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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 1h

The thing with enshitification is sometimes it’s just little things you barely notice. I thought I was going nuts when I noticed little issues with Google Maps lately. Then on a road trip this week I definitely was able to track how many times it lost my position, told me to turn the wrong way, etc

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean you are right about the discrimination against women of course, but i suspect the first thing here is how the ivys operate.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For sure. Love that you waded in to dismiss my comment and then act frustrated. Very cool.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton don’t tenure anybody. It’s literally their thing.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not at all higher education in America. This is Ivy League stuff. There are a handful of schools that operate like Princeton. It is a wild exception, not at all indicative of the rest.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So to understand patriarchy we don’t need to study the past? Because in so far as I had an argument (and I really didn’t until you got rolling here), that was it.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You said the past was irrelevant because no one wants to reinstate manorialism.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a nothing burger I suspect. There are lots of bad things, keep focused on those. The chaff distracts.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m not sure that fear of history repeating or going backward is the only reason one might study the past!

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean sure, but lots of agricultural societies also developed a pretty clear set of gender roles that led to men working in the fields or herding or whatever and women caring for children and the elderly close to home.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lambchop can be demanding, but very sweet and devoted.

My white/calico cat looking ridiculous with her tongue sticking out

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hell, I think they were doing this before capitalism too!

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A strong statement, and in the days of resurgent fascism, there’s probably. Competition for biggest disaster, but also this is right and the China comparison is interesting.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is “interest over time” something that can be measured in percentages?

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's insane how many ppl even entertain the idea of data fabrication as being good for research.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I like this and it’s right. Also, our university’s president ran around saying “we are going to do less with less” for years, it was his unofficial motto. Also top notch inspirational leadership!

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you write an article about “these 4 words”, and it turns out to be 5?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

This is funny but also truly I think there's a huge number of people who've developed such a serious dependency and driven off such a serious cognitive cliff that I don't think they could get through a normal workday

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean you asked for concrete examples of negative impact. The cultural thing is a different issue, but also a real one. Like all tools, AI is built by specific people using specific materials. If someone else built it, it would look different.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The treat of it is that it makes education worse for everyone.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No, man, but everyone isn’t type-A

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Assigning and grading student papers used to be vastly easier task.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If they also fuck life up for everyone else, then their future existence is certainly up for debate.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Get out more buddy. Meet people. Most people do not have actual real to-do lists, or only have them for specific things, or incidentally.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fwiw it seems like that guy is a radical racist fucko, not a conservative Christian. He appears to be trying to make some commentary on the uselessness of Christian morality

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is bonkers. It’s worth remembering that dozens of outdoor industry firms, including REI who have apologized, endorsed Burgum Because they didn’t see all his other bullshit as a problem as long as they could make money. They helped this happen. recreationroundtable.org/news/outdoor...

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Outdoor Recreation Roundtable Supports Nomination of Governor Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior - Outdoor Recreation Roundtable

Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR), the nation’s leading coalition of outdoor recreation associations, has expressed its support for the nomination of North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to serve as th...

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did they bury people with them?

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whose idea was it that a urinal might become a grave good?

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sorry, didn’t see this. I did not find it to be useful. It is not, in my experience, reliable for translating, it cannot produce a bibliography following a consistent style without lots of corrections, and it can’t really do good copy editing.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of their women

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe this means that AI “works”?

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why did it cost you $40 extra?

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Right. Ok, just asking specifically what you did.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Or maybe the lawyers you asked were just bad? One does not have to go far to find stories that tack the opposite way, specifically with regard to legal issues.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More generally yes. Some experimenting, trying out tools, these kinds of things.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

FWIW, the first part sounds vague, the second part evasive and untrue.

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Miguel Gómez @prplmnkydw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I guess we’d have to know what we mean by “it works” before we could really defend the morally bad part in a manly, Chadful way though…

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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apparently episode one was first broadcast on the BBC 50 years ago today. Still one of the most remarkable television dramas ever. I Claudius

Scene from opening credits of the BBC TV series I Claudius (1976)

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