Sean Weeks
@weekswriter.bsky.social
Forget it, Jake—it's Chinatown.
Suffers chronic burnout.
Website/portfolio: https://weeksauthor.com/starting-the-factory-a-table-of-contents-and-a-mission/
Suffers chronic burnout.
Website/portfolio: https://weeksauthor.com/starting-the-factory-a-table-of-contents-and-a-mission/
Feeling incredibly untalented right now.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Feeling incredibly untalented right now.
It's frustrating that people can freely assume that you know who Kareem Abdul Jabbar is, but say you're being obscure when you expect them to know who the Medici are.
Pop culture gets a pass even when it's definitely not pop.
Pop culture gets a pass even when it's definitely not pop.
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It's frustrating that people can freely assume that you know who Kareem Abdul Jabbar is, but say you're being obscure when you expect them to know who the Medici are.
Pop culture gets a pass even when it's definitely not pop.
Pop culture gets a pass even when it's definitely not pop.
They don't recognize American democracy for the hollow shell it's become.
If the Framers' government ever believed in the soul of the idea in the first place, it certainly doesn't believe in it now.
If the Framers' government ever believed in the soul of the idea in the first place, it certainly doesn't believe in it now.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
They don't recognize American democracy for the hollow shell it's become.
If the Framers' government ever believed in the soul of the idea in the first place, it certainly doesn't believe in it now.
If the Framers' government ever believed in the soul of the idea in the first place, it certainly doesn't believe in it now.
And James Watson, in a Nova Doc, said that the newest generation of scientists didn't take enough risks.
Watson and Crick should tumble off their perch, unseated by Rosalind Franklin, and never get up.
Watson and Crick should tumble off their perch, unseated by Rosalind Franklin, and never get up.
Watson and Crick intentionally misrepresented the extent to which they relied on Rosalind Franklin’s work, which they were given by her former boss without her knowledge.
Watson and Crick mentioned Franklin by name at the end of their double helix paper, but they were not exactly honest about what they had seen and how much they knew about her work.
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
And James Watson, in a Nova Doc, said that the newest generation of scientists didn't take enough risks.
Watson and Crick should tumble off their perch, unseated by Rosalind Franklin, and never get up.
Watson and Crick should tumble off their perch, unseated by Rosalind Franklin, and never get up.
No.
How dare you. How *dare* you? You try and piledrive everyone into poverty.
You have the sheer audacity to ask for *our* money to help you do it?
Go. To. Hell. Forever. You irredeemable piles of human garbage. Choke on your windbreakers.
#OpenAI #AI
www.barrons.com/news/openai-...
How dare you. How *dare* you? You try and piledrive everyone into poverty.
You have the sheer audacity to ask for *our* money to help you do it?
Go. To. Hell. Forever. You irredeemable piles of human garbage. Choke on your windbreakers.
#OpenAI #AI
www.barrons.com/news/openai-...
OpenAI Seeks Government Backing To Boost AI Investments
ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the world's largest private company, is asking the US government to provide loan guarantees for its massive infrastructure expansion that will eventually cost more than $1 tril...
www.barrons.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
No.
How dare you. How *dare* you? You try and piledrive everyone into poverty.
You have the sheer audacity to ask for *our* money to help you do it?
Go. To. Hell. Forever. You irredeemable piles of human garbage. Choke on your windbreakers.
#OpenAI #AI
www.barrons.com/news/openai-...
How dare you. How *dare* you? You try and piledrive everyone into poverty.
You have the sheer audacity to ask for *our* money to help you do it?
Go. To. Hell. Forever. You irredeemable piles of human garbage. Choke on your windbreakers.
#OpenAI #AI
www.barrons.com/news/openai-...
Iä! Iä! Bailey fhtagn!
The Baileys aren't Chuck Schumer's excuse for inaction
They're psychic entities in the astral plane, thoughtforms of pure malevolence that only Chuck can see. They have haunted him his entire life
When he says "What am I supposed to tell the Baileys?," he is afraid.
Their True Name is unutterable
They're psychic entities in the astral plane, thoughtforms of pure malevolence that only Chuck can see. They have haunted him his entire life
When he says "What am I supposed to tell the Baileys?," he is afraid.
Their True Name is unutterable
reading about Young Chuck is fascinating
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Iä! Iä! Bailey fhtagn!
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Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity.
Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.
Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.
Much like dictatorship or climate change, the threat of AI taking your job is no longer hypothetical. It's here, as shown by last week's bloodbath at UPS, Amazon, etc.
Should the government be sending us $1,000 a month? Is there any alternative to UBI? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Should the government be sending us $1,000 a month? Is there any alternative to UBI? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
AI is coming for your job. Will the government pay you? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the tragic neutering of Teen Vogue.
www.inquirer.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity.
Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.
Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.
Now that I'm working outside the house again, I'm remembering how much I don't want to see another human being ever again.
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Now that I'm working outside the house again, I'm remembering how much I don't want to see another human being ever again.
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The ability for a human to intuit rain from a drop of water is being taken for granted.
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The ability for a human to intuit rain from a drop of water is being taken for granted.
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Boy is this the truth.
if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one.
your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.
your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Boy is this the truth.
Glad to see that people can find the energy to take on Dice Tower-sized threats and below.
But not "That One." Criticizing "That One," you see, would be bad for careers and bridges. No, much better to call out Funny Hat Man.
But not "That One." Criticizing "That One," you see, would be bad for careers and bridges. No, much better to call out Funny Hat Man.
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Glad to see that people can find the energy to take on Dice Tower-sized threats and below.
But not "That One." Criticizing "That One," you see, would be bad for careers and bridges. No, much better to call out Funny Hat Man.
But not "That One." Criticizing "That One," you see, would be bad for careers and bridges. No, much better to call out Funny Hat Man.
Fibro.
Big fibro flare.
Big fibro flare.
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Fibro.
Big fibro flare.
Big fibro flare.
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I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
It is the best time to rewatch Veep.
It is also the worst time to rewatch Veep.
It is also the worst time to rewatch Veep.
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It is the best time to rewatch Veep.
It is also the worst time to rewatch Veep.
It is also the worst time to rewatch Veep.
I don't know for truth whether or not revenge is a drug. Don't know the science. Too worried about spreading bad science.
But it certainly feels that way when you look at what it's doing to people, including myself.
But it certainly feels that way when you look at what it's doing to people, including myself.
Do you think they resort to this sort of thinking because they don't think they can just...feel?
Cry? Be sad for both the incarceration of their son and the death their son caused? It's okay to feel sad beyond the placement of guilt or blame.
It's okay to feel for people who do bad things.
Cry? Be sad for both the incarceration of their son and the death their son caused? It's okay to feel sad beyond the placement of guilt or blame.
It's okay to feel for people who do bad things.
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I don't know for truth whether or not revenge is a drug. Don't know the science. Too worried about spreading bad science.
But it certainly feels that way when you look at what it's doing to people, including myself.
But it certainly feels that way when you look at what it's doing to people, including myself.
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current newscycle reminds me of my Aunt Carol, who was just a chain-smoking alcoholic dipshit my grandmother had known since the seventies and invited to every Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
I didn't know she wasn't my "aunt" until after my grandmother died in 2020
I didn't know she wasn't my "aunt" until after my grandmother died in 2020
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
current newscycle reminds me of my Aunt Carol, who was just a chain-smoking alcoholic dipshit my grandmother had known since the seventies and invited to every Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
I didn't know she wasn't my "aunt" until after my grandmother died in 2020
I didn't know she wasn't my "aunt" until after my grandmother died in 2020
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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It is however extremely funny for half the quotes in the article be from Casey Newton complaining about Ed while claiming that their antagonism is “one-sided”
i deeply love WIRED and their reporting, but that ed zitron piece was one of the most bad faith, head scratchingly bizarre pieces i’ve ever read
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It is however extremely funny for half the quotes in the article be from Casey Newton complaining about Ed while claiming that their antagonism is “one-sided”
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I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Now that the worst has happened, contrary to my father's expectations, he now tells me to speak only about positive things.
Oh, so the advice never changed, then? You learned nothing?
Skeptics are completely trashed before they're right and then the attitude never ends.
Oh, so the advice never changed, then? You learned nothing?
Skeptics are completely trashed before they're right and then the attitude never ends.
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Now that the worst has happened, contrary to my father's expectations, he now tells me to speak only about positive things.
Oh, so the advice never changed, then? You learned nothing?
Skeptics are completely trashed before they're right and then the attitude never ends.
Oh, so the advice never changed, then? You learned nothing?
Skeptics are completely trashed before they're right and then the attitude never ends.
He's pro-tech. I notice that because I'm, well, sorta not, and he's up front about hating *what they've done to tech.*
It's from a place of deep, genuine disillusionment, not contrarianism.
It's from a place of deep, genuine disillusionment, not contrarianism.
I've also known that ed sells pr services to tech startups for years, and never seen a hint of it coloring his opinions about silicon valley, for better or worse. There are reasonable criticisms of his work, but his day job isn't one of them imo. One need not be apart from something to critique it!
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
He's pro-tech. I notice that because I'm, well, sorta not, and he's up front about hating *what they've done to tech.*
It's from a place of deep, genuine disillusionment, not contrarianism.
It's from a place of deep, genuine disillusionment, not contrarianism.
@colewehrle.bsky.social
Good luck with the reprints! I have moved countries and thus will be unable to contribute to the upgrade packs. I hope my New Foundations pledge will suffice.
Have some towers.
I'll be introducing it to the University of Victoria campus soon!
Good luck with the reprints! I have moved countries and thus will be unable to contribute to the upgrade packs. I hope my New Foundations pledge will suffice.
Have some towers.
I'll be introducing it to the University of Victoria campus soon!
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
@colewehrle.bsky.social
Good luck with the reprints! I have moved countries and thus will be unable to contribute to the upgrade packs. I hope my New Foundations pledge will suffice.
Have some towers.
I'll be introducing it to the University of Victoria campus soon!
Good luck with the reprints! I have moved countries and thus will be unable to contribute to the upgrade packs. I hope my New Foundations pledge will suffice.
Have some towers.
I'll be introducing it to the University of Victoria campus soon!
Just a little more to do every day, and I'm pleading with whatever powers there may be that I will do the work gracefully and humbly.
Please give me strength to accept my burdens.
Please give me strength to accept my burdens.
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Just a little more to do every day, and I'm pleading with whatever powers there may be that I will do the work gracefully and humbly.
Please give me strength to accept my burdens.
Please give me strength to accept my burdens.
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