Mark Sussman

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Freelance writing, editing & ghostwriting - DMs open for all and sundry

[Mark Sussman @marksussman]

THE FACE OF BARNES
https://t.co/1IxhgGL3lb

[Mark Sussman @marksussman]

In my ongoing failure to be Normal, I launched a Substack. The first post is about the most important bus stop advertisement I've ever encountered. (link below)

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@dee_of_e David, this take is enervating my keurig machine ...

[Mark Sussman @marksussman]

Last night I dramed that Bill Clinton was appearing at some kind of international forum, and Alex Jones showed up to perform a citizen's arrest. They fought as Jones tried to cuff Clinton. Clinton bit him. I implicitly understood that Jones saw this as his "big break."

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another day, another 9-paragraph email from vinegar syndrome.

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@JessicaSuarez You can delete them.

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@JessicaSuarez MAYBE

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Monumental bummer.

[CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlorentzen]

How unfortunate. https://t.co/JIdrNrmtYw

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Fox Corp. has reached a deal to acquire the streaming platform Roku in an agreement worth approximately $22 billion

https://t.co/QB7aUuaOc9

[Mark Sussman @marksussman]

Can't believe I'm in Connecticut rn.

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account unlocked, god help me

[Mark Sussman @marksussman]

@collnsmith tbh, there are grocery apocalypse days like that sometimes. but it's called a) keeping a list, b) batch cooking (which can be healthier anyway), c) taking 2-3 15-minute trips to the grocery store/week, usually on the way home.

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Sometimes shaming students is part of the job

[Alec Crisman @AlecCrisman]

I cannot imagine sending an email this unprofessional.

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"Hallucinating" a citation is something an LLM does. "Faking" a citation is something a human does, including when they fail to check whether or not an LLM-provided citation exists. I've never seen the bar drop so low so fast. Just fucking google the citation!

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Undergoing belated enlightenment regarding the 90s work of the Chemical Brothers.

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Aaaand apparently assault charges are being filed? Or at least someone has threatened as much.

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BREAKING: Very big guy at the library who is always yelling at people to be quiet, who I think of as "the Armenian," finally got security called on him. Now everyone is whispering at the top of their voices. Monitoring the situation.

[Mark Sussman @marksussman]

@collnsmith Listening to Bicycle Race at full volume in the backseat of a speeding car sent me into the worst bad trip of my life. That's the power of rock and roll.

[Mark Sussman @marksussman]

@collnsmith totally - i've noticed that i've started leaning hard in the other direction, writing with quasi-formality that i never used to. i think it also varies with what i happen to be reading. like i've been reading peter hook's memoirs, so my inner monologue is currently half-mancunian