Jeanine Thweatt
@jjthweatt.bsky.social
Advisor & part-time professor of philosophy/religion; theologian-at-large, recovering PK, birth doula (CD DONA), cyborg/goddess downward-spiral dancing in the “free state of Florida.” Author of Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman.
Pinned
Diagnosis: the more willing one is to assume “AI” can replace human interaction/relation/creation, the more interpersonally stunted & dysfunctional one is, generally speaking
Really unenthusiastic about today.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Really unenthusiastic about today.
Just applied for a FT teaching position for the first time in years. Zero expectations and zero regrets for knocking out this app in a 48-hour turnaround. Also: I have some standup friends and colleagues.
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Just applied for a FT teaching position for the first time in years. Zero expectations and zero regrets for knocking out this app in a 48-hour turnaround. Also: I have some standup friends and colleagues.
It’s not hard to figure out: these guys think that HRT is the magical formula needed to keep their docile sex objects from transforming into terrifying old crones. If it’s good for women, well that’s just incidental
Someone please tell Marty Makary that menopause doesn't kill women or cause divorces.
The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s not hard to figure out: these guys think that HRT is the magical formula needed to keep their docile sex objects from transforming into terrifying old crones. If it’s good for women, well that’s just incidental
The Five Doctors is 100% my pure childhood comfort TV
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Five Doctors is 100% my pure childhood comfort TV
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"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
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Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is
I don’t get everything right but I’ll say this: those gluten-free beet brownies I made per request this weekend? SUBLIME.
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I don’t get everything right but I’ll say this: those gluten-free beet brownies I made per request this weekend? SUBLIME.
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This is an excellent idea!!!
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is an excellent idea!!!
Diagnosis: the more willing one is to assume “AI” can replace human interaction/relation/creation, the more interpersonally stunted & dysfunctional one is, generally speaking
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Diagnosis: the more willing one is to assume “AI” can replace human interaction/relation/creation, the more interpersonally stunted & dysfunctional one is, generally speaking
I tripled my modest monthly donation to local food pantry. I was raised on “it’s the church’s job not the government’s” to help poor/hungry/homeless but I’m not expecting American Christian evangelical churches to rise to the occasion in this manufactured crisis by their Lord and Savior Trump
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I tripled my modest monthly donation to local food pantry. I was raised on “it’s the church’s job not the government’s” to help poor/hungry/homeless but I’m not expecting American Christian evangelical churches to rise to the occasion in this manufactured crisis by their Lord and Savior Trump
Maybe “I’d like to respond with an original thought of my own…” then say whatever the heck you feel like
As a professor I would super love this
As a professor I would super love this
deadass i do not know how i'm supposed to respond to my classmates' discussion posts when 80% of them sound like they were made with ChatGPT
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Maybe “I’d like to respond with an original thought of my own…” then say whatever the heck you feel like
As a professor I would super love this
As a professor I would super love this
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St Augustine FL getting ready early! #NoKings #StAugustineFL,#50501
October 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
St Augustine FL getting ready early! #NoKings #StAugustineFL,#50501
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it's a rahaeli list, so I assume it's good and have applied it
I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
it's a rahaeli list, so I assume it's good and have applied it
I guess undergrad essays might get accidentally more amusing
Cant wait until they add a sexbot to Microsoft Teams
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I guess undergrad essays might get accidentally more amusing
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...
Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...
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I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"
My 9th grader is fully disgusted with getting AI feedback on his work. My college students are baffled by my handwritten marginalia and feedback, and no-LLM-tolerance. Conclusion: we can reach them, but only if we take them seriously enough to require the real work from ourselves & them
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My 9th grader is fully disgusted with getting AI feedback on his work. My college students are baffled by my handwritten marginalia and feedback, and no-LLM-tolerance. Conclusion: we can reach them, but only if we take them seriously enough to require the real work from ourselves & them
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Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.
Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.
Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.
Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.
Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.
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@sassycpa.bsky.social : I like frogs
October 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
@sassycpa.bsky.social : I like frogs
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What radicalized Silicon Valley billionaires to embrace Donald Trump, and how are they wielding their power?
This week @jacobsilverman.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss his new book GILDED RAGE and the distorted worldview of the men who shape our lives.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/297_...
This week @jacobsilverman.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss his new book GILDED RAGE and the distorted worldview of the men who shape our lives.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/297_...
October 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
What radicalized Silicon Valley billionaires to embrace Donald Trump, and how are they wielding their power?
This week @jacobsilverman.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss his new book GILDED RAGE and the distorted worldview of the men who shape our lives.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/297_...
This week @jacobsilverman.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss his new book GILDED RAGE and the distorted worldview of the men who shape our lives.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/297_...
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AI advocates, to a person, are literally unable to tell good from bad. When you say you can, they think you're *lying*.
AI advocates fundamentally have no understanding of creativity and my God, it’s grim to behold. Even on the days when hitting my book’s wordcount target is like drawing blood from a stone, I don’t want a fucking machine to do it for me. And not just because the result would be soulless shit.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
AI advocates, to a person, are literally unable to tell good from bad. When you say you can, they think you're *lying*.
So, say you’re an alt-ac third-space staff/adjunct person who’s scheduled for a presentation in a class that was arranged weeks ahead of time, and you walk through a rainstorm and flooded campus to find a note on the whiteboard from the prof casually cancelling class. How mad should you be?
October 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So, say you’re an alt-ac third-space staff/adjunct person who’s scheduled for a presentation in a class that was arranged weeks ahead of time, and you walk through a rainstorm and flooded campus to find a note on the whiteboard from the prof casually cancelling class. How mad should you be?
my 19YO offspring texting about LeGuin and ideas for his Ethics paper is the kind of thing that makes me think, omg I actually did pretty good at that parenting thing I took on without adequate forethought 20 years ago
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
my 19YO offspring texting about LeGuin and ideas for his Ethics paper is the kind of thing that makes me think, omg I actually did pretty good at that parenting thing I took on without adequate forethought 20 years ago