Sean Armstrong
@manatee73.bsky.social
I hold a stick over people’s heads for a living
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Anyway here’s what canadas longest running show the beach combers looked like. It’s not like it was hbo m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi83...
THE BEACHCOMBERS PROMO (1977)
YouTube video by Retrontario
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November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Anyway here’s what canadas longest running show the beach combers looked like. It’s not like it was hbo m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi83...
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The American mind cannot comprehend the enduring popularity of the Beachcombers
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The American mind cannot comprehend the enduring popularity of the Beachcombers
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I love writing, every goddamn aspect of it. I'd sooner cut off my little finger than ask AI for any of it. Seriously.
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I love writing, every goddamn aspect of it. I'd sooner cut off my little finger than ask AI for any of it. Seriously.
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NO FUCKING SYMPATHY. Sloppers be sloppin' through the slop.
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
NO FUCKING SYMPATHY. Sloppers be sloppin' through the slop.
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This images sums up policing in the toy soldier bully-boy era
Without their armor and weapons, these schmucks wouldn't last 5 minutes against suburbanites in pajamas
Without their armor and weapons, these schmucks wouldn't last 5 minutes against suburbanites in pajamas
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This images sums up policing in the toy soldier bully-boy era
Without their armor and weapons, these schmucks wouldn't last 5 minutes against suburbanites in pajamas
Without their armor and weapons, these schmucks wouldn't last 5 minutes against suburbanites in pajamas
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Fuck DOGE and fuck Elon Musk.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Fuck DOGE and fuck Elon Musk.
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you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
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I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick.
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"
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Oh are we posting sophistipop today, @jessehawken.bsky.social? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPc...
Sade - The Sweetest Taboo - Official - 1985
YouTube video by SadeVEVO
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November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Oh are we posting sophistipop today, @jessehawken.bsky.social? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPc...
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The worst people you know are so happy right now.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The worst people you know are so happy right now.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
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been texting a lot with AI Jesus and/or Satan lately, been having some weird dreams though, probably nothing haha
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
been texting a lot with AI Jesus and/or Satan lately, been having some weird dreams though, probably nothing haha
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Killing the planet with their individually wrapped popsicles instead of just licking frost off the freezer door like normal people
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Killing the planet with their individually wrapped popsicles instead of just licking frost off the freezer door like normal people
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Kathryn Bigelow should have made a movie about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with a screenplay by Gordon Lightfoot
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Kathryn Bigelow should have made a movie about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with a screenplay by Gordon Lightfoot
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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My radical leftist opinion is that people deserve both food security and dignity.
I have seen way too many takes lately that boil down to "EBT should only buy you unflavored soy slurry, and if you're caught smiling while eating it, the cops should beat you up."
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My radical leftist opinion is that people deserve both food security and dignity.
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“No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney.” 🤌🤌🤌
When it comes to the ghouls that crawled to the top of the muck heap during the global war on terror (which never ended), there's no one I'd rather read than @attackerman.bsky.social. His Cheney obit is no different. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney.” 🤌🤌🤌
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Trump said he’d be “the jobs president.” Turns out he meant job cuts. Nearly a million Americans out of work, and he’s bragging about marble bathrooms and his gilded ballroom.
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Trump said he’d be “the jobs president.” Turns out he meant job cuts. Nearly a million Americans out of work, and he’s bragging about marble bathrooms and his gilded ballroom.