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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have this conversation frequently, and when I do I myself look for other metaphors apart from stochastic parrot to describe an LLM in reaction to all of the Discourse that has accumulated around it over the years. This is a much better way to approach that problem by affirming it again

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

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Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights. Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them, through shame, intimidation, threats, discrediting, the obscene legal instrument known as a nondisclosure agreement and a system too often run by men for men at the expense of women and children. That is to say, rapists count on getting away with it because of a system that hands them power and steals it from their victims. They count on a silencing system. On profound inequality.

Which is what makes rape such a peculiar crime: it is the ritual enactment of the perpetrator’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, buttressed by the circumstances that puts and keeps each of them in those roles. It’s driven by the desire to use sexuality to cause physical and psychic injury, to dominate, to celebrate the rapist’s power and the victim’s powerlessness, to treat another human being as a person without rights, including the right to set boundaries, to say no and to speak up afterward. A society that perpetuates and protects this desire and arrangement is rape culture, and it’s been our culture throughout most of its existence.

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

reminder: John Woolman was a real American and is right there

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There’s a remarkable amount of triumphalist, smugly self-congratulatory rhetoric in the chief’s Slaughter opinion. And I’m curious how it’ll register in 5-10 years when it’s recognized as the reason the United States is not allowed to have a neutral, nonpartisan body of experts that regulates AI.

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Peak New York. With all of the energy of a real fan, watching this I immediately feel like a New Yorker again If your mayor can't do this, leave 'em

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Imagine reading this article and thinking Gender Studies is unnecessary as an academic discipline. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

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For His 80th Birthday, Trump Brought a Cage Match to the White House Lawn

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The leftist that *hates* "bourgeois" art (which basically signifies anything exhibited or performed with the support of institutions, even grant funded) and is zealous about it is most reactionary to the forms of resistance that everyone seeks even under the most brutal oppression. "not like that"

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Software development in the age of Claude Code

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"A culture that cannot see through its images, that literalizes and instrumentalizes them, has already surrendered the imaginative ground from which transformative political life grows."

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Always appreciate this point. "Meritocracy, by design, creates winners and losers. The more rigorous and competitive the promotion system, the larger the pool of losers who do not advance", and "when a leader offers them a second chance..the offer is not primarily ideological. It is professional."

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The real damage comes years later, with elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issues. This is chemical warfare, with delayed carnage. Worse than radiation sickness. I am ashamed to be American today. 2/2

Would it have been so much worse if it had been a nuke? Consider the fact that birth deficiencies and rates of leukemia and cancer in Iraq, post 2003- invasion, are worse than what was observed in Hiroshima. In Japan, rates of leukemia rose by 660% in the years following the bomb. In Falluja, it increased by 2,200%. The toxicity of war has never been greater, and we are in no way reckoning with
the scope of the horror that's been unleashed.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/03/2026

If you want to talk about LLMs being of use to people who aren't Musk and Altman and Zuckerberg, you have to talk about *power*, and how others could have it. You have to describe a credible alternative political economy. The bits and bytes don't actually mean shit without that.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

and also the one desperately seeking an Alcibiades

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"Only a fragile rupture, an ontological stutter, separates us from the LLM’s inexorable symbolic drift. The machine is not alien, it is not something from another register. It is an obscene double, a grotesque parody of our own linguistic structure, our own obsessive metonymic chains." indeed

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When the Machine Free Associates: Psychoanalysis in the Age of AI - European Journal of Psychoanalysis

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"zealots are tugging the strings feeding the id and starving the ego choking the light right out" thanks, Maynard

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Puscifer - "The Quiet Parts" (Visualizer)

YouTube video by pusciferdotcom

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Faculty Writing | Hannah Leffingwell | "The Dismantling of the New School" | @Jacobin | buff.ly/pBi5RgQ

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.

What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Sometimes I wonder: isn't the enjoyment of losing coupled with a faith in the cunning of reason what binds the left together though?

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

and I assume there is a billiard room

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

In the critical discourse around AI and water it has also seemed to me that the premise is that data centers will become just like golf courses, which have always been disasters for water usage in the Arizona desert. The people "making a fuss" will again be treated as "no one" once they are built

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

spirit is a statistical correlation

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

pretty sure this has been my daily mood this year (or however many years it has been)

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Book of Flowers: No. 5, Outcry

YouTube video by Conrad Tao - Topic

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

The history of human progress is, in many ways,
the history of technology's diffusion. Among these
advances, a few-what economists call general-purpose
technologies-have had the greatest impact on humanity.
The printing press democratized knowledge. The steam
engine powered industry. Electricity transformed daily
life and enabled computing. And the internet connected
the world, accelerating the exchange of ideas, trade, and
collaboration across borders.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/11/2025

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Let's see how many First Amendment violations we have in this one edict: Religion ✔️ Speech ✔️ Peaceably assemble ✔️ Petition the government for redress of grievances ✔️ Press ❓(not quite, but they'll figure out a way)

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 28/10/2025

As millions of Americans are about to lose their SNAP benefits, I am reminded of this quote by Emma Goldman: "Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

There may be too many think-pieces about Thiel's intellectual background, but this essay is the most insightful. Long but worth it. It also has a sentence that could serve as evergreen tagline about him: "Thiel overlooks the opportunity for self-examination" salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/117...

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From Philosophy To Power - Salmagundi Magazine

René Girard’s Legacy This past summer, I was surprised to encounter a face I knew in two most unexpected places. The first was in a photo montage accompanying an article written by Josh Kovensky of...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"No matter which way it goes—taking the Senate or the fall of democracy—whatever the eventuality, the work remains the same."

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I would also add: - a signifier as that which represents a subject for another signifier Phrases Democrats should definitely use more often: - "as we all know, desire is always the desire of the Other"

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Brian Jenkins @jenkinsaway.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"Since action has escaped human control and gone over to things, there is no more universal maxim of willing. Rather, there is only a universal maxim of things: “have and use only those things, the inherent maxims of which could become your own maxims and thus the maxims of a general law.”"

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