Chet Scoville
@chesterscoville.bsky.social
Academic knuckleballer.
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Given the choice between admitting they were wrong — and obviously so at the time — and blaming Biden for eroding norms surrounding pardons, the news outlets will get busy working on the blame pieces
Have any news outlets that ran scathing front page headlines, op-eds and editorials about Biden pardoning Hunter admitted that they were wrong after we've seen Trump maliciously prosecute Comey, James, McIver etc?
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Given the choice between admitting they were wrong — and obviously so at the time — and blaming Biden for eroding norms surrounding pardons, the news outlets will get busy working on the blame pieces
Josh never watched Star Trek: TNG, huh
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Josh never watched Star Trek: TNG, huh
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
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Any food is better than no food why is this hard to understand
The rub is, the government would provide what the government wants you to have, not what you want or what is nutritionally sufficient and certainly no ethnically preferred foods. Think white flour, sugar, process cheese, canned potatoes, dried milk, etc. Sounds like Russia in the 1950's.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Any food is better than no food why is this hard to understand
Is it just me, or has the entire 21st century been one quashed breakthrough after another? Meaning: we get to where a significant achievement in social, medical, environmental, or other kind of progress is just within sight and then wham! Someone or something smacks it down at that exact moment.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Is it just me, or has the entire 21st century been one quashed breakthrough after another? Meaning: we get to where a significant achievement in social, medical, environmental, or other kind of progress is just within sight and then wham! Someone or something smacks it down at that exact moment.
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As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
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I keep forgetting that I want a machine to pollute my air and water while stealing from artists in order to mainstream lies and I'm so grateful the AI defenders are here to remind me!
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I keep forgetting that I want a machine to pollute my air and water while stealing from artists in order to mainstream lies and I'm so grateful the AI defenders are here to remind me!
Lest we forget: youtu.be/dje9ySQVWag?...
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Lest we forget: youtu.be/dje9ySQVWag?...
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The Fall-Winter 2025 legislative session is a full assault on municipalities, schools, pedestrians, cyclists, local democracy, and accountability.
Everything Ford does is to consolidate power, this sucks
There’s much chatter about Ford changing local government structure. What does it mean for Waterloo Region?
www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Fall-Winter 2025 legislative session is a full assault on municipalities, schools, pedestrians, cyclists, local democracy, and accountability.
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Holy effing shit. So long democracy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Holy effing shit. So long democracy.
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All the while, postsecondary institutions are terrified of losing the bit of funding they have left, so they grovel at the feet of AI, promising to integrate it into student learning with absolutely no idea how to actually do that (because you can't, it's a stupid idea that defies logic).
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
All the while, postsecondary institutions are terrified of losing the bit of funding they have left, so they grovel at the feet of AI, promising to integrate it into student learning with absolutely no idea how to actually do that (because you can't, it's a stupid idea that defies logic).
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So instead of helping them develop the tools to protect themselves, they ignore my teaching and submit AI slop because it's easy and they're busy being exploited by other institutions. I can't give them credit for learning because they haven't learned anything. Then they see me as their opponent.
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So instead of helping them develop the tools to protect themselves, they ignore my teaching and submit AI slop because it's easy and they're busy being exploited by other institutions. I can't give them credit for learning because they haven't learned anything. Then they see me as their opponent.
Appealing to the constituency of grouchy old dudes who get annoyed at the seat belt chime
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Appealing to the constituency of grouchy old dudes who get annoyed at the seat belt chime
Where did this “professional protester” canard come from originally? It’s been around for years.
NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doubling down after telling someone in the public gallery to “find a job,” claiming they were a paid, professional protester. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154308...
globalnews.ca/news/1154308...
Doug Ford doubles down on ‘find a job’ comment after omnibus rental bill passes | Globalnews.ca
As protestors were escorted from the chamber, Ford appeared to shout at one of them to 'find a job' from his seat within the legislature.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Where did this “professional protester” canard come from originally? It’s been around for years.
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If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
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My phone is doing all the same things from 2015 with only minimal benefits. The only reason we have to upgrade is increased software bloat.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My phone is doing all the same things from 2015 with only minimal benefits. The only reason we have to upgrade is increased software bloat.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
So I had to get a new T-card today (that’s the U of T ID card) because the systems have been updated. And, look, ID photos are just ID photos and are never flattering, but … My god, I said, staring at it. I’m old. I’m an old man. How did that happen?
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
So I had to get a new T-card today (that’s the U of T ID card) because the systems have been updated. And, look, ID photos are just ID photos and are never flattering, but … My god, I said, staring at it. I’m old. I’m an old man. How did that happen?
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It's not just the scrapping of structures that were considered cornerstones of "Western Values" just a few years ago; it's not even that the people scrapping them are the same sort of people who bray about Western Values; it's the casualness, the unseriousness about *their own* Most Serious Beliefs
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases on.ft.com/3LY1Ceq
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases
Proposed changes unlikely to apply for trials of serious offences such as rape and murder
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's not just the scrapping of structures that were considered cornerstones of "Western Values" just a few years ago; it's not even that the people scrapping them are the same sort of people who bray about Western Values; it's the casualness, the unseriousness about *their own* Most Serious Beliefs
It seems to me that if the TTC is going to broadcast its emergency announcements over the same speakers as its normal train-door opening sounds, then it’s the emergency announcements that should override, not the other way around.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It seems to me that if the TTC is going to broadcast its emergency announcements over the same speakers as its normal train-door opening sounds, then it’s the emergency announcements that should override, not the other way around.
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Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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The all-purpose headline for our times is really just 'rich person says something and we report it!', isn't it?
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The all-purpose headline for our times is really just 'rich person says something and we report it!', isn't it?