Luke
@shadowconlm.bsky.social
Short bi-ro ace man trying his best to be positive in the world. Doctoral student in media studies writing about action figures, critical disability studies, fandom.
LLM-flavored A.I. is not welcome.
Using this platform specifically for networking.
LLM-flavored A.I. is not welcome.
Using this platform specifically for networking.
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Luke
@shadowconlm.bsky.social
· Jul 8
everyone call theory ogre stupid and it true!!! theory ogre reads fiction but only identifies tangential esoterica like biopower & homonationalism, and con't comprehend elements like story or theme that make reading enjoyable for all!! at this rate ogre will never read fiction as a strict passtime.
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He had over a decade to come up with a plan
He lied-many times over-about formulating a better, cheaper plan
About releasing a plan in two weeks
About having the “concept of a plan”
There never was any plan
And now-with the country facing ruin-in complete desperation
He doesn’t know what to do
He lied-many times over-about formulating a better, cheaper plan
About releasing a plan in two weeks
About having the “concept of a plan”
There never was any plan
And now-with the country facing ruin-in complete desperation
He doesn’t know what to do
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
He had over a decade to come up with a plan
He lied-many times over-about formulating a better, cheaper plan
About releasing a plan in two weeks
About having the “concept of a plan”
There never was any plan
And now-with the country facing ruin-in complete desperation
He doesn’t know what to do
He lied-many times over-about formulating a better, cheaper plan
About releasing a plan in two weeks
About having the “concept of a plan”
There never was any plan
And now-with the country facing ruin-in complete desperation
He doesn’t know what to do
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I really hope them stealing people's work is what brings down AI
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I really hope them stealing people's work is what brings down AI
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No reason at all to do this besides hate
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
No reason at all to do this besides hate
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Every single candidate Trump endorsed lost last night.
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Every single candidate Trump endorsed lost last night.
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Fart is making a comeback — as a shit
Bored Ape Yacht Club is making a comeback — as a metaverse
Bored Ape Yacht Club is making a comeback — as a metaverse
Its crypto-themed metaverse, Otherside, has been a long time coming.
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October 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Fart is making a comeback — as a shit
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Struggling to keep track of all the lawsuits concerning higher ed, DEI, research grants and Trump? We were too.
That's why @insidehighered.com put together a legal tracker to follow 40+ cases step by step—so you don't have to.
Check out the database and read our analysis below:
That's why @insidehighered.com put together a legal tracker to follow 40+ cases step by step—so you don't have to.
Check out the database and read our analysis below:
August 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Struggling to keep track of all the lawsuits concerning higher ed, DEI, research grants and Trump? We were too.
That's why @insidehighered.com put together a legal tracker to follow 40+ cases step by step—so you don't have to.
Check out the database and read our analysis below:
That's why @insidehighered.com put together a legal tracker to follow 40+ cases step by step—so you don't have to.
Check out the database and read our analysis below:
i feel like if we're going to have #AI replace jobs we Need universal basic income. if humans are still expected to live in the world when the jobs are gone, and they want capitalism to still happen, then we need UBI. you can't have it both ways and still expect humans to live. #ubi
August 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
it took a long time for me to realize that it's okay to ask for things, and that people are more than willing to help you if you ask for their help. this is Especially true with information you don't know, or resources you don't have. ask for things! you've the right to know!
July 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
it took a long time for me to realize that it's okay to ask for things, and that people are more than willing to help you if you ask for their help. this is Especially true with information you don't know, or resources you don't have. ask for things! you've the right to know!
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These are pretty awesome looking.
July 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
These are pretty awesome looking.
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June 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
![Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfoctmk4guq56gensuermj7q/bafkreihrwrukrvisav54a24jeuv7tlhfwe62yvui5d27gxhnopbdworowe@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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1984 // 2009 // 2015 // 2020 // 2024
July 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
1984 // 2009 // 2015 // 2020 // 2024
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“how did all this anti-communism wind up in this festering bucket of anti-semitism” and other riddles that answer themselves
July 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“how did all this anti-communism wind up in this festering bucket of anti-semitism” and other riddles that answer themselves
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Career Advice | A Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
July 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Career Advice | A Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny
these ppl have not heard of vimes' boots theory
i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year
Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s.
Pick a damn lane.
Pick a damn lane.
July 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
these ppl have not heard of vimes' boots theory
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All of this shit is just repackaged Yarvin bullshit. The Laptop Class used to be called the Professional Managerial Class. They're doing a CRT-style language inversion on this because their previous language was too boring.
July 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
All of this shit is just repackaged Yarvin bullshit. The Laptop Class used to be called the Professional Managerial Class. They're doing a CRT-style language inversion on this because their previous language was too boring.
everyone call theory ogre stupid and it true!!! theory ogre reads fiction but only identifies tangential esoterica like biopower & homonationalism, and con't comprehend elements like story or theme that make reading enjoyable for all!! at this rate ogre will never read fiction as a strict passtime.
July 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
everyone call theory ogre stupid and it true!!! theory ogre reads fiction but only identifies tangential esoterica like biopower & homonationalism, and con't comprehend elements like story or theme that make reading enjoyable for all!! at this rate ogre will never read fiction as a strict passtime.
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Chris Rufo and the NY Post have a new and shocking Mamdani BOMBSHELL:
His SAT scores were AVERAGE among admitted students!!!!!!!
This is definitely the sort of thing you report when a candidate has skeletons in the closet.
His SAT scores were AVERAGE among admitted students!!!!!!!
This is definitely the sort of thing you report when a candidate has skeletons in the closet.
July 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Chris Rufo and the NY Post have a new and shocking Mamdani BOMBSHELL:
His SAT scores were AVERAGE among admitted students!!!!!!!
This is definitely the sort of thing you report when a candidate has skeletons in the closet.
His SAT scores were AVERAGE among admitted students!!!!!!!
This is definitely the sort of thing you report when a candidate has skeletons in the closet.
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everyone call ogre stupid and it true!!! ogre just started playing chess, but ogre can only identify surface level tactics like pins and forks and can't comprehend deeper ideas like bishop-bishop mates or zwischenzug that make chess an enduring classic!! at this rate ogre will never make 1000 elo
January 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
everyone call ogre stupid and it true!!! ogre just started playing chess, but ogre can only identify surface level tactics like pins and forks and can't comprehend deeper ideas like bishop-bishop mates or zwischenzug that make chess an enduring classic!! at this rate ogre will never make 1000 elo
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I will say this: I am quite done throat clearing on this subject. The weakest A.I. booster argument is to whine about this point because it allows them to make success a binary "useful or not" rather than "actually capable of anything resembling the nonsense OpenAI and Anthropic promise"
I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…
The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
June 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I will say this: I am quite done throat clearing on this subject. The weakest A.I. booster argument is to whine about this point because it allows them to make success a binary "useful or not" rather than "actually capable of anything resembling the nonsense OpenAI and Anthropic promise"
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I haven't really talked about it much but my end of year goal is to hit 1000 paid subs by the end of the year. I'm less than 200 away from reaching that goal.
Towards that end, I'm still offering a 20% off discount on all annual memberships until the end of Pride month using code "PRIDE"
Towards that end, I'm still offering a 20% off discount on all annual memberships until the end of Pride month using code "PRIDE"
i may have already hit my subscriber goal on my patreon for this month but i'm still offering 20% off annual memberships if you use code "PRIDE" at checkout.
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June 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I haven't really talked about it much but my end of year goal is to hit 1000 paid subs by the end of the year. I'm less than 200 away from reaching that goal.
Towards that end, I'm still offering a 20% off discount on all annual memberships until the end of Pride month using code "PRIDE"
Towards that end, I'm still offering a 20% off discount on all annual memberships until the end of Pride month using code "PRIDE"