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it's me, charles gitout.
@pablum.bsky.social
your most annoying friend.

he / him, trans, lurker (serial liker & reposter) 90% of the time. if i randomly followed you it was bc you said something cool.
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do you ever make things that only you will find funny
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if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I think of this image every thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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One of my fave posts from the other site
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Virtually our entire leadership caste across multiple segments of society simultaneously tore their masks off to reveal black holes where humans should be. It's quite something!
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Was in the mood to make a dungeon synth album cover.
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Jules Guerin, illustrations from Egypt and it’s Monuments, 1908
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Summers/Epstein + Nuzzi/RFK/Lizza has done more than anything else to help me understand why elites have capitulated to fascism while normal ppl haven't. After decades of hot air from elites/their institutions about freedom, democracy, equality etc, they reveal they have no beliefs or morals at all
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Sung to the tune of “Tiny Dancer”
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Victory for Western countries in a new Civilization VII update has become much more difficult following a new rule requiring players to send $50 billion per month to Israel.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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With a translation:

This image shows the same star field as Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.

In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).

Words cannot describe the pollution of near space.
3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar.

En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).

Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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jesus FUCKING christ
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Leave little Saruman alone.
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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EVERY problem plaguing education is ultimately one of class size and teacher compensation There is no learning problem human teachers can't solve if they are given enough time and resources. That's the definition of "teaching" as a human behavior!
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM