Jessica
@jessicawant.bsky.social
Digital ethics & equity meets social service. Also a bit runner, reader, writer, and cellist (opinions/views, my own)
My blog: https://want-to-know.ghost.io/
My blog: https://want-to-know.ghost.io/
I'm proud of my city. ❤️ Thank you for turning the tide.
I write this now living somewhat north of the city (chased away to somewhere more affordable).
I write this now living somewhat north of the city (chased away to somewhere more affordable).
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm proud of my city. ❤️ Thank you for turning the tide.
I write this now living somewhat north of the city (chased away to somewhere more affordable).
I write this now living somewhat north of the city (chased away to somewhere more affordable).
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We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.
Shana Tova!🍎🍯🐏
I take comfort that, as a Jew, I will be left behind in the rapture this Rosh Hashanah.
This post is guaranteed to age well and remind me of stupid times.
I take comfort that, as a Jew, I will be left behind in the rapture this Rosh Hashanah.
This post is guaranteed to age well and remind me of stupid times.
September 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Shana Tova!🍎🍯🐏
I take comfort that, as a Jew, I will be left behind in the rapture this Rosh Hashanah.
This post is guaranteed to age well and remind me of stupid times.
I take comfort that, as a Jew, I will be left behind in the rapture this Rosh Hashanah.
This post is guaranteed to age well and remind me of stupid times.
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"Plastic software" is the perfect term for what's happening right now.
Cheap to produce, convenient to use, terrible for the ecosystem.
We're creating massive technical debt landfills that future devs will have to clean up.
Cheap to produce, convenient to use, terrible for the ecosystem.
We're creating massive technical debt landfills that future devs will have to clean up.
July 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Plastic software" is the perfect term for what's happening right now.
Cheap to produce, convenient to use, terrible for the ecosystem.
We're creating massive technical debt landfills that future devs will have to clean up.
Cheap to produce, convenient to use, terrible for the ecosystem.
We're creating massive technical debt landfills that future devs will have to clean up.
The absolute audacity of my phone telling me we will be experiencing "cooling over the next few days" because we are going from 98⁰ to 94⁰ tomorrow.
June 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The absolute audacity of my phone telling me we will be experiencing "cooling over the next few days" because we are going from 98⁰ to 94⁰ tomorrow.
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every day i wake up and choose to honor my ancestors by opening 35 tabs i likely won’t look at again and finishing no emails
June 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
every day i wake up and choose to honor my ancestors by opening 35 tabs i likely won’t look at again and finishing no emails
June 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If Adriana Smith had an advanced directive would that have helped?
Make no mistake, what she, her children, & family have gone through is horrific. Starting with the initial denial of care, then ultimately this horrible fate.
I'm asking to understand if women have any protections we can use.
Make no mistake, what she, her children, & family have gone through is horrific. Starting with the initial denial of care, then ultimately this horrible fate.
I'm asking to understand if women have any protections we can use.
June 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If Adriana Smith had an advanced directive would that have helped?
Make no mistake, what she, her children, & family have gone through is horrific. Starting with the initial denial of care, then ultimately this horrible fate.
I'm asking to understand if women have any protections we can use.
Make no mistake, what she, her children, & family have gone through is horrific. Starting with the initial denial of care, then ultimately this horrible fate.
I'm asking to understand if women have any protections we can use.
No Kings today in our Village.
June 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
No Kings today in our Village.
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If you are in the National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens call the GI Rights Hotline, 877-447-4487
Please share 🙏🏼
Please share 🙏🏼
June 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
If you are in the National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens call the GI Rights Hotline, 877-447-4487
Please share 🙏🏼
Please share 🙏🏼
Her whole thread is spot on. I'm bi, not in the lesbian community, but I used to attend the dyke march years ago... they've never been great at understanding and talking about issues outside of their own community...
I try to give my fellow leftists the benefit of the doubt and not do the knee jerk assumption of antisemitism that so many of my Jewish peers run to but Jesus fuck could the Dyke March not come up with a better and more nuanced way to support Palestinians than a “no Zionists” policy?
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Her whole thread is spot on. I'm bi, not in the lesbian community, but I used to attend the dyke march years ago... they've never been great at understanding and talking about issues outside of their own community...
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I try to give my fellow leftists the benefit of the doubt and not do the knee jerk assumption of antisemitism that so many of my Jewish peers run to but Jesus fuck could the Dyke March not come up with a better and more nuanced way to support Palestinians than a “no Zionists” policy?
June 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I try to give my fellow leftists the benefit of the doubt and not do the knee jerk assumption of antisemitism that so many of my Jewish peers run to but Jesus fuck could the Dyke March not come up with a better and more nuanced way to support Palestinians than a “no Zionists” policy?
AI just makes shit up. Saying it "hallucinates" just adds to the marketing that it's some ephemeral, thinking, unknowable magic that's better than your own ability to think. Your buggy malfunctioning language model isn't cute. It's broken.
May 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
AI just makes shit up. Saying it "hallucinates" just adds to the marketing that it's some ephemeral, thinking, unknowable magic that's better than your own ability to think. Your buggy malfunctioning language model isn't cute. It's broken.
Anyone else getting Chain-Gang All-Stars vibes from this talk of the immigration reality t.v. show? Absolute dystopia.
BTW, if you haven't read it, I can't recommend it enough.
It. Is. Excellent.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
BTW, if you haven't read it, I can't recommend it enough.
It. Is. Excellent.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within…
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May 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Anyone else getting Chain-Gang All-Stars vibes from this talk of the immigration reality t.v. show? Absolute dystopia.
BTW, if you haven't read it, I can't recommend it enough.
It. Is. Excellent.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
BTW, if you haven't read it, I can't recommend it enough.
It. Is. Excellent.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
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The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.
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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
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When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.
May 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.
I took myself out to see Sinners yesterday. Everything Coogler did was so intentional. Every. Detail.
Right now I'm stuck in the poison of the white "savior."
A LOT will be, and should be, written about that movie.
Right now I'm stuck in the poison of the white "savior."
A LOT will be, and should be, written about that movie.
May 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I took myself out to see Sinners yesterday. Everything Coogler did was so intentional. Every. Detail.
Right now I'm stuck in the poison of the white "savior."
A LOT will be, and should be, written about that movie.
Right now I'm stuck in the poison of the white "savior."
A LOT will be, and should be, written about that movie.
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There are more 3-minute speeches worth hearing in @booker.senate.gov's filibuster - 14 hrs in - than most Senators will belch in their entire careers. As time goes on, he's less filtered but just as coherent. I'm not an orthodox believer but others might hear The Spirit speaking through him.
April 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
There are more 3-minute speeches worth hearing in @booker.senate.gov's filibuster - 14 hrs in - than most Senators will belch in their entire careers. As time goes on, he's less filtered but just as coherent. I'm not an orthodox believer but others might hear The Spirit speaking through him.
Insomnia thoughts: I wish Al Gore fought and didn't concede. Gracious is what got us here.
March 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Insomnia thoughts: I wish Al Gore fought and didn't concede. Gracious is what got us here.
Published another article of the dangerous myth pitting quality against inclusivity, a calculated lie designed to maintain the status quo.
Genuine meritocracy DEMANDS inclusion, while biased technology creates real-world harm with devastating consequences.
want-to-know.ghost.io/the-false-bi...
Genuine meritocracy DEMANDS inclusion, while biased technology creates real-world harm with devastating consequences.
want-to-know.ghost.io/the-false-bi...
The False Binary: Excellence vs. Inclusion (The Techno-Authoritarian Backlash, Part 2)
There’s an anecdote I love from the now-retired Reply All podcast, it starts with a problem-solving question that I invite you to try now:
Let's say you are just sitting down at home for a really del...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Published another article of the dangerous myth pitting quality against inclusivity, a calculated lie designed to maintain the status quo.
Genuine meritocracy DEMANDS inclusion, while biased technology creates real-world harm with devastating consequences.
want-to-know.ghost.io/the-false-bi...
Genuine meritocracy DEMANDS inclusion, while biased technology creates real-world harm with devastating consequences.
want-to-know.ghost.io/the-false-bi...