Pete
@wellsenkind.net
A dark forest. Christian anarchist. Lapsed social scientist.
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5 years of @lowtheband.bsky.social's HEY WHAT!
These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft.
These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft.
September 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
5 years of @lowtheband.bsky.social's HEY WHAT!
These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft.
These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life raft.
Hey @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social, not to detract from the seriousness of this report but is there a reason that everything Claudia Weisenberger 'writes' is clearly written by Claude AI? Claudia = Claude is a bit on the nose; has anyone verified she's even real?
"Within ten weeks, five European countries had moved against Palantir contracts." Yet in Australia they have allowed mass private data transfers - no inquiry, no disclosure.
Claudia Weisenberger
#auspol #cellebrite #surveillance
michaelwest.com.au/the-global-r...
Claudia Weisenberger
#auspol #cellebrite #surveillance
michaelwest.com.au/the-global-r...
The global reckoning over Palantir and Cellebrite - and the country that never asked - Michael West
A rash of European countries have cut contracts with surveillance group Palantir. Australia has had no inquiry, nor explained the risks.
michaelwest.com.au
September 7, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Hey @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social, not to detract from the seriousness of this report but is there a reason that everything Claudia Weisenberger 'writes' is clearly written by Claude AI? Claudia = Claude is a bit on the nose; has anyone verified she's even real?
No bees as the weather warms. Hives once perched at the edge of the industrial estate. Now they sell cheap used cars there.
September 2, 2026 at 12:21 AM
No bees as the weather warms. Hives once perched at the edge of the industrial estate. Now they sell cheap used cars there.
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As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
August 29, 2026 at 3:52 PM
As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
FYI fellow Aussies -- @readingsbooks.bsky.social is still the only place you can pre-order this online. Amazon AU still doesn't have a listing for it 🤔 and none of the retail chains have bothered to stock it either.
Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral?
Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland!
Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran.
Pre-order!
www.cyberselfish.com
Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland!
Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran.
Pre-order!
www.cyberselfish.com
August 27, 2026 at 2:39 AM
FYI fellow Aussies -- @readingsbooks.bsky.social is still the only place you can pre-order this online. Amazon AU still doesn't have a listing for it 🤔 and none of the retail chains have bothered to stock it either.
#mewithoutyou Live vol. 3 is already my favourite of the three Live releases. The mix is so tight. Mike and Ricky are absolutely nailing it. Aaron sounds genuinely happy. I thought vol. 1 was the platonic ideal live album and this exceeds it in every measure.
August 22, 2026 at 12:51 AM
#mewithoutyou Live vol. 3 is already my favourite of the three Live releases. The mix is so tight. Mike and Ricky are absolutely nailing it. Aaron sounds genuinely happy. I thought vol. 1 was the platonic ideal live album and this exceeds it in every measure.
- Built new product category worth $20B annually.
- Release PervertPods which are indistinguishable from the original products.
- Assume that users of the original products will be fine being associated with PervertPods.
Apple & RayBans are running uncontrolled experiments in brand destruction.
- Release PervertPods which are indistinguishable from the original products.
- Assume that users of the original products will be fine being associated with PervertPods.
Apple & RayBans are running uncontrolled experiments in brand destruction.
I don't see how Apple can claim to be a pro privacy company and also ship this product, which is somehow 10x worse then the pervert glasses.
August 19, 2026 at 11:41 PM
- Built new product category worth $20B annually.
- Release PervertPods which are indistinguishable from the original products.
- Assume that users of the original products will be fine being associated with PervertPods.
Apple & RayBans are running uncontrolled experiments in brand destruction.
- Release PervertPods which are indistinguishable from the original products.
- Assume that users of the original products will be fine being associated with PervertPods.
Apple & RayBans are running uncontrolled experiments in brand destruction.
This week is reading @ghoulpus.bsky.social stories and letting them live rent free in my head, gnawing at my brainstem as they gestate in my ventricles. Just insanely good stuff.
August 19, 2026 at 10:14 PM
This week is reading @ghoulpus.bsky.social stories and letting them live rent free in my head, gnawing at my brainstem as they gestate in my ventricles. Just insanely good stuff.
Big “I’m upset that I am not the first search result” energy.
August 19, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Big “I’m upset that I am not the first search result” energy.
Having listened to all three playlists now I regret to discover I am 60% Noel and 40% Rona.
weekend listening: #Swanboy playlists! (Apple Music, and converted to Spotify)
There’s a ton of bands here I have of course heard of, but never got around to checking out. “Today is the day I learn about the Weakerthans” has not happened. Until today. Today is that today.
swanboy.com/comic/chavez/
There’s a ton of bands here I have of course heard of, but never got around to checking out. “Today is the day I learn about the Weakerthans” has not happened. Until today. Today is that today.
swanboy.com/comic/chavez/
Chavez
Visit the post for more.
swanboy.com
August 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Having listened to all three playlists now I regret to discover I am 60% Noel and 40% Rona.
Not the cheese banks! When will the madness end!?
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes.
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
fortune.com
August 11, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Not the cheese banks! When will the madness end!?
Saw the reaction to Terry Godier finally sinking into the consequences of his AI-slop existence and was so grumpy about it I had to write a thing: blog.wells.ac/2026/08/swea...
Sweat The Details — Westward, Repelled
The personal website of Peter Wells
blog.wells.ac
August 11, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Saw the reaction to Terry Godier finally sinking into the consequences of his AI-slop existence and was so grumpy about it I had to write a thing: blog.wells.ac/2026/08/swea...
Almost like mega-pastors are just pop-therapists...
Pop Therapists be having mega-pastor problems
Obsessed with this story of a deeply evil lesbian throuple who seemed to be pulling diabolical scams on each other while making millions of dollars in a self-help grift of books and instagram posts with aphorisms like “not knowing you are hungry is a core sign of unresolved trauma.”
August 10, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Almost like mega-pastors are just pop-therapists...
Increasingly convinced the opening of The Odyssey is a callback to Planet of the Apes.
August 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Increasingly convinced the opening of The Odyssey is a callback to Planet of the Apes.
waiting for the bit of this #730report where they remind you Epstein and his paedophile groupies started the trans-panic deliberately.
July 28, 2026 at 10:01 AM
waiting for the bit of this #730report where they remind you Epstein and his paedophile groupies started the trans-panic deliberately.
Re: Emily Wilson's critique I would contend that much like The Return (2024), The Odyssey lacks the presence of gods altogether. They are films characterised by absent Olympians. My reading is that the final act of Nolan's Odyssey makes clear that Athena... is not Athena. apnews.com/article/odys...
Not Greek to them. Scholars question Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'
Greek translator Emily Wilson finds the release of Christopher Nolan's film “The Odyssey” both gratifying and unsatisfying.
apnews.com
July 20, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Re: Emily Wilson's critique I would contend that much like The Return (2024), The Odyssey lacks the presence of gods altogether. They are films characterised by absent Olympians. My reading is that the final act of Nolan's Odyssey makes clear that Athena... is not Athena. apnews.com/article/odys...
I can just imagine how much shit Pauline would lose when she realises the best meat pies in her former electorate are made by a lovely old Vietnamese lady. Most of what the media claim is the 'ONP demographic' in Darra still prefer Bahn Mi though.
June 23, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I can just imagine how much shit Pauline would lose when she realises the best meat pies in her former electorate are made by a lovely old Vietnamese lady. Most of what the media claim is the 'ONP demographic' in Darra still prefer Bahn Mi though.
Ronny Chieng has become Mean Waiter. Or was Mean Waiter Ronny Chieng the entire time?
In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week, @thedailyshow.com host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!"
Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed.
Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...
Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed.
Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...
May 28, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Ronny Chieng has become Mean Waiter. Or was Mean Waiter Ronny Chieng the entire time?
Micah Bornfree cooking his brain on AI is probably the last person I expected but it's wild how quickly he pivoted from the spectacularly clear writing of 'The End of Protest' to deeply impenetrable substack posts about how AI 'works'.
Outcry is a chatbot “designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’”
Occupy Wall Street Co-Founder Built an AI App to Help Activists Seize the Means of Computation
A chatbot with a library of activist literature in your back pocket.
gizmodo.com
May 28, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Micah Bornfree cooking his brain on AI is probably the last person I expected but it's wild how quickly he pivoted from the spectacularly clear writing of 'The End of Protest' to deeply impenetrable substack posts about how AI 'works'.
What the actual hell.
It's almost like private employment services think any assistance at all would remove the 'discipline of the market' -- making anything even a tiny bit easier would stop you getting off your arse and getting a job.
It's almost like private employment services think any assistance at all would remove the 'discipline of the market' -- making anything even a tiny bit easier would stop you getting off your arse and getting a job.
One thing I learned a few years ago is that employment services providers are authorised via the 'Employment Fund' to pay for your food and rent if that's a barrier to looking for work.
FROM THE LAST BUDGET: 'As at 31 January 2026, there was $684.4 million in unspent Employment Fund Credits'.
FROM THE LAST BUDGET: 'As at 31 January 2026, there was $684.4 million in unspent Employment Fund Credits'.
May 28, 2026 at 3:38 AM
What the actual hell.
It's almost like private employment services think any assistance at all would remove the 'discipline of the market' -- making anything even a tiny bit easier would stop you getting off your arse and getting a job.
It's almost like private employment services think any assistance at all would remove the 'discipline of the market' -- making anything even a tiny bit easier would stop you getting off your arse and getting a job.
The Devil Wears Prada is a beat for beat remake of the Princess Diaries for adults. Is this a known thing? Am I just the last to figure it out (again)?
May 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
The Devil Wears Prada is a beat for beat remake of the Princess Diaries for adults. Is this a known thing? Am I just the last to figure it out (again)?
Meanwhile Digital Health Festival starts Wednesday and there isn’t a single timeslot I can find where someone isn’t explicitly selling AI into the healthcare sector. #DHF
An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information
May 18, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Meanwhile Digital Health Festival starts Wednesday and there isn’t a single timeslot I can find where someone isn’t explicitly selling AI into the healthcare sector. #DHF
Jack would do well to read some Jo Freeman. "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" is only 56 years old, so it's a bit cutting edge and niche, but if we get a chatbot to explain it to him in small words maybe he'll be able to understand.
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block who laid of 40% of the company due to AI efficiencies, describes how to judge the success of their AI adoption.
He plans to reduce management layers from 5 managers between a worker and the CEO to 2-3 this year. The ideal is eventually 0 and all 6000 people report to him.
He plans to reduce management layers from 5 managers between a worker and the CEO to 2-3 this year. The ideal is eventually 0 and all 6000 people report to him.
April 15, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Jack would do well to read some Jo Freeman. "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" is only 56 years old, so it's a bit cutting edge and niche, but if we get a chatbot to explain it to him in small words maybe he'll be able to understand.
An alcoholic failson who fires black employees and hates catholics? Seems pretty obvious Hesgeth is a klansman right?
April 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM
An alcoholic failson who fires black employees and hates catholics? Seems pretty obvious Hesgeth is a klansman right?
This is a more muscular Christianity than anything Mark Driscoll or the Acts 29 bros could possibly conceive.
April 3, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This is a more muscular Christianity than anything Mark Driscoll or the Acts 29 bros could possibly conceive.