Jafeth van Elten
@jafethve.bsky.social
Software engineer, gamer, amateur medieval history enthusiast.
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#SaveSpeech
KOSA and the Stop CSAM act are both extremely high priority
Lawmakers are looking to repeal section 230 and they are getting phone calls ENCOURAGING reps to do so!
We need to call and drown out the opposition so we can save a free and open internet!
KOSA and the Stop CSAM act are both extremely high priority
Lawmakers are looking to repeal section 230 and they are getting phone calls ENCOURAGING reps to do so!
We need to call and drown out the opposition so we can save a free and open internet!
#SaveSpeech
KOSA is continuing to pick up co-sponsors. You need to call your representatives and demand they oppose this bill!
Use the links below to find your representatives and hammer their phone lines!
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
www.congress.gov/members/find...
KOSA is continuing to pick up co-sponsors. You need to call your representatives and demand they oppose this bill!
Use the links below to find your representatives and hammer their phone lines!
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Oppose S. 1748 The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) ⭑ 5 Calls
Congress has again put forward legislation aimed at controlling what content children see online, known as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). During …
5calls.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
#SaveSpeech
KOSA and the Stop CSAM act are both extremely high priority
Lawmakers are looking to repeal section 230 and they are getting phone calls ENCOURAGING reps to do so!
We need to call and drown out the opposition so we can save a free and open internet!
KOSA and the Stop CSAM act are both extremely high priority
Lawmakers are looking to repeal section 230 and they are getting phone calls ENCOURAGING reps to do so!
We need to call and drown out the opposition so we can save a free and open internet!
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I really appreciate this thread! It's really important to note that, in conservative Christian culture, the "immodest" woman is *always* seen as an offense against chastity (more commonly called purity) because a man externalizes his shame about his own erotic thoughts onto the object of his desire.
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I really appreciate this thread! It's really important to note that, in conservative Christian culture, the "immodest" woman is *always* seen as an offense against chastity (more commonly called purity) because a man externalizes his shame about his own erotic thoughts onto the object of his desire.
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I am afraid this take is just a result of the fact that a lot of people who aren't good at cooking try to do something technical exactly once a year. Turkey *is* good. You just have to do more than "put it in the oven and cross your fingers".
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 7:46 PM
I am afraid this take is just a result of the fact that a lot of people who aren't good at cooking try to do something technical exactly once a year. Turkey *is* good. You just have to do more than "put it in the oven and cross your fingers".
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Make a spreadsheet. List cooking times (and resting for protein), device (oven, crock pot, stove top, smoker, grill, etc) and temperatures. Work backwards from when dinner is ready. Project manage this fucker.
most people just aren’t going to magically know how to juggle all those dishes just because it’s a holiday. there’s no shame in doing a couple of things really well
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Make a spreadsheet. List cooking times (and resting for protein), device (oven, crock pot, stove top, smoker, grill, etc) and temperatures. Work backwards from when dinner is ready. Project manage this fucker.
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I blocked someone who quote tweeted this by saying something like “I’m tired of worthless English majors thinking they do better critical thinking than engineers!”
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I blocked someone who quote tweeted this by saying something like “I’m tired of worthless English majors thinking they do better critical thinking than engineers!”
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
1. A good college education means everybody gets humanities/social science/art/and science regardless of major, making your ed holistic
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"Stop Forcing AI Into Every Fucking Thing" stickers are BACK IN STOCK
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3" circle of thick vinyl, yours for $2
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November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"Stop Forcing AI Into Every Fucking Thing" stickers are BACK IN STOCK
Brighter than ever— a rich ketchup-y orange-red.
3" circle of thick vinyl, yours for $2
▶ square.link/u/BFQkzE6U
Brighter than ever— a rich ketchup-y orange-red.
3" circle of thick vinyl, yours for $2
▶ square.link/u/BFQkzE6U
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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Anyone would think we’re talking about 1000s of children being prevented from going through puberty forever with the use of puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers were prescribed to 113 people in 2023.
Come on now. Let doctors and other medical professionals do their damned job.
Puberty blockers were prescribed to 113 people in 2023.
Come on now. Let doctors and other medical professionals do their damned job.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Anyone would think we’re talking about 1000s of children being prevented from going through puberty forever with the use of puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers were prescribed to 113 people in 2023.
Come on now. Let doctors and other medical professionals do their damned job.
Puberty blockers were prescribed to 113 people in 2023.
Come on now. Let doctors and other medical professionals do their damned job.
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for those of you buying a thanksgiving turkey today, remember to take it out to defrost in time for the big meal! generally a frozen turkey needs to defrost for ten minutes per pound of weight
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
for those of you buying a thanksgiving turkey today, remember to take it out to defrost in time for the big meal! generally a frozen turkey needs to defrost for ten minutes per pound of weight
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AIVD ziet bij vrijwillige chatcontrole grote risico's voor cyberweerbaarheid, maar toch gaat Nederland zich van stemming onthouden en waardoor het voorstel, dat ruimte biedt om chatcontrole alsnog te verplichten, een hamerstuk is.
Onbegrijpelijk!
#chatcontrole
www.security.nl/posting/9140...
Onbegrijpelijk!
#chatcontrole
www.security.nl/posting/9140...
Minister: AIVD ziet bij vrijwillige chatcontrole grote risico's voor cyberweerbaarheid
De AIVD ziet bij vrijwillige chatcontrole, zoals een voorstel van EU-voorzitter Denemarken mogelijk maakt, grote risico's voor ...
www.security.nl
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
AIVD ziet bij vrijwillige chatcontrole grote risico's voor cyberweerbaarheid, maar toch gaat Nederland zich van stemming onthouden en waardoor het voorstel, dat ruimte biedt om chatcontrole alsnog te verplichten, een hamerstuk is.
Onbegrijpelijk!
#chatcontrole
www.security.nl/posting/9140...
Onbegrijpelijk!
#chatcontrole
www.security.nl/posting/9140...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Every day there's a headline like "President's fire safety officer says we're going to set everything on fire and if you think that's bad you're woke"
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Every day there's a headline like "President's fire safety officer says we're going to set everything on fire and if you think that's bad you're woke"
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a lot of people have been walking around implicitly believing that men and women are essentially different species and the increasing public awareness of cross-gender HRT makes that belief a lot harder to hold
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
a lot of people have been walking around implicitly believing that men and women are essentially different species and the increasing public awareness of cross-gender HRT makes that belief a lot harder to hold
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A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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I suspect this is true - the humanities will go back to being a status marker. Rich kids and the elect get to study Homer, but the middle class must settle for adjunct-taught mega-lectures before STEM classes.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I suspect this is true - the humanities will go back to being a status marker. Rich kids and the elect get to study Homer, but the middle class must settle for adjunct-taught mega-lectures before STEM classes.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
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What I’ve been trying to point out for years now is that there is a money maker behind this sentiment, invested in it staying set this way. You can’t have billion dollar industry forcing autistic children to mask without scaring everyone about autism first
I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What I’ve been trying to point out for years now is that there is a money maker behind this sentiment, invested in it staying set this way. You can’t have billion dollar industry forcing autistic children to mask without scaring everyone about autism first
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There's a UBI post on FB being reposted by thousands of accounts that's pro-UBI disinfo. No, Sweden didn't do a big UBI pilot where 5,000 Swedes got $1800/mo in UBI for 3 years. That never happened. The "results" appear to be AI-generated. UBI works. It doesn't need false data. See my pinned thread.
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
There's a UBI post on FB being reposted by thousands of accounts that's pro-UBI disinfo. No, Sweden didn't do a big UBI pilot where 5,000 Swedes got $1800/mo in UBI for 3 years. That never happened. The "results" appear to be AI-generated. UBI works. It doesn't need false data. See my pinned thread.
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The question has never been "are puberty blockers safe" because the answer is yes. It's never been "do puberty blockers block puberty in a predictable and reversible way" because the answer is, again, yes.
We know these things.
They just don't think trans kids should be allowed to do that
We know these things.
They just don't think trans kids should be allowed to do that
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The question has never been "are puberty blockers safe" because the answer is yes. It's never been "do puberty blockers block puberty in a predictable and reversible way" because the answer is, again, yes.
We know these things.
They just don't think trans kids should be allowed to do that
We know these things.
They just don't think trans kids should be allowed to do that
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Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
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Notice how hostile psyops and regime change attempts always boost right wingers? You never see attempts to weaken a country by installing left wing governments.
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Notice how hostile psyops and regime change attempts always boost right wingers? You never see attempts to weaken a country by installing left wing governments.
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into