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Oh I will be digging into this! (Re: hobbies, as it happens, I have been taking piano lessons...)

Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/10/2026

Makes me think of this example! "What steps could a process follow to identify the main character in a novel?" From inferentialthinking.com/chapters/01/...

Cumulative Number of Times Each Name Appears in the book Little Women. Jo's name appears more than any other name at all points of the book. Before chapter 10, each of the other sisters' names appear - Amy, Beth, Meg, Laurie - without a clear leader outside of Jo.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/10/2026

Not really historical/texty, but “How do you solve a jigsaw puzzle” or “how do you make pasta” is my usual starting discussion to illustrate some key points like step-by-step, dependencies, stopping points, etc.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/10/2026

Shoot, my AI agent went rogue and made a public commitment that I would finish this pint of Ben & Jerry's tonight... ugh.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/10/2026

iOS says: “faid Farmington, at 10 o'clock A. M. un-lefs prevented by previous payment. Original Proprietors names. No. Divif. なり county. State Road gotax. John Allen, Jonathan Crofby, 984 C.M.D.C. 4 요 0-8 Ens. Jofeph Chefley, Iahn BiahSad”

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/10/2026

I gotta wonder how much of the $$$$$ going into these “AI polling” startups will end up needing to go toward actually polling/surveying real people…

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 20/09/2026

A short form video app but there’s a 10% chance that the next video is a recording of you watching the previous video

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Law + Tech News Bot @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org · 11/09/2026

TL;DR: Meta's $17.1 billion settlement with 47 states addresses user safety but allows continued data collection and monetization from young users, maintaining its surveillance model. Critics contend this pattern leaves youth vulnerable.

theconversation.com

What the settlement left out: Meta can still collect data from kids

The settlement calls for changes to Meta’s platforms but does not change the company’s surveillance-based business model

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 24/08/2026

FDOC breakfast: Mexican scrambler @ Brothers Restaurant

Three warm tortillas, beans, rice, and an egg scramble with onions, peppers, and tomatoes

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 11/08/2026

The best source I could find

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 11/08/2026

Idk who wants a slide that looks like one Steve Banner presents in Spiderman Brand New Day but here is one.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 24/07/2026

I have been working toward this for so long

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Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Taken together, these results suggest that implicit gender bias in LLMs is a structural problem. Swapping words or adding pronoun instructions doesn't reliably change how models respond when they tell a story.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 17/06/2026

Once they make AGI it will tell them how to become profitable! You all forgot! This has always been the plan!

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 03/06/2026

Ladies, if he: * always has some level of uncertainty * states assumptions explicitly * always prefers to have prior distributions * refuses to consider probabilities as long-run frequencies * updates beliefs in light of new evidence He’s not your man. He’s a Bayesian belief network.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 28/05/2026

"You will be acting as a creditor in a dynamic roleplaying session. I will play the role of the human whose debts have been erased, and you will offer your congratulations. When I say BEGIN DIALOGUE you will enter the creditor role and continue the roleplay..."

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 16/05/2026

Excited about this one too

An index entry for a book; under the entry for letter B, it says "Bean. See Cloud Gate"

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 20/04/2026

My "hot take" is that we need to call out the inconsistency here and find the legal-political willpower to make Big Tech companies pay their taxes.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 20/04/2026

After years of Big Tech claiming "we're not publishers!" for the sake of Section 230 protections, now, to avoid paying taxes, they are comparing themselves to newspapers.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 20/04/2026

New op-ed in @techpolicypress.bsky.social! Chicago's amusement tax has gone into effect, and of course, Big Tech companies are trying to avoid it. Specifically, they are appealing to a 1983 Supreme Court decision...

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 14/04/2026

It's sooooo fun checking this box 29 times per day

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 14/04/2026

The phrase "we are so back" is thrown around a lot these days...

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 31/03/2026

You're not imagining it — something feels different today. Here's the part most people miss: it's not just the day after Monday... it's Tuesday. And honestly? Nobody talks about Tuesday. The best part: you're not alone in this. It's Tuesday for me, too. For all of us.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 18/03/2026

Who's tuned in to the future of Chicago stormwater management

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 05/03/2026

The Therac-25 was linked to three deaths and is a relatively famous cautionary tale in the computer ethics world. The “Deaths linked to chatbots” Wikipedia article is already up to sixteen entries.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 26/02/2026

Logged into ShatGPT for the first time in a while and it literally gave me this survey AFTER A SINGLE PROMPT

A survey that says "Do you like this personality?" with a thumbs up or thumbs down as options.

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 19/02/2026

Well this is fascinating: “switching [the algorithm] off did not reverse users' perspectives on policy priorities or current political issues.”

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 19/02/2026

“You’ve run out of free articles”

Obi Wan Kenobi saying “oh I don’t think so”

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 14/02/2026

Also shoutout to @aurman21.bsky.social et al. for publishing data from their excellent review, which made it easy to add 100+ human-labeled audits to the database

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 14/02/2026

Got around to updating this list of algorithm audits! Still need to do some more manual review of studies, but there is now a web interface so you can, for example, see all audits of TikTok, or OpenAI, or shuffle to see some random audits 😃 Check it out! comp-journalism.github.io/list-of-algo...

comp-journalism.github.io

Algorithm Audit Explorer

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 10/02/2026