Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 22hSomething that has been bugging me about both the A3lla and the AI alignment discourse is that we are giving these people way too much credit. Like, A3lla is not a mastermind, she's a grifter & attention hacker who found a niche servicing bigger & richer grifters & is exploiting it. Same with Yud. 1111
Reposted by Jared DunnDouglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight 17123742590
Reposted by Jared DunnSaga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 27/09/2026look I made this *incredibly* cursed image only to realize that I probably wasn't the first yet my work must not go unnoticed so look upon my works and despair 513725
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not having heard "Choosing Texas" is kinda like not having watched whatever the current top rated Police Cops procedural is on broadcast TV. I mean, you should know it exists and what the existence of a large (but much smaller than the monoculture-era) audience for it means, but otherwise? Why? 030
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yikes, the state-media-like Trump agitprop ad is airing on almost every break during the NFL broadcast today, "funded by the US Government". This is all pretty obviously failing, but it's also not, y'know, ending. The vibes, they are rancid. 020
Reposted by Jared DunnSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Each of these incidents is being framed as a success — a terrifying success that you must believe in and fear— rather than what it is as a criminal failure of ethics and institutional control. 814634
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you're so worried about existential AI risk, you could simply not give Claude a wet lab. Or a lot of the other access to vital external systems and infrastructure that you are freely giving it. 010
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The computer system isn't going to decide to murder us all. They are. 061
Reposted by Jared DunnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What we see again and again from the modern American elite is the insistence on receiving the prerogatives and deference due to their positions without any of the accompanying obligations. 11598128
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Trump's ability to make his whim a (partial) reality through control over the Geographic Names Information System might have something to say about what unaccountable authoritarian power over AI models is capable of. Just maybe.usconstitution.netCan Trump Rename Lake Ontario With an Executive Order?An executive order can change how the U.S. federal government labels things, but it cannot rewrite international borders, treaties, or what Canada calls a Great Lake. The “Lake America” fight is reall... 210
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026*gets super excited about postmodernism and the radical freedom to play with and recombine ideas and symbols as an undergrad* *reads Foucault's Pendulum* Oh. Oh no. 1266
Reposted by Jared DunnNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 25/08/2026if infrastructure is what connects people, holds them together, serves, supports, and endures, then Dolly Parton was infrastructure. 16951239
Reposted by Jared DunnAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135098679
Reposted by Jared Dunnmore mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026nobody freak out, it was able to stop in time 551347
Reposted by Jared Dunnmore mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026well i doubt anyone on this app will be very interested but my friend sent over some Big Garfield travel pics 2547901036
Reposted by Jared DunnJoe Posnanski @joeposnanski.com · 23/08/2026Look do you want that money to go to libraries or to build a prison for the Browns to play in? 21447456
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I don't think you have to debate them, but you do have to organize and defeat them professionally and politically. The institutional firewalls are not holding, "truth" is socially and politically constructed, and things can clearly both be run on a radically different basis and get far worse. 000
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you don't give up a hit to the batter before him who is hitting .150 then Arozarena never gets a chance to do this 😩 000
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026re: the "spreadsheet people" AI kerfuffle, my bottom line on this has been that if this is totally revolutionizing multiple fields, making everyone immensely more productive, etc., then where is the end product? Where's the profusion of cool cheap/free new tools, where are all the new advances? 120
Reposted by Jared DunnDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If you believe this shit, I have a metaverse to sell you. 2222427
Reposted by Jared DunnDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Real “Charlie Brown had hoes” energy to this one. “Everyone will have a personalized tutor and coach with a PhD in every subject.” …No they won’t. That’s not true. 71307
Reposted by Jared DunnLibrary Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"A 17.3% annual increase is not inflation. It’s economic extraction from institutions which cannot take a pass on popular content without community blowback. Libraries cannot substitute. For bestselling titles, there is no alternative product." personanondata.substack.com/p/killing-me...personanondata.substack.comKilling Me QuietlyLibrary Ebook Lending Is Not Killing the Book Market. Publisher Pricing Is Killing Library Budgets 074
Reposted by Jared DunnLisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012 11361208
Reposted by Jared Dunnvortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in 11848195
Reposted by Jared Dunnjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126027993
Reposted by Jared DunnKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us. 9516189
Reposted by Jared DunnMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault. 10052911417
Reposted by Jared DunnKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The epistemic crisis will be experienced as a series of short form videos of natiral disasters viewing on your phone until you are/aren't in one and a procedurally generated lie makes it impossible for people observing from afar to trust if the peril is real or hallucinated. 527170
Reposted by Jared DunnBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters 573111557
Reposted by Jared Dunn#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23/07/2026*People need to understand the Gray Zone. The Gray Zone is the apotheosis of ethnonational modernity. If you love exclusive national borders, this is THE border *If you're not interested in it, it's very interested in you *It can go anywhere that smoke goes www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...reuters.comInside Ukraine’s Kill ZoneDrones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter... 44313
Reposted by Jared DunnDefector @defector.com · 22/07/2026By adopting and perverting methods of agitation honed by labor unions, police exert a veto power over democracy.defector.comHow Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments | DefectorEven before his historic election as New York City’s mayor in November 2025, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani had reportedly begun searching for “common ground” with the city’s rank-and-file… 0499
Reposted by Jared Dunn#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 20/07/2026*There's no boots-on-the-ground, no color revolution, no seizing of city hall and radio stations *it's the methodical, unmanned destruction of circuitry and power sources, of electronics, components, surveillance, communications, space antennas, fuel and electrical power 0203
Reposted by Jared Dunn#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 20/07/2026*I don't wanna pick fights with Bluesky zealots pro-slop or antislop; I just already know what an AI-war looks like *It looks like Crimea today. No Internet, no electrical power, iffy water and food, blown-up bridges, maybe some ration-card QR-codes *Already here. Awaiting distribution 34812
Reposted by Jared Dunn#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 20/07/2026*What's going on right now is that the insupportable AI-Bubble is getting methodically replaced by an Armaments Bubble, and there's gonna be every kind of "AI-Productivity" there, too *The Long Hot Summer of AI is getting stale, there's a whole new set of arguments on the way 0258
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Like, Power Law gonna Power Law, but I still have trouble wrapping my head around that paying Shams $20m or whatever does better than the in-depth coverage of all 30 teams that you could pay for instead, especially when you can't get that coverage from the local paper anymore either. 010
Reposted by Jared DunnRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It sucks that ESPN is choosing to pay a small handful of personalities $50 million a year and cutting costs elsewhere. I’m sure they have data saying those guys move the needle but it feels like a long-term disaster to invest everything in 3-5 guys when you could fund a robust media ecosystem 66935114
Reposted by Jared DunnDefector @defector.com · 21/07/2026Trans girl baseball makes me a better woman:defector.comTrans Girl Baseball Makes Me A Better Woman | DefectorTaking care to avoid the team-picking system of our schoolyard memories, Lilah Maravi divided us into two sides of about 20. It was a pleasant Sunday in June—Father’s Day—and we had gathered at our… 0583
Reposted by Jared DunnAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow. 7780257
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026davidlabaree.com/2025/09/29/e... I'm going to go with undivided (or at least much more loosely divided) time. Living mostly according to the natural rhythms and inclinations of our bodies & minds. Outside of monasteries & elites, the modern time system really only dates to the advent of railroads.davidlabaree.comE.P. Thompson: Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial CapitalismThis post is a tribute to a wonderful essay by the great British historian of working-class history, E. P. Thompson. His classic work is The Making of the English Working Class, published in 1966.… 050
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Cuz what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds… 020
Reposted by Jared DunnJ. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I have been thinking about writing about the end of Vannevar Bush’s postwar vision in “As We May Think” where science and technology serve the common good of humanity. The NSF & the Open Web are under deep risk, it’s not coincidental that it’s happening at the same time, & it’s not too late 1514
Reposted by Jared DunnJ. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Losing Google Search is not the loss of a public good - it’s the loss of a rent seeking extractor that enclosed our information & sold the story that it was providing a public good. But rebooting real public goods Google ate will not be easy. 234861
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Part of what makes me feel insane marinating in the AI discourse is that there really is a technological singularity in progress, and it's called unlimited cheap energy with greatly reduced externalities. It's just happening slower in the US because we're flirting with becoming a fascist petrostate. 2154
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. We didn’t deserve to leave this WC with good national vibes, and we will not. 0122
Reposted by Jared DunnAdam Whittaker Snavely @snaves.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Some real old-school USMNT vibes tonight, you got to hand it to them 08112
Reposted by Jared DunnSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”youtu.be‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPRYouTube video by NPR 2124561163
