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Jen Costillo

@rebelbotjen.bsky.social
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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast host, Artistic Director of Cat Machines Dance, and Voiceover Talent. I guess I do engineering too (Project Jacquard, pixel buds and more) @rebelbotjen, @catmachinesSF, @unnamed_show, @rebelJenVo

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17h
What do you get when @Negativlandland.bsky.social brings its sound collage, sampling and cultural mischief to the Internet Archive? 🎛️📚 KQED’s Gabe Meline reviews the collision of experimental music, technology, fair use and the strange business of preserving culture. www.kqed.org/arts/1399397...
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At the Internet Archive, Negativland Reminds the World Why They Matter | KQED
Two Bay Area institutions came together for a night of soundscapes, sampling and discussion about art.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 21h
It’s time. Still no pumpkin in here and let’s no get into why not chai spice but enjoy what comes this autumn.
Hotel chocolate pumpkin spice drinking chocolate packet opened and in front of a black 
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
Trying to explain an Internet freedom issue to family or friends? Check out EFF's page with a bunch of one-pager handouts to help you learn about different subjects and share with the people around you! www.eff.org/pages/eff-o...
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EFF One-Pager Handouts
Keeping up on all of the information surrounding privacy and free speech on the internet can be challenging whether trying to educate someone in your life, providing resources to your community, or
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404 Media @404media.co · 02/10/2026
The massive FBI hack; a company wants to add facial recognition onto Flock; and Muse in some cases is actually just people.
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Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
The massive FBI hack; a company wants to add facial recognition onto Flock; and Muse in some cases is actually just people.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t care what you think but the “don’t F with grandmas” episode of Nora from Queens should not be missed.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m very disappointed that this documentary about George Michael has an expert talking about the Wham! period and refuses to title them “noted Whamologist” Really big miss there.
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Wisconsin Resist @wisconsinresist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social vs Tom Tiffany on LGBTQ+ issues:
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Honey, you are slowly killing me…” “But lovingly…”
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“He loves the song sweet Caroline” What?!? Really? That’s horrible. “I know…. He’s a nihilist. “ What?!? “Amsterdam is France’s south Beloit”
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All I’m saying is if you are generating your own future blackmail material, don’t go so far as to use a green sceen, After Effects, and Logic before realizing this is a bad idea. Do it before you use these products.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yay for California labeling AI in commercials. Yay for the discourse around AI. Yet confusingly tech grabbed every idea from sci-fi(in many cases verbatim). The fucking conventiently ignored Asimov 3 rules 🤖 to be built in at a baseline. The 📉 of a “classical” & siloed education 🔩 us again.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When you celebrate a households wins: www.wanderlustmobilebooks.com Also what happens when you go to a bar to cowork and watch the world jigsaw puzzle championships
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WanderLust Mobile Books
WanderLust Mobile Books is a bookstore on wheels. Bringing romance reads to the Madison, WI area.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here’s what Tom Tiffany doesn’t want you to know about his position on AI.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey Bluesky! Could you help me spread the word about my Patreon? Signing up will allow me create more fabric art monsters and creatures. As a patron, you'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun, bizarre posts. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.
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Tomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
new book just landed on my bench: The Secret Life of Circuits, by @lcamtuf ! (soldering iron not included)
illustrated cover of the book. it's a cartoon halftone rendering of a woman blowing smoke off the end of a soldering iron. the soldering iron is close to the No Starch Press logo, which is a clothing iron, somewhat ironically.
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Pete @ptk2k5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This was sent to me! Pretty cool #vcfmw video!
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure why F Galton is coming up so much… podcasts… PBS independent lens… so depressingly reflecting on my time in SV.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here! Let me clumsily announce the audition I’m holding 9/20. I’m seeking #dancers for Nov and Feb show (3 separate ones, actually). Sign up here: forms.gle/6d1XHUHhjHi7... Audition is at IDC center for dance at 2709 E Wash in #madison
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Pete @ptk2k5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's been a hell of a ride! bithistory.org/2026/09/14/f...
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From One Room to 100,000 Square Feet: The Growth of VCF Midwest | BitHistory.org
From a single room on a college campus in 2010 to 100,000 square feet in 2026, the growth of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is pretty incredible to see.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sorry I’m clearly slow on learning that Gov & tech can only imagine solutions that are in media- movies, books… but not to learn from the “mistakes” of the heroes but to galvanize them as a response, solution, the acceptable thing. No wonder can image women as scientists or PoC as central characters
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In our household we refer to the show “Silicon Valley” a lot. Burger. Kiiiing comes up a lot. <Arguing about a Virtual Insanity video joke which comes down to missing part of popular culture> “If you have to explain the joke it’s not funny” “It’s not my fault you are Lack. King. Culture.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
At no point does any think “hmmm should I be getting closer to mirroring an episode of black mirror or my favorite dystopian sci-fi? Should I be applying to my procument process the lessons of these?” The short answer is “nah skip it”
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KIM-1 @kim-6502.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Chuck Peddle pitched the 6502 at WESCON 1975 for $25. The 6800 cost $175. Motorola reps stood in the aisles trying to convince engineers the cheap chip couldn't work. It worked. Within two years it was in the Apple II, the PET, and the Atari VCS. Price disruption before anyone had a word for it.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To put a finer point on it: he is right.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Had a great time at #vcfmw Got to see so many friends And get lost in commodore stuff mega65 or pending ultra … But didn’t take many pics
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey Dane county? Do you enjoy some climara or estradiol patches? Can you get your hands on them of late? No? Is this a supply chain issue as it impacts multiple pharmacies? Is it a production or import issue?
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here! Let me clumsily announce the audition I’m holding 9/20. I’m seeking #dancers for Nov and Feb show (3 separate ones, actually). Sign up here: forms.gle/6d1XHUHhjHi7... Audition is at IDC center for dance at 2709 E Wash in #madison
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sure lots of other people have said this, but if I worked for a company on a product that I thought had a >10% chance of killing all humans within the next decade and we had no plan for how to stop it, I would quit and devote myself full time to destroying this product.
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CausticMF @causticmf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
WHAT HE SAID! <3
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/09/2026
If laws have weak enforcement mechanisms, companies factor that low risk into the cost of doing business and keep violating our privacy, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @mercurynews.com. “Unless companies face serious consequences for violating our rights, they’re unlikely to put privacy ahead of profits.”
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California’s new privacy system depends on data brokers with a poor record of following the law: Stanford research
Stanford researchers found widespread privacy-law compliance failures among data brokers now required to delete Californians’ personal information.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Again the time is nigh! Who doth attend the Festival Difference Engine of Yore? #vcfmw Provide thine shire where wares are offered.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#Madison Experimental #dance Incubator returns this Fall, November 9th 7pm for Cycle 3: Hope. Submissions are now open. medi.catmachinesdance.com/event/submit...
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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#vcfmw looks like we'll have to load both Subarus with stuff to sell. #computers #ibmpc
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Subaru Girls Band Cry
ALT: Subaru Girls Band Cry
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Betty - play 🌌AstraX🌌 please @neutronio.games · 07/09/2026
The thing with AI is much like when Radium☢️ was discovered in 1898. It was used in paint, glass, advertised as healthy, without care or knowledge of the actual costs it came with. Historically, capitalists jumped into trends to sell a fancy new technology thing that just happen to kill you
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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 07/09/2026
Netlist is the #ASIC terminology of the week! In the last month, Netlist has been the 30th most popular out of 42 terms.
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Netlist is the ASIC terminology of the week!
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gotta start early to keep it going www.nytimes.com/video/well/1...
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Video: At 82, the ‘Jump Rope Queen of Beverly Hills’ Is Still Going
For Annie Judis, 82, defending her title as the world’s oldest competitive rope skipper — and sharing her journey on social media — has given her a sense of purpose.
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Sean MacLean @macslain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Negativland is playing...the internet archive??
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Singularity? Robopocalyse? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. (Gift Article)
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thing I recorded myself saying today: “Secure connectedly”
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Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We have digitization centres in the UK, Canada, the US and Asia. For more info about the process: digitization.archive.org/digitization/
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Digitization » Internet Archive Digitization Services
Learn how Internet Archive digitizes collections with non-destructive scanning, metadata integration, and global access through Archive.org's open platform.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A fan with a beautiful rendition of "I Will Always Love You" in Dolly Parton’s hometown of Sevierville, TN where people are gathering to pay their respects to the legend at her statue there 🥺🙏
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nooooo I will always love you #DollyParton Your legacy in music and kindness is beyond reproach www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/08/2026
Anthony Ralphs has been speaking against Flock at San Diego City Council meetings for almost a year straight. When he showed up as Darth Vader, the world started watching.
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The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?'
Anthony Ralphs has been speaking against Flock at San Diego City Council meetings for almost a year straight. When he showed up as Darth Vader, the world started watching.
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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Welcome to episode 1 of the Jenny's Bench podcast. It's an experiment in taking you through my world. ko-fi.com/post/The-Jen... Support me if you can, it's appreciated. ko-fi.com/jennylist
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The Jenny's Bench podcast, episode 1.
Jenny's Bench published a post on Ko-fi
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The thing that gets me is that this isn’t even the first iot cockring biz. In 2014 my wearable company (womans triathlete focused) was asked to “support” a men’s sexual health cockring company. The tap dance around sex & masculinity is incredible in this country www.thebulwark.com/p/zach-lahn-...
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GOP Iowa Nominee’s Million-Dollar Sex-Toy Problem
Gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn wants you to know he wouldn’t invest in sex toys.
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Where my peeps tonight?
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Jen Costillo @rebelbotjen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I love it when my favorite things get combined youtube.com/shorts/xFDQu... #synths #reverseengineering
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The synth behind Darude’s Sandstorm 🎹
YouTube video by Red Mercury
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