Jody Medich
@jmedich.bsky.social
Future nerd/design strategist, artist, maker, speaker. Ex MSFT, Google
It's only been 9 months?! OMG
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It's only been 9 months?! OMG
The red hat half of my family is furious that I posted "thoughts and prayers". Yes, the same ones that posted "thoughts and prayers" about today's school shooting.
September 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The red hat half of my family is furious that I posted "thoughts and prayers". Yes, the same ones that posted "thoughts and prayers" about today's school shooting.
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July 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"
February 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"
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the way to stop people doing nazi shit is to create an environment where doing nazi shit immediately gets you jumped by six guys, do not pass go, ass kicking first and ask questions later. every goth & punk bar on god's gay earth already figured this out in the 90s
February 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
the way to stop people doing nazi shit is to create an environment where doing nazi shit immediately gets you jumped by six guys, do not pass go, ass kicking first and ask questions later. every goth & punk bar on god's gay earth already figured this out in the 90s
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I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
www.mcsweeneys.net
February 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things
I love when he cuddles his toys.
February 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I love when he cuddles his toys.
I mean, what would that look like?
What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?
February 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I mean, what would that look like?
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Gosh, sounds like fair use to me. It's not like OpenAI / Microsoft cared one bit about licenses or copyright when they absorbed my entire legal blog into their LLMs via Common Crawl. Why should their probabilistic LLM outputs get better copyright protection than my original human work?
Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
www.bloomberg.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Gosh, sounds like fair use to me. It's not like OpenAI / Microsoft cared one bit about licenses or copyright when they absorbed my entire legal blog into their LLMs via Common Crawl. Why should their probabilistic LLM outputs get better copyright protection than my original human work?
I have more bots following me here than on all other social media platforms combined
January 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I have more bots following me here than on all other social media platforms combined
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If you're feeling down today, here's a raccoon playing with bubbles.
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you're feeling down today, here's a raccoon playing with bubbles.
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy
Old man with a walker, a pregnant lady, and I wait 45 min for a bus. a born again in Jesus shirt walked up just as the bus pulled up, pushes the old man and cuts in front of preggo. Ah christians.
January 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Old man with a walker, a pregnant lady, and I wait 45 min for a bus. a born again in Jesus shirt walked up just as the bus pulled up, pushes the old man and cuts in front of preggo. Ah christians.
Thank God for that homeless guy that spit on my sandwich as I was taking a bite. For a minute there I forgot I was in SF!
January 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Thank God for that homeless guy that spit on my sandwich as I was taking a bite. For a minute there I forgot I was in SF!
A salute, an erasure of identities, and extensive removal of human rights for millions. Not a great first day.
January 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A salute, an erasure of identities, and extensive removal of human rights for millions. Not a great first day.
O Snoop. Not you, too.
January 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
O Snoop. Not you, too.
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Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updat...
www.cnn.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.