Reposted by JacobDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 8hAlso: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects. 666789
Reposted by Jacobae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14hwhat is important is that trump’s secretary of defense is a glorified crossfit influencer that has placed a higher importance on screening men for low testosterone and kicking trans service members out of the military than the normal functions of his job 216118
Reposted by JacobSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12hSuch a good Nobel Prize! Francis Halzen is a great person, and “let’s turn the Antarctic ice sheet into a neutrino detector” is the kind of idea that deserves a Prize if you can pull it off. 216828
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 21h"Your first day as a Piston, you gotta walk up to the other team's enforcer and choke him out. It's the only way they'll respect you there." 000
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Going back and listening to a 30 year old rap album is usually disappointing because there's a better-than-average chance that it has homophobic lyrics that I had forgotten about, even from conscious rappers. 000
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I assumed this sort of thing was happening when Will Stancil was tailing an ICE vehicle and they drove past his apartment and pointed at it to let him know that they know where he lives. 000
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Reddit is melting down because they think he's a bum and we're not going to be able to trade the contract, but there were multiple teams willing to trade for him right now with these contract demands, and he's a 22 year old 20/10 All-Star, so letting him sign the QO then leave would be a disaster. 000
Reposted by Jacobrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026sure. he has retrofitted a model of artificial intelligence which is mathematically impossible in order to speak about artificial intelligence which actually exists, then used a metaphysics which is so insane that it is virtually impossible to explain to another person to predict doom. 867588
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I actually remember watching that Warriors vs Hawks game pretty well. It was the night Steph dropped 60 and joined Kobe as the only players to have a 60 point game at age 35+. It's too bad Jack Smith wasn't at that game because it was one for the books! 000
Reposted by JacobPatrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Someday, someone's going to have to do a study on what happened with social media in 2024 to essentially get Trump's Gen Z support to peak precisely in November (after being incredibly low both before and after). A lot of this stuff is the algorithms, but how much was intentional manipulation? 41094
Reposted by Jacobrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there is an invisible seam running between men who tolerate this stuff and those who don't, determined relatively early by your first objection 1242333
Reposted by JacobKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 767286775988
Reposted by JacobJohn Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 29/09/2026I will never, ever forget that during the pandemic the government just direct deposited money into parents' checking accounts without anyone filing any extra paperwork. It cut child poverty in half. Then a year later Congress just let it expire. 0205
Reposted by Jacobrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible 302066313
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My headcanon is that Choosing Texas is about noted Texan Megan Thee Stallion 000
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think this is the most powerful argument against that particular flavor of racism and theophite is the only person I ever see talking about it. 010
Reposted by JacobLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026one thing i have to remind myself about politics as a profession is that many of its practitioners have achieved their status only by demonstrating a willingness for self-abasement that is as far outside the norm as NBA players are unusually tall. 41127
Reposted by Jacobwhoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026honestly i'd be a lot more confused if a site full of 38 year old parents and various weird nerds had its finger on the pulse of popular culture. 021
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Halt and Catch Fire belongs in the top 4 with Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Mad Men. Community is also way too low. 000
Reposted by JacobDaniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Maslow's hierarchy of political needs puts posting and podcasting ahead of being president, in congress, or the richest person in the world. We all think we have it in us: the post that will Change Everything. 072
Reposted by JacobJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every time there’s a mass shooting, people circulate those posts reminding everyone how to avoid spreading false information in the first chaotic hours. We need one of those for AI stories. 6495112
Reposted by JacobFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026I genuinely feel bad for Eliezer Yudkowsky and his partner over the very real terror they seem to feel about AI killing us all - but these are not well people and they need therapy, not insanely influential advisory roles at the top of government and industry. time.com/6266923/ai-e... 544152
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So he got fucked up on drugs and told his girlfriend and probably the President that he used lasers from space to rig the election and they both believed him, and the latter let him do a little genocide in Africa as a reward. 000
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This guy had the same reaction I usually have when somebody tells me what our President said. 000
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Being half Yooper myself, I'm very disappointed to learn that he's one of ours. 000
Reposted by Jacobg0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 137149533451
Reposted by JacobMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Do you want Lysenkoism? Because that’s how you get Lysenkoism. 1826760
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I was 10 when Sterling Sharpe got injured it traumatized me so much that now I expect the worst whenever I see a Packer go down with an apparent neck injury. Hope Reed is okay. 100
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As soon as "keep trans women out of sports" gained some traction with the electorate, some of the same people started floating "and also, women should not be playing sports" 000
Reposted by JacobJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 20/09/2026So, look… politicians have a long history of mixing up the three “can’ts” of engineering (I.e. “you can but you shouldn’t” vs. “you can but it will be very hard/I don’t want to” vs. “you actually can’t“) But on this one I think they have correctly identified that the labs just don’t want to. 212715
Reposted by Jacobellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 19/09/2026you best start believing in Battlestar Effect Terminator Matrix, you're living in it 151
Reposted by JacobShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The thing about letting some piss for brains groyper run your advertising department is that his racist ad will appeal to a bunch of other groypers whose parents refuse to buy them shoes meanwhile someone like me who buys about 2 pairs of Chuck Taylors a month will never give you business ever again 241065151
Reposted by JacobNeil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026As I saw in comments elsewhere, someone should also put Ritchson in a Wolfenstein TV show 4814
Reposted by JacobShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026There is a dog barking on the street somewhere outside and you will notice I am also not interested in what is upsetting him. He can be upset as he likes. that's a him problem. 219510
Reposted by JacobErika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Every advertising image is part of a larger photo shoot, but someone at Converse specifically selected and edited the photo to look this way. 1151
Reposted by Jacob"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Embrace 'they do not have enough goons' thought. 1773897
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thinking about the time Nas performed Illmatic with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvJj...youtube.comNas: Live from the Kennedy Center PBSYouTube video by TheGlebaa 010
Reposted by JacobHal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It isn't explicit, but we've seen this pattern before. 1) Black Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer's 2) Scientists want to study Black communities to figure out why and what insights this has for treatment/cause 3) Trump people cut the program, most likely because they think it's DEI. 151479472
Reposted by JacobThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is the most masculine video on the internet right now 336185555075
Reposted by JacobStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I know racism is a hell of a drug, but it always stuns me how casually African studies are dismissed. It's a whole damn continent. It's got over a billion and a half people. Some of the shit in your phone comes from there. Somebody probably ought to know something about the place. 13573111
Reposted by JacobMajestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Aella is fighting gyges about if ai safety is just a sex cult” You bolt awake in a tub of pink goo. Everything is online. It is an unknown date. You are Thomas Anderson, and the simulation is breaking. It is too late to stop the future. 2293
Reposted by JacobSebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I love getting to know a plant. First step on my list is always "can it self pollinate?". This one is important because I can descend ideal traits and stabilize wonky ones. Feels good to start fresh. 081
Reposted by JacobYakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think there will have to be some kind of massive wealth tax -- I don't think it does much fiscally but it would be impossible to ask for sacrifices of the broader public without one. 619721
Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yeah, well Greg Nice says "too much of anything makes you addict." 000