Christopher
@cekent.bsky.social
Medievalist, Futurist, Finder, Pointer. Looking at the long-term future of [something something something].
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Christopher
@cekent.bsky.social
· Oct 28
Kent's Law: There is no need to fear AI until spellcheck and autocorrect work flawlessly 95% of the time.
Don’t forget to cc: your reply post to the authorities so you can get your gold star.
December 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Don’t forget to cc: your reply post to the authorities so you can get your gold star.
9am is too early for 16 year-olds’ 25 minute discussion of the corruption and cronyism rife w/in the Latin club.
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
9am is too early for 16 year-olds’ 25 minute discussion of the corruption and cronyism rife w/in the Latin club.
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Part of the disconnect is that car-brained nonprofit types think they're simply preventing state violence when they oppose commonsense attempts to deter reckless driving. Doesn't occur to them that what they're doing is maintaining the current, very bad society-wide distribution of violence.
for whatever reason, the victims of traffic violence never factor into the calculation. no urgency there. but do something that might affect a suburban lawyer who had a few drinks and then it becomes an “equity” issue
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Part of the disconnect is that car-brained nonprofit types think they're simply preventing state violence when they oppose commonsense attempts to deter reckless driving. Doesn't occur to them that what they're doing is maintaining the current, very bad society-wide distribution of violence.
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most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice
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Nice one, Spidey.
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nice one, Spidey.
We don’t talk enough about the fact that Trump Media & Technology Group which owns Truth and put millions into his pocket peaked on March 2024 at $62 a share and is now trading at $10 a share.
I don’t know how much longer it can limp along.
I don’t know how much longer it can limp along.
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We don’t talk enough about the fact that Trump Media & Technology Group which owns Truth and put millions into his pocket peaked on March 2024 at $62 a share and is now trading at $10 a share.
I don’t know how much longer it can limp along.
I don’t know how much longer it can limp along.
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
There is a valid case to be made that this is America’s favorite song.
www.billboard.com/lists/mariah...
www.billboard.com/lists/mariah...
Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Notches Record-Tying 19th Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” jingles all the way back to No. 1 for a record-tying 19th week atop the Hot 100.
www.billboard.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
There is a valid case to be made that this is America’s favorite song.
www.billboard.com/lists/mariah...
www.billboard.com/lists/mariah...
Oh no! Someone is holding Dieter Rams hostage!
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Oh no! Someone is holding Dieter Rams hostage!
The Second Civil War starts with Trump Federalizing Colorado National Guard and bustin’ Tina Peters out of jail.
NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The Second Civil War starts with Trump Federalizing Colorado National Guard and bustin’ Tina Peters out of jail.
News media: instead of saying “legal experts” say “the law.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
News media: instead of saying “legal experts” say “the law.”
Daughter is leaning GYMNOPEDIE by Erik Satie and it is so lovely and mellow for a December evening.
December 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Daughter is leaning GYMNOPEDIE by Erik Satie and it is so lovely and mellow for a December evening.
Anyone have an update on the Jodorowski DUNE illustrated screenplay DAO? It seems like they are behind schedule, yes?
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Anyone have an update on the Jodorowski DUNE illustrated screenplay DAO? It seems like they are behind schedule, yes?
Again I ask, Is that really his head?
Or are people messing with Photoshop?
Or are people messing with Photoshop?
Marc Andreessen is one of the most influential men in America. The billionaire venture capitalist has an audience with everyone from Trump officials to pundits to Democratic senators to tech execs the world over.
So it’s a bit concerning that his worldview leans fascist. 🧵 /1
So it’s a bit concerning that his worldview leans fascist. 🧵 /1
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Again I ask, Is that really his head?
Or are people messing with Photoshop?
Or are people messing with Photoshop?
@ftrain.bsky.social Listening to the latest podcast and wondering if one would be able to inflict GLOO with the HAL 9000 psychosis by having it try to square Love Your Neighbor As Yourself/Do Unto Others As They Would Do Unto You with the strictures against homosexuality, trans etc etc.
December 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@ftrain.bsky.social Listening to the latest podcast and wondering if one would be able to inflict GLOO with the HAL 9000 psychosis by having it try to square Love Your Neighbor As Yourself/Do Unto Others As They Would Do Unto You with the strictures against homosexuality, trans etc etc.
Please excuse the Dennis Miller aspects of this comment, but Peter Doocy looks like Sean Gunn in character as Colin Hanks.
DOOCY: Is Operation Southern Spear about drugs or oil?
LEAVITT: The Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere
LEAVITT: The Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere
December 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Please excuse the Dennis Miller aspects of this comment, but Peter Doocy looks like Sean Gunn in character as Colin Hanks.
I hope that Nuzzi and Elizabeth Holmes have been pen pals and that the first Halloween after Holmes is released, they go out dressed as one another.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I hope that Nuzzi and Elizabeth Holmes have been pen pals and that the first Halloween after Holmes is released, they go out dressed as one another.
Good job of them using AI to make this terrible cover.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Good job of them using AI to make this terrible cover.
Sci-fi trope that annoys me to no end: Landing your ship 2-4 miles from where you need to go and “walking the rest of the way from here.”
Just land closer, you goobers.
Just land closer, you goobers.
December 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Sci-fi trope that annoys me to no end: Landing your ship 2-4 miles from where you need to go and “walking the rest of the way from here.”
Just land closer, you goobers.
Just land closer, you goobers.
"predicted the future" is just nails on the chalkboard for me.
www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/imp...
www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/imp...
Opinion | The sci-fi writer who predicted the future - The Washington Post
Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse, wearable tech and artificial intelligence long before those technologies arrived. What does he think of it all now? Host Megan McArdle t...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"predicted the future" is just nails on the chalkboard for me.
www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/imp...
www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/imp...
I’ve seen this floating around for a couple of days and not listened to it, but with the sound off, his styling, his mannerisms, I would swear he is doing some kind of comical Foghorn Leghorn-type character.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I’ve seen this floating around for a couple of days and not listened to it, but with the sound off, his styling, his mannerisms, I would swear he is doing some kind of comical Foghorn Leghorn-type character.
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Street parking is tax payer subsidized storage.
I don't own a car and have nothing to park, but I'm emotionally invested in the fate of this car that hasn't moved in weeks.
December 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Street parking is tax payer subsidized storage.