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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 45m

First lunch, and then a walk for coffee, before I settle in again at my computer and refresh all 29 job board tabs

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 58m

Seen doctors talk about AI transcription tools like they've found The One

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 2h

Nosing around a web server again, checking old apache configs, wondering where my life went wrong

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 13h

Follow businesses you might like

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 21h

“They tried to make me run for office, I said”

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 21h

A friend asked me if I’d ever considered running for office. I smiled and said no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 21h

They do really good work making problems

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 22h

Maybe police shouldn’t be allowed to have or be near dogs

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 29/09/2026

The terror in their eyes when it hits them that I know things about their field … hope this works for others though

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 29/09/2026

This is all to say I don’t think there are magic words or one-off interventions to get people, men, to change. I think there is conversion, and I think infrastructure can prompt conversion, and we can do both or either, but we have to want them and then we have to commit to them

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 29/09/2026

Of course power becomes its own end, and there is no adequate amount of money, and nobody wants to slip down a rung they’ve just climbed up. But as long as there’s a ladder to climb, people will want to climb it, because of what it promises, which is the power to look down on those still stuck below

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 29/09/2026

What’s at stake is the possibility of becoming somebody with the clout and the resources to dictate other people’s experience. If you experience other people as pests or as obstacles to your sense of peace, there’s a certain appeal in having the authority to remove them at a snap of your fingers

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 29/09/2026

A universal income floor and ceiling would go a ways towards blunting the social+professional ambitions that fund a number of forms of physical violence. Elite opposition would be violent, as wealth is targeted for redistribution, and popular opposition would be massive as paths to power are blocked

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 29/09/2026

Note well: dissatisfaction with the current system =/= endorsement of any particular alternative

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Are they uh aware of how it’s going at the federal level

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

There’s a pastry in the case that’s frosted like a pop tart but without the berry filling. Solid crust, according to the barista. I don’t know what people are thinking

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Looking at Ben’s photo up there I think I know what he looked like as a baby

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Making unresolved personal issues everybody’s problem is the primary function of the Portland Metro Chamber

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Jon is sad he’s not allowed to yell at city council members anymore

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Very bold of the Democrats of the Oregon state legislature to fail to pass a transportation package

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

I'm interested in identifying the religious antecedents of commonplace political ideas and expressions so that we have better resources at our disposal for dealing with them. Collectively I don't think we've moved on from religion and religious habits of thought, not like we think we have

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

I don't disagree about how much air Christian nationalism sucks up or the need of religious literacy efforts. But I don't fixate on the supremacism/nationalism problem and I'm the wrong person to complain about it to. I've studied it and I understand its role in our history. It's not my Thing

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

I might say instead that U.S. political culture has used Christianity, the language and symbolism of Christianity, as a medium for representing and debating ideas. Not a monolithic unified Christianity, but competing strands of Christian thought. Sam Alito is Christian, but so was John Brown

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

My own sense is that so-called religious impulses persist across generations, finding new outlets and expressions outside of formal religiosity

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

In light of where we’re finding ourselves, as a culture, it’s worth asking whether we have ever been secular

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Take care to mind where this thread leads you, what it opens up in your thinking and about your thinking

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Let me know if you need an endorsement

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

One of my best marinaras tonight

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

I hope the mayor isn’t implicated

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 28/09/2026

Someone should print up a parody front page of the NW Examiner in the style of the National Enquirer with a bunch of scandalous claims, big yellow text

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

I was maybe three or four years and you’d better believe that duck came home with me

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

Feels like the time at the county fair when I picked a plastic duck from the pond but they tried to give me a stuffed animal instead of the duck

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

Saw a sign for a store called “JunkFood” that sells … dry goods. I am sincerely heartbroken

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

The answer to the “liberal arts is a panacea” discourse is the same as the answer to the “engineers studying history” discourse — there are no neutral disciplines, there are no non-ideological disciplines, we are never not tasked with doing our best to identify and understand the ideologies at play

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

Systems and technologies represent and propagate the perspectives of their inventors. They’re little ethics-propagation machines. They aren’t neutral because the people who made them aren’t

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

Real paradox of tolerance hours

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

Unless we’re fine with TESCREAL and its products gobbling us up along with everything we love about life and the earth, we’re going to have to start declaring sacred spaces where it’s prohibited. “EA not welcome here”

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

I think this is more reflective of certain tendencies, and those chapters in which these tendencies are overwhelmingly represented, than the big tent at large

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

The feel-good imperialism thing is what these guys are on about. Big medieval lords and ladies cosplay nerds, back then. Not sure what these guys are into

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

“Muscular Christianity” emerged in 19th c England as an antidote to the Enlightened liberalizing of Christianity, with its German philosophy and historical Biblical criticism. It involved athletics and bodybuilding and it gave rise to the YMCA and renewed fervor for the British imperialist project

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 27/09/2026

Bunch of finches and bees were far too busy chowing down on some nice lavender this morning to mind me watching

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 26/09/2026

I could not get people to care about this shit or reflect on this shit. What the fuck

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Justin @justinskolnick.com · 26/09/2026

Alright so yes I’m insane but could twitter lurker Robert Prevost have read my tweets circa 2016-19? Because holy shit: “and how it classifies people and situations. If a system is designed or used in a way that treats some lives as less worthy, or excludes them without the possibility of appeal …”

boundaries of human possibilities. In this process, political responsibility is also lost, not just empathy toward those excluded, which can, after all, be simulated. The exclusion of the vulnerable becomes cloaked in a veneer of neutrality and objectivity, against which it becomes difficult to raise objections. In this way, injustice goes un-noticed, and compassion, mercy and forgiveness—understood not as mere appearances but as real political actions-gradually disappear from view.

104. From this follows a simple but compelling consequence: we cannot consider Al to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. If a system is designed or used in a way that treats some lives as less wor-thy, or excludes them without the possibility of appeal, then it is not merely a tool "to be used well," since it has already introduced criteria that contradict the inalienable dignity of the human person. For this reason, ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes; it must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. (126)

105. For Al to respect human dignity and truly serve the common good, responsibility must be clearly defined at every stage: from those who design and develop these systems to those who use them and rely on them for concrete decisions. In many cases, however, the internal processes leading to a result remain obague making it harder to assign responsibility and correct errors. This is where accountability becomes crucial: the possibility of identifying who must account" for decisions, justify them, monitor them, and, when

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