Janto McMullin
@jantomcm.bsky.social
Map freak. Currently obsessed with gothic stonework. He/him
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Feel really bad for any women posting photos of themself on twitter right now and anyone who has ever posted photos of their kids. Things are about to get much worse for everyone.
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Feel really bad for any women posting photos of themself on twitter right now and anyone who has ever posted photos of their kids. Things are about to get much worse for everyone.
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
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A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day
You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.
www.pcmag.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
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6 July 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Istvan Ferenc Reiner, was born in Miskolc to Bela and Livia.
In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
July 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
6 July 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Istvan Ferenc Reiner, was born in Miskolc to Bela and Livia.
In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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What a horrific response. She admits that russia is killing our civilians, fully aware that without Patriot missiles, more families will be burned alive in their beds in the middle of the night, yet she mutters something about how the commitment hasn’t changed.
Tammy Bruce serves up epic word salad about Russia-Ukraine: "The nature of how we make that commitment is going be based on what's best for America First. It's certainly two nations at war & America has made a huge difference in that regard. This is not something POTUS is not not addressing."
July 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What a horrific response. She admits that russia is killing our civilians, fully aware that without Patriot missiles, more families will be burned alive in their beds in the middle of the night, yet she mutters something about how the commitment hasn’t changed.
Thanks, I hate it
This is the logical endpoint of platform incentives and AI video, AI rage bait -
Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok
www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/racis...
Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok
www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/racis...
Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok
www.mediamatters.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Thanks, I hate it
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the regularity of this makes it brutally clear it's the result of deliberate policy, something confirmed by Haaretz reporting - www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the regularity of this makes it brutally clear it's the result of deliberate policy, something confirmed by Haaretz reporting - www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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This is the result of a Russian missile hit that damaged a civilian train today, carrying regular people, including the elderly, women, and kids. Sadly, people get used to seeing stuff like this, and it won't be all over the news. Don’t let it fade. Keep showing Russia's crimes
June 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is the result of a Russian missile hit that damaged a civilian train today, carrying regular people, including the elderly, women, and kids. Sadly, people get used to seeing stuff like this, and it won't be all over the news. Don’t let it fade. Keep showing Russia's crimes
The fact that many people point out this is bollocks when you look at aid as % of GDP with zero engagement is kinda damning for someone who built an online brand as a pedant
I think there's something pretty damning to say here about the world's other large or advanced economies, which simply neglect less wealthy parts of the world - often parts of the world they themselves once ruled or colonized.
America's retreat is shameful - but so was the loneliness of our effort.
America's retreat is shameful - but so was the loneliness of our effort.
June 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The fact that many people point out this is bollocks when you look at aid as % of GDP with zero engagement is kinda damning for someone who built an online brand as a pedant
Ireland has actually caught up a bit then, was suprised to see it at 87.4% of the population, meanwhile Finland is 89.7 Finnish parents, at least 90-something white, and people still complain
one thing Americans might miss because of wankers like Goodhart is that the UK is an *overwhelmingly white country* as a whole. 83 percent of the population are white! 76 percent of that is 'white British' What sparks the panic is that London is highly multicultural and the pundits all live there.
June 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Ireland has actually caught up a bit then, was suprised to see it at 87.4% of the population, meanwhile Finland is 89.7 Finnish parents, at least 90-something white, and people still complain
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Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I see this is business presentations using AI-generated images or graphs that are BAD - messy, difficult to read, v. forgettable - but 'tis always been so, people love clip art and cutesy teddybear cards or the most generic anime known to man
I wrote this about AI. We hear a lot about the importance of the "human touch" in the age of of machine intelligence. But the depressing truth is a lot of people just love AI slop.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Let’s be real, some people prefer the artificial
Biggest shock about AI is not the dire poetry it produces, but that many favour it precisely for the ways it isn’t human
www.thetimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I see this is business presentations using AI-generated images or graphs that are BAD - messy, difficult to read, v. forgettable - but 'tis always been so, people love clip art and cutesy teddybear cards or the most generic anime known to man
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1) this is a vg column 2) I'd love to read some proper qual research on *why* people just don't mind AI, I'm so far down one end of the spectrum on it that I just can't really fathom why you'd enjoy "art" or "writing" done by the robots
I wrote this about AI. We hear a lot about the importance of the "human touch" in the age of of machine intelligence. But the depressing truth is a lot of people just love AI slop.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Let’s be real, some people prefer the artificial
Biggest shock about AI is not the dire poetry it produces, but that many favour it precisely for the ways it isn’t human
www.thetimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
1) this is a vg column 2) I'd love to read some proper qual research on *why* people just don't mind AI, I'm so far down one end of the spectrum on it that I just can't really fathom why you'd enjoy "art" or "writing" done by the robots
The same is true of running a TTRPG
The secret to productive meetings is having an agenda and a chair willing to tell people to stop talking
May 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The same is true of running a TTRPG
What is this witchcraft?!
Most political punditry misses this fundamental insight from political science.
The key to winning at both politics and elections is realizing that future opinions — "latent opinion" — is different from what we can measure about public opinion using polls _today_. Future opinion is downstream of both what leaders do *and* don't do today. The future is not exogenous
May 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What is this witchcraft?!
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New: A multi-year research effort at the University of Pennsylvania, by a team led by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt, found it probable that the Russia 🇷🇺 was involved in the Nord Stream sabotage
May 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
New: A multi-year research effort at the University of Pennsylvania, by a team led by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt, found it probable that the Russia 🇷🇺 was involved in the Nord Stream sabotage
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I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
May 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
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i do not care about Skynet
i care about every middle school boy having access to a "make porn of my classmates" button
i care about renting an army of GPUs to spam someone's social media with personalized harassment
i care about retirees getting fake FaceTime calls from their grandchildren
i care about every middle school boy having access to a "make porn of my classmates" button
i care about renting an army of GPUs to spam someone's social media with personalized harassment
i care about retirees getting fake FaceTime calls from their grandchildren
May 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
i do not care about Skynet
i care about every middle school boy having access to a "make porn of my classmates" button
i care about renting an army of GPUs to spam someone's social media with personalized harassment
i care about retirees getting fake FaceTime calls from their grandchildren
i care about every middle school boy having access to a "make porn of my classmates" button
i care about renting an army of GPUs to spam someone's social media with personalized harassment
i care about retirees getting fake FaceTime calls from their grandchildren
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An entire family, murdered by Russians.
May 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An entire family, murdered by Russians.
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the all-time Gladwell demolition remains this - askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/07/cult... - but this thread is a close second
April 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
the all-time Gladwell demolition remains this - askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/07/cult... - but this thread is a close second
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Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
January 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
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but they were all of them deceived, for *another* person was invited to the group chat
March 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
but they were all of them deceived, for *another* person was invited to the group chat
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12 March 1912 | Polish Jewish woman Ala Gertner was born in Będzin. She was incarcerated in #Auschwitz in August 1943. She worked in „Union” munition factory from where together with other women she smuggle gunpowder to Sonderkommando resistance. She was hanged on 6 January 1945.
March 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
12 March 1912 | Polish Jewish woman Ala Gertner was born in Będzin. She was incarcerated in #Auschwitz in August 1943. She worked in „Union” munition factory from where together with other women she smuggle gunpowder to Sonderkommando resistance. She was hanged on 6 January 1945.
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The world is tired of Gaza—I don’t blame you. But imagine being one of 2 million people, trapped, starved, dehumanized. Israel turned us into beggars for food and water, made you see us as less than human. But we are not. We are educated, we are civilized—we are people. Do we not deserve to live?
March 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The world is tired of Gaza—I don’t blame you. But imagine being one of 2 million people, trapped, starved, dehumanized. Israel turned us into beggars for food and water, made you see us as less than human. But we are not. We are educated, we are civilized—we are people. Do we not deserve to live?