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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I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
Bondi really wants you to believe that a nonzero number of american leftists were actually going to firebomb a walmart lmao. come on
it's almost quaint to remember the healthy amount of rational skepticism one would have about these types of announcements in the past. now it's just like, "this is obviously a massive lie and false flag"
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Bondi really wants you to believe that a nonzero number of american leftists were actually going to firebomb a walmart lmao. come on
we watched THE CONVERSATION instead and it ruled
Is WAKE UP DEAD MAN a safe bet for a movie you can watch with your conservative dad or will that cause Problems
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
we watched THE CONVERSATION instead and it ruled
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READ THEORY (David Hume)
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
READ THEORY (David Hume)
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I do wonder if we're mistake YouTube self-promo shorts for actual YouTube. Like, people still want the actual podcast more than the YouTube video.
Charlie's show is great. I'm sure it has a ton of listeners. The YouTube numbers are tiny by comparison. The real numbers are in the promo shorts.
Charlie's show is great. I'm sure it has a ton of listeners. The YouTube numbers are tiny by comparison. The real numbers are in the promo shorts.
tried to get into a lot of this in our ep about why everyone's becoming a youtuber now (conveniently on youtube, srry) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzFg...
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I do wonder if we're mistake YouTube self-promo shorts for actual YouTube. Like, people still want the actual podcast more than the YouTube video.
Charlie's show is great. I'm sure it has a ton of listeners. The YouTube numbers are tiny by comparison. The real numbers are in the promo shorts.
Charlie's show is great. I'm sure it has a ton of listeners. The YouTube numbers are tiny by comparison. The real numbers are in the promo shorts.
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i saw Ella McCay so YOU DONT HAVE TO: defector.com/everything-i...
Everything I Remember About 'Ella McCay' | Defector
In the poster advertising the new film Ella McCay, a woman stands on one leg, her mid-length coat waving around her, as she gently touches the back of the high heel of her left shoe. Her other arm is ...
defector.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
i saw Ella McCay so YOU DONT HAVE TO: defector.com/everything-i...
Faculty had some light training in Indigenous Pedagogy, and it’s really striking to me how much of it was basically parallel to ultra-traditional liberal artsy pedagogy, and other bits parallel to, like, Oxford shit.
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Faculty had some light training in Indigenous Pedagogy, and it’s really striking to me how much of it was basically parallel to ultra-traditional liberal artsy pedagogy, and other bits parallel to, like, Oxford shit.
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Using AI to monitor schools for thoughtcrime bsky.app/profile/chad...
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Using AI to monitor schools for thoughtcrime bsky.app/profile/chad...
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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can we do a gamergate about this
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
can we do a gamergate about this
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The bystander was himself shot by a second gunman while disarming the first. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed and he’s a hero. Unbelievable bravery.
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
Bondi hero who tackled shooter suffered two gunshot wounds
The hero who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as a father-of-two.
thenightly.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The bystander was himself shot by a second gunman while disarming the first. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed and he’s a hero. Unbelievable bravery.
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
35. Genuinely never believed I'd be alive at 35. Now it's just a matter of running out the clock.
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
35. Genuinely never believed I'd be alive at 35. Now it's just a matter of running out the clock.
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John Cena should have announced that they got Bin Laden one more time, for old time’s sake
December 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
John Cena should have announced that they got Bin Laden one more time, for old time’s sake
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Bet. First, I'm gonna cheat and get four games from Enigma Studio because I really want to get around to talking about them and i haven't yet. First, play The Enigma Machine. It's a short (~1-2 hour) horror game about managing an AI's dreams.
December 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Bet. First, I'm gonna cheat and get four games from Enigma Studio because I really want to get around to talking about them and i haven't yet. First, play The Enigma Machine. It's a short (~1-2 hour) horror game about managing an AI's dreams.
Is WAKE UP DEAD MAN a safe bet for a movie you can watch with your conservative dad or will that cause Problems
December 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Is WAKE UP DEAD MAN a safe bet for a movie you can watch with your conservative dad or will that cause Problems
Larian puts out a trailer that's just fantasy-The-Wicker-Man-but-with-pustules-and-a-cartoon-corpse-flower and everyone flips out like it was a commercial for a GUINEA PIG RPG
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Larian puts out a trailer that's just fantasy-The-Wicker-Man-but-with-pustules-and-a-cartoon-corpse-flower and everyone flips out like it was a commercial for a GUINEA PIG RPG
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Obama golfed constantly when he wasn’t busy droning a sixteen year old American boy and Biden was a walking ghost who needed note cards to tell reporters what he was thankful for in November
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Obama golfed constantly when he wasn’t busy droning a sixteen year old American boy and Biden was a walking ghost who needed note cards to tell reporters what he was thankful for in November
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"Did you do any dancing at your bar mitzvah, Col. Kurtz?"
"The hora... the hora..."
"The hora... the hora..."
December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Did you do any dancing at your bar mitzvah, Col. Kurtz?"
"The hora... the hora..."
"The hora... the hora..."
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Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable
Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications?
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable
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You guys like AI? You guys like AI. Don't you like AI? Don't you want AI? Everyone wants AI. Everyone needs AI. Everyone's using AI. Why aren't you using AI? You should use AI. We're now powered by AI. You're now powered by AI. We've given you AI. Now you have AI! Use AI! Use AI! Use AI! Use AI! Use
December 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You guys like AI? You guys like AI. Don't you like AI? Don't you want AI? Everyone wants AI. Everyone needs AI. Everyone's using AI. Why aren't you using AI? You should use AI. We're now powered by AI. You're now powered by AI. We've given you AI. Now you have AI! Use AI! Use AI! Use AI! Use AI! Use
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five hours of painstaking poking around at every aspect of the greatest game ever made (*one of)? ok. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXMs...
The Complete Annotated Symphony of the Night
YouTube video by John Learned
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
five hours of painstaking poking around at every aspect of the greatest game ever made (*one of)? ok. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXMs...
I guess it makes sense, as the AI bubble nears bursting, that a bunch of companies who were, to a much lesser degree, inflating their own value by promising AI integration, are now going to join NVIDIA in reinforcing that bubble for as long as they can
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will let the AI platform use its characters to make social-media videos.
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
on.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I guess it makes sense, as the AI bubble nears bursting, that a bunch of companies who were, to a much lesser degree, inflating their own value by promising AI integration, are now going to join NVIDIA in reinforcing that bubble for as long as they can