DukeSkath
@dukeskath.bsky.social
Author and HS English Teacher in Wisconsin USA. Viva Timor Leste. 🇹🇱
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DukeSkath
@dukeskath.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Hey. I’m on here now. I wrote a book about a woman building a library during the zombie apocalypse. Perhaps you’d like to read it. www.lulu.com/shop/eric-pi...
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ME: i just want to feel safe
OTHER BANK ROBBER: no you also have to open it
OTHER BANK ROBBER: no you also have to open it
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
ME: i just want to feel safe
OTHER BANK ROBBER: no you also have to open it
OTHER BANK ROBBER: no you also have to open it
Quantifying racism and the 2008 Presidential Election
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We Were Eight Years in Power”, p. 132.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We Were Eight Years in Power”, p. 132.
December 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Quantifying racism and the 2008 Presidential Election
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We Were Eight Years in Power”, p. 132.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We Were Eight Years in Power”, p. 132.
All these people claiming to want to restore America to its former glory — why are you doing podcasts and TikTok!?
You should be using the communication forms of our magnificent past: Radio programs, semaphore displays, and TV broadcasts with hosts doing ads for Lifebuoy Soap between segments.
You should be using the communication forms of our magnificent past: Radio programs, semaphore displays, and TV broadcasts with hosts doing ads for Lifebuoy Soap between segments.
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
All these people claiming to want to restore America to its former glory — why are you doing podcasts and TikTok!?
You should be using the communication forms of our magnificent past: Radio programs, semaphore displays, and TV broadcasts with hosts doing ads for Lifebuoy Soap between segments.
You should be using the communication forms of our magnificent past: Radio programs, semaphore displays, and TV broadcasts with hosts doing ads for Lifebuoy Soap between segments.
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Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
December 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
My Secret Santa’s final gift to me was all the flavors of Jarritos. I didn’t even know about “Mexican Cola” flavor.
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My Secret Santa’s final gift to me was all the flavors of Jarritos. I didn’t even know about “Mexican Cola” flavor.
This isn't an update — it's a crippling megadump.
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This isn't an update — it's a crippling megadump.
ffs everybody is trying to copy Spotify now
December 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
ffs everybody is trying to copy Spotify now
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
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 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
An awkward reality when you’re a classroom teacher.. Ta Nehisi Coates: BTWAM p.48
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
An awkward reality when you’re a classroom teacher.. Ta Nehisi Coates: BTWAM p.48
Remember, ladies -- TAKE UP SPACE! Be like AOC. www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxKRO...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Remember, ladies -- TAKE UP SPACE! Be like AOC. www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxKRO...
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This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
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Reminder about Jan 6:
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reminder about Jan 6:
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
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Always happy to be back at the UW Whitewater Creative Writing Festival. Here’s to a day filled with inspiration and creativity.
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Always happy to be back at the UW Whitewater Creative Writing Festival. Here’s to a day filled with inspiration and creativity.
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How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
"For OpenAI and other chatbot makers, dependence is the business model."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"For OpenAI and other chatbot makers, dependence is the business model."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
It is a truth universally acknowledged — or rather it SHOULD be — that there are seven billion ways to begin an essay about literature, and there's really no need to keep quoting Jane over and over and over and over and over.
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged — or rather it SHOULD be — that there are seven billion ways to begin an essay about literature, and there's really no need to keep quoting Jane over and over and over and over and over.
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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No more slop from the top.
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
No more slop from the top.
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)