Convicted only? Not just wanted?
Drat. Now I'll NEVER be able to go back.
@deepwatermike.bsky.social
Technical trainer and occasional historian. Erstwhile medievalist. Now practicing the Wudang 108 form of Taijiquan and delivering sizzling takes. Walking the elements and holding the gates in North Carolina.
Convicted only? Not just wanted?
Drat. Now I'll NEVER be able to go back.
Here's hoping...
11.12.2025 20:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How much do they NEED to convince the public? They've already convinced the bosses, the people who will be replacing human workers with this crap. The public seems largely irrelevant.
10.12.2025 20:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0No. Not least because the idea that technology can enable me to is disgusting.
10.12.2025 17:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The last time I saw it (the one I was specifically reacting to) was an educator-turned-"AI"-pimp.
10.12.2025 17:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Have y'all had a rash of "Elon Musk" parody accounts follow recently?
10.12.2025 16:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Repeat after me: Students are not the customers; students are the product.
10.12.2025 02:40 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0John Wetton, Bill Bruford and Robert Fripp, against a starless and Bible black background, stare back at us from the cover of "Red"
This may not be my favorite record, but I sure do listen to it a lot. "Red" is BOTH the proggiest of rock and the rockiest of prog. It's like Fripp knew it, too, and retired King Crimson until the New Wave summoned it from the dead.
10.12.2025 01:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have a joke about Martin Luther, but you have to tell it in 95 parts.
09.12.2025 02:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Have you been to the Virginia War Museum in Newport News? Out along Warwick Blvd. there's an atomic cannon designed to fire a low-yield warhead. Used to climb on it all the time when I was a kid.
09.12.2025 02:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a joke about Anselm so great that it must exist.
09.12.2025 01:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Doubt he's doing any hunting, either.
08.12.2025 22:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Wait'll you watch Twin Peaks: the Return...
08.12.2025 21:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oh thank goodness.
08.12.2025 17:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Scholar of heterodoxy here. No heretic ever thought they were a heretic, so be wary of any self-described "heterodox thinker."
08.12.2025 17:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a joke about Democritus, but it takes a bit of a swerve.
08.12.2025 17:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1Mood.
08.12.2025 17:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have a joke about Ariadne, but you have to follow the thread.
08.12.2025 17:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a joke about Exodus, but it escapes me.
08.12.2025 17:46 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Nice
08.12.2025 17:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a joke about Isaac, but an angel told me not to tell it?
08.12.2025 17:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have a joke about Herakles, but it's laborious.
08.12.2025 15:36 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1I have a joke about Leonidas, but you'll have to take it from me.
08.12.2025 15:35 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1I had a joke about Vergil, but I stole it from Homer.
08.12.2025 15:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a joke about Heraclitus, but it never comes out the same way twice.
08.12.2025 15:31 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 4I had a joke about Parmenides, but it's the same as every other joke.
08.12.2025 15:30 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1I had a joke about the Minotaur, but it's bullshit.
08.12.2025 15:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a joke about Odysseus, but it takes a long time to hit home.
08.12.2025 15:29 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2I had a joke about Holofernes' head, but Judith beat me to it.
08.12.2025 15:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I had a joke about Isaac, but I couldn't execute it.
08.12.2025 15:19 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 1 π 3