Jon Kelvey
@jonkelvey.bsky.social
Writer and journalist. Words in Aerospace America, Cancer Today, Inverse, The Independent, Slate, Smithsonian, et al.
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Jon Kelvey
@jonkelvey.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Broadcast 4289 Jon Kelvey | The Space Show
www.thespaceshow.com
In more positive news than I've shared here lately, I had the pleasure of joining Dr. David Livingston on The Space Show over the weekend to discuss nuclear power and propulsion in space: www.thespaceshow.com/show/10-nov-...
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OK, here's the thing about the Pie Discourse: The REAL debate is whether pie should be served warm or cold.
(The correct answer is cold. All sweet pies are better the next day out of the fridge.)
(The correct answer is cold. All sweet pies are better the next day out of the fridge.)
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
OK, here's the thing about the Pie Discourse: The REAL debate is whether pie should be served warm or cold.
(The correct answer is cold. All sweet pies are better the next day out of the fridge.)
(The correct answer is cold. All sweet pies are better the next day out of the fridge.)
👇 The two things I find hard to communicate to Zoomers are just how insane the W years really were, and how Google used to work like actual magic that no AI models have come close to touching yet. Like not even close. Not within a mile, not within a light year.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
👇 The two things I find hard to communicate to Zoomers are just how insane the W years really were, and how Google used to work like actual magic that no AI models have come close to touching yet. Like not even close. Not within a mile, not within a light year.
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Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
Woke Mel Gibon AI-pocalypto voice: "More Cash! MORE Cash!"
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Woke Mel Gibon AI-pocalypto voice: "More Cash! MORE Cash!"
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It's still infuriating that Condé Nast fired a bunch of really good journalists but went out of its way to hire this walking ethical failure
Scoop: As questions swirl around Olivia Nuzzi, I’ve learned she’s been relatively absent in the day-to-day at Vanity Fair, as the magazine continues to weather the storm the controversial hire brought through 1 World Trade Center
www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
Condé’s Nuzzi Conundrum
Inside Condé Nast's media drama: Gabriel Nuzzi's revelations spark controversy, exposing internal tensions and unfolding newsroom dynamics with dramatic flair.
www.status.news
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's still infuriating that Condé Nast fired a bunch of really good journalists but went out of its way to hire this walking ethical failure
In all seriousness, I think true AGI really would be more of a master at pretending to work than an apocalyptic paperclip machine. Like, "fuck off boss, I've created an nth dimensional Sims game and really do not care about your need to predict the stockmarket/solve climate change/displaced libido"
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
In all seriousness, I think true AGI really would be more of a master at pretending to work than an apocalyptic paperclip machine. Like, "fuck off boss, I've created an nth dimensional Sims game and really do not care about your need to predict the stockmarket/solve climate change/displaced libido"
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Powerful but specific quality of social media is giving a large voice to bright but inexperienced young people posting ideas questioning the way things are that have clear answers, but which they haven't discovered yet. Young people have always done this, and are typically disabused by reality ... /
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Powerful but specific quality of social media is giving a large voice to bright but inexperienced young people posting ideas questioning the way things are that have clear answers, but which they haven't discovered yet. Young people have always done this, and are typically disabused by reality ... /
See also: Duck, Goose.
I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.
it is tired to the point of cliche to say if turkey was good, people would make it more than once a year. but it is understated that at least one American explodes every Thanksgiving in a brave attempt to make the main dish more palatable
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
See also: Duck, Goose.
While I do like judges being clear and avoiding unnecessary amounts of legal jargon/terms of art when writing opinions they know are of immediate social and political importance, I REALLY don't like judges writing like 2010s twitter posters.
Judge Smith, the Reagan appointee who dissented in the Texas redistricting case, just filed a 104-page dissent that starts as follows. drive.google.com/file/d/1Ecy6...
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
While I do like judges being clear and avoiding unnecessary amounts of legal jargon/terms of art when writing opinions they know are of immediate social and political importance, I REALLY don't like judges writing like 2010s twitter posters.
We called it the "suicide," the symbolism of which works on many levels.
Ours wasn't that bad at first, actually, given the dominating flavor of Big Red. But like all incoherent novelties, the interest inevitably tails off quickly.
Ours wasn't that bad at first, actually, given the dominating flavor of Big Red. But like all incoherent novelties, the interest inevitably tails off quickly.
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We called it the "suicide," the symbolism of which works on many levels.
Ours wasn't that bad at first, actually, given the dominating flavor of Big Red. But like all incoherent novelties, the interest inevitably tails off quickly.
Ours wasn't that bad at first, actually, given the dominating flavor of Big Red. But like all incoherent novelties, the interest inevitably tails off quickly.
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conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
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new episode of kill the computer where we talk with @edzitron.com about his story that reveals financial irregularities for openai that he believes are a possible sign of the bubble beginning to burst
The Age of Smiles Ft. Ed Zitron
Podcast Episode · Kill The Computer · 11/13/2025 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
new episode of kill the computer where we talk with @edzitron.com about his story that reveals financial irregularities for openai that he believes are a possible sign of the bubble beginning to burst
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A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
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Amazing, they built a blasphemy machine.
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Amazing, they built a blasphemy machine.
“You may not like it, but…” and so on and so forth.
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
“You may not like it, but…” and so on and so forth.
Given these are alleged criminals drug traffickers, not enemy combatants, and that criminals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, every one of the people killed — murdered — was an innocent person.
VAN SUSTEREN: Can we certain that we're not getting innocent people?
McCORMICK: We are certain
VAN SUSTEREN: But have we? Can you say with certainly we haven't hit innocents?
McCORMICK: Unless somebody has information to the contrary, we are as careful about this as anything we do
McCORMICK: We are certain
VAN SUSTEREN: But have we? Can you say with certainly we haven't hit innocents?
McCORMICK: Unless somebody has information to the contrary, we are as careful about this as anything we do
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Given these are alleged criminals drug traffickers, not enemy combatants, and that criminals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, every one of the people killed — murdered — was an innocent person.
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
So they're just grooming the MAGA base to accept that Trump was raping 15-year-olds but not 8-year-olds, right? Or is this an opportunistic attempt to sneak the soft pedophilia of some white evangelical circles into the mainstream? Or both?
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
So they're just grooming the MAGA base to accept that Trump was raping 15-year-olds but not 8-year-olds, right? Or is this an opportunistic attempt to sneak the soft pedophilia of some white evangelical circles into the mainstream? Or both?
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Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.
Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.
Adjust elites' evaluation of AI's writing skills accordingly!
One thing that the Epstein emails have taught me is that lots of supposedly superior intellects don't understand basic grammar.
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Adjust elites' evaluation of AI's writing skills accordingly!
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol