Jamey
@klocktower.org
GenX leftist anti-racist teacher in Chicago (NBCT, PhD).
Too many hobbies, lately mostly sewing and gaming.
Too many hobbies, lately mostly sewing and gaming.
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listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.
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i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun
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Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman
Just a mainstream Midwestern Republican US Senator, having a normal one!
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just a mainstream Midwestern Republican US Senator, having a normal one!
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32
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Very cool!
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Very cool!
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I'm sorry, but if you are using LLMs to do your work and you end up citing non-existent papers you are engaging in academic fraud and you should be punished
This is no different than a scientist making up data or a historian inventing quotes. People who do this should be heavily sanctioned
This is no different than a scientist making up data or a historian inventing quotes. People who do this should be heavily sanctioned
December 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I'm sorry, but if you are using LLMs to do your work and you end up citing non-existent papers you are engaging in academic fraud and you should be punished
This is no different than a scientist making up data or a historian inventing quotes. People who do this should be heavily sanctioned
This is no different than a scientist making up data or a historian inventing quotes. People who do this should be heavily sanctioned
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Yglesias and I had an exchange where he laughed at the idea Americans would be targeted when it was time for him to renew his passport
He deleted the exchange
Yglesias is a racist. But more than that he’s an opportunist who needs other people to be as cynical as he is to justify his position
He deleted the exchange
Yglesias is a racist. But more than that he’s an opportunist who needs other people to be as cynical as he is to justify his position
Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Yglesias and I had an exchange where he laughed at the idea Americans would be targeted when it was time for him to renew his passport
He deleted the exchange
Yglesias is a racist. But more than that he’s an opportunist who needs other people to be as cynical as he is to justify his position
He deleted the exchange
Yglesias is a racist. But more than that he’s an opportunist who needs other people to be as cynical as he is to justify his position
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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If the Chicago ruling class, aka Michael Sacks, is spending big money to try convince the working class that paying more in fees and taxes is “beneficial” and a “shared sacrifice” then that should tell you all that you need to know. The choice is simple in Chicago-tax the rich.
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If the Chicago ruling class, aka Michael Sacks, is spending big money to try convince the working class that paying more in fees and taxes is “beneficial” and a “shared sacrifice” then that should tell you all that you need to know. The choice is simple in Chicago-tax the rich.
Fuck these AI slop machines.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Fuck these AI slop machines.
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Podcast host Jim Stewartson added, "It’s only weird until you realize that CBS News is run by the PayPal Mafia. Bari Weiss started an 'anti-woke university' with the co-founder of Palantir."
"Everything that comes out of this network is untrustworthy," he further added.
"Everything that comes out of this network is untrustworthy," he further added.
'Really weird': CBS News host raises eyebrows with 'surprising' topic of lawmaker grilling
CBS News raised "ideological" concerns over the weekend as one of its hosts grilled a GOP lawmaker about why more isn't being done on a issue that's important to those on the right.Margaret Brennan of...
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December 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Podcast host Jim Stewartson added, "It’s only weird until you realize that CBS News is run by the PayPal Mafia. Bari Weiss started an 'anti-woke university' with the co-founder of Palantir."
"Everything that comes out of this network is untrustworthy," he further added.
"Everything that comes out of this network is untrustworthy," he further added.
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Today, on what should have been a day of celebration, the Jewish community is instead mourning once again after a horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia, where two men opened fire and killed at least 12 people in a targeted terror attack against Jews celebrating Hanukkah.
Antisemitism is evil.
Antisemitism is evil.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Today, on what should have been a day of celebration, the Jewish community is instead mourning once again after a horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia, where two men opened fire and killed at least 12 people in a targeted terror attack against Jews celebrating Hanukkah.
Antisemitism is evil.
Antisemitism is evil.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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You know what does hold ground? 10,000 nomadic horsemen.
December 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You know what does hold ground? 10,000 nomadic horsemen.
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The time to adopt AI is 2030.
If the tech is really that great, it will survive until then, presumably in an even better and cheaper form than today.
If it crashes and burns between now and then, you didn’t waste billions of dollars and untold expertise trying to chase it.
If the tech is really that great, it will survive until then, presumably in an even better and cheaper form than today.
If it crashes and burns between now and then, you didn’t waste billions of dollars and untold expertise trying to chase it.
December 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The time to adopt AI is 2030.
If the tech is really that great, it will survive until then, presumably in an even better and cheaper form than today.
If it crashes and burns between now and then, you didn’t waste billions of dollars and untold expertise trying to chase it.
If the tech is really that great, it will survive until then, presumably in an even better and cheaper form than today.
If it crashes and burns between now and then, you didn’t waste billions of dollars and untold expertise trying to chase it.
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"WBEZ’s analysis sheds light on who would potentially be affected by Johnson’s proposal: less than 1% of all licensed businesses in Chicago; roughly 20% of jobs at companies across the city; and companies where an average salary is estimated to be roughly $111,000."
Chicago's bond rating likely to drop to a notch above junk, no matter how and when budget stalemate ends
Another drop in Chicago’s bond rating may not mean much to taxpayers now, but it will mean plenty to their children and grandchildren. It would make city borrowing costlier, and could impede the…
buff.ly
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"WBEZ’s analysis sheds light on who would potentially be affected by Johnson’s proposal: less than 1% of all licensed businesses in Chicago; roughly 20% of jobs at companies across the city; and companies where an average salary is estimated to be roughly $111,000."
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“The alders’ suggestions hold…core contradictions…increased cost burden on working class Chicagoans…some “efficiencies”…would result in higher healthcare costs for city workers.”
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why?
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why?
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why? • The TRiiBE
Proposing increased garbage fees and liquor taxes poses less of a risk for some alders
thetriibe.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“The alders’ suggestions hold…core contradictions…increased cost burden on working class Chicagoans…some “efficiencies”…would result in higher healthcare costs for city workers.”
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why?
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why?
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
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I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
I had a random "white hat hacker" from Europe call me this morning, to alert me of a doxxing attempt on me.
First of all, I understand cybersecurity better than these toothless dogs, and am not worried. But also, my file being called "ILLINOISPROTRANSTEACHER" is a badge of honor, really.
First of all, I understand cybersecurity better than these toothless dogs, and am not worried. But also, my file being called "ILLINOISPROTRANSTEACHER" is a badge of honor, really.
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I had a random "white hat hacker" from Europe call me this morning, to alert me of a doxxing attempt on me.
First of all, I understand cybersecurity better than these toothless dogs, and am not worried. But also, my file being called "ILLINOISPROTRANSTEACHER" is a badge of honor, really.
First of all, I understand cybersecurity better than these toothless dogs, and am not worried. But also, my file being called "ILLINOISPROTRANSTEACHER" is a badge of honor, really.
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🎅🏽Santa got arrested for protecting youth jobs.
We have grinch Alders who would rather squeeze working-class families than tax the ultra-wealthy corporations.
Tax the rich. Call your alder and tell them to pass the Protecting Chicago’s budget.
We have grinch Alders who would rather squeeze working-class families than tax the ultra-wealthy corporations.
Tax the rich. Call your alder and tell them to pass the Protecting Chicago’s budget.
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🎅🏽Santa got arrested for protecting youth jobs.
We have grinch Alders who would rather squeeze working-class families than tax the ultra-wealthy corporations.
Tax the rich. Call your alder and tell them to pass the Protecting Chicago’s budget.
We have grinch Alders who would rather squeeze working-class families than tax the ultra-wealthy corporations.
Tax the rich. Call your alder and tell them to pass the Protecting Chicago’s budget.
Holy fucking shit, you guys.
“If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said…
Maybe Minnesota is the one place where ACAB… has an asterisk?
“If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said…
Maybe Minnesota is the one place where ACAB… has an asterisk?
December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Holy fucking shit, you guys.
“If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said…
Maybe Minnesota is the one place where ACAB… has an asterisk?
“If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said…
Maybe Minnesota is the one place where ACAB… has an asterisk?
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I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
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the whole thing is just an old country yelling at the clouds. it's a meme, not a strategy. :D
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
the whole thing is just an old country yelling at the clouds. it's a meme, not a strategy. :D