Andy Jenkins
@bojenk.bsky.social
Software tinker; all thumbs with hardware and mechanical. Fondly remembers Earth 1.0.
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Me to my CEO when the cloud is down
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Me to my CEO when the cloud is down
Great insight into Trump's appeal to the Southern electorate and its roots in exploitive economics and power by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social Grew up Philly, now living in NC, I still marvel that a NY tabloid coverboy created such fandom in the South
This is such a good conversation between @jamellebouie.net, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social.
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
FULL EPISODE: ‘The Opinions’ Podcast: There Is No Trump Without the South: youtu.be/dqpJKPCY64Y?...
🎥: @nytimesoped.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Great insight into Trump's appeal to the Southern electorate and its roots in exploitive economics and power by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net and @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social Grew up Philly, now living in NC, I still marvel that a NY tabloid coverboy created such fandom in the South
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?
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.
First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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?
Yes I checked in a full stack fix before coffee why do you ask
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Yes I checked in a full stack fix before coffee why do you ask
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.
"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.
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
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October 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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.
This is an entire, hilarious McSweeney's of AI boosterism
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.
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
September 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an entire, hilarious McSweeney's of AI boosterism
Hoping this is the start of a long thread that eventually gets to What's the Frequency Kenneth
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’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Hoping this is the start of a long thread that eventually gets to What's the Frequency Kenneth
Reposted by Andy Jenkins
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’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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’.
@wired has a sale that makes the physical copy a great deal, and lo and behold my first issue includes this profile!
August 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
@wired has a sale that makes the physical copy a great deal, and lo and behold my first issue includes this profile!
System 2: knows the power is out
System 1: continues flipping light switches as I walk around the house
System 1: continues flipping light switches as I walk around the house
August 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
System 2: knows the power is out
System 1: continues flipping light switches as I walk around the house
System 1: continues flipping light switches as I walk around the house
#floydfest t-shirt slogans of the day:
- Make cornbread not war
- Support your local holler
- This is my SECOND rodeo
- Cuidado, piso mojado (iykyk)
- Make cornbread not war
- Support your local holler
- This is my SECOND rodeo
- Cuidado, piso mojado (iykyk)
July 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#floydfest t-shirt slogans of the day:
- Make cornbread not war
- Support your local holler
- This is my SECOND rodeo
- Cuidado, piso mojado (iykyk)
- Make cornbread not war
- Support your local holler
- This is my SECOND rodeo
- Cuidado, piso mojado (iykyk)
Local southern rock, an air temp about 4 degrees above comfortable, and a breeze that takes it back down to perfect #floydfest
July 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Local southern rock, an air temp about 4 degrees above comfortable, and a breeze that takes it back down to perfect #floydfest
Reposted by Andy Jenkins
Thinking through the ecological footprint of my own critical-AI practice, in a nod to help navigate personal accountability for others. mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-personaliz...
A Personalized Ecology of AI
I'm three events into this tour talking about AI, and there's a question about the environment every time. What's the environmental impact of AI? In London, the question was a bit more pointed: How do...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Thinking through the ecological footprint of my own critical-AI practice, in a nod to help navigate personal accountability for others. mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-personaliz...
Stages of updating my Webflow site after a month gap:
1. Welcome back to our alien spaceship control room! No sudden moves now!
2. Oh, Designer? You need to go through that door over there...let me get that for you...(gears turning sound, followed by thunking of door closing behind me)
1. Welcome back to our alien spaceship control room! No sudden moves now!
2. Oh, Designer? You need to go through that door over there...let me get that for you...(gears turning sound, followed by thunking of door closing behind me)
March 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Stages of updating my Webflow site after a month gap:
1. Welcome back to our alien spaceship control room! No sudden moves now!
2. Oh, Designer? You need to go through that door over there...let me get that for you...(gears turning sound, followed by thunking of door closing behind me)
1. Welcome back to our alien spaceship control room! No sudden moves now!
2. Oh, Designer? You need to go through that door over there...let me get that for you...(gears turning sound, followed by thunking of door closing behind me)
Carefully slicing a muffin in half so that someone else in my family can have the other half, then eating both halves.
February 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Carefully slicing a muffin in half so that someone else in my family can have the other half, then eating both halves.
"At best X and at worst Y" ugh just say "X or Y"
January 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"At best X and at worst Y" ugh just say "X or Y"
Spending today rediscovering Vigilantes of Love (early 90s Southern Indie Rock, think R.E.M's Driver 8), which I listened to incessently as a freshman after my Atlanta-native roommate took me to a show at the Cotton Club.
January 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Spending today rediscovering Vigilantes of Love (early 90s Southern Indie Rock, think R.E.M's Driver 8), which I listened to incessently as a freshman after my Atlanta-native roommate took me to a show at the Cotton Club.
Expected this to be a pan of the NotebookLM AI podcast (which went from wow to cringe very quickly for me). Instead it's full of insight about how products can frame LLM capabilities as creative and exploratory instead of authoritative. Anyone developing apps on LLMs should read and reflect on this.
NotebookLM is not perfect, but through the narrow lens of UX design, it offers some interesting ways to rethink what an LLM is — and reveals just how much the Quixotic goal of “AGI” is constraining other imaginations of what they could be: mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-interest...
It's Interesting Because
On NotebookLM, Fauxthority & Science Fiction
💡Design is storytelling meant to orient people to strange new tech by anchoring them in familiar terms. In that sense, it is a kind of science fiction.
W...
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January 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Expected this to be a pan of the NotebookLM AI podcast (which went from wow to cringe very quickly for me). Instead it's full of insight about how products can frame LLM capabilities as creative and exploratory instead of authoritative. Anyone developing apps on LLMs should read and reflect on this.
95% of the lifespan of every travel sized toothpaste is spent 5% full
November 28, 2024 at 4:25 AM
95% of the lifespan of every travel sized toothpaste is spent 5% full
Definite follow. Can't wait for the Friar to kick the Summoner's ass in Canterbury Tales 2!
November 22, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Definite follow. Can't wait for the Friar to kick the Summoner's ass in Canterbury Tales 2!