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Pete

@wellsenkind.net
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A dark forest. Christian anarchist. Lapsed social scientist.

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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 22/09/2026
There are a few different reasons you'd restructure a business this way but if you decided you wanted to exit the games industry and spin off an acquisition you obviously paid too much for 3 years ago this is the textbook PE 'bundling' play.
theverge.com
Activision is taking over Halo as part of a massive Xbox shake-up
The Xbox reset continues with major studio changes, layoffs, and more.
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Sub Pop Records @subpop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 07/09/2026
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?
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 02/09/2026
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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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 27/08/2026
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 22/08/2026
#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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 20/08/2026
- 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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 19/08/2026
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 19/08/2026
Big “I’m upset that I am not the first search result” energy.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 13/08/2026
Having listened to all three playlists now I regret to discover I am 60% Noel and 40% Rona.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 11/08/2026
Not the cheese banks! When will the madness end!?
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 11/08/2026
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...
blog.wells.ac
Sweat The Details — Westward, Repelled
The personal website of Peter Wells
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 10/08/2026
Almost like mega-pastors are just pop-therapists...
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 07/08/2026
Increasingly convinced the opening of The Odyssey is a callback to Planet of the Apes.
Statue of Liberty buried in sand in the final scenes of Planet of the Apes; a symbol of the end of civilisation.The trojan horse buried in sand at the start of Nolan’s The Odyssey. Nolan argues throughout the film this was the end of Greek “bronze age” civilisation.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 28/07/2026
waiting for the bit of this #730report where they remind you Epstein and his paedophile groupies started the trans-panic deliberately.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 20/07/2026
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...
apnews.com
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 23/06/2026
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 28/05/2026
Ronny Chieng has become Mean Waiter. Or was Mean Waiter Ronny Chieng the entire time?
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 28/05/2026
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'.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 28/05/2026
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 27/05/2026
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)?
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 18/05/2026
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
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 15/04/2026
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.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 03/04/2026
An alcoholic failson who fires black employees and hates catholics? Seems pretty obvious Hesgeth is a klansman right?
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 03/04/2026
This is a more muscular Christianity than anything Mark Driscoll or the Acts 29 bros could possibly conceive.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 26/03/2026
I am just going to say it. Last.fm is the panopticon for hipsters.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 17/03/2026
I have a theory that what will ultimately kill these chatbots is legal liability. Insurers will see these kinds of lawsuits and a massive unmitigated risk and insist that the C-suite are kept the hell away from them. And the C-suite are of course the primary boosters of AI slop.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 16/03/2026
A secret technology corrupted by monstrous figures is slowly eroding the institutions which rule over the world from within, you say? Seems a bit derivative of 1950’s fantasy. What did you say it’s called?
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 04/03/2026
Takes slop to make slop...
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 04/03/2026
Saw someone describe AI as 'industrialised mediocrity' and yeah, that tracks for me.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 01/03/2026
Butlerian Jihad Now!
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 24/02/2026
Twirling, twirling ever rightward, into oblivion.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 21/01/2026
“Trust me bro, we’re slowing down the rollout because we’re good people bro, please keep adopting the slop machine, its inevitable, bro. Please, I have so much exposure.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss
Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest but Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues tech will create rather than destroy jobs
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 21/01/2026
I'm sure the ADL is shocked, shocked I tell you, that the leopard has decided to eat their face.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 20/01/2026
Sure seems like the collective political establishment of the Commonwealth want to go down as the Neville Chamberlains of the 21st Century.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
the way a government treats refugees is very instructive as it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 15/01/2026
Apple Music out here trying to help me take my own advice but jokes on them because I own literally every other format.
The cover of Mewithoutyou’s album Pale Horses on Apple Music. A dialogue indicates it is not currently available in the users country or region.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 14/01/2026
Looks like @bandcamp.com’s new anti-AI-slop policy is super popular — the form for reporting accounts is currently down.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 14/01/2026
*Runs to bandcamp's discover page to report all the AI slop*
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 14/01/2026
What is it with Labor rushing brainfart legislation through with less that 48 hours for feedback? It was the same with the social media ban. Almost like they don't give a rats what people actually think.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 14/01/2026
Albo is just really sad that no one is asking Grok to put him in a bikini, I'm sure. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australian politicians are condemning X and Grok, so why won’t they leave the platform?
Anthony Albanese has said the AI chatbot generating sexualised images of women and children is ‘abhorrent’ but has an account posting on the site
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 13/01/2026
Keep thinking of this passage by Simone Weil and how we failed to do the hard work of changing ourselves. This is the punishment Trump deserves: we transform our societies such that no one will ever associate him with greatness.
The only punishment capable of hurting Hitler and, in the centuries to come, of preventing little boys who thirst for greatness from following his example, is so total a transformation of the meaning of greatness that Hider is barred from it.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 11/01/2026
This was obvious when Microsoft and AWS started putting out press releases while cutting staff hard in 2024.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 09/01/2026
Beans, beans, the musical fruit; the more you eat, the more you experience an uncontrollable compulsion to sing Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 09/01/2026
People complain that battery tech is environmentally damaging but look motherflappers, we can make batteries out of *wood* now. audioxpress.com/news/flint-c...
audioxpress.com
Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production
Flint, the Singapore-based company that developed sustainable, cellulose-based, biodegradable, PFAS-free batteries, announced that its technology has entered production and will be available to select...
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 08/01/2026
I am yet to see any evidence that the boards of our major cultural festivals are in any way different from the board of the Kennedy Centre -- their actions are always politically neutral, it's the producers of culture who 'bring politics into it' with their pesky thoughts and boycotts.
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Pete @wellsenkind.net · 08/01/2026
I don't understand how the deepfake porn site is even considered fit for purpose for emergency comms; anyone who wants to get updates *has* to create an account otherwise you can't see posts in chronological order, nor can you see threaded posts.
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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#THEOLOGY
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