Stuart Semmel
@semmiotic.bsky.social
British history, political thought, history of consciousness, movies, snacks
Pinned
Never. Enough. Full. Stops.
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Never. Enough. Full. Stops.
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Love how Spotify just says words and calls them music genres.
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Love how Spotify just says words and calls them music genres.
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Give me One Thousand dollars if you don’t want me to adapt your scholarly treatise into a Major Motion Picture.
New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Give me One Thousand dollars if you don’t want me to adapt your scholarly treatise into a Major Motion Picture.
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What languages did the 35 hermits living in Jerusalem in 808 pray to God in? Charlemagne wanted to know, so he found out. (Mostly Greek and Syriac)
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
What languages did the 35 hermits living in Jerusalem in 808 pray to God in? Charlemagne wanted to know, so he found out. (Mostly Greek and Syriac)
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flock cameras are in nearly every city in the country now and Atlanta police were using them for immigration searches. this is the model -- once the surveillance grid exists it can be turned on anyone
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
Atlanta PD used Flock cameras to track migrants, records show
Atlanta PD denied that it has assisted in immigration enforcement, but records show 15 immigration-related Flock searches in March 2025.
atlpresscollective.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
flock cameras are in nearly every city in the country now and Atlanta police were using them for immigration searches. this is the model -- once the surveillance grid exists it can be turned on anyone
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
Find My Wrapped
Weather Wrapped
Bluesky Wrapped
Weather Wrapped
Bluesky Wrapped
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Find My Wrapped
Weather Wrapped
Bluesky Wrapped
Weather Wrapped
Bluesky Wrapped
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Wordsworth and Coleridge would’ve tried to launch their own app, but it would be an incredibly embarrassing failure as Wordsworth would never learn how to code and Coleridge would become convinced that a Chatbot was the voice of God.
Byron would’ve been on every social media and dating app, but William Blake would only have been on Bluesky
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Wordsworth and Coleridge would’ve tried to launch their own app, but it would be an incredibly embarrassing failure as Wordsworth would never learn how to code and Coleridge would become convinced that a Chatbot was the voice of God.
Forget about it, Jake. It’s just groceries.
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Forget about it, Jake. It’s just groceries.
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It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
No one’s talking about the big Anarcho-Syndicalist Tuesday sales.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
No one’s talking about the big Anarcho-Syndicalist Tuesday sales.
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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There seems to be a strain of thought that goes: given that Timothy purchased a sandwich with a faked lunch ticket, faked tickets and sandwiches are interchangeable now—and whoa in the near future the fake ticket printer is going to feed our school, isn’t it!
These aren't just random words you're publishing, and you don't want us to think they are. What do you think you are gaining by making the claim ChatGPT could just as well have written the same paper?
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
There seems to be a strain of thought that goes: given that Timothy purchased a sandwich with a faked lunch ticket, faked tickets and sandwiches are interchangeable now—and whoa in the near future the fake ticket printer is going to feed our school, isn’t it!
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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
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We need a better name for "cyber Monday" mostly because it's not 1996.
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We need a better name for "cyber Monday" mostly because it's not 1996.
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When I've asked students in the past to reach out to me if I am mistaken about their potential AI use, literally 0 students have ever pushed back.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
When I've asked students in the past to reach out to me if I am mistaken about their potential AI use, literally 0 students have ever pushed back.
@nature.com is MISSING VALUE
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
@nature.com is MISSING VALUE
&runctitional features.
&runctitional features.
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I think about the disappearance of Latin from standard education a lot because I think we may be in the midst of losing more essential forms of knowledge without grasping what we’re losing
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I think about the disappearance of Latin from standard education a lot because I think we may be in the midst of losing more essential forms of knowledge without grasping what we’re losing
The NYT just noticed. Perfect. No notes.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The NYT just noticed. Perfect. No notes.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
I maintain that this extinguished three-wick candle looks like Homer Simpson whistling (or pursing his lips). Is it just me?
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I maintain that this extinguished three-wick candle looks like Homer Simpson whistling (or pursing his lips). Is it just me?
Looking through my old Beli reviews. Proud of this one.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Looking through my old Beli reviews. Proud of this one.