Rob Secundus
@robertsecundus.bsky.social
failed academic, excommunicated catholic
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Rob Secundus
@robertsecundus.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Hey folks just fyi please @ me and tell me if we’re mutuals on Twitter because i 1 find this website hard to parse and 2 forget who everyone is if I can’t see their long-standing pfp
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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
You know family can be tough but sometimes it’s nice to spend a day surrounded by people who have never heard of dasha
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
You know family can be tough but sometimes it’s nice to spend a day surrounded by people who have never heard of dasha
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Now available in my shop -- a PDF of Book I of my expansive new mythology of Christmas, encompassing the life, death, and rebirth of St Nicholas!
If you've heard me mention my "Silmarillion of Christmas," this is it (NB they are only similar in scope, not tone)
www.patreon.com/posts/new-yu...
If you've heard me mention my "Silmarillion of Christmas," this is it (NB they are only similar in scope, not tone)
www.patreon.com/posts/new-yu...
The New Yuletide Treasury Book I | Benito Cereno
Get more from Benito Cereno on Patreon
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November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Now available in my shop -- a PDF of Book I of my expansive new mythology of Christmas, encompassing the life, death, and rebirth of St Nicholas!
If you've heard me mention my "Silmarillion of Christmas," this is it (NB they are only similar in scope, not tone)
www.patreon.com/posts/new-yu...
If you've heard me mention my "Silmarillion of Christmas," this is it (NB they are only similar in scope, not tone)
www.patreon.com/posts/new-yu...
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
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Literacy quiz for chat: Does the quote post engage with the semantic substance of the quoted post, or does it hallucinate a superficially similar position to oppose? Perhaps a secret third thing?
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Literacy quiz for chat: Does the quote post engage with the semantic substance of the quoted post, or does it hallucinate a superficially similar position to oppose? Perhaps a secret third thing?
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this has to rank right up there as one of the all-time best Borges stories
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
this has to rank right up there as one of the all-time best Borges stories
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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“Device hoarding” un fucking real
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Device hoarding” un fucking real
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit
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something deeply Mountain Goats c.1997 about this post
They’re playing bagpipes outside again
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
something deeply Mountain Goats c.1997 about this post
ok "the UK is scrapping most jury trials in favor of their being decided by just Some Random Retiree without any kind of legal training" is WAY funnier than "the UK is scrapping jury trials in favor of their being decided by a judge"
oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
ok "the UK is scrapping most jury trials in favor of their being decided by just Some Random Retiree without any kind of legal training" is WAY funnier than "the UK is scrapping jury trials in favor of their being decided by a judge"
in MARIAN HERETIC #2 there is no KJV in sight 😎
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November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
in MARIAN HERETIC #2 there is no KJV in sight 😎
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by the end of the first season, we're going to get some Frieren-style "PLUR1BUS is fascist for depicting a hivemind of inhuman NPCs/Bots" discourse
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
by the end of the first season, we're going to get some Frieren-style "PLUR1BUS is fascist for depicting a hivemind of inhuman NPCs/Bots" discourse
@illconceivedpodcast.com listening to the most recent episode and just fyi Epstein really is under your purview— he was absolutely a natalist, held a lot of the same beliefs as Elon, asked some of the girls he trafficked to carry his children, etc. look into his ranch stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
@illconceivedpodcast.com listening to the most recent episode and just fyi Epstein really is under your purview— he was absolutely a natalist, held a lot of the same beliefs as Elon, asked some of the girls he trafficked to carry his children, etc. look into his ranch stuff.
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if i was making this video today i would spend more time convincing the students what a scam it is that Unis are charging you $2000 for a course they care so little about they havnt hired the teacher yet or seen the syllabus until two days before the class starts
This (youtu.be/2AvfOhtmCZY?...) is an older @acollierastro.bsky.social video I must have missed, but it is brilliant in explaining the intensity of the bullshit of the adjunct system, for students and instructors.
the adjunct problem
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
if i was making this video today i would spend more time convincing the students what a scam it is that Unis are charging you $2000 for a course they care so little about they havnt hired the teacher yet or seen the syllabus until two days before the class starts
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“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile.” How AI is trained: garbage in, garbage out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile.” How AI is trained: garbage in, garbage out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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hey guys check this out
November 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM
hey guys check this out
finished episode 2 of PLUR1BUS, and it's another incredible episode of television, but I do find it hard to buy that out of 6 randomly selected people on earth only 1 would have a problem with humanity becoming the borg
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
finished episode 2 of PLUR1BUS, and it's another incredible episode of television, but I do find it hard to buy that out of 6 randomly selected people on earth only 1 would have a problem with humanity becoming the borg
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This is by far the worst news about a Kennedy and a fired-off round to break on the date of November 22
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This is by far the worst news about a Kennedy and a fired-off round to break on the date of November 22
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Some thoughts on Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein, Joyce Carol Oates, and some very personal kinds of Hell.
At @flaminghydra.com
At @flaminghydra.com
Musk and Epstein in Hell
This modern world of ours moves quickly. We have advanced perhaps three Nixons’ worth of political news cycles in the space elapsed so far this week, and by the time this short squib reaches your inbo...
flaminghydra.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Some thoughts on Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein, Joyce Carol Oates, and some very personal kinds of Hell.
At @flaminghydra.com
At @flaminghydra.com
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what a day
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
what a day
At a (beautiful) Protestant ceremony wedding where maybe a third of the attendees are/were Catholic, and let me tell you there was some very funny confusion at “the lord be with you”
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
At a (beautiful) Protestant ceremony wedding where maybe a third of the attendees are/were Catholic, and let me tell you there was some very funny confusion at “the lord be with you”