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Jay Hancock

@jayhancock.bsky.social

369 followers 571 following 128 posts

Former reporter pursuing the past. Writing book on language history. Substack on history, economics, stuff. 2020 Pulitzer finalist for investigative journalism. jayhancock.substack.com

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bethany Beach DE. Not AI

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This doesn't sound like much of a mess.

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Photography is art mediated/ assisted by technology. So why aren't AI novels art?

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Horrible "journalism"

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Some moviegoers appreciate the cinematography and acting. I log the modernistic howlers in the script. From The Brutalist: "significant others," "in the interest transparency" (really!?), "tropical depression," "he reached out to me" (for business), "hassling women & children," "I've done the math"

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Pretty slick @proton.me. Don't automatically empty trash baskets for non-premium users. Let the trash pile up (12k msgs in mine). Then tell customers their storage is full & they need to upgrade.

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Really rich. Nobody fights harder against safe, reliable & affordable energy for Marylanders than the Sierra Club. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

How did it take me this long to discover @jonrauch.bsky.social? Just ordered *The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth*

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Netflix is dumbing down its shows even more with MORE expositional dialogue. Yuk. https//www.cbr.com...

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Some people post beach pix when they travel. You guys get get 1850s Mississippi steamboat litigation from the Missouri State Archives in St. Louis.

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Best @petridishes.bsky.social column ever. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,995,294!

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Here's a Tertulian from 1729, printed in Venice.

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

The people we stayed with in Sicily said the house and farm had been in their family since the 1600s. They had the library to prove it!

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Claude:

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

ChatGPT 4o:

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

ChatGPT 4o:

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Why is this so hard to understand? Criticizing the ideas of others is not "shutting down the debate." Retorts to academic or political assertions are PART OF THE DEBATE, not free-speech crimes. (Plus Shakespeare authorship deniers really are tinfoil-hatters.) www.theguardian.com/books/2024/a...

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Jay Hancock @jayhancock.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

This guy says he's the one who returned it.

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