kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026let's be honest, as soon as these AI agents can actually do what they're supposed to do, they will cost money to use and the data centers will still be built in poor neighborhoods bsky.app/profile/chri... 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026thinking about how generations of feminists made precisely this point, and how none of them suggested tech billionaire capitalists had the solution 101
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026again I must insist it's a bad thing when the stability of the world economy is tied to a technology whose best use case is scamming 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the discourse seems bad now but just imagine a GOP primary with candidates jd vance and tucker carlson 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we should probably talk about how the tech billionaires are "misaligned" 010
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it’s “identity politics” when black people talk in public, but not when nazis start organizing 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the same tech oligarchs wringing their hands about AI public safety are quite literally robber barons 010
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026what does it say about LLMs that their most profitable use cases are scams 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026is the only democracy in the middle east in the room with us right now? 000
Reposted by kevin in alaskaDavid Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Anchorage as depicted in the March 11, 1995 "Deja Vu" episode of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? It's just a little bit off in its depiction. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory 1125
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026this is my thinking, too. public opinion about "inflation" may be a proxy for the public's *accurate* perception that the economic system is increasingly unreliable and crisis prone, that pathways to long-term economic security are narrowing 121
Reposted by kevin in alaskaJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17/09/2026Relatedly: Today Rev. Susie Hayward, a UCC minister who was among the Minneapolis faith leaders who pushed back against DHS in January, testified before the state's "Truth Council" created by Gov. Walz. She called the DHS surge a "spiritual crisis," then listed all the reasons she sees it that way: 121563
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I suppose. I don't know that having two dems running does much to address that problem, practically speaking. I always thought RCV was good for third party candidates, but it doesn't bother me personally if a state party wants to unify behind a single candidate after a primary. 010
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026is this about RCV or their fear that a crowded dem field will split fundraising? 120
Reposted by kevin in alaskaStrangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker. 7465193
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“The IQ-development hypothesis and other instances of race science still persist because, first and foremost, racist ideas are appealing to some people regardless of their scientific veracity.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026the dan sullivan ads will continue until morale improves 150
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026we are told to feel ashamed that a police lynching triggered the largest protest movement in U.S. history 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026a police lynching triggered the largest protest movement in U.S. history, but now we’re supposed to feel bad about that because “cringe” or something 000
Reposted by kevin in alaskaI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026Again, amazing how this is the dominant narrative across the political spectrum about a movement born out of a series of murders to mainly young people leading up to the murder of George Floyd. 9435113
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"...fiscal year 2026 was the third year in a row that the surtax generated more than twice DOR's original estimate of $1.2 billion in annual revenue." 010
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026men will literally invent therapy instead of dismantling the patriarchy 000
Reposted by kevin in alaskaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Yes, okay, prison abolition. But then how will we punish the people who don’t put anchovies in the Caesar salad?? 41644
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I would be interested in what types of right-wing content numbers reflect fluctuating approval/sentiment (like # of Benny Johnson streams) vs. more structurally embedded media institutions (like Fox News): deadline.com/2026/07/cabl...deadline.comFox News Tops July Ratings; CNN & MS NOW Make Gains Vs. 2025Fox News dominated the top shows, but CNN and MS NOW saw increases across their schedules. 010
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026unaddressed collective trauma + millions of people with undiagnosed mild brain injury from long covid 020
Reposted by kevin in alaskaSanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 29/07/2026Over a million Americans died and we hardly talk about that 2317
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026what a lot of internet people don't understand is that internet people critique popular things for clout, whereas academic types do it because something is broken in our brains and we don't know how else to engage with the world, we would literally do analysis from inside a locked padded room 012327
Reposted by kevin in alaskaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026when he’s right, he’s right 332341164
Reposted by kevin in alaskaBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all. 4261941616
Reposted by kevin in alaskaOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/07/2026From many, one. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe Most Iconic American Artwork Is the Hardest to See (Gift Article)The Statue of Liberty is caught between the sublime and the souvenir, our critic Jason Farago explains. Look again: She’s much stranger than you think. 1144
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026love to see sociologists rediscover the id ego and superego 010
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026this is why you shouldn't listen to politics doomers in case you need a reason 000
Reposted by kevin in alaskaJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 29/06/2026FUNDAMENTALLY UNRECOGNIZABLE. 1857754
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026love to casually browse the "See also" section 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Can we do a whole ad campaign about the multiple pardoned J6ers who have been rearrested for sex crimes 010
Reposted by kevin in alaskaEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/06/2026was also happy to make two points - that nobody respects legal associates enough, and that what people mostly describe with AGI is a new (theoretical) form of slavery. What else do you call trapping a (theoretically) conscious being and bending it to your will? 625440
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Reminder that, in addition to being a social and moral good, immigration is dope as hell 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026During moments like these I think about GOP accounts posting King quotes on MLK Day 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026To the degree that the Voting Rights Act was the beginning of American democracy, Callais is arguably the end of it. 000
Reposted by kevin in alaskaOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026New paper by Donahue & Reich, forthcoming in AJS. Using 18 years of Florida voter records, they find Republicans significantly more likely than Democrats to shift Hispanic→White. Democrats more likely to shift White→Hispanic. 1/ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... HT @mattgrossmann.bsky.social 13217
Reposted by kevin in alaskaDavid Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Charlotte Naqitaqvik collects a teapot of water at her family’s hunting camp in Nuvukutaak, near the community of Arctic Bay in northern Canada. By Alaskan photographer Acacia Johnson, from her Sea Ice Stories series. See more of her work here (acaciajohnson.com/). 0227
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I honestly think we should all care less about what he does to the White House 000
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Every AI booster should be forced to describe what’s wrong about this story, then explain how it’s different in principle from any other LLM made with stolen data. 020
Reposted by kevin in alaskaDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1 25951581926
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Ok but if I make a gazillion dollars on the prediction markets I don’t need a job anymore 010
kevin in alaska @feelnotes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026My first year in grad school I lived across the street from a Rudy’s BBQ and my morning started with one of these and a brisket egg and cheese taco 000
