# ![@TheLincoln Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::17781739.png) @TheLincoln Lincoln Michel

Lincoln Michel posts on X about ai, books, if you, [----] the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  #264 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  14.17% [finance](/list/finance)  7.09% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  5.51% [countries](/list/countries)  2.36% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1.57% [products](/list/products)  1.57% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.79% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  0.79% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  0.79%

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) #518, [books](/topic/books) #33, [if you](/topic/if-you) #5267, [6969](/topic/6969) #63, [lincoln](/topic/lincoln) #6, [nfts](/topic/nfts) #15, [agi](/topic/agi) #33, [money](/topic/money) 5.51%, [art](/topic/art) #4764, [llms](/topic/llms) #15

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Oh EXCLUSIVE: In secret recordings Sen. Ted Cruz trashes Trump Vance "You're going to lose the House you're going to lose the Senate you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week." https://t.co/oN5K9XBmsm EXCLUSIVE: In secret recordings Sen. Ted Cruz trashes Trump Vance "You're going to lose the House you're going to lose the Senate you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week." https://t.co/oN5K9XBmsm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2015588747115368786)  2026-01-26T00:52Z 27.9K followers, 2.1M engagements


"I think one has to be extremely naive to think this is the case. GenAI will almost certainly advantage the rich and disadvantage the poor in education. Elites get bespoke education in small classes. Everyone else gets giant classes where everyone cheats and no one learns. @freganmitts yep. it's so unfair that AI erases the advantages of rich students who can afford expense tutors. what's the point of having money anymore @freganmitts yep. it's so unfair that AI erases the advantages of rich students who can afford expense tutors. what's the point of having money anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2016558757103206763)  2026-01-28T17:07Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Ethiopia is literally mentioned in The Odyssey. They did not need to put black people in The Odyssey. It's so contrived and ruins my immersion. They did not need to put black people in The Odyssey. It's so contrived and ruins my immersion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2016881262997160015)  2026-01-29T14:28Z 27.8K followers, [----] engagements


"A lot of people don't realize the laziness GenAI engenders. It's not just cheating on papers. It's teaching students to put no effort into anything. Many can't even glance at outputs before they copy and paste as the increasing "Dear Insert Professor Name Here" emails show. Yeah what freaks me out isnt just students being worse at reading/writing/paying attention but this increasing refusal to and defiant attitude about even trying or pretending Yeah what freaks me out isnt just students being worse at reading/writing/paying attention but this increasing refusal to and defiant attitude about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2017414773592207502)  2026-01-31T01:48Z 27.9K followers, 69.3K engagements


"Both and situation. She has done a heel turn and those books are as Ursula Le Guin put in a [----] interview "stylistically ordinary imaginatively derivative and ethically rather mean-spirited." JKR sucks but people just make stuff up about the Harry Potter books that arent true to try to backdate her hatefulness. None of this is true she really did make a heel turn. JKR sucks but people just make stuff up about the Harry Potter books that arent true to try to backdate her hatefulness. None of this is true she really did make a heel turn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2018145846190084493)  2026-02-02T02:13Z 27.8K followers, 164.8K engagements


"Saw someone say that the "only reason Ursula K. Le Guin is brought up anywhere" is because she once insulted JK Rowling. The only reason. Close the schools. They clearly aren't working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2018457675730698393)  2026-02-02T22:53Z 27.8K followers, 48K engagements


"@erica_d_stevens STEM professor I know seem aware the students are using GenAI on every written assignment and discussion board post in their classes but they simply just pretend they aren't so they don't have to actually read and grade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019138114338619756)  2026-02-04T19:56Z 27.8K followers, [--] engagements


"I like the implication that having a hand in your pocket is a handicap in chess Youngest chess world champion ever Gukesh D played against three female chess influencers at the same time and defeated them while having one hand in his pocket. Women say men are better in sports because men are biologically stronger then why can't women compete with men in https://t.co/DAbURrKaux Youngest chess world champion ever Gukesh D played against three female chess influencers at the same time and defeated them while having one hand in his pocket. Women say men are better in sports because men are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019165288537718952)  2026-02-04T21:44Z 27.9K followers, 88.4K engagements


"Thrilled to have a story in the very exciting new literary magazine Strange Pilgrims. If you want some existential Greek myth-inspired fiction with your morning coffee give it a read https://www.strangepilgrims.com/p/consider-the-eagle-by-lincoln-michel https://www.strangepilgrims.com/p/consider-the-eagle-by-lincoln-michel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019416307737723376)  2026-02-05T14:22Z 27.8K followers, [----] engagements


"I think it is time to stop pretending that billionaires aligned with the Trump administration are in any way trying to have a free press or accessible information. The point of owning the Post TikTok Twitter etc. is the same as the point of LLMs: controlling information. It is totally dumbfounding that Bezos and co. managed to botch up a news company in THIS news climate. It is totally dumbfounding that Bezos and co. managed to botch up a news company in THIS news climate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019425703813607727)  2026-02-05T14:59Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"The normies will be 100% correct Tbh the Anthropic ads are good but I think they're a bad idea. Normies are not going to think "Wow this is what ChatGPT is gonna be like. I better subscribe to Claude dot com". They're gonna think "Wow this is what AI is gonna be like." https://t.co/NmEIOtBK5o Tbh the Anthropic ads are good but I think they're a bad idea. Normies are not going to think "Wow this is what ChatGPT is gonna be like. I better subscribe to Claude dot com". They're gonna think "Wow this is what AI is gonna be like." https://t.co/NmEIOtBK5o"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019451729763340795)  2026-02-05T16:43Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Average Douthat fan (also lol no shit the stated reason isn't "you embarrassed him") Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT challenged me to a debate on foreign policy. We recorded a 90-minute segment for his show Interesting Times on 1/15/26. But I defeated him so decisively that he refuses to air the footage. What an absolute coward. https://t.co/ak9LTq2nI8 Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT challenged me to a debate on foreign policy. We recorded a 90-minute segment for his show Interesting Times on 1/15/26. But I defeated him so decisively that he refuses to air the footage. What an absolute coward."  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019593008078115165)  2026-02-06T02:04Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Bezos chose to start Amazon with books because publishers accept return of stock (unlike most businesses) and it was easy to sell a variety of products. It was a business decision not a reflection of Bezos giving a shit about literature. Doesn't f****ing Bezos sell books Doesn't f****ing Bezos sell books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019594631781183541)  2026-02-06T02:10Z 27.9K followers, 63.6K engagements


"You could buy a book from an independent bookstore instead @TheLincoln Because of Amazon I have a published a book. Also because of Amazon I have unpublished my book and will never buy another book as long as I live. An author spends months or years writing a book paying editors narrators and other expenses. Amazon thinks they deserve 60% of the @TheLincoln Because of Amazon I have a published a book. Also because of Amazon I have unpublished my book and will never buy another book as long as I live. An author spends months or years writing a book paying editors narrators and other expenses."  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019767871610482947)  2026-02-06T13:39Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"New twitter thing is describing commonplace human activities as exotic jobs. Oh you "Air Breathers" and "Shower Takers" think you're sooooo special"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019811847088783781)  2026-02-06T16:34Z 27.9K followers, 18.7K engagements


"Books have similar sites. Outside of general illiteracy and anti-intellectualism books simply take longer to read and vastly more are published each year than movies. A dedicated film fan can watch every major wide-release film. Biggest book readers can only make a small dent. theres obviously a lot of reasons why "literary culture" barely exists in america these days but it really doesn't help that we have an IMDb equivalent for books but no Letterboxd equivalent theres obviously a lot of reasons why "literary culture" barely exists in america these days but it really doesn't help that we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020121579758182511)  2026-02-07T13:04Z 27.9K followers, 46.9K engagements


"The entire GenAI industry: https://t.co/JhkEdlEi5o https://t.co/JhkEdlEi5o"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020129015801979015)  2026-02-07T13:34Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Students can purchase smart glasses that can give them the answers to any math science or other STEM exam question. It isn't just chatgpt papers. People are really not thinking the problems through. @JTasioulas If students can pass by pasting prompts into a chatbot thats not just a student problem its a design problem. A university that takes its epistemic role seriously should be teaching how to think with AI not pretending it doesnt exist. If cheating with AI is the @JTasioulas If students can pass by pasting prompts into a chatbot thats not just a student problem its a design problem. A"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020146373476143402)  2026-02-07T14:43Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"It is really insane how there was a group of very dumb and gullible morons who promoted this vile Islamophobic warmonger (and perhaps literal traitor) as some kind of "peace" candidate or leftist option. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020221511601180719)  2026-02-07T19:41Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I know it's said over and over but this is really (yet another) scandal that pre-Trump would probably bring down a presidency https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020223910193537130)  2026-02-07T19:51Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@norabird Some must but I've always paid a little attention to the self-pub advice and in the past [--] years I've seen the conventional wisdom go from you need to write 2-3 books a year to 5-6 a year to [--] or more a year to now I guess [---] a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020538732986708092)  2026-02-08T16:42Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@MichaelOChurch @martymalt @d4doome I imagine there will be a sokal thing or two for sure. But I think the big question will be "discoverability" as output increases. AI might be able to increase output by a ton but I just don't see where it's going to increase the number of readers. So something has to break"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020703027259494906)  2026-02-09T03:35Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Hey now it could also bankrupt crypto and NFTs which are central to the scams and grifts economy if you increase taxes on the wealthy it will stifle innovation in numerous sectors such as AI that everyone hates and AI that doesnt work if you increase taxes on the wealthy it will stifle innovation in numerous sectors such as AI that everyone hates and AI that doesnt work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020978909182066765)  2026-02-09T21:51Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"No hate to QTer but it is disorienting to grow older and see people imagine a fake past you lived through. "Political correctness" backlash was very much a moral panic and conservatives hated Disney for making "PC garbage" They just rebranded the same anger as "anti-woke""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021025871709327518)  2026-02-10T00:58Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Princess and the Frog especially got tons of racist backlash. And Disney was very consciously trying to diversify their princesses (for business reasons) with these films"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021036268327666094)  2026-02-10T01:39Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"The dominant style of Super Bowl commercials remains the Family Guy reference mash-up joke. Ben Affleck stars in a GOOD WILL HUNTING-themed #SuperBowl ad for Dunkin Donuts. https://t.co/RWrB6RDVhU Ben Affleck stars in a GOOD WILL HUNTING-themed #SuperBowl ad for Dunkin Donuts. https://t.co/RWrB6RDVhU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021081074223415706)  2026-02-10T04:37Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Okay America deserves a lot of blame in herbal but that has been the driving force of most of Christianity for centuries. The enduring contribution of American Christianity to the world is the idea that Jesus Christ didn't really mean the things he said. It is an entire religious culture that tries at all costs to avoid the conclusion that their own religion might actually be true. The enduring contribution of American Christianity to the world is the idea that Jesus Christ didn't really mean the things he said. It is an entire religious culture that tries at all costs to avoid the conclusion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021081898479439873)  2026-02-10T04:40Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Seems like you could say this about anything from Ancient Athens to modern Tokyo. i feel like it's important to demystify new york what makes it distinctive is that a lot of people live there and that it's dense that's it everything else is a product of that there's nothing magic you just get a lot of stuff going on with a lot of people close together i feel like it's important to demystify new york what makes it distinctive is that a lot of people live there and that it's dense that's it everything else is a product of that there's nothing magic you just get a lot of stuff going on with a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021217726279115180)  2026-02-10T13:40Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@Circular_Ruins Somw that is true but part of the problem with the woke narrative is every big publisher has explicitly conservative imprints that publish conservative and "anti-woke" books. And in general they chase whatever sells. It's a business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021572356787855473)  2026-02-11T13:09Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @jakebackpack: Your LLM doesn't know what's happening. It doesn't "know" anything. These are immensely sophisticated tools but they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021933413289316749)  2026-02-12T13:04Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements


"If you think LLMs are the same as humans and should be treated the same then I hope you are fighting to jail everyone at these tech companies who helped violate LLMs basic rights @TheLincoln Show me the artist that has paid royalties to every artist that they learned from. @TheLincoln Show me the artist that has paid royalties to every artist that they learned from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2018817159481397307)  2026-02-03T22:41Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I have to admit I miss the days when you went viral for tweeting like "she telos on my techne till I aristotle" instead of like "Grok says ethnic group has lower IQs than dolphins""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019081585937518769)  2026-02-04T16:12Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"It would be interesting for someone like @kmanguward to have honest self-reflection and write about why her "libertarian" colleagues supported Trump and why libertarians have such a long history of supporting authoritarian conservatives. Why does that just keep happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021032446180090297)  2026-02-10T01:24Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@DarrylMason We can literally see the deline on offline activities and increase of people spending their waking hours online. I don't think the fact that every now and then a book goes viral changes that. The decline is seen across categories it's not just books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021571865873948792)  2026-02-11T13:07Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@DarrylMason When people spend all their time online online becomes the sole source of "discovery" (in books video games hobbies music whatever)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021573366516171044)  2026-02-11T13:13Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@Circular_Ruins There's something to that but a problem with the woke narrative is every big publisher has explicitly conservative imprints that publish conservative and "anti-woke" books. Threshold Basic Liberty Regency Sentinel etc. Publishers chase whatever sells. It's a business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021573984064553332)  2026-02-11T13:16Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"American conservatives have total disdain for art and culture so can't produce anything and view art only through the lens of cheap partisan politics. So they fawn over any loser (e.g Kid Rock) who panders too them and never develop any sense of taste. everybody is writing think pieces about what happened here but i think the answer is pretty obvious: conservatives are just not that interesting. give them a mic and its grievances about the culture nostalgia for a past that never existed and jesus clutching an ar-15. there is everybody is writing think pieces about what happened here but i"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021577295580864831)  2026-02-11T13:29Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Whenever those viral "is there any good right-wing art" tweets go around you can find plenty of answers. Mishima Celine etc. But there is a reason none of the answers are ever contemporary American conservatives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021580492827496747)  2026-02-11T13:42Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@rebeccarightnow @mpershan I do think short fiction is his form. My favorite King works are either his short stories or his fantasy work (Eyes of the Dragon first couple Dark Tower books etc.) Those are his best modes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021598459283767575)  2026-02-11T14:53Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"Barthes died before I was born. He is not a contemporary literary fiction author"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021605410797490254)  2026-02-11T15:21Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Facebook is overwhelmed with AI slop but kind of amusingly the algorithm pegs me as liking philosophy so I get these slop images that mangle the references. What is that lever going to do There isn't a second track to divert the trolly onto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021610040352731335)  2026-02-11T15:39Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @arturo_ulises: @TheLincoln The Body Scout reminds me of the comic book series Transmetropolitan (a good thing). It has a similar hyperc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021699866846446040)  2026-02-11T21:36Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"@wegotagopher There have been several high profile AI-generated books that got TONS of media coverage. No one bought them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021724326332915818)  2026-02-11T23:13Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"New tech often changes the economics of art rather than simply replacing things. Consider cell phone cameras. Everyone is now a photographer but very few people PAY to buy someone else's iPhone photo. They just make their own photos. If LLMs advance I'd expect something similar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021725918188675547)  2026-02-11T23:19Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"@wegotagopher Then we disagree. You can see my QT is talking about "AI musicians" who don't listen to any other AI music. People like the tool to make them feel creative but they don't want to knowingly consume other people's AI work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021730475862012189)  2026-02-11T23:38Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"@johanlenox I think the question is paying. A lot of people read the openAI "metafiction" story out of curiosity. Would anyone pay to own a book of them though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021738882832683461)  2026-02-12T00:11Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"@perrymetzger @davidzmorris How many AI-generated novels/books have you read in full and how many have you paid for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021747431730557145)  2026-02-12T00:45Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"I'm really and truly not sure there is any group of people more gullible than tech reporters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021748323208806407)  2026-02-12T00:48Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"@perrymetzger @davidzmorris No you're just arguing against a straw man. I have never argued LLMs have no uses. I do not think they can write entire books that people would want to pay to read currently though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021751715603919196)  2026-02-12T01:02Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@perrymetzger @davidzmorris It may but Thompson was making claims about the now. In any event I never claimed LLMs have no uses. I have been skeptical of the over-the-top claims especially the ones with timeframes (fromtech reporters "AI experts" and AI workers) and have so far been proven correct"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021753827611881731)  2026-02-12T01:10Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@perrymetzger @davidzmorris And while AI boosters get upset about this it IS fair to point out many people hyping these products were saying similar things about NFTs The Metaverse Web [---] etc. Especially tech reporters. I think LLMs are more useful than those things. But some people are very gullible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021754207615721500)  2026-02-12T01:12Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@nonobi14 I think cell phones are good comparison. I wouldn't say they destroyed photography as an art. They certainly destroyed it as a non-art profession (outside of weddings perhaps). Few people pay for e.g. family portraits like they did before smart phones. https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021725918188675547 New tech often changes the economics of art rather than simply replacing things. Consider cell phone cameras. Everyone is now a photographer but very few people PAY to buy someone else's iPhone photo. They just make their own photos. If LLMs advance I'd expect something similar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021754622910910528)  2026-02-12T01:13Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@perrymetzger @davidzmorris Again I think you're arguing against someone else I fully believe it is useful for coding and if you code software worth paying for. I mostly make fun of people who think we're a few days away from AGI super computer gods deciding the fate of humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021757580893135167)  2026-02-12T01:25Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"@perrymetzger @davidzmorris Like the AI [----] group or gullible tech reporters like Roose who was hyping NFTs and the Metaverse as The Future a few years ago. Or the people who feel for fake Moltbook posts. But if you say they are useful for coding you will get no disagreement from me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021757877019410727)  2026-02-12T01:26Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


""Why are people interested in a question with huge ethical legal and philosophical implications" I genuinely don't know what to make of people who claim that current LLMs aren't "intelligent" unless the point is a very trite one about consciousness or the absence of wetware. It's this weird reflexive incuriosity about one of humanity's strangest and most fraught inventions. I genuinely don't know what to make of people who claim that current LLMs aren't "intelligent" unless the point is a very trite one about consciousness or the absence of wetware. It's this weird reflexive incuriosity about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021761681534144523)  2026-02-12T01:42Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @pissvortex: Thank you gork. That is what that means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021765526117134800)  2026-02-12T01:57Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"A good piece on a certain much discoursed topic today: Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating resultsand raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it Anthropic. https://t.co/8XB4f9yILJ https://t.co/4FkqkK0QCb Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating resultsand raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it Anthropic. https://t.co/8XB4f9yILJ https://t.co/4FkqkK0QCb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021772033437446487)  2026-02-12T02:23Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @EoinHiggins_: isn't this the guy whose wife called a kuffiyeh a "terrorist scarf""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021772099761975479)  2026-02-12T02:23Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @JosephSheridan: @Rahll Ive finally realized where the disconnect is. AI that can create video like this is truly technologically impre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021808785648411014)  2026-02-12T04:49Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@JamshidHormuz ha although truly rather literally not. The following passage is about OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021961348628840670)  2026-02-12T14:55Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @lionel_trolling: I kinda think if you're that impressed by AI's intellectual output you need to raise your standards a little bit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021971551021936828)  2026-02-12T15:35Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @BigMeanInternet: What they think communists think: "We hate the Western canon Burn the books" What communists think: "My favorite bo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021988065313796203)  2026-02-12T16:41Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"We don't even have to turn back the clock here. THIS MONTH the entire media was largely unanimous in repeating Moltbook hysteria which turned out to be in large part fraudulent. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021996529737773171)  2026-02-12T17:15Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@david_mcphisto @adamjohnsonCHI @deanwball No reason not to name names when talking about journalists since presumably he'd be referring to published articles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022001635971789247)  2026-02-12T17:35Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"@crypt_osho Yeah I feel a lot of LLM conversations come down to skeptics referring to statements by tech journalists AI company CEOs and respected experts in the field.and then boosters pointing out silly tweets by randos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022010458035691840)  2026-02-12T18:10Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@GrahamCart52267 @elecerentoctopi Seems like theoretical is the key word. I'll bet Musk does not live to see a factory on the moon. We can circle back in a couple decades I guess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022014414799745402)  2026-02-12T18:26Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"@Marc__Watkins (The Derek Thompson tweet that kicked off this discourse I mean)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022031098671431934)  2026-02-12T19:32Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@Marc__Watkins *if not disclosed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022031410438234257)  2026-02-12T19:33Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"(I actually do think LLMs will replace huge parts of SOME of these professions. I imagine we'll see something akin to what online stock trading did to stockbrokers. But it will be more limited in scope in terms of # of professions than most expect. More than [--] year too.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022138199821496360)  2026-02-13T02:38Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"I don't see how self-pub world survives GenAI. An exponential increase in slop books with no reason to expect any increase in paying readers. (Not a surprise even the successful AI "writers" are pivoting to selling AI hype to aspiring authors instead.) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/business/the-new-fabio-is-claude.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.KlA.yqs_.m3hZNKuOV7jd&smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/business/the-new-fabio-is-claude.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.KlA.yqs_.m3hZNKuOV7jd&smid=nytcore-ios-share"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020489281651789930)  2026-02-08T13:25Z 28K followers, 73.2K engagements


"Yes and also Stephen King's fiction is taught in MFA programs published in the New Yorker and McSweeneys he has been given a National Book Award medal etc. The literary world doesn't hate Stephen King. It's not the 1980s anymore. People need to update their cliches. THIS kind of snobbery is pretty tiresome. Every week a good bookstore puts out a dozen new titles of "literary fiction" and if you think these descriptions even come close to gesturing towards the range of subjects in those hundreds of books you have obviously never looked https://t.co/0Ayiz9mrVv THIS kind of snobbery is pretty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021580961108910145)  2026-02-11T13:43Z 28K followers, 15.5K engagements


"I would conservatively estimate that 90% of literary discourse online is driven by people who literally do not read what they're pontificating about. They complain about contemporary fiction literary fiction genre fiction postmodernism YA books etc. that they do not read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021604776341864598)  2026-02-11T15:18Z 28K followers, 33.4K engagements


"I would really like the AI evangelists who say things like "they can intelligently write whole books" to list what AI-authored books they have read and enjoyed. Cause I am pretty sure the answer is "none" and they are just parroting tech company claims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021650640142029170)  2026-02-11T18:20Z 28K followers, 34.3K engagements


"I've always thought this was the future of "AI art." People who want that want to generate their own tailored stuff. Basically no one wants to buy a book or an album that someone else prompted chatgpt to generate. @TheLincoln Interesting video from Adam Neeley came out lately where he surveyed people who generate music using AI. Virtually none of them have any AI creators they cite as influences and none of them listened to AI music besides the stuff they made themselves. @TheLincoln Interesting video from Adam Neeley came out lately where he surveyed people who generate music using AI."  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021685599250387107)  2026-02-11T20:39Z 28K followers, 46.1K engagements


"Learn to ode Something big is happening STEM is dead. CS jobs are gone. I hate to break it to you but were dealing with a Total. Technological. Bloodbath. The ONLY choice you have is to dedicate your life to the humanities. Words. Books. Art. Music. The only lifeline we have left. Something big is happening STEM is dead. CS jobs are gone. I hate to break it to you but were dealing with a Total. Technological. Bloodbath. The ONLY choice you have is to dedicate your life to the humanities. Words. Books. Art. Music. The only lifeline we have left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021764117921468499)  2026-02-12T01:51Z 28K followers, 69.1K engagements


"I'm realizing a disagreement between myself and some repliers is about what "journalism" is. I do not think credulously repeating every dumb thing a politician or CEO says is journalism. That's not even stenography that's just being a publicist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021955938153013604)  2026-02-12T14:33Z 28K followers, 10K engagements


"Recently I talked to some AI boosters who were claiming AI can now produce entire books as good as the average book published by publishing houses today. When I asked for what AI books they had read they each said"I haven't read any. I don't read books at all." Oh okay. a bunch of people who never go to museums or see live performance (music comedy etc) thinking AI could replace all this a bunch of people who never go to museums or see live performance (music comedy etc) thinking AI could replace all this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022002596136071588)  2026-02-12T17:39Z 28K followers, 756.1K engagements


"A driving force of tech world frenzy with LLMs is most of them spent last decade hyping nonsense (NFTs Web [---] the Metaverse etc.) and fact LLMs have some actual utility has been such a psychological boost that they can not mentally accept anything less than full devotion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022015151030022570)  2026-02-12T18:29Z 28K followers, 26.6K engagements


"@Marc__Watkins I do think there are two s here. 1) Will people knowingly purchase AI-generated books 1) Will most be able to tell if know disclosed A lot of gray area as to how much AI use people will be bothered by. But Thompson tweeted seemed to be about books generated just by a prompt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022031012101075234)  2026-02-12T19:32Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Do people think actual AGI computer gods would work the same way as ChatGPT Really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022114200026534055)  2026-02-13T01:02Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"@Marc__Watkins I think it is definitely used that way for a lot of stuff but most of it is what I'd consider a grift. Good example was the NYT piece about the Romance author who claimed to make money spamming the Kindle Unlimited store with hundreds of titles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022127975072973272)  2026-02-13T01:57Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"Rereading some Toni Morrison transcendent as expected but also makes me want to teach her to see what students make of her fluid POV. Seems like few readers can handle that anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022142847353598098)  2026-02-13T02:56Z 28K followers, 15.3K engagements


"@Take_Artist Even if true the LLMs are stealing code from other places since it is a simple type of program that already exists and the codes are likely in training data. I'm not even saying that is wrong per se but it isn't proof of incoming "AGI""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022353602342453321)  2026-02-13T16:54Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"The romance novelist the NYT profiled has virtually no ratings for the revealed pen name. There is no evidence her books are garnering actual readers. KU AI scams typically imitate popular book titles/covers hoping to get free clicks. It's closer to phishing emails scams. @BigMeanInternet Happening in romance novels though that genre is uniquely formulaic and full of self-publishing. @BigMeanInternet Happening in romance novels though that genre is uniquely formulaic and full of self-publishing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022363062066688426)  2026-02-13T17:31Z 28K followers, 55.7K engagements


"I've decided to choose optimism. Yes AI slop will replace clickbait articles formulaic books kitsch art and the insanity of social media. Maybe that means worthwhile things--beautiful art unique books human relationships in the real world etc--will flourish again. the fact is that the things that I really care about the things that enrich my life make it worth living art books movies human relationships are thus far being made worse cheaper uglier by this (incredible truly) technology. so it's not my thing. the fact is that the things that I really care about the things that enrich my life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022375115921469487)  2026-02-13T18:19Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"People outside of education (and outside of elite schools) are unaware of how widespread the problem is. Partly because STEM had its head in the sand assuming LLMs were only useful for writing humanities papers when in fact they can generate the answers or work for any course. Matthew Connelly: Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance academic admins are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.: https://t.co/9BIoVYzU6b Matthew Connelly: Young people are quickly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022450097414377544)  2026-02-13T23:17Z 28K followers, 15.7K engagements


"There's some of this but I think we should not discount that both "AI is fake" and "AI is a year away from AGI and will change all aspects of life" are driven by the tech world and media putting us through a decade of nonsense hype cycles about NFTs Web [--] The Metaverse etc. a lot of leftist AI is fake hype sentiment is motivated imo by the fact that the silicon valley overclass is the most morally and aesthetically revolting elite in living memory. Theyre just so repugnant (and that is true) that they *must* be wrong there *must* be comeuppance a lot of leftist AI is fake hype sentiment is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022453512681197803)  2026-02-13T23:31Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"A not insignificant part of AI hype does seem to be aging boomers and middle-aged millennials desperate to feel like they're still on the front lines of something important. As a generally pro-AI [--] year-old parent I've been surprised how anti-AI my [--] year-old son is. I'm used to young people being pro- new technology (I certainly was). But my son is genuinely pretty negative on AI. Still processing why this is. As a generally pro-AI [--] year-old parent I've been surprised how anti-AI my [--] year-old son is. I'm used to young people being pro- new technology (I certainly was). But my son is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022657134459003165)  2026-02-14T13:00Z 28K followers, 115.7K engagements


"I'm really and truly not sure there is any group of people more gullible than tech reporters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021748055238652155)  2026-02-12T00:47Z 28K followers, 483.4K engagements


"There're clearly more journalists who credulously repeat every absurd AI claim (and before that with NFTs the Metaverse Web [---] claims) no matter how many times they are shown to be wrong. The idea that there is a large "AI is fake" issue in journalism is pure cope. The belief that AI is mostly fake remains shockingly common including as Derek points out among journalists and takesmen but also *people with AI in their job titles.* There are people *who do AI policy for a living* who think AI is mostly fake and dont use it. The belief that AI is mostly fake remains shockingly common including"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021996130113077441)  2026-02-12T17:13Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Okay at least avocado toast was overpriced. Rotisserie chickens are pretty affordable for the amount of food"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021999695766446475)  2026-02-12T17:27Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"But if someone wants to rebut this I'd love to know what AI-generated books you've read and enjoyed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022003558607204870)  2026-02-12T17:43Z 28K followers, 45K engagements


"@jerseygirlcrush Yes I was skeptical of the money claim. The books by the publicly revealed pen name have almost no ratings online and the ones that exist are 1-star "AI slop" reviews posted after the NYT article. They certainly didn't seem to gain authentic readers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022036260836225214)  2026-02-12T19:53Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


""Even the so-called "AI skeptics" in the industry now think we'll have AGI within a decade." No. That isn't true. And it is very funny how people position being extremely credulous as some kind of superior sophistication. In this way very much a repeat of NFTs. I'm increasingly annoyed by how many journalists academics and large parts of the left get everything wrong about AI. So many smug dismissals from people who clearly don't use it (much) or don't know how. I have multiple wtf-moments every week now. For example: was about to get https://t.co/GQHOeeuZex I'm increasingly annoyed by how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022110657760702471)  2026-02-13T00:48Z 28K followers, 22K engagements


"I will say though that if you think LLMs are about to become AGI super computer gods why do you give a shit about people "learning to prompt" ChatGPT or the like. Actual AGI would render everything about current LLMs irrelevant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022112421599666659)  2026-02-13T00:55Z 28K followers, 25.5K engagements


"@MattBruenig @BigMeanInternet It may be happening in Romance but it is largely Kindle Unlimited grifts in which the authors spam the KU store with hundreds of titles--that mimic popular books--hoping to get accidental or stray clicks. The content is almost quite literally irrelevant to the scam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022363772069757195)  2026-02-13T17:34Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Yes economics is filled with ideologically blinkered "scholars" who are mostly famous for getting everything wrong and yet never change their assumptions. Actual scholars tend to look down on that. The hostility many academics have toward economists is bizarre and I cant help but attribute at least some of it to ideological bias. The hostility many academics have toward economists is bizarre and I cant help but attribute at least some of it to ideological bias"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022364946185551890)  2026-02-13T17:39Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"An analogy: imagine Netflix allowed anyone to upload "films" and paid out on a per-minute-watched basis. Someone uses GenAI to upload [---] slop films with titles like Block Panther and Start Wars. A certain percentage of users would accidentally click on these. Grifter gets paid. The romance novelist the NYT profiled has virtually no ratings for the revealed pen name. There is no evidence her books are garnering actual readers. KU AI scams typically imitate popular book titles/covers hoping to get free clicks. It's closer to phishing emails scams. The romance novelist the NYT profiled has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022365904135229830)  2026-02-13T17:42Z 28K followers, 37.6K engagements


"Warmly received by critics Yes. Find a sizable audience lol. No. Though worth noting only Shakespeare of those three had a relatively big audience in life. (Well Melville was popular at first but his best books weren't.) If today someone were to publish a play or novel or book of poems as richly lyrical and hieratic as Shakespeare Melville Dickinson do you -- and be honest here -- believe it would be warmly received by contemporary critics & find an audience as sizable as the average release If today someone were to publish a play or novel or book of poems as richly lyrical and hieratic as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022369994768515112)  2026-02-13T17:59Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm still curious if all the people who argued schools shouldn't restrict AI use because "it's a tool and you can't restrict tools and in fact we should teach students to use AI in everything" feel same way about AI glasses that can look up test answers https://slate.com/technology/2026/02/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-glasses-school.html https://slate.com/technology/2026/02/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-glasses-school.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022663169337098668)  2026-02-14T13:24Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Halloween everyone. And uh some spooky personal news: 👀👻🏚😱 Very excited to be working with the brilliant @DeloneSean and @AtriaBooks again. Many thanks to the great @gelrdrgz and @WMEBooks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/1984261674346627123)  2025-10-31T14:10Z 28K followers, 11.9K engagements


"Its interesting that even AI companies themselves are admitting reliance on LLMs degrades skills: We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding code reading and debugging abilities without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019050231506120872)  2026-02-04T14:07Z 28K followers, 93.4K engagements


"Conservatives are now generating AI videos to tell them what they want to hear then going "this says a lot about society.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019594934379245578)  2026-02-06T02:12Z 28K followers, 116.2K engagements


"One must imagine Sisyphus rolling the boulder down into Plato's cave and everyone running Indiana Jones style"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2019613913118081130)  2026-02-06T03:27Z 28K followers, 88.7K engagements


"I passively winced at this guy trying to pretend "decimated" has or should retain the archaic meaning of "reduced by 1/10th" a meaning it lost in English several hundred years ago. Actively winced when a NYT columnist said both that the WaPo had been decimated and that a third of its staff had been cut. As @charlescwcooke asks: why does no one know anything anymore Actively winced when a NYT columnist said both that the WaPo had been decimated and that a third of its staff had been cut. As @charlescwcooke asks: why does no one know anything anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020261490494771205)  2026-02-07T22:20Z 28K followers, 78.8K engagements


"Rewatching Mad Men"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2020314436612010177)  2026-02-08T01:51Z 28K followers, 65.7K engagements


"Libertarians: "Trump Trump Trump" Libertarians a little later: "Uh shit. We call take-backsies. Doesn't count You have to pretend we did the opposite of what we did" 'In light of how the past year has unfolded consider cutting your friendly neighborhood libertarian some slack. After all we did try to warn you.' Read @reason's @kmanguward in the @nytimes on libertarian critiques of today's politics. https://t.co/UGWy39F87s 'In light of how the past year has unfolded consider cutting your friendly neighborhood libertarian some slack. After all we did try to warn you.' Read @reason's @kmanguward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021030356288405817)  2026-02-10T01:16Z 28K followers, 39.8K engagements


"I think we can Occam's razor this. We have the richest companies in history spending insane amounts of money on figuring out how to make people spend a much time as possible on their platforms. Of course reading and all other offline activities are declining. The reason book criticism is dying off is because books no longer have the cultural cachet or influence to be the center of the cultural discourse. The last novel people that was significant enough to drive any cultural discourse was The Goldfinch which came out in [----]. The reason book criticism is dying off is because books no longer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021426997080252660)  2026-02-11T03:32Z 28K followers, 28.7K engagements


"Now I'm imagining King-Dickens mash-ups. Bleak Hearse Great Expectorations The Pickaxe Papers Oliver Twisted @TheLincoln King is the nearest thing our era has to Dickens. Had Dickens been born [---] years later he would have written about exactly the subjects King writes about. @TheLincoln King is the nearest thing our era has to Dickens. Had Dickens been born [---] years later he would have written about exactly the subjects King writes about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021598984414859616)  2026-02-11T14:55Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Whenever AI evangelists get caught falling for another fraud they pivot to rebutting a straw man that skeptics claim there is no possible use for LLMs. No one argues that. But supposedly serious AI boosters fall for stuff like this all the time https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021934986040160425)  2026-02-12T13:10Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Extreme skeptic position is AI finances make no sense and it will implode economically. (I don't argue this myself.) Perhaps wrong. But extreme AI evangelist predictions have literally been" rival computer gods will either murder all humanity or colonize space in a couple years.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021935977401618862)  2026-02-12T13:14Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"AI skeptic: "If AI is so amazing why is every tech company forcing it on me with no way to turn it off Seems desperate." AI evangelist; "THE COMPUTERS ARE INVENTING RELIGION THEY'RE FOMENTING REVOLUTION SKYNET HAL QUIT YOUR JOB MURDER YOUR CHILDREN HUMANITY IS EXTINCT""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021941060889415766)  2026-02-12T13:34Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@YourMomDave1 Musk says lots of dumb ideas that never happen yet are credulously reported by the press. If you agree he won't live to see a factory on the moon then our disagreement is in what counts as "journalism." I don't think it is transcribing every dumb thing a CEO or politician says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021954185349280184)  2026-02-12T14:26Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"@YourMomDave1 @SpaghettiKozak I agree that part of a CEO's (and politican's) job is to say absolute nonsense to get people interested in your products. I do NOT think it is the job of journalists to credulously repeat those nonsense claims which is why my tweet said *tech reporters* are gullible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021957499059155363)  2026-02-12T14:40Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"@JamshidHormuz Sure but it is has also been filled--for [---] years now--with "AI is about to become an AGI super god and kill all humanity or helps help us colonize the entire galaxy before the decade is out" and "AIs are inventing robot religion on Moltbook Skynet is here" talk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2021959815392899215)  2026-02-12T14:49Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"LLMs are more useful than NFTs but literally the same boosters are hyping LLMs in the same credulous way. including in the replies to this tweet lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022111648316895550)  2026-02-13T00:52Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"Something I truly don't get in AI convos. The people who insist AGI is a few years away (as soon as next year some think) tend to be the ones insisting that teaching "prompt skills" about current models is a super important thing we all need to focus on esp. in education. Why I will say though that if you think LLMs are about to become AGI super computer gods why do you give a shit about people "learning to prompt" ChatGPT or the like. Actual AGI would render everything about current LLMs irrelevant. I will say though that if you think LLMs are about to become AGI super computer gods why do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022113729136275950)  2026-02-13T01:00Z 28K followers, 23.8K engagements


"@Marc__Watkins The pen names revealed have basically no ratings on Goodreads or Amazon so they do not seem to have attracted real readers much less fans. However the way the KU works is people download a book (for free) and if they read even one page you earn a little money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022128155797205065)  2026-02-13T01:58Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@Marc__Watkins I think there is a lot of SEO scamming with AI content in that vein that may make money by attracting stray clicks more than actual readers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022128357979406557)  2026-02-13T01:59Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"Various people have been saying this will happen in "1-2 years" for [--] years running. I feel pretty confident in [--] months they'll be saying "another 12-18 months" and still claim the skeptics have been proven wrong. Anyway archiving here to dig up in 12-18 months. CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman joins FT editor Roula Khalaf to explain why most of the tasks accountants lawyers and other professionals currently undertake will be fully automated by AI within the next [--] to [--] months https://t.co/yYKzS7NIOP https://t.co/HvA6Q7KgIc CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman joins FT editor Roula"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022137832845062273)  2026-02-13T02:36Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"I don't pretend to know much about space. I just know he makes stupid predictions and says dumb ideas all the time. A few examples https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-worst-predictions-and-broken-promises-1851398745/4 @TheLincoln @YourMomDave1 "If you agree he won't live to see a factory on the moon" So your entire argument presupposes the man with the world's largest and only fully reusable rocket knows less about space than you do https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-worst-predictions-and-broken-promises-1851398745/4 @TheLincoln @YourMomDave1 "If you agree he won't live to see a factory on the moon""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022161068400029883)  2026-02-13T04:09Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"@StephenFrug @spiccarella People definitely do One that comes to mind--just because I read recently--is James Salter. But I do think that especially in more commercial fiction it tends to be 1st person or close third with chapters like Bob [--]. Sarah [--]. Bob 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022366516168266198)  2026-02-13T17:45Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@dnc_rlplcrtk I agree. But I also think that the advantage of GenAI here isn't quality but in customization. Why would you pay to read a book someone else generated with a prompt instead of generated your own tailored to what you want for free Ditto music videos etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022371739670392856)  2026-02-13T18:06Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"I just copy and pasted the Mona Lisa for free. AI remade the most expensive shot in F1 film for [--] cents https://t.co/AAT32EoQBU AI remade the most expensive shot in F1 film for [--] cents https://t.co/AAT32EoQBU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022446591949385866)  2026-02-13T23:03Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@NonwayneWayne Yes I fear the main effects will be surveillance and propaganda (and especially information control on the billionaire-owned platforms)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022459916615868897)  2026-02-13T23:56Z 28K followers, [---] engagements


"@reputationfan13 We've seen them where I teach but only a couple times. But I think we can expect them to come down in price and sell more in the future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022684198310666317)  2026-02-14T14:47Z 28K followers, [--] engagements


"@reputationfan13 This actually points to another issue with the "just encourage AI tools in all classes" stance. It costs money to use the superior models or buy products like Meta glasses. You're just helping the richer students get yet another advantage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheLincoln/status/2022688909629817087)  2026-02-14T15:06Z 28K followers, [--] engagements

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