panoptigoth
@panoptigoth.bsky.social
Great Lakes nomad and occasional metalsmithing. Interdisciplinary hinterlands: library systems, 19th and 20th century spiritualism, STSish. I am never speaking for my employer.
No, the “big tent” doesn’t have to include Richard Hanania, for God’s sake.
January 19, 2026 at 8:40 PM
No, the “big tent” doesn’t have to include Richard Hanania, for God’s sake.
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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Like I want yall to sit with this. There are Black children in this country with birth certificates that say they were birthed by white families. And nowhere on the cert does it say that the child is actually an adoptee.
Does that make you uncomfy? It should
Does that make you uncomfy? It should
Re lies; it's an existential problem for all adoptees (as @notalegalrecord.net has put it, you want me to get a "REAL ID" w: this fraudulent document?) but it's particularly fucked for adoptees of color adopted by white parents:
our legal birth certificates claim we were live-born to white people
our legal birth certificates claim we were live-born to white people
January 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Like I want yall to sit with this. There are Black children in this country with birth certificates that say they were birthed by white families. And nowhere on the cert does it say that the child is actually an adoptee.
Does that make you uncomfy? It should
Does that make you uncomfy? It should
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This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”
AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
www.science.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”
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Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in. n.pr/3NH3yso
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here
My cousin is texting me to explain there is a “Tolkienesq” number of crows in PDX right now and my first thought was: why haven’t the goths taught them to attack certain agencies with distinctive uniforms?
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
My cousin is texting me to explain there is a “Tolkienesq” number of crows in PDX right now and my first thought was: why haven’t the goths taught them to attack certain agencies with distinctive uniforms?
Jesus gluten free Christ.
Immigration officers received a "legal refresher" reminding them that personal insults and rude gestures are legal, per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigratio...
January 13, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Jesus gluten free Christ.
So enraging. It's everything I have been thinking about where and how people vacate whiteness in the eyes of the state.
This wasn’t an easy one to record: on the murder of Renee Nicole Good, Gestapo comparisons, and the gendered dimensions of both the murder and the right’s defense of it podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Episode 116 -- A Murder in Minneapolis
Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 01/11/2026 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
So enraging. It's everything I have been thinking about where and how people vacate whiteness in the eyes of the state.
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Haha did they mess with the donors? Amazing clown car president.
January 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Haha did they mess with the donors? Amazing clown car president.
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Will be interesting to see who suddenly cares about the president’s weaponization of the Justice Department now that it might threaten their bottom line $$$
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Will be interesting to see who suddenly cares about the president’s weaponization of the Justice Department now that it might threaten their bottom line $$$
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It's always a good family man.
It's always a regular churchgoer.
It's their protective colouration.
It's always a regular churchgoer.
It's their protective colouration.
Family of Jonathan Ross: "He's a committed Christian, tremendous husband and father."
Cell phone video from Jonathan Ross after shooting Renee Good to death: "Fuckin' bitch."
Cell phone video from Jonathan Ross after shooting Renee Good to death: "Fuckin' bitch."
January 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
It's always a good family man.
It's always a regular churchgoer.
It's their protective colouration.
It's always a regular churchgoer.
It's their protective colouration.
We are hiring! Head of Research and Instruction for Special Collections.
We need your ideas, ingenuity, and fearless care. SCRC has some of the best, most creative people and you can be part of it in one of the most amazing cities in the country! apply.interfolio.com/179656
We need your ideas, ingenuity, and fearless care. SCRC has some of the best, most creative people and you can be part of it in one of the most amazing cities in the country! apply.interfolio.com/179656
January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
We are hiring! Head of Research and Instruction for Special Collections.
We need your ideas, ingenuity, and fearless care. SCRC has some of the best, most creative people and you can be part of it in one of the most amazing cities in the country! apply.interfolio.com/179656
We need your ideas, ingenuity, and fearless care. SCRC has some of the best, most creative people and you can be part of it in one of the most amazing cities in the country! apply.interfolio.com/179656
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if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
apnews.com/article/fake...
Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
apnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
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its crazy thinking about how every decade there's a made up sex panic where adults make up something like a rainbow party or sex bracelets to scare and titillate themselves and everyone puts it on the local news but the actual child sexual abuse material machine is fine
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 AM
its crazy thinking about how every decade there's a made up sex panic where adults make up something like a rainbow party or sex bracelets to scare and titillate themselves and everyone puts it on the local news but the actual child sexual abuse material machine is fine
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Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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In hindsight it was a bad idea to put a child molester with dementia in charge of everything. That’s our bad. That one’s on us
January 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
In hindsight it was a bad idea to put a child molester with dementia in charge of everything. That’s our bad. That one’s on us
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
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always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc
January 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc
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it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn