Lincoln Michel
@thelincoln.bsky.social
Author and professor type person.
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Lincoln Michel
@thelincoln.bsky.social
· Oct 31
Happy Halloween, everyone. And, uh, some spooky personal news:
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The AI supporters have gone from "AI will usher in a utopia where we are free from work and tedium!" to "AI can make boring AI commercials that look just like every other boring non-AI commercial. Now we can have even MORE commercials! Isn't the future AMAZING!"
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The AI supporters have gone from "AI will usher in a utopia where we are free from work and tedium!" to "AI can make boring AI commercials that look just like every other boring non-AI commercial. Now we can have even MORE commercials! Isn't the future AMAZING!"
I can't imagine what Calbiri has to do with diversity, but I fear here is one thing I agree with Marco Rubio on. Calbiri sucks.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I can't imagine what Calbiri has to do with diversity, but I fear here is one thing I agree with Marco Rubio on. Calbiri sucks.
This is just one of a million reasons why accelerationism never works. When the right gains power, they use it to consolidate more power, control information, and undermine all possible sources of resistance and critique.
The Ellison family’s desire to take over Warner Bros should alarm anyone concerned with U.S. propaganda & media consolidation—
They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels
They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is just one of a million reasons why accelerationism never works. When the right gains power, they use it to consolidate more power, control information, and undermine all possible sources of resistance and critique.
Thank you!! 🙏🚀✍️🌌
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December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thank you!! 🙏🚀✍️🌌
Completely bored of this person. She waited until her pension to retire to leech off the public and now is pretending to make a big deal about Trump acting the same way she's acted her whole life. You don't care and never did.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Completely bored of this person. She waited until her pension to retire to leech off the public and now is pretending to make a big deal about Trump acting the same way she's acted her whole life. You don't care and never did.
Definitely no utility in being able to parse text, think critically, or think creatively.
Now to take a big sip of coffee and check the news to make sure our world has no problems with media literacy, lying politicians, lying corporations, scammers, AI slop, etc.
Now to take a big sip of coffee and check the news to make sure our world has no problems with media literacy, lying politicians, lying corporations, scammers, AI slop, etc.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Definitely no utility in being able to parse text, think critically, or think creatively.
Now to take a big sip of coffee and check the news to make sure our world has no problems with media literacy, lying politicians, lying corporations, scammers, AI slop, etc.
Now to take a big sip of coffee and check the news to make sure our world has no problems with media literacy, lying politicians, lying corporations, scammers, AI slop, etc.
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
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December 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Amusing that the main pitch for ChatGPT is telling everyone they are dumb idiots who can't possibly handle tasks on their own that humans have accomplished on their own since the dawn of time.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Amusing that the main pitch for ChatGPT is telling everyone they are dumb idiots who can't possibly handle tasks on their own that humans have accomplished on their own since the dawn of time.
Got a student paper that keeps calling Plato "Platoon"
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Got a student paper that keeps calling Plato "Platoon"
Screw the haters
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Screw the haters
Excited to drive into this (thanks to @sambett.bsky.social for the rec)
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Excited to drive into this (thanks to @sambett.bsky.social for the rec)
"Are they more opportunistic than libertarian?" What could this sentence even mean. Might as well ask "Are they more water than wet?"
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Are they more opportunistic than libertarian?" What could this sentence even mean. Might as well ask "Are they more water than wet?"
Two dumb imperialists saying "exactly" at each other
This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Two dumb imperialists saying "exactly" at each other
It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
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Just remembered a bit from @thelincoln.bsky.social 's Metallic Realms where there's an ADHD&D group that never manages to finish a quest and it just sounds like every other DnD group I know.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just remembered a bit from @thelincoln.bsky.social 's Metallic Realms where there's an ADHD&D group that never manages to finish a quest and it just sounds like every other DnD group I know.
Crazy that 71 billion of that was spent making legs
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Crazy that 71 billion of that was spent making legs
Had a very nice holiday party night last night chatting about Japanese novellas and “piece of shit narrator” novels (a sometimes overlapping category)
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Had a very nice holiday party night last night chatting about Japanese novellas and “piece of shit narrator” novels (a sometimes overlapping category)
Hopefully AI slop destroys the whole internet (except, I dunno, wikipedia and the wayback machine) but praying it at least ruins all the video platforms like TikTok and Reels. It's all slop all the time already on those, it seems.
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hopefully AI slop destroys the whole internet (except, I dunno, wikipedia and the wayback machine) but praying it at least ruins all the video platforms like TikTok and Reels. It's all slop all the time already on those, it seems.
TFW you bleed red pepper flakes
He had salt and pepper hair. And oregano eyebrows. His lips were basil leaves. His entire head was a jar of Italian seasoning
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
TFW you bleed red pepper flakes
Looks like hands groping a globe on Epstein island.
Like hands above the ocean tides holding onto to a shipwreck.
December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Looks like hands groping a globe on Epstein island.
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Thank you so much! 🙏🚀👾✍️🌌
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Thank you so much! 🙏🚀👾✍️🌌
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...