Sam Utley
@utleysam.bsky.social
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Since there are only 3 more performances, let me bang a drum for Die Rheinnixen from @gothicopera.bsky.social . Musically outstanding with so much rich, splendid, non-comic Offenbach to relish.
Not to be missed, say I, and when was I ever wrong? #HostageToFortune
Not to be missed, say I, and when was I ever wrong? #HostageToFortune
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Since there are only 3 more performances, let me bang a drum for Die Rheinnixen from @gothicopera.bsky.social . Musically outstanding with so much rich, splendid, non-comic Offenbach to relish.
Not to be missed, say I, and when was I ever wrong? #HostageToFortune
Not to be missed, say I, and when was I ever wrong? #HostageToFortune
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I mean, I won't go on about this forever, but the idea that it's a *novel or counterintuitive* notion for the right to be the real threat to free speech ... just makes me fucking dizzy. It's always the right, always the traditionalists, always the fundamentalists, always the status quo powers.
October 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I mean, I won't go on about this forever, but the idea that it's a *novel or counterintuitive* notion for the right to be the real threat to free speech ... just makes me fucking dizzy. It's always the right, always the traditionalists, always the fundamentalists, always the status quo powers.
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
I’ve actually not been able to get this out of my head today. What he said about right radical violence being justified because it’s people who “don’t want to see crime.” It was one of the most extreme declarations I’ve ever heard, way worse than “very fine people.” The implications are so severe.
the president valorized right wing mass shooters yesterday, feels like a thing worth honestly reporting on in the current news cycle
September 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’ve actually not been able to get this out of my head today. What he said about right radical violence being justified because it’s people who “don’t want to see crime.” It was one of the most extreme declarations I’ve ever heard, way worse than “very fine people.” The implications are so severe.
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The last 100 years of US politics
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The last 100 years of US politics
(Against my will) overheard Fox News reporter smugly deriding Hunter Biden “not being able to say a sentence without dropping an f bomb” and in the same report criticising democrats for not understanding regular people. Honey the call is coming from inside the house. That’s how people talk.
July 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
(Against my will) overheard Fox News reporter smugly deriding Hunter Biden “not being able to say a sentence without dropping an f bomb” and in the same report criticising democrats for not understanding regular people. Honey the call is coming from inside the house. That’s how people talk.
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If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.
June 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.
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Elon Musk gutted the federal government, dismantled key institutions, and cut off food and medicine to some of the poorest people on the planet.
By leaving DOGE, he’s trying to restore his reputation and rescue his struggling businesses. He should never be allowed to recover.
By leaving DOGE, he’s trying to restore his reputation and rescue his struggling businesses. He should never be allowed to recover.
Elon Musk’s reputation must be beyond rehabilitation
It's time to end the myth of his genius once and for all
www.disconnect.blog
June 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Elon Musk gutted the federal government, dismantled key institutions, and cut off food and medicine to some of the poorest people on the planet.
By leaving DOGE, he’s trying to restore his reputation and rescue his struggling businesses. He should never be allowed to recover.
By leaving DOGE, he’s trying to restore his reputation and rescue his struggling businesses. He should never be allowed to recover.
My celebrity crush from when I was a teenager just complimented my singing. Sometimes life happens.
May 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My celebrity crush from when I was a teenager just complimented my singing. Sometimes life happens.
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
Yeah what happened to all the “what about potentially false accusations???” reply guys from years past?
Due process if you’re guilty and due process if you’re innocent are the same thing! You can’t get rid of one without getting rid of the other.
April 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Yeah what happened to all the “what about potentially false accusations???” reply guys from years past?
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Attacking the Supreme Emperor of the Galaxy on pizzeria regulatory policy *from the left*
December 28, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Attacking the Supreme Emperor of the Galaxy on pizzeria regulatory policy *from the left*
Unhinged behaviour from my husband?
December 14, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Unhinged behaviour from my husband?
Install rocket launchers on London buses you cowards
December 8, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Install rocket launchers on London buses you cowards
I don’t want to see any more pictures of poems thanks
December 4, 2024 at 1:18 PM
I don’t want to see any more pictures of poems thanks
An awful lot of posts on this app are screaming FB circa 2018. Otherwise it’s ok…
November 27, 2024 at 9:27 AM
An awful lot of posts on this app are screaming FB circa 2018. Otherwise it’s ok…
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starting my series of essays on wagner’s ring cycle by putting forth my belief that opera (and the ability to enjoy it) is all about accepting the stakes of a work at face value — and there is no work with higher (eschatological!) stakes than the ring.
open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
November 20, 2024 at 2:29 AM
starting my series of essays on wagner’s ring cycle by putting forth my belief that opera (and the ability to enjoy it) is all about accepting the stakes of a work at face value — and there is no work with higher (eschatological!) stakes than the ring.
open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
open.substack.com/pub/thelater...