Josephine Stewart
@jostewart.bsky.social
Proofreader/editor for hire, chronic replier, lover of tea and brown liquor. I also do weird art shit. I like to dance. COVID is not over.
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Thing is if one side of your readership claims the guy's a fascist and the other side says he's a patriot you can't be like "well the truth is somewhere in between" because that doesn't make sense. Instead of choosing a side you're committing to saying that all your readers are morons. Oh wait
The NYT’s Patrick Healy asks a ridiculously both-sides question in which he tars critics as partisans who want the Times to “referee the news.” How about telling readers clearly that Trump is dismantling democracy? You offer the evidence. You’re just afraid to draw the conclusion. 🧵 2/4
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Thing is if one side of your readership claims the guy's a fascist and the other side says he's a patriot you can't be like "well the truth is somewhere in between" because that doesn't make sense. Instead of choosing a side you're committing to saying that all your readers are morons. Oh wait
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remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)
Baltimore pals: Tell me who sells good amaretti cookies. Like not the crusty-ass packaged hard ones. The fresh ones that are a little bit soft and taste like my grandfather's house.
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Baltimore pals: Tell me who sells good amaretti cookies. Like not the crusty-ass packaged hard ones. The fresh ones that are a little bit soft and taste like my grandfather's house.
Last reposts: I've been pretty sour on the academic-industrial complex for a good while, but the current situation, just from the perspective of a relatively informed outsider, is fucking ghastly. I can hardly imagine being a young person pressured to stake my future on these craven institutions.
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Last reposts: I've been pretty sour on the academic-industrial complex for a good while, but the current situation, just from the perspective of a relatively informed outsider, is fucking ghastly. I can hardly imagine being a young person pressured to stake my future on these craven institutions.
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maybe the two things have nothing to do with each other, I guess. but...like, there really seems like a deep rot in academic administration. it's possible students recognize that and are alienated by it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
maybe the two things have nothing to do with each other, I guess. but...like, there really seems like a deep rot in academic administration. it's possible students recognize that and are alienated by it.
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it's a little disorienting to see discussions of how university students are worse than they've ever been alongside discussions of leading educational institutions officially declaring that they are now devoted to fascism, not education. 1
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
it's a little disorienting to see discussions of how university students are worse than they've ever been alongside discussions of leading educational institutions officially declaring that they are now devoted to fascism, not education. 1
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
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in case anyone needed it in writing
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
in case anyone needed it in writing
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November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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ascribing cult-like behavior to people, many who are disabled, who have no desire to risk debility/illness from nonessential activities when ample options exist outside bars/restaurants to be safely in community with people reveals both a profound lack of imagination and a desiccated set of values.
I don’t know, I thought after Long Covid effectively ended my chance at a directing career, ruined my health, my energy, my ability to eat a lot of foods, and my body, it would seem pretty obvious why I don’t want to get it again, even going so far as to sacrifice (the horror!) bars and restaurants.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
ascribing cult-like behavior to people, many who are disabled, who have no desire to risk debility/illness from nonessential activities when ample options exist outside bars/restaurants to be safely in community with people reveals both a profound lack of imagination and a desiccated set of values.
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Frankly this is part of a bigger phenomenon imo. Rich and powerful people in our society fly *constantly* which gives them all horrible brainworms
Tbh if you are flying often enough that the healthiness of airplane food is a significant stressor for you, you are probably rich enough to not be a generally sympathetic character. Grab one of those sad salads in the concourse next to the breakfast burritos and energy drinks and leave us alone
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Frankly this is part of a bigger phenomenon imo. Rich and powerful people in our society fly *constantly* which gives them all horrible brainworms
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
Any utility-level phone or computer (as in "not a specialist rig for filmmaking, etc.") that lasts less than a decade is a disgrace. That should be standard at this point. Fight me.
![An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreigunh6t53vvgp2sewo2fsy4xttrwgy3zrdwplje7j2qjop5jdeyxy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Any utility-level phone or computer (as in "not a specialist rig for filmmaking, etc.") that lasts less than a decade is a disgrace. That should be standard at this point. Fight me.
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No editors. I have clients who have been editors for years and they’re losing their jobs to ai
Every day I see spelling and grammar mistakes in ads, TV chyrons, and other places where, in the past, it would be deeply embarrassing and a deal breaker for the source, but now they just fly, and where are the editors. Just hire me or something, damn.
Tell me, bro, where is your EDITOR?
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
No editors. I have clients who have been editors for years and they’re losing their jobs to ai
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The only good way to do means-testing is progressive taxation.
Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The only good way to do means-testing is progressive taxation.
Strong agree, and I say this as a certified "AI" hater. Ceding that semantic battle was a mistake that by association obfuscates the virtues of useful tech and glorifies the abusive unfitness of unethical, inhumane, useless tech.
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Strong agree, and I say this as a certified "AI" hater. Ceding that semantic battle was a mistake that by association obfuscates the virtues of useful tech and glorifies the abusive unfitness of unethical, inhumane, useless tech.
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Last repost: Baltimore, I love you, I moved here on purpose, I like your people and your food and your benches and your many distinctive row-house styles and your parks and your journalists and your snowballs, but, I swear, I have never encountered a population so dedicated to vehicular mayhem.
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Last repost: Baltimore, I love you, I moved here on purpose, I like your people and your food and your benches and your many distinctive row-house styles and your parks and your journalists and your snowballs, but, I swear, I have never encountered a population so dedicated to vehicular mayhem.
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Good post in a very good thread, scrolly scroll.
Because Ai is billionaires attempt to, all at once, create and control a new monoculture codified around their cruelty while destroying the last prosocial relationships - context, education, critical thinking etc
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Good post in a very good thread, scrolly scroll.
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Stop trying to rehabilitate our abusers in the government as a proxy for the abuser in your life .
I know I’m projecting believing I can scream and sweet you into this
BUT MY LOVES
These people have NO SCRUPLES and I need you to have long term memory!!!
I know I’m projecting believing I can scream and sweet you into this
BUT MY LOVES
These people have NO SCRUPLES and I need you to have long term memory!!!
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Stop trying to rehabilitate our abusers in the government as a proxy for the abuser in your life .
I know I’m projecting believing I can scream and sweet you into this
BUT MY LOVES
These people have NO SCRUPLES and I need you to have long term memory!!!
I know I’m projecting believing I can scream and sweet you into this
BUT MY LOVES
These people have NO SCRUPLES and I need you to have long term memory!!!
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there are so many neurospicy lawyers among the old guard who have only succeeded because of their dedicated legal staff, usually a paralegal who makes sure no dropped balls hit the ground.
Also certain classes of people could self-select into professions that were compatible with florid unmanaged ADHD, in jobs that essentially don't exist anymore.
I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
there are so many neurospicy lawyers among the old guard who have only succeeded because of their dedicated legal staff, usually a paralegal who makes sure no dropped balls hit the ground.
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You used to be able to support yourself with more physical jobs and the administrative load of life nowadays is too much even for neurotypicals. Like you could work in a grocery store and rent a room in the past
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You used to be able to support yourself with more physical jobs and the administrative load of life nowadays is too much even for neurotypicals. Like you could work in a grocery store and rent a room in the past
EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO LAST REPOST.
Economic/employment changes (and education changes) have made all our systems exponentially less friendly to neurodiversity.
Economic/employment changes (and education changes) have made all our systems exponentially less friendly to neurodiversity.
Also certain classes of people could self-select into professions that were compatible with florid unmanaged ADHD, in jobs that essentially don't exist anymore.
I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO LAST REPOST.
Economic/employment changes (and education changes) have made all our systems exponentially less friendly to neurodiversity.
Economic/employment changes (and education changes) have made all our systems exponentially less friendly to neurodiversity.