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From The Station Eleven Vaults

On The Haunting Beauty of Lighting Tests

Sep 22, 2024 •

Patrick Somerville

Thursday Evening Chats With a Perplexity/Deepseek LLM Orchestration or a Chat GPT 4.5 Deep Research

Some questions don’t get asked. Why? We didn’t have these guys.

Feb 28 •

Patrick Somerville

Who's Your Daddy?

Jan 20 •

Patrick Somerville

It's just going to be hard to explain to my grandkids what it means when I say, "I wrote things, in the olden days, for other people, not me, and it…

Sep 5, 2024 •

Patrick Somerville

I'm Not Gone, Just Writing.

In the next month, I'm looking forward to returning to more regular installments of That Scene Works

May 15, 2024 •

Patrick Somerville

The New Job Is Real, But It’s Not A Job. I Also Do Have a New Job. I’m in Chicago. I Met Swae Lee On The Plane and He Was Nice.

Let me have a word here about Ecto-Economic Activity

Dec 17, 2023 •

Patrick Somerville

Part One of a Neverending Digital Story

Dec 14, 2023 •

Patrick Somerville

On The Shores of Mombasa

Nikesh Shukla Goes to India, and Home

Dec 12, 2023 •

Patrick Somerville

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I Was Never Any Good at Twitter

It Also Didn’t Feel Good

Nov 20, 2023 •

Patrick Somerville

Day 146: An Elegy For The Line

Five Things I'll Try To Take With Me From This Miserable, Productive Strike

Sep 25, 2023 •

Patrick Somerville

Day 138: A Pretty De-Emotionalized, Straightforward Argument For Why It's Worth It For the AMPTP To Spend A Little More Money On Writers And…

At Intermission, You Can Watch This Unfurl As A Series of Tweets, Set To Scott Joplin, Because This Place Is A Content Factory

Sep 17, 2023 •

Patrick Somerville

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