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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 18h

Checking with the hospital to make sure my upcoming colonoscopy is being performed by the local discount plumber and not some totalitarian with a medical degree

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, Ayn Rand is required reading for that set right?

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 2d

Language can be confusing esp. on social media. Thread is informative, but OP confuses everyone by thinking passive voice always requires an external actor (rather than, say, we were vague b/c we didn't know the details). Like, I guess I *was not dressed* this morning because I dressed myself?

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 2d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 4d

These are both great pieces! The ai-vs-human quizzes out there (can you tell the real Byron/Chaucer/Plath from an "in the style of") are perhaps a genre of AI slop, but they are also a demo of how AI-generated text stays on the rails while good writing plays with and often subverts our expectations.

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 5d

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 6d

Yes I checked in a full stack fix before coffee why do you ask

Lint message indicating I put a semicolon at the end of a line of python, something you only do if your brain forgets what language you are programming in

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 11d

"Klein's approach would make the stakes higher specifically for already threatened people, precisely at the moment that the stakes have become personally alarming to him" is perfect. It's getting warm in here, maybe it will cool down if we turn the heat up on those folks already sweating over there!

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 13d

Enjoyed reading this! Re: "any accommodation of public opinion or tactical adjustment is a betrayal" - the challenge is sniffing out when a "common sense" argument is actually a bad-faith ploy to harm, e.g. kafka-esque work requirements or targeting gender expression but framing it as about biology.

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 14d

A win by way of capitulation is in some way more insidious than an outright defeat, because it cements for everyone the idea that the rights of marginalized groups are not a bedrock for either party, but rather contingent on electoral dynamics.

Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 14d

When Klein talks about Trump's win imperiling trans people, of course he is right! But if instead Democrats show that it's a winning strategy to peel off the rights of trans folks or other disfavored groups to pull in some slice of the electorate, can the marginalized really say they've won?

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 14d

This is so good. I couldn't get over how Klein keeps saying, "how do we compromise to win?" and Coates keeps responding "sometimes you just lose." Klein plays the centrist who hasn't internalized that debating the rights of swaths of Americans is not like debating tax brackets and school bonds.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 14d

"When you’re scared, you get tunnel vision."

Andrea Pitzer explains how the conversation between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a window into how not to be played by a system that benefits from our confusion.

You don't have to swallow frogs

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer

www.youtube.com

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · Sep 15

Checks out

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yup

Patrick Agyemang assisted in his debut for Derby County

Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · Sep 12

Every time I hear Under Pressure I think of that interview, thought I was the only one!

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · Sep 11

Speaking of serious actors dancing I hope you have seen this treasure

youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8?...

Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice [Official 4k Video]

YouTube video by Fatboy Slim

youtu.be

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is an entire, hilarious McSweeney's of AI boosterism

Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Sep 11

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bluesky no

Bluesky announces save posts feature with the Jerry Saturday Monday post as the hero example

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hoping this is the start of a long thread that eventually gets to What's the Frequency Kenneth

Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.