Jonathan Cook
@jonathangwionbach.bsky.social
Researcher of the human experience of commerce, crossing borders, trading in stories and symbols, walking the slower paths with the best views.
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What if you did business as if you actually like your customers?
#MRX #qualitative
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#MRX #qualitative
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Do You Like Your Customers... Or Is It Just Transactional?
Can corporations and customers be friends? To some people, it will sound strange even asking this question. Of course, I'm giving it a When Harry Met Sally spin, but let's try it from a different angl...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
What if you did business as if you actually like your customers?
#MRX #qualitative
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#MRX #qualitative
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I remember watching an interview with a computer scientist the day the first computer virus hit the fledgling Internet. He had tears in his eyes. He couldn’t imagine someone using the Internet for malicious purposes. I remember marveling at his naivety.
Generative AI doesn't look like a glowing orb.
AI looks like a Terawulf data center of Cayuga Lake that will serve Terawulf's client G42, which helps the government of the UAE spy on and torture its citizens.
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AI looks like a Terawulf data center of Cayuga Lake that will serve Terawulf's client G42, which helps the government of the UAE spy on and torture its citizens.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-g...
What Generative AI Actually Looks Like
One of the few stable characteristics of generative AI technology is that it feels inevitable. "AI is the future," people say, "so you better get on board with it, or you'll get left behind.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I remember watching an interview with a computer scientist the day the first computer virus hit the fledgling Internet. He had tears in his eyes. He couldn’t imagine someone using the Internet for malicious purposes. I remember marveling at his naivety.
Digital platforms have degraded the diversity of online spaces. The time has come to rewild the internet.
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
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We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Digital platforms have degraded the diversity of online spaces. The time has come to rewild the internet.
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
Generative AI is a fascist project.
Try using your brain instead.
Don't surrender your creativity.
Try using your brain instead.
Don't surrender your creativity.
November 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Generative AI is a fascist project.
Try using your brain instead.
Don't surrender your creativity.
Try using your brain instead.
Don't surrender your creativity.
Generative AI doesn't look like a glowing orb.
AI looks like a Terawulf data center of Cayuga Lake that will serve Terawulf's client G42, which helps the government of the UAE spy on and torture its citizens.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-g...
AI looks like a Terawulf data center of Cayuga Lake that will serve Terawulf's client G42, which helps the government of the UAE spy on and torture its citizens.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-g...
What Generative AI Actually Looks Like
One of the few stable characteristics of generative AI technology is that it feels inevitable. "AI is the future," people say, "so you better get on board with it, or you'll get left behind.
www.linkedin.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Generative AI doesn't look like a glowing orb.
AI looks like a Terawulf data center of Cayuga Lake that will serve Terawulf's client G42, which helps the government of the UAE spy on and torture its citizens.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-g...
AI looks like a Terawulf data center of Cayuga Lake that will serve Terawulf's client G42, which helps the government of the UAE spy on and torture its citizens.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-g...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
Sam Altman says of generative AI: "There's something real happening here."
Jeff Bezos says of generative AI: "This is real."
When tech tycoons have to begin defending the very idea that a technology is even real, it's a sign of something unreal going on.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jeff Bezos says of generative AI: "This is real."
When tech tycoons have to begin defending the very idea that a technology is even real, it's a sign of something unreal going on.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Sam Altman says of generative AI: "There's something real happening here."
Jeff Bezos says of generative AI: "This is real."
When tech tycoons have to begin defending the very idea that a technology is even real, it's a sign of something unreal going on.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jeff Bezos says of generative AI: "This is real."
When tech tycoons have to begin defending the very idea that a technology is even real, it's a sign of something unreal going on.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Further innovation in semiconductor chip design or major advances in quantum computing, as hundreds of billions of dollars in data center infrastructure are being deployed, would immediately leave much of that investment useless in the medium to long term." insights.som.yale.edu/insights/thi...
This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts
Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that the tangle of AI deals among tech giants could be signs of dangerous overinvestment in the developing technolog...
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October 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"Further innovation in semiconductor chip design or major advances in quantum computing, as hundreds of billions of dollars in data center infrastructure are being deployed, would immediately leave much of that investment useless in the medium to long term." insights.som.yale.edu/insights/thi...
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In history you can tell things are about to get really bad when they silence the comedians.
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
In history you can tell things are about to get really bad when they silence the comedians.
Generative artificial intelligence is an intellectual cholesterol, clogging the channels of human thinking and communication.
Large language models don't save time. They waste time.
Large language models don't save time. They waste time.
This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era.
AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
“Educators now spend a significant amount of their time detecting AI-generated work and seeking ways to assess whether students are developing essential skills.”
Yes. Everywhere.
Yes. Everywhere.
August 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Generative artificial intelligence is an intellectual cholesterol, clogging the channels of human thinking and communication.
Large language models don't save time. They waste time.
Large language models don't save time. They waste time.
"A vote for HR 3633 is a vote to give Trump the pen to write the rules that would put more money in his family's pockets." - US Rep Maxine Waters, leading Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.
Why did #Ithaca, #Cortland, & #Binghamton Congressman Josh Riley support Trump on #crypto?
Why did #Ithaca, #Cortland, & #Binghamton Congressman Josh Riley support Trump on #crypto?
Why did Ithaca Democrat Josh Riley vote for HR 3633, a Trump law that allows failed cryptocurrency scammers to be bailed out by the US federal government?
#Ithaca #cryptocurrency #joshriley
#Ithaca #cryptocurrency #joshriley
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"A vote for HR 3633 is a vote to give Trump the pen to write the rules that would put more money in his family's pockets." - US Rep Maxine Waters, leading Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.
Why did #Ithaca, #Cortland, & #Binghamton Congressman Josh Riley support Trump on #crypto?
Why did #Ithaca, #Cortland, & #Binghamton Congressman Josh Riley support Trump on #crypto?
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When the ICE gulag is built, the personnel hired and trained, and the machinery for deportations and detentions fine tuned, there’s little possibility of it being dismantled after reaching their targets, not if Trump and his ilk are running things. This is a set up for a police state.
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65% budget DHS increase, an extra $42.3 billion:
> ICE to have more prison camp funds than Bureau of Prisons
> ICE to have more officers than the entire FBI
> $42,000 bonus for ICE employees
> Tripling of detention targets to 3,000 a day, 1 million a year
At the expense of everything else
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65% budget DHS increase, an extra $42.3 billion:
> ICE to have more prison camp funds than Bureau of Prisons
> ICE to have more officers than the entire FBI
> $42,000 bonus for ICE employees
> Tripling of detention targets to 3,000 a day, 1 million a year
At the expense of everything else
🦋
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
When the ICE gulag is built, the personnel hired and trained, and the machinery for deportations and detentions fine tuned, there’s little possibility of it being dismantled after reaching their targets, not if Trump and his ilk are running things. This is a set up for a police state.
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Concentration Camp!
This is a concentration camp
Alligator Alcatraz from within
July 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Concentration Camp!
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Posted this last night.
Worth posting again.
It is one thing to read and hear about people being kidnapped, far different to actually see it.
These images must be seen, must be shared.
The world needs to know how real and rampant it is now in America.
Worth posting again.
It is one thing to read and hear about people being kidnapped, far different to actually see it.
These images must be seen, must be shared.
The world needs to know how real and rampant it is now in America.
June 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Posted this last night.
Worth posting again.
It is one thing to read and hear about people being kidnapped, far different to actually see it.
These images must be seen, must be shared.
The world needs to know how real and rampant it is now in America.
Worth posting again.
It is one thing to read and hear about people being kidnapped, far different to actually see it.
These images must be seen, must be shared.
The world needs to know how real and rampant it is now in America.
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There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
June 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
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They're going all-in on tent camps.
The GEO Group & CoreCivic are expanding the number & capacity of their facilities, but that's not enough for Stephen Miller. On May 17, ICE initiated contracts with these 25 companies to provide “emergency detention & related services.”
Source: USAspending.gov
The GEO Group & CoreCivic are expanding the number & capacity of their facilities, but that's not enough for Stephen Miller. On May 17, ICE initiated contracts with these 25 companies to provide “emergency detention & related services.”
Source: USAspending.gov
June 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
They're going all-in on tent camps.
The GEO Group & CoreCivic are expanding the number & capacity of their facilities, but that's not enough for Stephen Miller. On May 17, ICE initiated contracts with these 25 companies to provide “emergency detention & related services.”
Source: USAspending.gov
The GEO Group & CoreCivic are expanding the number & capacity of their facilities, but that's not enough for Stephen Miller. On May 17, ICE initiated contracts with these 25 companies to provide “emergency detention & related services.”
Source: USAspending.gov
It's unnerving how so many heavy users of generative AI don't grasp why it bothers people when they spew computer-generated text instead of speaking in their own voices.
Most people like other people.
Most people want conversations with people, not bots.
Do you hate the sound of your own voice?
Most people like other people.
Most people want conversations with people, not bots.
Do you hate the sound of your own voice?
June 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It's unnerving how so many heavy users of generative AI don't grasp why it bothers people when they spew computer-generated text instead of speaking in their own voices.
Most people like other people.
Most people want conversations with people, not bots.
Do you hate the sound of your own voice?
Most people like other people.
Most people want conversations with people, not bots.
Do you hate the sound of your own voice?
Emotion tracking AI companies claim to be able to operationalize your subjective experience. Yet, none of them can detect our shame or guilt. These turbulent, complex inner emotions are the last citadel of our humanity. Do not surrender them to the bots. #emotion www.jonathancook.us/human-resear...
The Shameful Last Citadel Of Our Humanity — Jonathan Cook - Humanity in Commerce
One of the flaws of emotion-detecting software run on AI platforms is that it's constructed around the assumption that emotion is a definable thing that exists as a simple, identifiable condition. Emo...
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June 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Emotion tracking AI companies claim to be able to operationalize your subjective experience. Yet, none of them can detect our shame or guilt. These turbulent, complex inner emotions are the last citadel of our humanity. Do not surrender them to the bots. #emotion www.jonathancook.us/human-resear...
In Ithaca New York today, thousands came out to declare that America has no kings, and it never will.
We will not stand by silently as democracy is attacked in the USA.
We will not stand by silently as democracy is attacked in the USA.
June 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
In Ithaca New York today, thousands came out to declare that America has no kings, and it never will.
We will not stand by silently as democracy is attacked in the USA.
We will not stand by silently as democracy is attacked in the USA.
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Wiscasset showing how it's done! ❤️
What a MASSIVE turnout today on the Wiscasset Bridge to say NO KINGS in America! Thank you to all who came together as protectors of democracy. #NoKings #NoKingsInAmerica #NoKingsDay #Indivisible #MePolitics #LCImaine www.LCIMaine.org
June 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Wiscasset showing how it's done! ❤️
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Midcoast #Maine:
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Saturday 6/14 Noon -- Rally at Chapman Park,
1 PM -- Downtown Democracy Parade
All Who are Nonviolent are Welcome
No Partisan, Religious, Racial, or National Tests Applied!
#MEPolitics #Democracy #Resist #NoKings
Download, Print, and Post This Sign!
Repost this Message!
Saturday 6/14 Noon -- Rally at Chapman Park,
1 PM -- Downtown Democracy Parade
All Who are Nonviolent are Welcome
No Partisan, Religious, Racial, or National Tests Applied!
#MEPolitics #Democracy #Resist #NoKings
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Midcoast #Maine:
Download, Print, and Post This Sign!
Repost this Message!
Saturday 6/14 Noon -- Rally at Chapman Park,
1 PM -- Downtown Democracy Parade
All Who are Nonviolent are Welcome
No Partisan, Religious, Racial, or National Tests Applied!
#MEPolitics #Democracy #Resist #NoKings
Download, Print, and Post This Sign!
Repost this Message!
Saturday 6/14 Noon -- Rally at Chapman Park,
1 PM -- Downtown Democracy Parade
All Who are Nonviolent are Welcome
No Partisan, Religious, Racial, or National Tests Applied!
#MEPolitics #Democracy #Resist #NoKings
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Find the details on Rockland's #NoKings event here: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1460... #MEPolitics #Resist #Democracy #Maine
The Audacity Newsletter #23b: Parking and Plotting
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June 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Find the details on Rockland's #NoKings event here: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1460... #MEPolitics #Resist #Democracy #Maine
Integrating generative AI tools into your work is the easy choice.
Is it the right thing to do?
An ethics flowchart identifies six key questions every professional should ask before entering any generative AI prompt. #ethicsofai #aiethics
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethics...
Is it the right thing to do?
An ethics flowchart identifies six key questions every professional should ask before entering any generative AI prompt. #ethicsofai #aiethics
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethics...
The Ethics of Generative AI Flowchart
We have all tried out different generative artificial intelligence tools now and then over the last few years. You would have to be devoid of all curiosity not to have tested them.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Integrating generative AI tools into your work is the easy choice.
Is it the right thing to do?
An ethics flowchart identifies six key questions every professional should ask before entering any generative AI prompt. #ethicsofai #aiethics
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethics...
Is it the right thing to do?
An ethics flowchart identifies six key questions every professional should ask before entering any generative AI prompt. #ethicsofai #aiethics
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethics...