on pharmaceutical oxytocin, and my brain automatically thought “oxytocin vampires”. Combine this with a stroll by the steam plant that serves San Francisco and you get this story. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

Vent People

You'll sit eventually. They all do.

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They woke me up to tell me this.

Chuck Tingle did a book reading that wasn't really a book reading, and it was fantastic. I wrote about the surprisingly uplifting event here: https://docpop.org/2026/07/chuck-tingle-at-the-internet-archive-in-sf/

Chuck Tingle at the Internet Archive in SF - Doc Pop's Weblog

Chuck Tingle did a “reading” at the Internet Archive this week, and I had to write about it. Chuck writes erotica, horror, and comedy books with titles like Space Raptor Butt Invasion and Pounded in the Butt by My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly but in Reality Is Just a Natural Part of […]

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For my Saturday throwback piece, here is the first thing I ever got published - an essay that was published by COMPUTE magazine, part of Bob Guccione’s publishing empire that included OMNI and PENTHOUSE. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

Games Addiction: The Troubles I've Seen

My first published essay, in COMPUTE! Magazine, Issue 135, November 1991

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AB 1382 would fine CA labs $5,000 per glow-in-the-dark rabbit. A rabbit bred the slow way for the exact same look? Totally legal. That's not an animal welfare law. That's a technology ban wearing one's clothes, against a researcher they've targeted before. capirates.substack.com/p/california...

California Wants to Ban a Technique, Not a Harm. Meet AB 1382.

Every other year, California picks a genetic engineer to make an example of. This year it’s a rabbit.

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I know this is going to make some folks jealous, but my stepfather took me to see ALIEN (1979) when I was 11 about a week after it premiered in the theater. My stepdad fucking rules to this day, he's the drummer for a San Francisco punk band called The Mutants.

Patrick Klepek@patrickklepek.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do you remember what *your* first R-rated movie was? I finally asked my mom (I couldn't remember), and she told me it was The Lost Boys when I was roughly the same age as my daughter (about 9). The movie traumatized her more than it did me, apparently

Bluesky trending topics are relevant to my interests.

Substack is something else.

California just made privacy the default. DROP wipes you from hundreds of data brokers in one request. AB 566 makes browsers ship a real opt-out signal. open.substack.com/pub/capirate...

California Just Made Privacy the Default.

Here's Why That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds.

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Help! I've lived 14 years on a 30-foot sailboat in SF. Found a 34-foot upgrade at Pier 39 — surveyed value $38k, price $5k. The owner just wants her sailed. First voyage: Ephemerisle 2026. gofund.me/18747798b #liveaboard #help

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New story out today. A journalist embeds with a San Francisco anti-death cult while grieving her dog. The cult already knows about the dog. Fiction dressed as long-form journalism — and it knows what it's doing. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

Inside Persist

The machine doesn't need you to talk about your dead. It already knows.

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For the weekend, I wrote a little technical essay about how I used machine learning in the process of creating the fiction piece I posted this past Tuesday. open.substack.com/pub/tjcrowle...

How I Made the Cut-Up in The Glial Scar: cut_up.py

I really like William S. Burroughs. I wish I knew what he would have thought of this.

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