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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I could build an entire STS course segment out of this exchange alone but this is one of the problems with how "AI" has been conceptualized and under-theeorized in public discourse. "AI" is in the main a marketing slogan that bundles together a wide range of tools and applications.

Paul Frazee
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It’s weird how everyone is having big apprehensive reaction about a technology that changes the nature of humanity

✨Zelly✨
@hazelcakes.bsky.social
· 19m
it’s weird how ya’ll pretend to not understand why people are against it

Paul Frazee

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No we’re fully aware, but we also hold the position those problems can be fixed, and that acting like AI is evil is counterproductive and antisocial
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As @ryanfm.bsky.social and @marthaharbison.northsky.social note I did indeed see a Pileated Woodpecker in Fort Greene Park and it was absurdly silly - I was on the phone with my parents, scanning the treeline with bins and it FLEW INTO FRAME. Here's one of the bad cellphone photos Ryan mentioned.

A Pileated Woodpecker between two trunks of a big tree

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yes +1 to that! It is Roberto Catmente's favorite spot.

Roberto Catmente, a tabby with white paws, lounges on his window perch.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Duchamp out here creating generative algorithms.

The score of Duchamp's "unrealizable" piece

According to its inscription, Duchamp created this unrealizable musical piece for "a designated musical instrument (player piano, mechanical organs, or other new instruments for which the virtuoso intermediary is suppressed)." His plan for creating the score eliminated conscious intention or composition: Eighty-five numbered balls, representing the notes on ordinary pianos at the time, fall through a funnel and into little wagons moving at different speeds. The sequence in which they fall determines the order of notes in the score, which together form a "kind of new new musical alphabet."

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Roberto Catmente sends love and stripes!

Roberto Catmente, a tabby with white paws chin and belly, is laying all tangled up on an orange tuffet with his head upside-down

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And when Queens has a good flag, too!

The Queens Borough flag - blue white blue bars, a chain surrounding a yellow tulip and red rose in the center

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Plumb Beach, Black Skimmers, Least Terns, and peeps; Randazzo's, soft shell crab sandwich. A pretty perfect summer day.

A beach dune with grass below and on the left, a bush to the right, perfect blue sky above

A soft shell crab sandwich with fries in an aluminum tray. It is beautiful.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The duality! Roberto Catmente understands

Roberto Catmente aka Bobbito, a tabby cat with white paws and chest, is sprawled languorously on a wood floor while looking at the camera

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

yup! Most of the things I learned about 1970s and '80s politics and culture came from old Doonesbury and Bloom County collections. Did I understand them all at the time? Nope! But the penny dropped later. For instance: the Donald Trump arc in this Doonsbury collection!

The Doonesbury collection, "Give Those Nymphs Some Hooters!" featuring Donald Trump as David in a redoing of the Sistine Chapel ceiling; JJ, the painter, looks on below in exhaustion.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

He and Roberto Catmente could be kin!

Roberto Catmente, a tabby with white paws and chin, lays on a striped grey duvet with his eyes closed

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

But it's not just that. The Ellisons' acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery is heavily leveraged on investments from Gulf sovereign wealth funds - they're asking for a waiver of the 25% max to go to 49.5% foreign money *or as much as 100%* (3/n)

Paramount also requested FCC approval of up to 100% of “indirect aggregate foreign equity…to accommodate routine fluctuations in publicly held equity interests and to account for potential future investments.”

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is a very weird thing to post because it never happened! Bernie Sanders wasn't in the Senate until 2007, and the AUMF passed 296-133 (including Sanders) in the House, and 77-23 in the Senate. He was part of a minority who voted against it yes but there were over 150 of them!

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

they like being our little buddies and that's pretty nice

Roberto Catmente aka Bobbito, a tabby with white paws, is curled up like a cinnamon roll on a bed between blue-pant-clad legs

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Same, here's Roberto Catmente being cute.

Roberto Catmente, a tabby cat with white feet and nose, is curled up asleep facing the camera on a tan duvet with blue and white blanket in the background.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This little man literally walked in my back door last fall from the Outside; he now will only eat lamb and salmon (no chicken please and thank you) and yells at me to stay on schedule for his designated naps and cuddles.