Jenka
@jenka.bsky.social
• User experience designer
• Healthcare philosopher
• Essayist
📍Mojave Desert
https://jenka.substack.com
• Healthcare philosopher
• Essayist
📍Mojave Desert
https://jenka.substack.com
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Jenka
@jenka.bsky.social
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Heated Rivalry and the Art of Anti-Dystopia
Joy in the present makes joy in the future seem plausible.
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Heated Rivalry shows us that the most transportive, visionary, speculative future isn’t one that looks different from our reality. It’s one that feels different. It’s a difference that we as the audience can feel as if we’ve already lived in that world too.
Periodically I think abt the line from the article that was adapted into the movie Hustlers abt the NY strippers who drugged men and maxed out their credit cards. “The girls stop believing men are real. They think: They are there for me to manipulate and take money from.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Periodically I think abt the line from the article that was adapted into the movie Hustlers abt the NY strippers who drugged men and maxed out their credit cards. “The girls stop believing men are real. They think: They are there for me to manipulate and take money from.”
I hope this whole AI books thing creates a wave of the most weirdest, trope-defying, dominant social narratives-averse, non-derivative IP by humans just to schismogenesis themselves away from being anywhere near it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I hope this whole AI books thing creates a wave of the most weirdest, trope-defying, dominant social narratives-averse, non-derivative IP by humans just to schismogenesis themselves away from being anywhere near it.
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Y'all remember that family that almost died cuz the foraging book they got off amazon told them some bad mushrooms were safe to eat. They had no idea the book was ai-generated.
Also every ad I see on youtube these days is just ai people trying to scam the elderly.
Also every ad I see on youtube these days is just ai people trying to scam the elderly.
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
February 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Y'all remember that family that almost died cuz the foraging book they got off amazon told them some bad mushrooms were safe to eat. They had no idea the book was ai-generated.
Also every ad I see on youtube these days is just ai people trying to scam the elderly.
Also every ad I see on youtube these days is just ai people trying to scam the elderly.
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Lots that is grotesque here, but I think the key thing to notice is the zero-sum worldview: if we take in a 5yo immigrant, this somehow displaces or harms at 5yo American kid. There's a finite pool of "American" to distribute.
A zero-sum worldview is the molten core of reactionary thinking.
A zero-sum worldview is the molten core of reactionary thinking.
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"
February 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Lots that is grotesque here, but I think the key thing to notice is the zero-sum worldview: if we take in a 5yo immigrant, this somehow displaces or harms at 5yo American kid. There's a finite pool of "American" to distribute.
A zero-sum worldview is the molten core of reactionary thinking.
A zero-sum worldview is the molten core of reactionary thinking.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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jfc
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:26 AM
jfc
Friend asked for my opinion on PONIES. 10 mins into the pilot. Where do I start.
- The coldest day of the year in Moscow and they’re dressed like It’s April in NYC.
- The coldest day of the year in Moscow and they’re dressed like It’s April in NYC.
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Friend asked for my opinion on PONIES. 10 mins into the pilot. Where do I start.
- The coldest day of the year in Moscow and they’re dressed like It’s April in NYC.
- The coldest day of the year in Moscow and they’re dressed like It’s April in NYC.
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Watergate, but if someone was killed.
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Watergate, but if someone was killed.
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Its actually good and okay to try and find moments of joy during the horrors. Dont let anyone shame you for it.
January 30, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Its actually good and okay to try and find moments of joy during the horrors. Dont let anyone shame you for it.
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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The savage layoffs and editorial undermining at the Washington Post — like the "DOGE" massacres and the takeover of Twitter — are civic sabotage, pure and simple.
When government and democratic institutions are undermined, those who want unaccountable power are strengthened.
When government and democratic institutions are undermined, those who want unaccountable power are strengthened.
February 7, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The savage layoffs and editorial undermining at the Washington Post — like the "DOGE" massacres and the takeover of Twitter — are civic sabotage, pure and simple.
When government and democratic institutions are undermined, those who want unaccountable power are strengthened.
When government and democratic institutions are undermined, those who want unaccountable power are strengthened.
Some of us also possessed native-speaker level Russian and Soviet birth certificates, but nothing beats Americans' exceptionalism.
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Some of us also possessed native-speaker level Russian and Soviet birth certificates, but nothing beats Americans' exceptionalism.
Kara Swisher has the creator and exec producer of Heated Rivalry on her podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyyv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyyv...
Heated Rivalry Producers: How We Made a Hit
YouTube video by Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Kara Swisher has the creator and exec producer of Heated Rivalry on her podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyyv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyyv...
The things Ruth Bader Ginsburg set in motion is my Roman Empire. I think about the Equal Credit Opportunity Act every day. A straight line from there to the male loneliness epidemic. A queen.
February 7, 2026 at 9:03 AM
The things Ruth Bader Ginsburg set in motion is my Roman Empire. I think about the Equal Credit Opportunity Act every day. A straight line from there to the male loneliness epidemic. A queen.
"We’ll make a lot more progress against chronic illness in this century once we decide we actually want to understand what we’re dealing with," I wrote in a 2023 essay titled, "The Viral Frontier."
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February 6, 2026 at 11:23 PM
"We’ll make a lot more progress against chronic illness in this century once we decide we actually want to understand what we’re dealing with," I wrote in a 2023 essay titled, "The Viral Frontier."
jenka.substack.com/p/the-viral-...
jenka.substack.com/p/the-viral-...
When ur desperate to be on trend with “shadow networks”.
February 6, 2026 at 5:23 AM
When ur desperate to be on trend with “shadow networks”.
Look in the mirror ye mighty and despair.
Men do this because deep down they have no intrinsic sense of self worth.
Because they cannot create life they dont know what their purpose is supposed to be.
The oppression of women gives them identity: “provider,“ “protector”.
Because they cannot create life they dont know what their purpose is supposed to be.
The oppression of women gives them identity: “provider,“ “protector”.
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Look in the mirror ye mighty and despair.
Men do this because deep down they have no intrinsic sense of self worth.
Because they cannot create life they dont know what their purpose is supposed to be.
The oppression of women gives them identity: “provider,“ “protector”.
Because they cannot create life they dont know what their purpose is supposed to be.
The oppression of women gives them identity: “provider,“ “protector”.
February 6, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Men do this because deep down they have no intrinsic sense of self worth.
Because they cannot create life they dont know what their purpose is supposed to be.
The oppression of women gives them identity: “provider,“ “protector”.
Because they cannot create life they dont know what their purpose is supposed to be.
The oppression of women gives them identity: “provider,“ “protector”.
2 Woke. 2 Furious.
I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead
February 6, 2026 at 3:43 AM
2 Woke. 2 Furious.
Men seek power to transcend nature. Which is what women's bodies, that created them, are.
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Men seek power to transcend nature. Which is what women's bodies, that created them, are.
This, truly, is not enough.
February 6, 2026 at 1:21 AM
This, truly, is not enough.
The destruction of childhood is the destruction of the future.
The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
February 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
The destruction of childhood is the destruction of the future.
Running a screenshot of a person speaking on stage in a video ad through Google lens to see if they have any results or if they're AI.
February 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Running a screenshot of a person speaking on stage in a video ad through Google lens to see if they have any results or if they're AI.