Jana Carpenter
@maybeitwasutah.bsky.social
Actor (Lovecraft Investigations), musician (Sweet Billy Pilgrim), wife to @juliansimpson.bsky.social, mother to Edith, and general dork about town. Studying for a PhD at Birkbeck.
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Hi there, I’m Jana. I loved the very old days of twitter but in recent years have backed into a hedge like Homer Simpson. This site feels like how it used to be. I do voice work, I make music, and currently I’m doing postgrad research at Birkbeck on memory and the landscape of East Anglia. 👋
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Just been up there - apparently they've been told to be out by the end of January, after 44 years. They're fighting hard, and really want people to sign this petition. Please spread it wide!
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Just been up there - apparently they've been told to be out by the end of January, after 44 years. They're fighting hard, and really want people to sign this petition. Please spread it wide!
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
c.org/gsxVMrWW8T
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
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I rarely brag, but I made the Blacklist. So this is what me bragging looks like. deadline.com/2025/12/the-...
The Black List 2025: Matisse Haddad’s ‘Best Seller’ Leads List Of Hollywood’s Best-Liked Unproduced Screenplays
The 2025 Black List was announced on Tuesday morning, with 'Best Seller' by Matisse Haddad topping the list of Hollywood's best-liked screenplays.
deadline.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I rarely brag, but I made the Blacklist. So this is what me bragging looks like. deadline.com/2025/12/the-...
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It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News
Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.
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Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)
YouTube video by Tiny Dancer
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
With the whole “going over the falls in a barrel” aspect of AI saturation, I found Ryan Holiday’s thoughts useful, reassuring and important. ryanholiday.medium.com/youre-gonna-...
You’re Gonna Need This Now More Than Ever
I do all my research on physical notecards.
ryanholiday.medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
With the whole “going over the falls in a barrel” aspect of AI saturation, I found Ryan Holiday’s thoughts useful, reassuring and important. ryanholiday.medium.com/youre-gonna-...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
What’s your sign?
September 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What’s your sign?
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
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When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind.
It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
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It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
🧵
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind.
It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
🧵
It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
🧵
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Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
July 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
About ten years ago I was staying at a friend’s parents’ house and asked if they had any marmite. “I think somewhere…” Found a half used jar at the back of the cupboard next to a tin of peas from 1987. (I went marmiteless)
At the back of your kitchen cupboard is something pickled or preserved in a jar that you were given for Christmas several years ago that you’ve never quite felt like eating.
Throw it out now.
Throw it out now.
July 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
About ten years ago I was staying at a friend’s parents’ house and asked if they had any marmite. “I think somewhere…” Found a half used jar at the back of the cupboard next to a tin of peas from 1987. (I went marmiteless)
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me when you get your acoustic guitar out at a party I was up to that point enjoying
November 14, 2024 at 11:11 PM
me when you get your acoustic guitar out at a party I was up to that point enjoying
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
I will be throwing petals in his path.
I’m off to Leeds on Friday and Liverpool on Saturday and Brighton on Tuesday and London on Wednesday and Milton Keynes next Thursday. Why? Because I will be pressing keys on a keyboard with Sweet Billy Pilgrim. Why am I saying this? Because I’d like it to be known.
June 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I will be throwing petals in his path.
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🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.
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Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Welcome to the archives.
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I wish to proclaim once again the appearance of Sweet Billy Pilgrim in Leeds on June 27 (futuresound.seetickets.com/event/sweet-... ) and Liverpool on June 28 www.seetickets.com/event/sweet-... and we’ll be playing things like this, with verve and aplomb
youtu.be/ZfvwQtMXh2A?...
youtu.be/ZfvwQtMXh2A?...
Archaeology
YouTube video by Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Topic
youtu.be
June 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I wish to proclaim once again the appearance of Sweet Billy Pilgrim in Leeds on June 27 (futuresound.seetickets.com/event/sweet-... ) and Liverpool on June 28 www.seetickets.com/event/sweet-... and we’ll be playing things like this, with verve and aplomb
youtu.be/ZfvwQtMXh2A?...
youtu.be/ZfvwQtMXh2A?...
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SWEET BILLY PILGRIM are playing with their Full Band at The
Arts Club Loft, Liverpool on Saturday 28 June 2025. If I were around that way, I would (almost literally) break the door down to get to see them.
Arts Club Loft, Liverpool on Saturday 28 June 2025. If I were around that way, I would (almost literally) break the door down to get to see them.
www.seetickets.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
SWEET BILLY PILGRIM are playing with their Full Band at The
Arts Club Loft, Liverpool on Saturday 28 June 2025. If I were around that way, I would (almost literally) break the door down to get to see them.
Arts Club Loft, Liverpool on Saturday 28 June 2025. If I were around that way, I would (almost literally) break the door down to get to see them.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Anyone who has ever been tempted to us an LLM for anything, or who has ever been fooled into thinking they might be usable, should read this.
June 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Anyone who has ever been tempted to us an LLM for anything, or who has ever been fooled into thinking they might be usable, should read this.
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Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo
June 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo