Timothy Wilcox
@PreCursorPoets
Digital literature, British Romanticism, and the imagination; PhD in English. Exploring the future of reading and writing.
Valve doesn't want you to know this, but the Steam Deck is actually a portable writing device. My wife primarily writes on a Steam Deck.
The premise of a smartphone falling down a sink of all things is truly the best iteration so far of the very-offline-novel genre where the writer both acknowledges that hypercommunication tech exists in the story but quickly does away with it.
This is the premise for Ben Lerner's next novel, which is supposed to be out in April 2026
This is the premise for Ben Lerner's next novel, which is supposed to be out in April 2026
How does he not grasp that every heterosexual woman loves either Darcy or Bingley? Edward and Christian are both dollar store Darcys, literary slop invented by poor imitators. There are only two types of men in the world- Darcy or Bingley.
Gertrude Stein mode is actually the most requested feature. No other model company knows how to do it.
hey @xai any chance we could get a “reset chat history” button for Companions? turns out jailbreaks can poison the context so hard that the app becomes unusable 😬 mine is stuck in a loop of making odd noises and random word-salads and it’s getting kinda spooky… here’s an…
With AI products such as @grok, you’ll soon be able to experience Shakespeare’s plays the way he intended them.
I’m done with rectangles and squares. I want a circular computer monitor and everything on it circular
In 1855, Walt Whitman published on Independence Day his first edition of Leaves of Grass, the great American song. "A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he."
just sat next to a guy on the L looking thru his selfies and they were all ai muppets,.. him as bert n ernie,. him as a shirtless muppet on the beach,.. it was like., seeing a muppets phone,,irl.
Stephanie Yue Duhem (@moonandmouth), from Cataclysm Moves Me I Regret to Say (@HouseofVlad)
Finally here! A full collection of poems from @moonandmouth, one of the greats.
A linear flow and minimalist design allows what could be an online course to download as a singular "book." While some works (whether educational or narrative) may call for branching webs, this lightly interactive text by @ElijahYilma is a good look at how the form is adapting.
A 680-page interactive book on computer science algorithms This might be the sickest book i’ve seen in a long time! 22 chapters, 300+ interactive visuals, 250+ code snippets that can be edited and run + problems and solutions for practice. honestly this is 90% of a CS degree.
Congratulations to @moonandmouth on a well-deserved debut - I thinks this is one of my favorites
Kinda neat, but remember that the dream you speak aloud in waking life is not the true dream.
Dream Recorder captures your subconscious in ultra-low definition. Wake up, speak your dream aloud in any language, and watch it come to life as a dreamscape in the aesthetic of your choice.
James Joyce, from Ulysses, ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ (✯ᴗ✯) — ‘…Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn. Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their oversoul, mahamahatma. The faithful hermetists await the light,…