Ben Jackson
@benjaminjackson.bsky.social
Founder, hearmeout.co. I help leaders fix team performance by lowering the cost of sincerity at work. Past: NYTimes, VICE.
📍 Brooklyn, NY
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📍 Brooklyn, NY
🔗 https://linktr.ee/benjaminjackson
🔐 Signal: @hearmeout.27001
Just walked across the street to smell a pile of Christmas trees
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Just walked across the street to smell a pile of Christmas trees
My wokest opinion is that constitutive luck is the only reason anyone is particularly good or successful at anything. No one chooses their own kindergarten teacher
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My wokest opinion is that constitutive luck is the only reason anyone is particularly good or successful at anything. No one chooses their own kindergarten teacher
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i know there are a lot of insane epstein stories out there right now but i promise you guys this one is EXTRA NUTS
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary. www.wired.com/story/jeffre...
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
i know there are a lot of insane epstein stories out there right now but i promise you guys this one is EXTRA NUTS
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It didn’t go far enough. It never went far enough.
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It didn’t go far enough. It never went far enough.
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they're going to try to build almost 15,000 units of housing on the land that amazon wanted to have for a campus 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...
City Council Approves Plan That Could Bring 14,700 Homes to Queens
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
they're going to try to build almost 15,000 units of housing on the land that amazon wanted to have for a campus 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...
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a story from 2019. that's a long-term win 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/n...
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
a story from 2019. that's a long-term win 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/n...
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going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now
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somebody finally wrote the perfect distillation of how "masculinity but make it centrist liberal" guys insist men cannot be fulfilled unless they get something a *little* extra special over women, as a treat
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
somebody finally wrote the perfect distillation of how "masculinity but make it centrist liberal" guys insist men cannot be fulfilled unless they get something a *little* extra special over women, as a treat
Come for the withering drags, stay for Mark Peterson’s beautiful, poetic photos of the defeat party
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Come for the withering drags, stay for Mark Peterson’s beautiful, poetic photos of the defeat party
Between the widespread 996 culture in AI startups and now this, it’s clear mental health does not register as a material concern for the founders working on these technologies
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Between the widespread 996 culture in AI startups and now this, it’s clear mental health does not register as a material concern for the founders working on these technologies
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The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches
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is this three hops theory going to be used with the epstein files
This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
is this three hops theory going to be used with the epstein files
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Here’s what they actually thought: they’ll just go after the left wing Bad Jews (who aren’t really Jews so it’s ok) but we’re the Good Jews so it will be fine. joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4gzansohs2a
The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Here’s what they actually thought: they’ll just go after the left wing Bad Jews (who aren’t really Jews so it’s ok) but we’re the Good Jews so it will be fine. joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4gzansohs2a
Looks like University of Pennsylvania got phished today 😲
This email appears to have been sent to all alumni just now.
This email appears to have been sent to all alumni just now.
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Looks like University of Pennsylvania got phished today 😲
This email appears to have been sent to all alumni just now.
This email appears to have been sent to all alumni just now.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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they build an ai christ and when he says christlike things they reply "no not like that" and tweak his model to lean more rightwing
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
they build an ai christ and when he says christlike things they reply "no not like that" and tweak his model to lean more rightwing
“A society can become so obsessed with the self that an individual life no longer matters.” Speaking as someone living with type 1, this piece is spot on nymag.com/intelligence...
What a Diabetes Diagnosis Taught Me About MAHA
Self-mastery is free-market logic in another guise.
nymag.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“A society can become so obsessed with the self that an individual life no longer matters.” Speaking as someone living with type 1, this piece is spot on nymag.com/intelligence...
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Respect to the greatest opening credits sequence in HBO history:
October 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Respect to the greatest opening credits sequence in HBO history:
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The Vanishing Man, 2014 by Paolo Ventura www.instagram.com/paolo.ventura/
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Vanishing Man, 2014 by Paolo Ventura www.instagram.com/paolo.ventura/
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Scientists have invented a procedure that makes you 30% hotter but 60% stupider. Records indicate that large portions of the population have elected to undergo the surgery, though exact counts are hard to know because lots of people on Perfect 10 Sex Planet don’t remember how math goes
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Scientists have invented a procedure that makes you 30% hotter but 60% stupider. Records indicate that large portions of the population have elected to undergo the surgery, though exact counts are hard to know because lots of people on Perfect 10 Sex Planet don’t remember how math goes
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this is worth seven minutes of your time. i've never been prouder to give somebody my vote
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
this is worth seven minutes of your time. i've never been prouder to give somebody my vote
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I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...
defector.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
Milkshake duck is back and he’s better than ever
🎶I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will
I have a tendency to wear my Totenkopf on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt🎶
Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will
I have a tendency to wear my Totenkopf on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt🎶
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Milkshake duck is back and he’s better than ever