Drífa Jónsdóttir
@drifa.bsky.social
Just another cat on the internet. I chew wires, fix things, and spend way too much time thinking about computers, airplanes, old cars, and safety. No, I’m not from Iceland, I just love the name.
For whatever reason, several households in my area seem to have Halloween priapism: the bony skeletons they erected are still standing at attention.
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
For whatever reason, several households in my area seem to have Halloween priapism: the bony skeletons they erected are still standing at attention.
Hey @margaret.bsky.social and @iwriteok.bsky.social: if you are fascinated by inertial ICBM guidance and in a mood to nerd out, may I recommend Donald MacKenzie’s Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance. Beryllium babies, oh my!
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hey @margaret.bsky.social and @iwriteok.bsky.social: if you are fascinated by inertial ICBM guidance and in a mood to nerd out, may I recommend Donald MacKenzie’s Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance. Beryllium babies, oh my!
LLMs will continue to be used for customer disservice and by scammers, but the big future use is democracy prevention: flooding info. spaces with so much crap that none of us has the information we need to act as full citizens. LLMs will be used by the powerful to reduce us all to passive subjects.
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
LLMs will continue to be used for customer disservice and by scammers, but the big future use is democracy prevention: flooding info. spaces with so much crap that none of us has the information we need to act as full citizens. LLMs will be used by the powerful to reduce us all to passive subjects.
Reposted by Drífa Jónsdóttir
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
Reposted by Drífa Jónsdóttir
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
An AI pusher is now running an ad in which some idiot holds up a 3.6 kg ham and has to ask his phone whether it will feed 8 people. The phone assures him it will feed 8–10.
Who needs an AI to tell them that an average guest is not going to eat 400+ g of ham plus sides etc. in one sitting?!?
Who needs an AI to tell them that an average guest is not going to eat 400+ g of ham plus sides etc. in one sitting?!?
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
An AI pusher is now running an ad in which some idiot holds up a 3.6 kg ham and has to ask his phone whether it will feed 8 people. The phone assures him it will feed 8–10.
Who needs an AI to tell them that an average guest is not going to eat 400+ g of ham plus sides etc. in one sitting?!?
Who needs an AI to tell them that an average guest is not going to eat 400+ g of ham plus sides etc. in one sitting?!?
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Have a December sky.
Shot on 4x5 FPP Frankenstein using a 300um pinhole in a view camera and developed in ID-11. #pinhole #blackandwhite #photography
Shot on 4x5 FPP Frankenstein using a 300um pinhole in a view camera and developed in ID-11. #pinhole #blackandwhite #photography
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Have a December sky.
Shot on 4x5 FPP Frankenstein using a 300um pinhole in a view camera and developed in ID-11. #pinhole #blackandwhite #photography
Shot on 4x5 FPP Frankenstein using a 300um pinhole in a view camera and developed in ID-11. #pinhole #blackandwhite #photography
I’m developing black and white pinhole photos of the winter sky and they just look like angiograms to me
December 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I’m developing black and white pinhole photos of the winter sky and they just look like angiograms to me
Y’know, one way to encourage motorists to choose smaller cars is to impose a mass limit—say, 1.5 tons for a two passenger car and 2 tons for a 4–6 passenger car—and require automatic speed limit enforcement built in to everything heavier sold.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Y’know, one way to encourage motorists to choose smaller cars is to impose a mass limit—say, 1.5 tons for a two passenger car and 2 tons for a 4–6 passenger car—and require automatic speed limit enforcement built in to everything heavier sold.
Reposted by Drífa Jónsdóttir
I want to make a comment on this: two TAs graded the paper, one cis, one trans. They agreed on the grade and the reasons. Based on OU’s press release, they have only suspended one of these TAs.
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I want to make a comment on this: two TAs graded the paper, one cis, one trans. They agreed on the grade and the reasons. Based on OU’s press release, they have only suspended one of these TAs.
Reposted by Drífa Jónsdóttir
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
New rule: If your car’s maker pushed adverts to your dash, you are entitled to have a c-suite executive fly out and detail your car’s exterior with their tongue.
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
New rule: If your car’s maker pushed adverts to your dash, you are entitled to have a c-suite executive fly out and detail your car’s exterior with their tongue.
Vendor A: Item X is in stock.
Me: Orders.
Vendor A, two days later: Sorry LOL it’s out of stock.
Me: OK cancel then.
Vendor B: We’ve got it and can expedite.
Me: OK orders.
Vendor B: LOL we’re just gonna sit on it till it incubates.
Post: Delivers item from Vendor A.
Me: Orders.
Vendor A, two days later: Sorry LOL it’s out of stock.
Me: OK cancel then.
Vendor B: We’ve got it and can expedite.
Me: OK orders.
Vendor B: LOL we’re just gonna sit on it till it incubates.
Post: Delivers item from Vendor A.
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Vendor A: Item X is in stock.
Me: Orders.
Vendor A, two days later: Sorry LOL it’s out of stock.
Me: OK cancel then.
Vendor B: We’ve got it and can expedite.
Me: OK orders.
Vendor B: LOL we’re just gonna sit on it till it incubates.
Post: Delivers item from Vendor A.
Me: Orders.
Vendor A, two days later: Sorry LOL it’s out of stock.
Me: OK cancel then.
Vendor B: We’ve got it and can expedite.
Me: OK orders.
Vendor B: LOL we’re just gonna sit on it till it incubates.
Post: Delivers item from Vendor A.
That’s two engines in in two days. And only one sprained wrist injury.
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
That’s two engines in in two days. And only one sprained wrist injury.
The Hyde Amendment has got to €€#%ing go.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Hyde Amendment has got to €€#%ing go.
Amazon is recommending me PG-13 werewolf “romance”. Wheeee.
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Amazon is recommending me PG-13 werewolf “romance”. Wheeee.
I spent most of his first term wondering when he was going to ring up General Shaed E. Mercke’s black helicopter service for a ride out of the country. Now I’m not sure he’s got the sense to git while the gittin’s good.
Grampa is not happy with how things are going for him, I gather.
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spent most of his first term wondering when he was going to ring up General Shaed E. Mercke’s black helicopter service for a ride out of the country. Now I’m not sure he’s got the sense to git while the gittin’s good.
What payment would you accept to give up your right to play sport? To be excluded from a dorm? To be denied healthcare that demonstrably and markedly improves quality of life?
That’s what the people making these decisions owe to those affected.
That’s what the people making these decisions owe to those affected.
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What payment would you accept to give up your right to play sport? To be excluded from a dorm? To be denied healthcare that demonstrably and markedly improves quality of life?
That’s what the people making these decisions owe to those affected.
That’s what the people making these decisions owe to those affected.
The gaslighting NU is doing is insane. They “place no restrictions on” trans people—as they restrict us. They “unequivocally support” us—as they deny us our human rights. That’s university “leadership” that must never be allowed to make another consequential decision.
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The gaslighting NU is doing is insane. They “place no restrictions on” trans people—as they restrict us. They “unequivocally support” us—as they deny us our human rights. That’s university “leadership” that must never be allowed to make another consequential decision.
Reposted by Drífa Jónsdóttir
Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
A microwave oven keypad
Riddle me this: where is 99 > 100?
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A microwave oven keypad
Riddle me this: where is 99 > 100?
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Riddle me this: where is 99 > 100?
Mama’s got a brand new bunghole
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Mama’s got a brand new bunghole
NB: “Pie al commode” is *not* the same as “pie à la mode.”
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
NB: “Pie al commode” is *not* the same as “pie à la mode.”