Jared Dunn
@jddunn.bsky.social
Itinerant Librarian & Community Technologist. Internet Old.
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No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.
We must speak plainly: January 6th was an attempted coup. It was an effort to nullify millions of lawful votes and subvert the will of the American people.
January 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.
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Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally
I really wish we had an opposition party RN; none of this should be at all difficult to oppose for anyone with a pulse and a hint of a conscience.
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
I really wish we had an opposition party RN; none of this should be at all difficult to oppose for anyone with a pulse and a hint of a conscience.
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
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The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
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THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS
these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside
CNN: “Surely you don’t think a daycare should be unlocked.”
SHIRLEY: “There should be a reception area.”
CNN: “No, every day care is locked.”
SHIRLEY: “Fair point.” 🤔
He shows up to a day care with masked men and wonders why they don’t let him in.
SHIRLEY: “There should be a reception area.”
CNN: “No, every day care is locked.”
SHIRLEY: “Fair point.” 🤔
He shows up to a day care with masked men and wonders why they don’t let him in.
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS
Lina Khan must be sent on a quest to ensure that they never acquire Ring.
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Lina Khan must be sent on a quest to ensure that they never acquire Ring.
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states can’t borrow like the federal government can, and many state constitutions require the budget be balanced every year. now, add all the financial pressures from ACA, the BBB’s SNAP/medicaid cuts, withheld disaster funds, lower tax revenue from a sputtering economy… yeah, it’s bad
NEW with @natsfert.bsky.social: Some states are spending hundreds of millions to make up for federal cuts to Obamacare aid. They warn it won't be enough to stop millions of people from becoming uninsured. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
States step into the breach as Obamacare subsidies lapse
Even state governments that want to help can’t completely cover rising insurance premiums.
www.politico.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
states can’t borrow like the federal government can, and many state constitutions require the budget be balanced every year. now, add all the financial pressures from ACA, the BBB’s SNAP/medicaid cuts, withheld disaster funds, lower tax revenue from a sputtering economy… yeah, it’s bad
Trump has clearly shown that... you can just do stuff! And that the all-smothering neoliberal consensus is a dead letter. Will other leaders on the Left emerge who are prepared to act on that information? The current national Dems certainly aren't.
The enduring legacy of Trump 2 - and really, unbridled Stephen Miller - will be that government can claim vastly more power than anyone thinks, and it should use it as quickly and ruthlessly as possible. Will be fascinating to see how this strategy plays out in the hands of progressives
December 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trump has clearly shown that... you can just do stuff! And that the all-smothering neoliberal consensus is a dead letter. Will other leaders on the Left emerge who are prepared to act on that information? The current national Dems certainly aren't.
What if the *community* buys food for the community, and the campaign grows out of the community doing the necessary work of caring for and advocating for itself? As long as Dems see campaigns as temporary efforts that use money to reach people as atomized consumers, we're never gonna get anywhere.
Campaigns are not endlessly flush with money! If you make candidates buy food for the community, that means staff getting screwed, less clarity about what candidates stand for, more advantages for wealthy candidates. And you’ll never make a dent compared to orgs actually built for the purpose
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What if the *community* buys food for the community, and the campaign grows out of the community doing the necessary work of caring for and advocating for itself? As long as Dems see campaigns as temporary efforts that use money to reach people as atomized consumers, we're never gonna get anywhere.
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Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
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The implicit message of AI boosters is AI is increasing power and is inevitable and they are going to assault you with that power so you better also develop your own AI power to stop them first (but if you call it assault or are seen defending yourself you are an ungrateful idiot)
The overarching message is that AI is increasing power is inevitable and you must work terribly hard as an individual to build your skills for it so you won't be crushed by it.
December 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The implicit message of AI boosters is AI is increasing power and is inevitable and they are going to assault you with that power so you better also develop your own AI power to stop them first (but if you call it assault or are seen defending yourself you are an ungrateful idiot)
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One of the cursed elements of the AI discourse is how pro-AI ppl tend to crow about how great it is that it increases the powers available to LLM-users, and then go about demonstrating this by low-key threatening strangers with the fruits of those powers and calling their victims ungrateful.
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
One of the cursed elements of the AI discourse is how pro-AI ppl tend to crow about how great it is that it increases the powers available to LLM-users, and then go about demonstrating this by low-key threatening strangers with the fruits of those powers and calling their victims ungrateful.
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AI is a technology for Looking Busy
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
AI is a technology for Looking Busy
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In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing
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As AI training data has been largely limited to digital materials, this piece also reinforces the notion that claims about large language models encompassing anything like the entirety of human knowledge are vastly overblown
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
As AI training data has been largely limited to digital materials, this piece also reinforces the notion that claims about large language models encompassing anything like the entirety of human knowledge are vastly overblown
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it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got
They have made enormous headway. The central issue is that driving isn't _really_ a rule-based process; the rules are codifications of social mores but fundamentally driving around other people is about theory of mind and social negotiation, which ML is largely hopeless at; here's a thing I wrote.
Driving is a social process
Photo by Sangga Rima Roman Selia on Unsplash There is something very strange about automobiles. They are much faster and more dangerous than our brains are...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got
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"The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race."
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race."
Remember when earnest liberals were reading this guy’s phony book to understand the soul of the forgotten working class or whatever 🙄
POV: Your spouse is neither white nor Christian but you need the support of people who demand both.
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Remember when earnest liberals were reading this guy’s phony book to understand the soul of the forgotten working class or whatever 🙄
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December 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
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But that doesn't mean we should stop trying to educate people on why the chatbot isn't an effective, safe, or reliable way to meet that need.
Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
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Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
But that doesn't mean we should stop trying to educate people on why the chatbot isn't an effective, safe, or reliable way to meet that need.
Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
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Nor stop working towards meaningful regulation that reins in corporate malfeasance.
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There are many, many systems that need shoring up: in many cases when people turn to the chatbot it is because of a legitimate need.
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
There are many, many systems that need shoring up: in many cases when people turn to the chatbot it is because of a legitimate need.
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Sure, the Veteran’s Administration is being gutted, but how about this tiny one time cash bonus to show I love the troops?
Again, we are trapped in Shitty Father World. Yeah yeah, I cheated on Mom and verbally abuse you and deprive you of love and support, but I bought you a bike!
Again, we are trapped in Shitty Father World. Yeah yeah, I cheated on Mom and verbally abuse you and deprive you of love and support, but I bought you a bike!
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Sure, the Veteran’s Administration is being gutted, but how about this tiny one time cash bonus to show I love the troops?
Again, we are trapped in Shitty Father World. Yeah yeah, I cheated on Mom and verbally abuse you and deprive you of love and support, but I bought you a bike!
Again, we are trapped in Shitty Father World. Yeah yeah, I cheated on Mom and verbally abuse you and deprive you of love and support, but I bought you a bike!