I write essays (https://xitter.cf/t.co/weFQ15HwNf) and a mosaic story (https://xitter.cf/t.co/WMCImKxBS3) & wrote a graphic novel, Happenstance. Follow =/= endorsement

Ithaca, NY
Joined November 2012
I just put up a new substack essay arguing, well, pretty. much what it says on the label. Check it out (link in next tweet)
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day! 10/24/26 10² + 24² = 26² This is the last one we’ll experience in our lifetime.
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
Whoever builds an AI blocker that actually works is going to make an obscene amount of money. I’d pay real money for a clean feed.
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I think @mehdirhasan is interpreting this as some big hypocrisy gotcha, when it reads much more as "people exercise poor self control and say dumb shit on social media". Which is less "dog bites man" than "dog runs in yard", frankly.
Me: "Do you know how many times you've tweeted about Piker since you wrote that tweet [about not tweeting about him] on August 30th?" @mattyglesias: "Probably more than I intended to." Me: "8 times.... you tweeted about Mike Rogers 6 times. So you're tweeting about the streamer you didn't want to talk about more than the Republican candidate you say you want to defeat." Yglesias: "Yeah, that's fair." Me: "Why?" Yglesias: "What do you want me to say? You got me." From my new Zeteo interview with the top centrist pundit - on the left, Michigan, Gaza, immigration, polls, electability, and more: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
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Yglesias's posts since Aug 30 include ~5 mentioning Piker and at least 9 mentioning Rogers/Rodgers, not 8 and 6. Hasan posted about Piker ~35 times in the period. x.com/mehdirhasan/st… x.com/ThomasVLinge/s… zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesia… x.com/mattyglesias/s… x.com/mattyglesias/s… x.com/mattyglesias/s… x.com/mattyglesias/s… x.com/mattyglesias/s… x.com/augustcohen4/s…
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This is subjective but … Name three PERFECT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here's mine: The Big Lebowski The Princess Bride Gosford Park
This is subjective but … Name three PERFECT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here's mine: Casablanca Aliens Raising Arizona
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The correct answer to this question was found by @AndrewRilstone a long while ago (see attached image).
Suppose that Tolkien were asked to rate Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films on a scale from 1 to 4, where 4 is best. How would he rate them?
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
I think "reading a book is performative" is the end point of American anti-intellectualism. The mere act of reading is now suspicious to swaths of slug people.
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
Still thinking about a call I joined today with Palestinian and Israeli activists about the medical situation in Gaza. In brief: there are thousands of sick people in Gaza in need of urgent treatment. Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are ready and willing to treat them. But the Israeli authorities won’t allow them to cross from Gaza to the West Bank for surgery or chemo or whatever. A two hour ambulance drive so that a child’s life can be saved. Zero security risk. No legitimate excuse. So if you want to help, call your Member of Congress and ask them to demand that Israel open a medical corridor from Gaza to the West Bank immediately. Thank you!
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
It’s Columbus Day. What to make of it, given Indigenous peoples’ wholly merited dislike of it? In general, it's a problem when a national holiday angers millions in that nation--especially when the reason for the anger has nothing to do with the reason for the holiday. 1/n
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
Two ant colonies have been fighting a war outside San Diego for decades. ~30M die a year. The front line is miles long.
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It already happened one year, eight months and nineteen days ago.
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
A message to all sane Republicans: He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing. He bulldozed the East Wing. You said nothing. He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing. He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing. He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing. He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing. He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing. He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing. His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing. He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing. His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing. He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing. He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing. It's time to start talking!
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
Gotta get the Pope to tweet “thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
Achievement unlocked.
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Tim O'Brien, "The Things they Carried" Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths" Gene Wolfe, "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories"
please tell me 2-3 short stories you like that you can remember right off the dome without digging in to any lists or notes. maybe not favorite but ones you can cite off rip 1. p’s parties jhumpa lahiri 2. class war to nantucket 3. the kij johnson one about the bridge builder
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JFC
Amendment 3 on Jewish safety, clarifying that members will not be targeted for attending Zionist synagogues, has fallen 648 to 1026. Not even close - some Jewish greens expected to leave the party now
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Stephen Saperstein Frug (stephenfrug.bsky.social) retweeted
The Procrastinators Club of America protesting against Former President James Madison and the War of 1812. Philadelphia, 9 March 1966.
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