Jana Thompson
@luxzia.bsky.social
Interests: reading actual books, technical possibilities and sociocultural consequences of AI, landscape as material embodiment of cultural values.
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I have very complicated feelings about my coursework this semester. Writing my course reviews will be complicated as well.
I started with my easiest and most straightforward class.
I started with my easiest and most straightforward class.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I have very complicated feelings about my coursework this semester. Writing my course reviews will be complicated as well.
I started with my easiest and most straightforward class.
I started with my easiest and most straightforward class.
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I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?
This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?
For a country where guns are so freely available, the people who live here seem dumber than dirt when it comes to owning them. I was raised around guns and taught to treat them as deadly weapons that were not toys, but most people in the U.S. seem to treat them like a kid with a water pistol.
August 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For a country where guns are so freely available, the people who live here seem dumber than dirt when it comes to owning them. I was raised around guns and taught to treat them as deadly weapons that were not toys, but most people in the U.S. seem to treat them like a kid with a water pistol.
This is indeed what most LinkedIn posts really are like. I appreciate people sharing research, or the difficult experiences with a job search. I don't even mind normal corporate news stuff like partnerships or deals because that's probably useful information for someone.
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is indeed what most LinkedIn posts really are like. I appreciate people sharing research, or the difficult experiences with a job search. I don't even mind normal corporate news stuff like partnerships or deals because that's probably useful information for someone.
I often wonder why the bits of poetry that come into my head are usually Tennyson or Horace, when neither is even close to my list of favorite poets.
August 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I often wonder why the bits of poetry that come into my head are usually Tennyson or Horace, when neither is even close to my list of favorite poets.
Americans balk at dense housing. Maybe if we upgraded our building standards a bit so that there was adequate soundproofing it would help, sure. But I really don't get why anyone in their right mind would want a giant house that means two hours in a car commuting every day.
July 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Americans balk at dense housing. Maybe if we upgraded our building standards a bit so that there was adequate soundproofing it would help, sure. But I really don't get why anyone in their right mind would want a giant house that means two hours in a car commuting every day.
In Seattle's August 5th elections, I chose every progressive candidate and no new tax outlays.
Taxes in Seattle and Washington State always lay a greater burden on the poor and working class by design (car tabs are a notorious example). Let progressives find a way to work with finances as is.
Taxes in Seattle and Washington State always lay a greater burden on the poor and working class by design (car tabs are a notorious example). Let progressives find a way to work with finances as is.
July 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In Seattle's August 5th elections, I chose every progressive candidate and no new tax outlays.
Taxes in Seattle and Washington State always lay a greater burden on the poor and working class by design (car tabs are a notorious example). Let progressives find a way to work with finances as is.
Taxes in Seattle and Washington State always lay a greater burden on the poor and working class by design (car tabs are a notorious example). Let progressives find a way to work with finances as is.
The behavior of people within bureaucracies seems to differ by culture. French and Italian bureaucrats shrug and find a laugh in bureaucratic nightmares. Canadians apologize profusely. Texans apparently throw up more roadblocks and say "it's the process".
July 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The behavior of people within bureaucracies seems to differ by culture. French and Italian bureaucrats shrug and find a laugh in bureaucratic nightmares. Canadians apologize profusely. Texans apparently throw up more roadblocks and say "it's the process".
While I think this article really doesn't go deep enough, it does make me wonder about why people with enough money to buy decent stuff tend to buy cheaply made junk (as I look at my Dansko clogs which I bought 15 years ago for $10 at a thrift shop): english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Airplane seats are getting smaller and smaller, clothes are unrecognizable after the second wash, and machines now answer our calls. Quality and care for craftsmanship seem to be things of the past
english.elpais.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
While I think this article really doesn't go deep enough, it does make me wonder about why people with enough money to buy decent stuff tend to buy cheaply made junk (as I look at my Dansko clogs which I bought 15 years ago for $10 at a thrift shop): english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
I need to write an email to someone about the state of an academic program and am curious if "performative academic rigor" is a thing because it feels like it is.
July 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I need to write an email to someone about the state of an academic program and am curious if "performative academic rigor" is a thing because it feels like it is.
As a person who spent over half their life in Texas, it doesn't surprise me when weather events from there make the news. It surprises me even less when the ineptness of the state government makes the news.
July 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
As a person who spent over half their life in Texas, it doesn't surprise me when weather events from there make the news. It surprises me even less when the ineptness of the state government makes the news.
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We live in an age of vibe-based evidence. AI is merely a symptom
June 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We live in an age of vibe-based evidence. AI is merely a symptom
I have said for twenty years if the U.S. is stupid enough to get mixed up in a war in Iran, I'm leaving and done.
I'm done. I really don't want to live through another twenty years of self-congratulatory war mongering here.
I'm done. I really don't want to live through another twenty years of self-congratulatory war mongering here.
June 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I have said for twenty years if the U.S. is stupid enough to get mixed up in a war in Iran, I'm leaving and done.
I'm done. I really don't want to live through another twenty years of self-congratulatory war mongering here.
I'm done. I really don't want to live through another twenty years of self-congratulatory war mongering here.
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We have two jobs going at Leuphana University's Centre for Digital Cultures, one PostDoc and one PhD position. Both are involved in the Climate Futures in Digital Cultures research field we are building up. Deadline 29th June! Feel free to get in touch if interested! Links in comment.
June 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
We have two jobs going at Leuphana University's Centre for Digital Cultures, one PostDoc and one PhD position. Both are involved in the Climate Futures in Digital Cultures research field we are building up. Deadline 29th June! Feel free to get in touch if interested! Links in comment.
Living in a land that is an unholy tale drawn from Kafka, Feuchtwanger, and Artaud is probably not a good recipe for one's well-being.
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Living in a land that is an unholy tale drawn from Kafka, Feuchtwanger, and Artaud is probably not a good recipe for one's well-being.
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This is the first time I've seen a number that gets across the FEELING of the job market right now. It's the fucking Hunger Games www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...
May 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is the first time I've seen a number that gets across the FEELING of the job market right now. It's the fucking Hunger Games www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...
Seattle has always felt like a temporary stop in this journey of life. Baring COVID, I probably would have stayed in SF forever.
May 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Seattle has always felt like a temporary stop in this journey of life. Baring COVID, I probably would have stayed in SF forever.
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AI will turn us into a mediocre version of ourselves.
May 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
AI will turn us into a mediocre version of ourselves.
I walked past this mess today while out with my kid in our neighborhood. These stupid fools holding a rally to provoke people are messing with my kid's safety and well-being in our neighborhood, not the counter-protestors.
Coverage of today's clashes in Cal Anderson as police deployed pepper spray and crowd control tactics on demonstrators protesting "#DontMessWithOurKids" rally www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/05/seat...
May 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I walked past this mess today while out with my kid in our neighborhood. These stupid fools holding a rally to provoke people are messing with my kid's safety and well-being in our neighborhood, not the counter-protestors.
I'm sharing this as a data point in the story of how people are acting like LLMs are the Delphic Oracle or something.
not sure what to make of "chatgpt identified you as an expert in x and suggested i reach out to you so here we are" type of emails
May 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm sharing this as a data point in the story of how people are acting like LLMs are the Delphic Oracle or something.
Can I ever describe all the ways I hate Docker and hate that it is a last resort from hell that I am forced to use?
May 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Can I ever describe all the ways I hate Docker and hate that it is a last resort from hell that I am forced to use?
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It's kind of crazy that the Pope/Vatican understands that cognition and consciousness are embodied and had a coherent understanding of the societal dangers of AI but people in the Humanities don't! We live in wild times.
May 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It's kind of crazy that the Pope/Vatican understands that cognition and consciousness are embodied and had a coherent understanding of the societal dangers of AI but people in the Humanities don't! We live in wild times.
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The «intelligence» that manifests itself in AI, i.e. large-scale data analysis & computational statistics, has nothing to do with how living beings experience the world. If anything, it can be compared to large socio-technical systems of domination such as bureaucracies & corporations
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May 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The «intelligence» that manifests itself in AI, i.e. large-scale data analysis & computational statistics, has nothing to do with how living beings experience the world. If anything, it can be compared to large socio-technical systems of domination such as bureaucracies & corporations
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A friend of mine not so long ago told me tech was really really dead economically.
With a couple of high profile layoffs in the last month, people I had worked with, shared a stage at a prestigious industry conference with, I totally believe that statement.
With a couple of high profile layoffs in the last month, people I had worked with, shared a stage at a prestigious industry conference with, I totally believe that statement.
May 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A friend of mine not so long ago told me tech was really really dead economically.
With a couple of high profile layoffs in the last month, people I had worked with, shared a stage at a prestigious industry conference with, I totally believe that statement.
With a couple of high profile layoffs in the last month, people I had worked with, shared a stage at a prestigious industry conference with, I totally believe that statement.