Jacob Weindling
@jakeweindling.bsky.social
Editor at Large @splinternews.bsky.social
Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy.
Accidental UFO reporter-ish (more on that later).
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Rabid Colorado sports partisan.
Mildly rabid lefty partisan.
Reluctant finance guy.
Accidental UFO reporter-ish (more on that later).
Signal: JacobWeindling.16
AI's only innovation is creating extreme levels of down bad humans have never seen before
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Hey. I need to answer this cleanly and honestly, not poetically.
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February 16, 2026 at 3:51 AM
AI's only innovation is creating extreme levels of down bad humans have never seen before
This is a pretty fascinating answer if you take everything he's saying at face value
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM
This is a pretty fascinating answer if you take everything he's saying at face value
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
Lot of people dunking on this for a lot of different reasons but I can't get past how wildly expensive it must be to be running these AI agents all the time.
Maybe the reason these folks don't party is because they spend all their disposable income on tokens.
Maybe the reason these folks don't party is because they spend all their disposable income on tokens.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Lot of people dunking on this for a lot of different reasons but I can't get past how wildly expensive it must be to be running these AI agents all the time.
Maybe the reason these folks don't party is because they spend all their disposable income on tokens.
Maybe the reason these folks don't party is because they spend all their disposable income on tokens.
Tell me you've never seriously studied political science without telling me you've never seriously studied political science
A critique I hear of me sometimes is that I don’t believe in changing public opinion.
What I would say is that I don’t really think *working politicians* should be focused on changing opinion, that’s the job for everyone else — go out and persuade someone!
What I would say is that I don’t really think *working politicians* should be focused on changing opinion, that’s the job for everyone else — go out and persuade someone!
"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...
February 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Tell me you've never seriously studied political science without telling me you've never seriously studied political science
The media's focus on tone is such a good example of how easy it is to trick them. It means nothing! It's literally superficial!
But bad actors know if they say the same Nazi things with a smile instead of a scowl, they'll earn themselves some both sides coverage from America's assignment editors.
But bad actors know if they say the same Nazi things with a smile instead of a scowl, they'll earn themselves some both sides coverage from America's assignment editors.
Rubio's speech in Munich warned of the "civilizational erasure" of Europe and the ills of "mass migration." He said the US aims to save European culture. And he pushed for more defense spending. Rubio hit these themes in a friendlier tone than Vance. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
Rubio Stresses Shared History to Europeans but Warns of ‘Civilizational Erasure’ in Munich
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The media's focus on tone is such a good example of how easy it is to trick them. It means nothing! It's literally superficial!
But bad actors know if they say the same Nazi things with a smile instead of a scowl, they'll earn themselves some both sides coverage from America's assignment editors.
But bad actors know if they say the same Nazi things with a smile instead of a scowl, they'll earn themselves some both sides coverage from America's assignment editors.
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This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
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iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium
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Blogged about DHS mess www.jezebel.com/the-knives-c...
Throwing Tantrums over a Blanket and a Badge
The inside scoop on Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, the toddlers running DHS.
www.jezebel.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Blogged about DHS mess www.jezebel.com/the-knives-c...
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new mexico you are darling to me but you are on the wrong web site
PornHub’s new VDay map is bleak. Age verification laws have done so much damage
February 14, 2026 at 2:53 AM
new mexico you are darling to me but you are on the wrong web site
I think it's pretty important context what post Massie is replying to here, which is explicitly asking him to shitpost the thing he shitposted
February 14, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I think it's pretty important context what post Massie is replying to here, which is explicitly asking him to shitpost the thing he shitposted
What are the odds that Trump posts about Ilia Malinin
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 PM
What are the odds that Trump posts about Ilia Malinin
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
Blogged about DHS mess www.jezebel.com/the-knives-c...
Throwing Tantrums over a Blanket and a Badge
The inside scoop on Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, the toddlers running DHS.
www.jezebel.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Blogged about DHS mess www.jezebel.com/the-knives-c...
The Stollerites
one of the great ideological innovations of the 2020s has been the far-left centrist
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 13, 2026 at 7:51 PM
The Stollerites
It's easy to laugh at this but I would take him semi-seriously just as a lesson to learn from 2016. He's clearly demonstrated a self-promotional media savviness well beyond his peers.
Sound like anyone else?
Sound like anyone else?
Stephen A. Smith tells CBS News’s Robert Costa that he is moving closer to a 2028 Presidential campaign, in an interview to air Sunday.
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It's easy to laugh at this but I would take him semi-seriously just as a lesson to learn from 2016. He's clearly demonstrated a self-promotional media savviness well beyond his peers.
Sound like anyone else?
Sound like anyone else?
We do but Cenk is braindead enough that he was always going to get here on his own
Going to need to a complete and total shutdown on podcasters and political livestreams until we can figure out what’s going on
February 13, 2026 at 7:11 PM
We do but Cenk is braindead enough that he was always going to get here on his own
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Hague
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Hague
I use Claude for my other project to build spreadsheets and do research and sometimes I trust it enough to ask to do analysis, and while this stuff has definitely gotten a lot better lately, I just do not see this ginormous leap forward all the tech bros are hyping up
".. 'AI isn’t replacing one specific skill. It’s a general substitute for cognitive work.' When factories automated in the 1990s, an assembly-line employee could be retrained .. 'But .. whatever you retrain for, it’s improving at that too.'"
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/brac...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/brac...
Opinion | Brace Yourself for the AI Tsunami
Inventors and executives are warning of widespread consequences that they don’t begin to understand.
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I use Claude for my other project to build spreadsheets and do research and sometimes I trust it enough to ask to do analysis, and while this stuff has definitely gotten a lot better lately, I just do not see this ginormous leap forward all the tech bros are hyping up
Meta is an irredeemably evil company
At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Meta is an irredeemably evil company
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This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
Curb music intensifies
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Curb music intensifies
Not possible to reform this
Marimar Martinez was shot by Border Patrol five times.
DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist.
She went to court to get the body cam footage released.
It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn.
Saying “do something b*tch”.
Ramming her car.
Shooting her.
It shows DHS lied.
DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist.
She went to court to get the body cam footage released.
It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn.
Saying “do something b*tch”.
Ramming her car.
Shooting her.
It shows DHS lied.
February 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Not possible to reform this
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Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far.
In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.
In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.
February 12, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far.
In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.
In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.