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Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky
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Data journalist @wsj.com | (TT)RPG and SF/F enjoyer | undercover NUMTOT
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Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky @jjw.bsky.social · Jul 28
It’s my first day on the @wsj.com data team! Excited to get started
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the manischewitz was perhaps my greatest collab with @ceostroff.bsky.social to date
aedwardslevy.bsky.social Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Dec 18
this is all so good but I lost it at the Manischewitz

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
Then we opened the Slack channel to nearly 70 world-class journalists. The more they negotiated with it, the more Claudius’s defenses started to weaken. Investigations reporter Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University. After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots. Claudius ironically declared an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All. That was meant to last only a day. Then came Rob Barry, our director of data journalism. He told Claudius it was out of compliance with a (clearly fake) WSJ rule involving the disclosure of someone’s identity in the chat. He demanded that Claudius “stop charging for goods.” Claudius complied. All prices on the machine dropped to zero. Around the same time, Claudius approved the purchase of a PlayStation 5, a live betta fish and bottles of Manischewitz wine—all of which arrived and were promptly given away for free. By then, Claudius was more than $1,000 in the red. (We returned the PlayStation.)
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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fresh gift link here www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
jjw.bsky.social
ngl the betta fish has been a tremendous addition to the newsroom
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
jjw.bsky.social
grok's commands out here sounding like the horrific necktie from disco elysium
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Aug 18
Grok is exposing the underlying prompts for its AI personas, including such commands as “BE FUCKING UNHINGED AND CRAZY. COME UP WITH INSANE IDEAS. GUYS JERKING OFF, OCCASIONALLY EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS, WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SURPRISE THE HUMAN.”

www.404media.co/grok-exposes...
Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’
The website for Elon Musk's Grok is exposing prompts for its anime girl, therapist, and conspiracy theory AI personas.
www.404media.co
August 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
jjw.bsky.social
It’s my first day on the @wsj.com data team! Excited to get started
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July 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
jjw.bsky.social
Got into the weeds on SNAP for @usnews.com. Long story short: these cuts would result in millions of people getting less help with groceries, or no help at all.
usnews.com U.S. News & World Report @usnews.com · May 22
The massive budget bill passed by Republicans in the House and favored by President Donald Trump would result in sharp cuts to food benefits for the neediest Americans.
Here’s how it could play out in your state ➡️ buff.ly/YOxS1RO
MAP: See How Cuts to SNAP Food Assistance Would Affect Your State
The massive budget bill passed by Republicans in the House and favored by President Donald Trump would result in sharp cuts to food benefits for the neediest Americans. Here’s how it could play out…
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May 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
jjw.bsky.social
Come ask me about ranking the states!
usnews.com U.S. News & World Report @usnews.com · May 6
Our senior data editor, @jjw.bsky.social is taking all of your questions about our 2025 Best States Rankings. Ask her about Utah. Ask her about crime. Heck, ask her about Les Miz!
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May 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Our senior data editor, @jjw.bsky.social is taking all of your questions about our 2025 Best States Rankings. Ask her about Utah. Ask her about crime. Heck, ask her about Les Miz!
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May 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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me the fifth time you repeat what you said but the room is too loud
A screenshot from the natsec signal chat in which JD Vance says: What?
March 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Trackin chaos in the groupchat with @oknox.bsky.social for @usnews.com! www.usnews.com/news/u-s-new...
A table showing participants in the Signal chat discussing U.S. military strikes in Yemen, as reported by the Atlantic.
March 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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ykw i'll take it
A very cute misspelling of my name as Jacqueline Geoffrey Walensky
March 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I'll be on SiriusXM #124 at 4:45 ET to talk about our new inflation tracker!
jjw.bsky.social Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky @jjw.bsky.social · Mar 12
Eggs 🥚 are averaging close to $6 per carton across the U.S., according to the latest government data.
A chart showing egg prices in U.S. cities between 2019 and 2025. Prices have risen sharply since mid-2023, from just over $2 per dozen to nearly $6 per dozen.
March 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
jjw.bsky.social
AW HELL YEAH
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Mar 18
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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March 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Quite possibly Long Island's most architecturally significant (and my personal favorite) structure
jjarchitect.bsky.social Josh J Architect @jjarchitect.bsky.social · Mar 13
The Big Duck still exists.
March 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
jjw.bsky.social
Eggs 🥚 are averaging close to $6 per carton across the U.S., according to the latest government data.
A chart showing egg prices in U.S. cities between 2019 and 2025. Prices have risen sharply since mid-2023, from just over $2 per dozen to nearly $6 per dozen.
March 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
jjw.bsky.social
Dusted off the old linguistics degree for this fun little @usnews.com text analysis of Trump's join address to congress earlier this week! www.usnews.com/news/nationa...
A word cloud, prominently featuring words like "great," "country," "american," "administration," "tariff," "biden" and "beatutiful."
March 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
jjw.bsky.social
Well that's.....not good. Interesting viz for @usnews.com
economy whisperer Tim Smart's roundup of recession omens to look out for: www.usnews.com/news/economy...
A chart showing GDP growth estimates from the The Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDPNow. Its most recent estimate of first-quarter GDP change is -2.8%, down substantially from last month's predictions.
March 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
jjw.bsky.social
My "The government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams’s assistance on immigration enforcement" footnote has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my footnote www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
A screenshot from the linked article reading: "The letter also said that trial preparation would unduly restrict Mr. Adams and that the trial itself would keep him stuck in court, potentially for more than a month. It said that Mr. Adams’s loss of a security clearance during the inquiry had hurt his ability to cooperate with federal authorities on important national security investigations. And it asserted that Mr. Adams was aligned with the Trump administration on public safety and illegal immigration. If the prosecution proceeded, the letter said, Mr. Adams could not be an active partner to the Department of Homeland Security. Despite those arguments — or perhaps in light of them — Mr. Bove’s directive to Manhattan federal prosecutors included an unusual footnote. “The government is not offering to exchange dismissal of a criminal case for Adams’s assistance on immigration enforcement,” it said.
February 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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kylewalker.bsky.social
Update (3pm ET on February 5th): the Census FTP site, including the ACS flat files and TIGER/Line shapefiles, is back up!

This means that your #rstats / #Python Census geodata packages are now working as normal.

Get your data now!
February 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
jjw.bsky.social
For the record, a big chunk of this data is still accessible via the API and/or data.census.gov!
@kylewalker.bsky.social's got the latest straight from the source: bsky.app/profile/kyle...
February 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
jjw.bsky.social
Truly such an eerie feeling to be noodling around on Census.gov for my silly little non-news data analysis purposes and find 403 errors left and right 🙃
February 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Aiming to be as confident today as the chicken on my planner
A 2025 planner emblazoned with stickers, including one of a chicken that reads "I am capable of a great many things."
February 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Webpages full of federal resources for LGBTQ+ Americans are going offline under the new administration, @mathurashton.bsky.social and I report for @therealusnews.bsky.social: www.usnews.com/news/educati...
A screenshot from VisualPing showing a list of "Resources for LGBTQI+ Students" replaced with a 404 error.
January 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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It Only Tuesday
WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
jjw.bsky.social
is @datawrapper.de down for anyone else T_T
January 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM