Thomas Roughton
@torust.bsky.social
Computer graphics and some other (music, photography, indie filmmaking) stuff.
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so much of the conservative legal revolution seems to outright reject the idea that democratic publics legitimately constituted can fix the meaning of the constitution without formal amendment.
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
so much of the conservative legal revolution seems to outright reject the idea that democratic publics legitimately constituted can fix the meaning of the constitution without formal amendment.
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please be kind to will stancil. you can't bully someone out of being a The Atlantic writer, that is a chronic condition
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
please be kind to will stancil. you can't bully someone out of being a The Atlantic writer, that is a chronic condition
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Juggernaut season 2 is out! It’s the story of the 90s in NZ politics, the decade that shaped our world just as much as the 80s but is far less examined.
I was very honoured to help with the research.
Out now whereever you get your podcasts.
I was very honoured to help with the research.
Out now whereever you get your podcasts.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Juggernaut season 2 is out! It’s the story of the 90s in NZ politics, the decade that shaped our world just as much as the 80s but is far less examined.
I was very honoured to help with the research.
Out now whereever you get your podcasts.
I was very honoured to help with the research.
Out now whereever you get your podcasts.
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![And because the Business Idiot's career has been built on only knowing exactly enough to get by, they don't dig into Large Language Models any further than hammering away at ChatGPT and saying "we must put AI in everything now." Yet the real problem is that for every Business Idiot selling a product, there are many more that will buy it, which has worked in the past for Software as a Service (SaaS) companies that grew fat and happy hocking giant annual contracts and continual upsells, because CIOs and CTOs work for Business Idiot CEOs that demand that they "put AI in everything now," a nonsensical and desperate remit that's part growth-lust and part ignorance, borne of the fear that one gets when they're out of their depth.
Look at every single institution installing some sort of ChatGPT integration, and then look for the Business Idiot. Perhaps it's Cal State University Chanceller Mildred Garcia, who claimed that giving everybody a ChatGPT subscription would "elevate...students' educational experience across all fields of study, empower [its] faculty's teaching and research, and help provide the highly educated workforce that will drive California's future AI-driven economy," a nonsensical series of words to justify a $16.9 million-a-year single-vendor no-bid contract to a product that is best known as either a shitty search engine or a way to cheat at college.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreihjptmum2mwlebk35usizivzqnhxttoesie43ecuqo35xoebl2cpu@jpeg)
June 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A comedy short film I’ve been working on with friends on-and-off over the past few years is finally out. It’s ~20min, very lighthearted in tone, and free, so go have a watch!
youtu.be/sFSt_swV60w
youtu.be/sFSt_swV60w
Crooked Frames
YouTube video by Phonetic Films
youtu.be
January 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A comedy short film I’ve been working on with friends on-and-off over the past few years is finally out. It’s ~20min, very lighthearted in tone, and free, so go have a watch!
youtu.be/sFSt_swV60w
youtu.be/sFSt_swV60w