Frank M. Taylor

Hi everybody I write short stories about tech, demons, and how much I hate AI. I also had to buy a battery for my truck recently. Would you consider reading a short story and buying me a cup o' coffee if you liked it? If you didn't like it, I'll pretend you spit in it. stories.frankmtaylor.com

Wish me luck, y'all. I'm about to do a short story writing competition.

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"AI" never should have been made available to the general public. Ever. It should have remained in the hands of researchers, computer scientists, and a handful of engineers. LLM technology is too friggin' dangerous.

I'm watching Mortal Kombat II on HBOMax and it's wild because the CGI is just as good as when I played it on Sega Genesis.

I wrote a short story. It's called "Fine Print". Semblance to project managers or owners living or dead is coincidental. Probably. It's a companion to "The Devil's Code", which became the short film "Terms and Conditions" at Austin Horror Film Festival in Oct. stories.frankmtaylor.com/fine-print/

It's weird being a graduate student because I've been reading linguistics books (including textbooks) for a few years and now all of a sudden I can.. just ... talk ... to some professor who's an expert in a field. I have to constantly remind myself not to feel starstruck.

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Hi Everybody. I wrote another short story. Please read it. It's about... technology: stories.frankmtaylor.com/archived-int...

Anyone want to read a short story about product managers and project managers being literal demons? stories.frankmtaylor.com/fine-print/

Software Engineers who I feel are the most unethical: 0. Engineers of the firmware and software for printers 1. Social Media UX engineers 2. AI prompt engineers

- So a while back I wrote a short story. - A friend turned that short story into a script. - That same friend, and a producer, turned that script into a short film. -That short film will premier soon. Is there any way this could help me find publishers for other short stories?

I'm trying to learn a little bit more about a Native American language (Menominee) and ... lemme tell ya. It's a terrible feeling when you realize that almost all linguistic research was done by a single linguist in the 1960's. It's... so very sad.

I really don't care if the photo of Mitch McConnell is AI or photoshopped. I care that there's so little trust in our government and our media that this is our default response.

And by extension, the folks who were most excited about AI doing <job> are also those folks who were least interested in <job> at all. Oh, you're using AI to read and write your emails and talk to your subordinates? Weird flex on being a shit manager, but go on, king. Tell me more.

The folks who are most excited about AI writing code seem to be the ones who were the least-excited about actually writing code to begin with.

Am I wrong in the assertion that the likes of Cursor and Claude work primarily by an LLM generating bash/shell scripts or Python scripts? Are our AI-coding agents wrappers for Python to write other kinds of code?

I do my very best to be like Jesus and love everyone and not be judgemental. But then I meet people that say, "I love the design of the CyberTruck," and I'm like, "I think Jesus is disappointed in this one."

In my linguistics program we don't have to do a thesis. But I __want__ to do a thesis. I'm very excited that I met with one of my professors, and he thinks my research idea is a good idea. So everyone wish me luck as I try to convince a professor to be my advisor.

New book day. #linguistics #dude

Y'all I did a triathlon.

He's meditating on darkness He's powering down temporarily while he plays 5D chess with his imaginary friend Jeffie

I'm working on my first academic paper. I sent it to a friend for review. She (rightfully) calls out a claim I made that my topic is under-researched. She says I need proof. (again, fair) Any of y'all researching the use of Bro and Bruh on Bluesky?

Y'all last week I presented at my first #linguistics conference and it was the kinda experience that I think deeply restored my soul. I'm 44 and I've finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

AI is making the average folks dumber and the smart folks angrier.

Hey so I wrote a new article, that the #front-end types might like. You don't know HTML Lists And it's all about what you might NOT know about <menu>, <datalist>, and more. blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/y...

@repericsorensen.bsky.social quick question... Can you personally reset your home wifi password?

My standard for an electable politician is set at, "can reset their own home Wifi password," and also, "not a fascist." I realize this is an incredibly low bar but honestly it's where we need to set it if we're gonna turn this country around.

There is one book I have read way more than any other in my life. Not the Bible. Which I've read 2x. Not the New Testament ( 7x) Not Waiting for Godot, which I've read at least 7 times. Ninja Gaiden, a Worlds of Power book. I read it TEN times.

Oh hey, I was in a livestream recently. We called it "You don't know HTML." And... it's about what you don't know in #HTML. I talk about all sorts of semantics in HTML. And why it makes for good #accessibility. Front-end developers might appreciate this. www.youtube.com/live/ewo2HOL...

40 years from now we're going to look at how we went all-in with LLM-based "AI" and we'll compare it to when we put lead in gasoline.

I gotta be honest: This season of Daredevil has made me the most Catholic Curious I've ever been.

One of the single best ways a foreign adversary could do damage to US infrastructure would start by using "reply all" to a company wide email with a 5mb attachment. RIP my wife's inbox this morning.

I think the best thing @bencollins.bsky.social could do once the Onion takes over InfoWars would be to very slowly through slow news cycles replace the content with increasingly absurd content. Don't redesign it overnight. Don't replace stuff over night. Make it a slow troll.

bi-weekly: every 2 weeks, or twice a week bi-monthly: every 2 months, or twice a month biannually: every 2 years, or twice a year {{Everyone: gender is fluid; sexual attraction isn't static}} bisexual: attracted to 2 sexes, or ¿attracted to half a sex?