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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 25/09/2026

I’ve been told my voice is soothing, should I do more of these? I did a few for Wired when I was there.

Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 04/09/2026

growing up in Portland but spending a lot of time in Easy LA bc my family is from there skewed me toward nevada, a place I’ve only been for CES

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 04/09/2026

I’m sorry what the fuck is whipping shitties

Screenshot from a dialect quiz reading

QUESTION 58 OF 148
What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car?
• doing donuts
• doing cookies
O whipping shitties
O other

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 02/09/2026

there are experiences you cannot ever truly understand unless you’ve lived them. you can learn about them, and take them into consideration but you can’t understand them. and I think that’s applicable to the experience of sexual trauma as a transfemme. which is, explicitly, what the movie is about.

screenshot from a Jane Schoenbrun interview about camp miasma that reads:

There are two specific repeated lines in the movie that I wanted to touch on. The first being, "If it gets too real, you can always turn it off," which is such a great encapsulation of the film in general, with these themes of consent and of building reassurance, particularly within queer sex, to explore the danger and thrill of what scares you while also having that safety net, which is the most important thing. Being able to explore things you haven't been able to before because there's that trust.
I don't know that I could say it better than you did.
That was absolutely the intention in making a movie about coming into one's self sexually after transition, and undoing a lot of trauma and dissociation, and just terror and avoidance around sex. Knowing that you are safe in the situation you're in to explore things that you are scared to explore with another person-without that, you can't do it. For the movie to talk about that, and to talk about the desire to go to scary places in a way that feels safe, there needed to be some kind of echo through the film, or articulation of what consent actually means.

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 02/09/2026

having opinions on movies depicting experiences outside your own is a good thing. but someone with lived experiences aligned with that movie is going to see things you don’t. it doesn’t mean you didn’t understand it. it means there are parts you are incapable of understanding. that’s not an insult.

bsky post from aftermath editor Chris Person that reads:

The funniest reaction you can see to criticism is people saying
"you simply don't understand what it's about" followed by several completely different and often wrong explanations about what the work is about.

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 02/09/2026

no prob! also for some reason my bsky thinks you’re speaking german (oh and halloumi is another great firm paneer-ish cheese)

A pop up from bluesky reading

“The post you're replying to was marked as being written in German by its author. Would you like to reply in German?”

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 02/09/2026

I wanna shoot more concerts, record label PR pls send me to more concerts.

Singer Anna of the North drenched in blue lights, singing into a mic.

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 01/09/2026

hey um @wired.com this article’s kik is referencing a white supremacist conspiracy theory

Cover image for a Wired story called “inside the perimenopause industrial complex” with the kik above the title reading “great replacement”

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 28/08/2026

old playstation game with a hot vampire daddy who sounds like tim curry

Cover for legacy of kain blood omen 2, showing hot vampire daddy threatening a guy with a wiggly sword

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 28/08/2026

sometimes when I open bsky it bugs out and shows this and every time I have a panic spiral until it fixes itself and goes away

Screenshot of bluesky Ui showing 30+ unread notifications

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 27/08/2026

I know. It’s the publication of an AI generated article, period, that’s the problem.

A screencap from an Atlantic article, the text of which is:

Editor's note: This article was generated by Claude Al in the style of Paul Gigot, the Wall Street Journal opinion-page editor. Gigot recently published an Al-generated essay using the investor Stanley Druckenmiller's byline. In the spirit of full disclosure, readers should know that Claude's work was so banal that human Atlantic editors have added
jokes. Human Atlantic copy editors have also fixed a variety of grammatical and style errors.

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 21/08/2026

I know a lot of consumer tech journalists, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, and none them use AI. in fact, we constantly talk shit about the ones who *do* because when you use AI to do your job as a journalist, you cease to be one. but I guess you'd know all about that, you haven't been one for years

Screenshot from Taylor Lorenz' YouTube channel with the title "The Huge Problem with AI Watermarks"

screenshot from Taylor Lorenz twitter saying "I would take this outrage more seriously if the pple engaged in it were directing any similar criticisms at any other big consumer tech journalists (all of whom have been open about the AI tools they use) but they do not. Those journos can openly use AI tools all day and not a peep"

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 13/08/2026

fuck that one: they’re not reporters, two: they’re not AI. tech journalists in this space really need to double down on specific language, not perpetuating a narrative that benefits “AI” companies. we need to normalize calling them what they are: large language models.

A screenshot from WIRED, with the headline “oh lord ai reporters are actually breaking news” and the dek: “last week an ai newsroom beat mainstream journalists including Wired to a story about openAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning”

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 10/08/2026

thanks ziprecruiter these are a great fit

Screen grab from a ziprecruiter email, suggesting jobs for a Ukrainian speaking ai content eater and a position at a Christian publication.

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 02/08/2026

arriving at the rib removal surgeon’s office

the three main characters of 28 years later walking through the bone temple, surrounded by columns of bones

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 11/07/2026

Another remaster, this one includes media players so you can actually listen to the EP I'm talking about: Anna of the North's 'Girl in a Bottle' contains its emotional terrain in looping beats so catchy it’s easy to forget you're dancing to the end of a relationship. cherry.news/review-girl-...

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 11/07/2026

I wrote this last year but reworked it for the new blog: Alien: Earth does a lot of things I love, it’s stylish, it’s dripping with atmosphere, it gets weird in some fun ways. But it seems either completely unaware of its best ideas, or afraid to with engage them. cherry.news/alien-earth-...

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 19/04/2026

the satisfaction i get from spotting a typo in a published work can only be described as perverse i got you kirkman you sonofabitch you’re not better than me