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This is the result of optimizing for optics in a kakistocracy.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 6h

This site is so fixated on "the South exporting the Confederacy" or whatever people forget "the North" has been exporting culture for so long and so well that nobody even recognizes it. For example Rutgers and Princeton played the first college football game.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 6h

America’s Dugin, I guess

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 6h

Exactly what I expected was going to happen when I saw his video.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two things can be true at the same time and they are this: Dominique Pelicot is an obvious example that the underlying problem is by no means anything uniquely American, but also, as someone who didn't grow up in America, I found US college drinking culture incomprehesible, shocking, and abhorrent.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2015 was the year I wrote an essay titled “The end of Techno-Joy“ after returning from that year’s SXSW, having previously attended the 2007 one where Twitter was born.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you get confused by a human interaction into doing something with an unintended, deleterious outcome thats a scam, but when u get confused by a computer interaction into doing it, thats everything working as intended.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's really upsetting how many people working on digital products and services have open contempt for the users, and humanity in general. This is all connected.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You might enjoy the first edition of Conversational Design, which is a free download while I figure out how to address all the current fuckery in the 2nd ed. It's about designing things for humans, and why not to shove every interaction through a literal chat. www.mulebooks.com/conversation...

mulebooks.com

Conversational Design — MULE BOOKS

The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By so many fundamental HCI principles, chatbot LLMs are simply bad software. But the magic trick of plausible information extrusion makes it an exception somehow. (Not that major tech companies haven’t been ignoring a ton of those fundamentals for years anyway… but still)

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This aspect is so striking. So many people who identify as "UX" designers are jumping through hoops to rationalize and justify this turn.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI UX conventions rn, from the idea that regular ppl understand the implications of permissions to model selection are so absurd.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Our culture taught generations of women to flush menstrual fluid away as waste. Meanwhile, scientists now collect it because it may offer a noninvasive window into uterine health and a promising source of cells for research." substack.com/@drbrighten/...

substack.com

The Witches Are Doing Fieldwork

Period blood, moon water, the Voynich manuscript, and what happens when women start keeping records again.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is actually the way.

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still just ❤️ that quote. Can be applied to so much coming from the current occupants of the White House. 👏 “People try to come up with a rationale to justify their dislike of things they dislike for other reasons."

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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Any sufficiently generalized subtweet is indistinguishable from cultural critique.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are a lot of things to be angry about, but I don't want to spend my one, precious life angry. First of all, hyperarousal is just really not that great for you.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all he's done to help us win, I should name a drone exclusively used to target civilians after Donald.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These changes in federal education loaning have closed out the most significant factor in upward mobility for Americans, and not enough people are talking about it.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder that federal loans are now capped at $65k total for undergrads, $20.5k/year for grad students & $50k/year ($200k lifetime limit) for professional programs (med, law). These limits change which programs remain financially viable without family wealth or private loans.

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was interviewed by Sam Woodson for @theguardian.com. Excellent piece on how testosterone is being used by the U.S. government as regressive propaganda. Vaccines are liberal and TRT is MAGA. The needle is apolitical but.... Cc @caulfieldtim.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Quote from me: "The needle is apolitical but the content of the syringe is decided by who you vote for.”

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I need you to understand that she still managed to escape after I had bricked up the passageway. LITERALLY HOW

A fluffy frenchie looking around a stack of bricks blocking a ledge.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I dont know how to explain it but all the stories abt people creating coercive social environments to control other people via belonging threat feel like the same story

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Interventions aimed at reducing affective polarization ... often promote empathy and perspective-taking across ideological divides *without considering whether the underlying attitudes sustain or undermine the very conditions that allow for democratic discourse and evidence-based reasoning*."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Authoritarian, conservative, and reactionary networks have been among the principal drivers of the surge in distrust, conspiracism, and anti-scientific sentiment." Yes: contemporary polarization is driven by a deliberate campaign to destroy trust in core institutions & epistemic standards.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The premise of effective altruism is that the people alive now dont actually matter because the theoretical people who may be alive later matter more, so I feel like if that’s the spaces ur trying to succeed in, there’s no guarantee u are the person who doesnt matter.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop biting our style, East Coast!

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ragebait to the right of me, wreckers to the left.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can’t you. bsky.app/profile/prop...

Jenka @babiejenks • Mar 13, 2020
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When chernobyl happened, my father got ahold of a radio that somehow let him pick up a broadcast being put on by the bbc so that he could find out what was really happening.

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 26/09/2026

This is one of those painful examples of why @krusynth.bsky.social’s “Move Carefully and Fix Things” is so important. People who work on gov systems that impact lives have a responsibility to ‘Do No Harm’ because if you f’k up it has *consequences*

But others carried on. One vendor, Zyter, had data discrepancies for months because it apparently didn't understand the difference between Medicare Part A, which covers inpatient/hospital care, and Part B, which covers outpatient services. Zyter's CEO, Sundar Subramanian, told Ars Technica in a written statement that the company is now "fully functional across Medicare Part A and Part B claims." The company is working closely with federal partners and the healthcare providers to
"enhance the experience," Subramanian said.

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are living in an extremely violent era, in an extraordinarily violent war-making culture. […] We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a more peaceable culture. I’m sure I am.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyway, I've seen the future, and AI isn't going to kill a billion people. It's just going to become a seamless, background part of everyday life. The Federation-Klingon War is going to kill a billion people.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching this trailer I couldn't help but feel like this isn't just a documentary about Musk, but a documentary about a species that achieves space flight, and what happens to them after. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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