J. C. Cantwell 🌻
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Social Justice Bard. They/them. Gay; tired.
"Maybe when it happens, you'll sink deeply into your chair
and sigh loose a breath you didn't know you were holding.
It is a pronoun. It is an event. It is a place and a time and a
certainty."
"Maybe when it happens, you'll sink deeply into your chair
and sigh loose a breath you didn't know you were holding.
It is a pronoun. It is an event. It is a place and a time and a
certainty."
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Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!
fuck it, reactivating to retweet this
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I don't know how sizeable the demographic of "I don't care who I support I just want to punish the people who brought us to this" is but one Dem candidate has to try "make them pay" as a campaign slogan for 2027-8. See how far it takes them. At the very least they'll have my vote.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I don't know how sizeable the demographic of "I don't care who I support I just want to punish the people who brought us to this" is but one Dem candidate has to try "make them pay" as a campaign slogan for 2027-8. See how far it takes them. At the very least they'll have my vote.
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this is like cyberpunk gothic
"A death-haunted Trump is fed a steady stream of AI-generated news and polls while he focuses 100% of his efforts on building a ballroom that would dwarf the rest of the White House while navigating a series of accellerating and hidden health crises" is my take on the current situation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
this is like cyberpunk gothic
today in me being correct about previous confident predictions,
White House pooler S.V. Daté releases a statement about President Trump's video on the DC shooting not NOT saying it was AI-generated
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
today in me being correct about previous confident predictions,
queerly beloved, please stop trying to associate 'folx' with 'latinx' and also while we're at it talk to like a single hispanohablante person before popping off confidently about the practical usage of -x in Spanish terminology
they are completely diff. things w/ different etymologies
they are completely diff. things w/ different etymologies
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
queerly beloved, please stop trying to associate 'folx' with 'latinx' and also while we're at it talk to like a single hispanohablante person before popping off confidently about the practical usage of -x in Spanish terminology
they are completely diff. things w/ different etymologies
they are completely diff. things w/ different etymologies
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the rest of your life is going to be at least partially defined by knowing how to avoid getting scammed. you share that with your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents and ancestors going back to wherever they came from.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
the rest of your life is going to be at least partially defined by knowing how to avoid getting scammed. you share that with your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents and ancestors going back to wherever they came from.
hey interesting times gang who's up at 3 AM staring bleakly at a congeries of photons, thinking about total epistemic context collapse
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
hey interesting times gang who's up at 3 AM staring bleakly at a congeries of photons, thinking about total epistemic context collapse
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i guess we are all going to have to be more discerning about images we see online and where they come from.
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
i guess we are all going to have to be more discerning about images we see online and where they come from.
i don't want to hostile-QRT Sarah Jeong because I respect her and her work and genuinely don't want to be rude but she posted a "this is not a place of honor" thing w/r/t Nuzzi, Lizza, et al., and... ma'am yes that is in fact our contention, Journalism is an unmanaged nuclear waste site
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
i don't want to hostile-QRT Sarah Jeong because I respect her and her work and genuinely don't want to be rude but she posted a "this is not a place of honor" thing w/r/t Nuzzi, Lizza, et al., and... ma'am yes that is in fact our contention, Journalism is an unmanaged nuclear waste site
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Most cops don’t shoot people or falsify testimony or what have you but we blame the ones who look the other way too, which is correct
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Most cops don’t shoot people or falsify testimony or what have you but we blame the ones who look the other way too, which is correct
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Kamala Harris might well have won without this stuff. If your field did that, I don’t fucking know man, I’d expect you to hold yourself a little differently online is all
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Kamala Harris might well have won without this stuff. If your field did that, I don’t fucking know man, I’d expect you to hold yourself a little differently online is all
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Usually at this point somebody will scold me for not specifying that of course I don’t mean independent journalists but I’m not sure I don’t. I am aware that these aren’t the people doing the specific acts I’m complaining about but many of them still want to provide cover for the field
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Usually at this point somebody will scold me for not specifying that of course I don’t mean independent journalists but I’m not sure I don’t. I am aware that these aren’t the people doing the specific acts I’m complaining about but many of them still want to provide cover for the field
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I think journalists On Here want us to believe these big publications are staffed by scrappy little guy heroes and the bad acts are done by the owners, the boards, the editors, the awful never-identified headline writers, and we just need to squint and see their heroic acts between the article lines
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I think journalists On Here want us to believe these big publications are staffed by scrappy little guy heroes and the bad acts are done by the owners, the boards, the editors, the awful never-identified headline writers, and we just need to squint and see their heroic acts between the article lines
skeptical of anti-AI in the broadest possible sense AND of Affordability Discourse and i *still* think this is absolutely the correct take; i don't know what a good or fair short-term fix for this problem looks like but we need to start thinking about it yesterday
democrats/liberals/progressives with any common sense need to get ahead of this electricity cost issue - we need restraint and regulation of ai and data centers, which are driving up costs www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
www.cnbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
skeptical of anti-AI in the broadest possible sense AND of Affordability Discourse and i *still* think this is absolutely the correct take; i don't know what a good or fair short-term fix for this problem looks like but we need to start thinking about it yesterday
THIS, god
all else set aside i will vote for basically ANYONE in a dem primary in 2026 and 2028 if they run on "i will take fire and the scourge to every single human who made this fucking shit happen to our country"
all else set aside i will vote for basically ANYONE in a dem primary in 2026 and 2028 if they run on "i will take fire and the scourge to every single human who made this fucking shit happen to our country"
I'm just so angry, but not in the incandescent rage sense, in the sense that I think I might become a single issue voter toward destroying this industry and everything adjacent to it because how else can we survive?
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
THIS, god
all else set aside i will vote for basically ANYONE in a dem primary in 2026 and 2028 if they run on "i will take fire and the scourge to every single human who made this fucking shit happen to our country"
all else set aside i will vote for basically ANYONE in a dem primary in 2026 and 2028 if they run on "i will take fire and the scourge to every single human who made this fucking shit happen to our country"
dawg what
Nano Banana / Gemini really is amazing -- I gave it a cameraphone image from 2009 and had it upscale, change perspective, and remove the trash can.
You just straight-up couldn't do this in Photoshop, no matter how good you are.
You just straight-up couldn't do this in Photoshop, no matter how good you are.
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
dawg what
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Why do they have impunity on this? Because when they finally ended two decades of disastrous war, the press of the white people world rose up as one to scream at them for not continuing for another twenty until it fell out of the headlines, then we never discussed what that war was about again.
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Why do they have impunity on this? Because when they finally ended two decades of disastrous war, the press of the white people world rose up as one to scream at them for not continuing for another twenty until it fell out of the headlines, then we never discussed what that war was about again.
you know we got to the serious part of Felchin'gate when i'm not even laughing at how appallingly tawdry everything is or making rude jokes about bamboo and instead i'm just frantically chanting to myself "dont say things about Journalism thatll get you subpoenad"
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
you know we got to the serious part of Felchin'gate when i'm not even laughing at how appallingly tawdry everything is or making rude jokes about bamboo and instead i'm just frantically chanting to myself "dont say things about Journalism thatll get you subpoenad"
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That’s one of the many depressing things about the last five years. For the first time in my adult life policymakers ditched Reagan-era orthodox economic policy, it succeeded SPECTACULARLY and saved millions from misery, and it will never happen again because everyone was convinced to hate it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
That’s one of the many depressing things about the last five years. For the first time in my adult life policymakers ditched Reagan-era orthodox economic policy, it succeeded SPECTACULARLY and saved millions from misery, and it will never happen again because everyone was convinced to hate it.
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"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
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Man who brags about the Pulitzer Prize he earned for his part in helping Snowden escape to Russia after Snowden stole US classified documents is having a sad because someone leaked Russian documents that are embarrassing to Trump officials - who he does not support.
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Man who brags about the Pulitzer Prize he earned for his part in helping Snowden escape to Russia after Snowden stole US classified documents is having a sad because someone leaked Russian documents that are embarrassing to Trump officials - who he does not support.
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I don't think middle management LLM users are any better trained than everyone else, and a lot of the use cases I see personally aren't very good
but I'm excited to take a few days to help some of my management chain intensively learn how I do it; I want to see how it changes their jobs in turn
but I'm excited to take a few days to help some of my management chain intensively learn how I do it; I want to see how it changes their jobs in turn
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I don't think middle management LLM users are any better trained than everyone else, and a lot of the use cases I see personally aren't very good
but I'm excited to take a few days to help some of my management chain intensively learn how I do it; I want to see how it changes their jobs in turn
but I'm excited to take a few days to help some of my management chain intensively learn how I do it; I want to see how it changes their jobs in turn
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granted: lots of people have had bad supervisors and managers, and few places try to make good ones
but there's a reason middle management existed and was successful for a pretty long time as we figured out how to scale human organizations, and those support structures have deteriorated for *them*
but there's a reason middle management existed and was successful for a pretty long time as we figured out how to scale human organizations, and those support structures have deteriorated for *them*
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
granted: lots of people have had bad supervisors and managers, and few places try to make good ones
but there's a reason middle management existed and was successful for a pretty long time as we figured out how to scale human organizations, and those support structures have deteriorated for *them*
but there's a reason middle management existed and was successful for a pretty long time as we figured out how to scale human organizations, and those support structures have deteriorated for *them*
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this baby's-first-interpretation of middle management seems pretty instructive as to a lot of the gap that otherwise intelligent and literate people around places like bluesky have with regards to LLMs/AI more generally
if you've ever *been* a good middle manager, I think it's a lot more legible
if you've ever *been* a good middle manager, I think it's a lot more legible
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
this baby's-first-interpretation of middle management seems pretty instructive as to a lot of the gap that otherwise intelligent and literate people around places like bluesky have with regards to LLMs/AI more generally
if you've ever *been* a good middle manager, I think it's a lot more legible
if you've ever *been* a good middle manager, I think it's a lot more legible
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Seeing many many "be careful, you don't have to hand it to the clearly unethical and shitty Ryan Lizza for spilling dirt he had on someone as part of a personal vendetta" takes and zero "gotta hand it to Ryan Lizza" takes.
Everyone thinks he sucks too! There is consensus!
Everyone thinks he sucks too! There is consensus!
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Seeing many many "be careful, you don't have to hand it to the clearly unethical and shitty Ryan Lizza for spilling dirt he had on someone as part of a personal vendetta" takes and zero "gotta hand it to Ryan Lizza" takes.
Everyone thinks he sucks too! There is consensus!
Everyone thinks he sucks too! There is consensus!
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are there good questions to ask around *your* data? yeah obviously
"do you use AI???" is a question akin to asking "do you use a search engine"
"do you use AI???" is a question akin to asking "do you use a search engine"
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
are there good questions to ask around *your* data? yeah obviously
"do you use AI???" is a question akin to asking "do you use a search engine"
"do you use AI???" is a question akin to asking "do you use a search engine"