Jacob Metcalf
@jakemetcalf.bsky.social
Technology ethicist, dog haver, mountain dweller, forest critter, mover of heavy things. Writing a book about wildfire, AI, and Cali. Senior Researcher @ D&S @datasociety.bsky.social. Founder @ Ethical Resolve. Formerly @undersequioas in the Bad Place.
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The viral "Definition of AGI" paper tells you to read fake references which do not exist!
Proof: different articles present at the specified journal/volume/page number, and their titles exist nowhere on any searchable repository.
Take this as a warning to not use LMs to generate your references!
Proof: different articles present at the specified journal/volume/page number, and their titles exist nowhere on any searchable repository.
Take this as a warning to not use LMs to generate your references!
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:
They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.
DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.
They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.
DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.
September 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:
They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.
DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.
They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.
DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
The discovery in Kimmel v Carr is gonna be a real banger.
September 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The discovery in Kimmel v Carr is gonna be a real banger.
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welcome to The Resistance,
*checks notes*
*sighs*
*weeps gently*
...michael eisner
*checks notes*
*sighs*
*weeps gently*
...michael eisner
Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
September 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
welcome to The Resistance,
*checks notes*
*sighs*
*weeps gently*
...michael eisner
*checks notes*
*sighs*
*weeps gently*
...michael eisner
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Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
Facebook allowed a foreign weapons manufacturer (Cambridge Analytica) steal my data to launch a fascist coup in the US and all I got was $35.
September 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Facebook allowed a foreign weapons manufacturer (Cambridge Analytica) steal my data to launch a fascist coup in the US and all I got was $35.
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This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
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Some thoughts on yesterday
www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Some thoughts on yesterday
www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...
We are ~6 months from a Jon McNaughton scribble of Trump and Jesus bombarding Fort Sumter being hung in the National Portrait Gallery.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...
Smithsonian Responds to Trump’s Demand for a Review of Its Exhibits
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We are ~6 months from a Jon McNaughton scribble of Trump and Jesus bombarding Fort Sumter being hung in the National Portrait Gallery.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...
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With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
August 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
This is how Taylor becomes the Lenin of the anti-technofascism vanguard. 🫡
www.reuters.com/business/met...
www.reuters.com/business/met...
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
www.reuters.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is how Taylor becomes the Lenin of the anti-technofascism vanguard. 🫡
www.reuters.com/business/met...
www.reuters.com/business/met...
RFK wouldn't be able to identify a mitochondria on a 7th grade biology textbook diagram of the cell.
What the actual fuck is "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges" and how does this dangerously bananas man believe he can diagnose random children he sees in public with it, with zero medical training or education??
August 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
RFK wouldn't be able to identify a mitochondria on a 7th grade biology textbook diagram of the cell.
Pritzker, Moore, Newsom, Whitmer, Hochul, etc. could end all this bullshit tomorrow by declaring as a pact that any state which works with Trump to send uninvited National Guard troops will be subject to:
- termination of all state government contracts with business from invading states
- termination of all state government contracts with business from invading states
August 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Pritzker, Moore, Newsom, Whitmer, Hochul, etc. could end all this bullshit tomorrow by declaring as a pact that any state which works with Trump to send uninvited National Guard troops will be subject to:
- termination of all state government contracts with business from invading states
- termination of all state government contracts with business from invading states
Absolutely committed to doing this all in the dumbest, most Boomer-brained, least effective manner.
SCOOP: A Powerful A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers.
Big liberal content creators are being paid up to $8,000 per month to push party messaging. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Big liberal content creators are being paid up to $8,000 per month to push party messaging. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
August 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Absolutely committed to doing this all in the dumbest, most Boomer-brained, least effective manner.
You really could not find a more precise combination of everything I hate. 〽️ www.anduril.com/article/andu...
Anduril Industries Named Official Sponsor of The Ohio State University Athletics
Sponsorship underscores Anduril’s long-term commitment to Ohio through support for future leaders, community engagement, and the Arsenal advanced manufacturing campus
www.anduril.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
You really could not find a more precise combination of everything I hate. 〽️ www.anduril.com/article/andu...
Surely this is a marketing ploy by Subway. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Trump says he will join police, military on D.C. streets Thursday
The move continues his administration’s efforts to exert control over the capital city.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Surely this is a marketing ploy by Subway. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
The catalog of violent goon shit continues to grow. youtu.be/xuSNmjqY2d0?...
🚨Trump CAUGHT ON CAMERA as Plan IMPLODES IN PUBLIC
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
youtu.be
August 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The catalog of violent goon shit continues to grow. youtu.be/xuSNmjqY2d0?...
I really appreciate how clear @governor.ca.gov is that the UCs will never bend the knee to Trump. What the Ivies have done is just so debased and absurd, but I never expected better out of those over-privileged nerds. Proud to be a UC grad, even tho I have The Ahnolds sig on my diploma.
August 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I really appreciate how clear @governor.ca.gov is that the UCs will never bend the knee to Trump. What the Ivies have done is just so debased and absurd, but I never expected better out of those over-privileged nerds. Proud to be a UC grad, even tho I have The Ahnolds sig on my diploma.
The new AI business trajectory: skip the Trough of Disillusionment, go straight to the Slope of Dark Enlightenment.
August 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The new AI business trajectory: skip the Trough of Disillusionment, go straight to the Slope of Dark Enlightenment.
I appreciate that Ezra is one of the few people in the mainstream media willing to look this in the face.
But the only correct answer is that Israel was engaged in Gaza *before* 10/7. It was then and is now a genocide, and Israeli officials have been vocal about it. Take them at their word.
But the only correct answer is that Israel was engaged in Gaza *before* 10/7. It was then and is now a genocide, and Israeli officials have been vocal about it. Take them at their word.
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
When Is It Genocide?
Philippe Sands discusses how to think about the tragedies in Gaza through the lens of international law.
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm...
youtu.be/RrhBypHFYPY?...
When Is It Genocide?
Philippe Sands discusses how to think about the tragedies in Gaza through the lens of international law.
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm...
youtu.be/RrhBypHFYPY?...
Israel, Gaza and the Debate Over Genocide | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I appreciate that Ezra is one of the few people in the mainstream media willing to look this in the face.
But the only correct answer is that Israel was engaged in Gaza *before* 10/7. It was then and is now a genocide, and Israeli officials have been vocal about it. Take them at their word.
But the only correct answer is that Israel was engaged in Gaza *before* 10/7. It was then and is now a genocide, and Israeli officials have been vocal about it. Take them at their word.
This kinda settles the question of whether that eugenics joke ad was Nazi shit, right? The Nazis said it is. abc7.com/post/califor...
Vandalized billboard on 91 Freeway in Corona references Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans ad
The banner covering the billboard reads, "Proud Boys love Sydney Sweeney. She has the best blue genes" - a message that references Sweeney's American Eagle jeans ad.
abc7.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This kinda settles the question of whether that eugenics joke ad was Nazi shit, right? The Nazis said it is. abc7.com/post/califor...