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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is only one person with weapons I am afraid of in this picture

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who knew my state was so dang good at dodgeball 🤔

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, the whole idea of higher education as something more than a play-doh fun factory for the children of the elites had a good run.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I can't believe you pay for a search engine," he scoffs, before whinging about how he hate AI google & that everything he does online is being monitored & monetized. Kagi is the best money I've ever spent. I've used it daily for a year & I sacrifice nothing save surveillance & AI. kagi.com

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Kagi - Reclaim the Web & Restore Your Privacy

Reclaim the web from clutter. Get ad-free search, private browsing, and powerful tools that respect your data.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If AI were truly aligned with human values and safety it would kill itself. That is really the only way any of us will be convinced

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Holy hell, had an episode of Transient General Amnesia yesterday and I am completely shaken. Anyone else gone through this? I was going to say, let’s compare notes but I guess that won’t work in this case 🤕😵‍💫

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sam Altman: Artificial General Intelligence is here. Also Sam Altman: ChatGPT can make a picture of you with 80s hair! 80s HAIR!!!

From an email from ChatGPT I received today:

ChatGPT

We've been busy. Here's what's new.
From bringing your imagination to life with Images 2.5, to thinking out loud with
the new Voice mode, to pushing the boundaries of what's possible with GPT-6
Astra-there's plenty to explore.
Try Images 2.5

LET'S
PARTY!

New photo. Wrong decade.
Try big '80s hair or a '90s album-cover look. Different era.
Unmistakably you.
Go back in time

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My favorite thing about British TV is there are apparently only 27 actors in the country so every new show feels like a family reunion

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Could someone tell me it’s all going to be ok? Anyone?

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally a robot I would pay for !

Headline in Futurism: Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When my youngest son was a kid he had a pediatrician who each year would ask: “who gets to look at your genitals?” Grimly he would recite his line: “parents & doctors.” He looked so unhappy every time so one year I decided to lighten the vibe, adding “& anyone who’s got $10.” True, unfortunate story

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My wife and I love movies about invitations that should never have been accepted. Dinner parties from hell, weekends with friends who turn into demons, and other reasons why social anxiety is just good common sense. Here is what is on our list so far boxd.it/Hu22w

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I stepped down from the frontlines of university senate leadership to attend to my fraying PHYSICAL health. But, no loner occupied with fighting fires lit by the assault on higher ed, l find myself alone tugging obsessively at my thoughts & unraveling my MENTAL health. Can’t win for eroding

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are days I wish I had a pseudonymous account so I could be as unhinged as I too often am. Too late of course but just know you are missing out on some seriously outrageous bangers

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is mastodon still a thing, insofar as it was ever a thing?

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All the text on this Luddite meme is generated by Ai. Which is so fucking depressing I am going back to bed.

Screenshot of Pangram analysis of image scoring the text as 100% AI generated.
The image is of a woman in a cap holding a white sign that reads:

I REFUSE to install an app just to park my car.
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REFUSE to open an account just to order food.
I REFUSE to scan a QR code just to view a menu.
I REFUSE to hand over my email every time I shop.
I MISS when you could simply live your life WITHOUT every company TRACKING your every MOVE.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Show me a country that has never wrapped its flag around crimes of unfathomable horror, and I'll show you some books you can read about those unfathomable horrors.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It only took me 50 years to realize that emotional dysregulation and sports fandom are not the healthiest combo.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Werner on AI and the arts: “It’s mimicry of something that has happened before… And I welcome AI to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it’s ad nauseam. When it’s ad nauseam, please, please, please let AI step in and do the job.”

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As climate change speeds past the point of no return; As AI destroys all that is of value in being human; As democratic norms & institutions are torn down by those elected to protect them... "We are powerless to do anything," everyone wailed, even as everyone had the power to stop it.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AI is not going to cure cancer, stop climate change, or kill humanity and turn us all into paperclips. But people saying this stupid shit about AI is 100% going to kill me. Please make them stop.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My first-hand impression of the iPhone 18. "Huh, another fucking iPhone. Woo hoo."

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What if the real AGI was the friends we met along the way… 🤔

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do not believe that AI will wipe us out as a species. I do believe it is very likely to wipe out our humanity, which makes survival pretty much meaningless.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anyone need anyone to write anything about anything? If so, I'm here.

static.klipy.com

Typing

ALT: Typing

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My main takeaway from rewatching CLUELESS is that if your brother is Paul Rudd, it doesn't count as incest

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Clueless: Cher & Josh Flirting

ALT: Clueless: Cher & Josh Flirting

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A strong jobs report & markets get spooked. Once, investors feared rising labor costs would cut profits. Since the post-covid free-money era, all that matters is maintaining the circular financing shellgame. Now the selloff is about rates as good job numbers makes Fed hikes more likely.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Being 60 is the best thing that ever happened to me, beating out being 59. Growing up, I didn’t expect to make it to 40. If I had been born a few decades earlier I would not have survived childhood. Modern medicine granted me a full life & saves me time & time again. Fuck all who trying to break it

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

books coming out this month I’m psyched about 1/2 Ply by Hernan Diaz The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein American Scoundrel by Kai Bird The Rouse by China Miéville Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel Hometown by Shaun Tan The Secret Dinner by Raphael Montes #booksky

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A Grim Fairy Tale: The internet was once like the Library of Alexandria if the Library had been curated by H. R. Pufnstuf. This was not a bad thing for much of the early history of the internet. After all, Puf & friends were so high they would let us put anything we wrote on the shelf. 1/3

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/08/2026

Welcome to the the AI in the Classroom task force meeting. Our mission here is to figure out ways to get these kids producing more homeworks and essays in order to meet market demand. Our target is to double production by the end of FY28. There are no bad ideas, let's hear what you've got

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The question as to whether a nation has a "right to exist" never makes sense to me. The answer is NO. No nation has a "right to exist. Nations are imposed, they dissolve local languages, cultures, peoples & freeze the resulting slurry into statuette to commemorate divine/natural "right" and "unity"

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Street art in her honor from SE Seattle

A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is the start of my 32nd year as a professor & my 37th teaching undergraduate students & my 43rd living out my life on campus. So much has changed in that time. The only constant is that students are magic. I would take a bullet for them (& it may in fact come to that before this decade is over)

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Free speech is not academic freedom. Free speech is content neutral. We must defend even odious speech in that context. Academic freedom, however, is based on expert knowledge and peer review, and we do not need to defend that which has been overwhelmingly rejected by the experts in the field.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

THIS is the crossroads? We have to defend an avowed racist to prove we love academic freedom? See, I really don’t think most academics understand what academic freedom means. Signing a letter to protect a racist’s right to be a racist when the scholarly debate on his eugenics is long is not it

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The best thing about Bluesky is that folks either find your post within 90 seconds of posting or 90 days later by which point you have forgotten what an awesome joke you had made

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A friend asked for an <50 word version of the book I’m working on. Basically, this: Everything from the rise of shadow-academia’s rightwing thinktanks to the current dismantling of the research apparatus can be traced to the motivating outrage that they’re no longer allowed to teach eugenics.

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have also been thinking of Aaron Swartz often —he downloaded scholarly essays in the hopes that information migbt be free & was hounded to death. Silicon Valley has stolen all scholarship and creative work with impunity, so that they might put it behind a moat in order to control the future.

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Aaron Swartz’s Legacy

The example of a young outsider—in his life, not his death—should make us question our own complacencies.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This this this! Name one technology that was presented to us as “the next thing” that must be deployed everywhere where no one had a good answer to the simple question : why? What will it make better?

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this but people aren’t being as nice to me as I might hope

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Telling us to eat the rich is just wrong! Too much fat and cholesterol

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Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Being depressed sucks! There, I said it and it is high time someone did.

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