Jonathon Martin
jozyman.bsky.social
Jonathon Martin
@jozyman.bsky.social
Teaches academic writing at Helsinki University
Current focus: AI and academic writing
Builds at deeply.io
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Some words I invented that Dems might use soon:

Trumpflation - needlessly inflicted inflation
Trumpcession - needlessly provoked recession
March 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I don't know where Donald Trump got the idea that a trade war with his closest allies is a good idea, but Liz Truss cannot be ruled out.
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Free speech is important because it prevents those in positions of power suppressing the truth. It is in service of truth.

Interesting now how so many value freedom of speech because it enables the truth to be obfuscated and lies to become fact.
February 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The world is unravelling. Values are eroded; lying normalised; power ever more concentrated. Soon smarter than human AI will be controlled by a handful of people in a handful of companies. Is this how it ends? How do we fight back?
February 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Nothing says you had nothing to do with Jan 6th better than pardoning all the people who definitely stormed Congress on Jan 6th.
January 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
There are so many unanswered questions about we manage a world of human-level AI, even in one or two industries. Every scenario I run ends up in a very difficult place for individuals and for governments.
December 23, 2024 at 4:56 PM
A lot of posts saying Musk isn't doing this for the money. I agree, he's doing it for the power. A demi-trillionaire spend $40b to buy a social media site to assist a demagogue into power and then use him as a puppet.

Dystopian.
December 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Shocked by how many are attempting to justify the Biden pardon. It’s a grotesque abuse of power.
December 2, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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The felon who hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law will be a top ambassador. Trump fully intends to degrade and humiliate his own foreign ministry. Most Americans are fine with the scheme. It is what it is.
Trump just named Jared's father, Charles Kushner — who he pardoned in 2020 — to be Ambassador to France.

Kushner hatched a scheme involving a prostitute to entrap his brother-in-law and eventually pleaded guilty to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations.
November 30, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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Log in to X, check notifications: mostly conspiracy theorists trying to out-nonsense each other and the owner retweeting flimsy memes.

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December 1, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Joining the exodus from Twitter. Pleased to discover that a large number of those I follow are already here.
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 AM