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Jonathan Kennedy

@getradified.net

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Filmmaker/photographer, communist, small town surrealist, pro wrestling enthusiast. Abbas Kiarostami liked my work, Guy Maddin liked a bunch of my Instagram posts once (he/him) Hamilton, ON via St. John’s, NL / jonkennedy.net

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · Nov 23

Bataille was so real for this

Excerpt from the introduction to Georges Bataille’s “The Absence of Myth” - “His first public comment on surrealism had come in response to a letter inviting him to participate in what was to be a notorious meeting of the Surrealist Group to discuss the implications of Leon Trotsky's expulsion from the USSR, which brought a refusal from Bataille in the most forthright and uncompromising terms: ‘too many fucking idealists.’”

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1h

It being audio only doesn’t help him beat the dying allegations.

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1h

Any excuse to post Losurdo’s critique of Totalitarianism redsails.org/losurdo-on-t...

Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism

Already in 1951, when Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism was first published, the concept of totalitarianism had been debated for decades. And yet, the meaning of the term still lacks a pr...

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1h

My dude, take your wife out for a nice night on the town and get offline for a bit.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2h

Welcome back, Lucio Fulci

don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 18h

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 2h

Born in Flames (1983) - dir. Lizzie Borden

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 2h

Or the regular police for that matter.

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 2h

I’ve been saying for a while that a lot of right wing ideology amounts to oppositional defiance disorder applied to a general worldview and Sally is really working to prove me right.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 5h

This is one of the most perfect couples in the world (non complimentary)

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

chat it's happening

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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 3h

Hey St. John’s pals, I’ve got a short film playing at Fog Fest next month. Come say hi or whatever.

Poser for my short film SIGNAL/NOISE featuring a close up of a woman’s face as she holds an 80s style phone receiver to her face with VHS tracking noise in the middle of the image and the title in red text.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 3h

Oh look, another Atlantic writer laundering the reputation of a fascist.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Haneen🍉 @habjjfjiu588.bsky.social · 3d

The Guardian publishes me and my meaning on Blue Sky. Take a look, donate and support me.

Donation link 👇🏻👇🏻

chuffed.org/project/help...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam

People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

www.theguardian.com

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 5h

Medical advice from LLMs can be more persuasive than real doctors, even when it's wrong https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/why-empathetic-ai-can-be-too-persuasive-for-canadians-to-resist/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Vered Shwartz says the human-like tone of AI-generated responses paired with their confident presentation can easily convince users that the information is trustworthy, even when it's inaccurate.

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 6h

Chapter 3 of Alberto Toscano’s “Late Fascism” is about this exact phenomenon.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

I think the last few months have shown how describing a particular far right ethos as "anti-government" has kind of fallen apart

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kersplebedeb.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social · 9h

(NEW!) Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

leftwingbooks.net/products/gaza

A powerful, urgent collection of personal testimony, poetry, art & frontline reportage. Together, they bear witness to the vast & ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land & their future

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 10h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Jen Raso @jenraso.bsky.social · 1d

I often urge law students to be precise when and where they use passive language, and to notice the work it does when used by others (judges, politicians, reporters, and anyone describing actions being done without actors). This is a great, but awful, example.

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 3d

Classic CBC. "Bill could lead to law enforcement acting more freely in Canada"

How does a US bill lead to this, without Canada actively allowing this? Can we use the active voice? Can we actually use words the way that journalists are supposedly able to?

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 20h

14. Cemetery Man (dir. Michele Soavi)

Poster for Cemetery Man. A pop-art style image of a green toned Rupert Everett holding a natural toned Anna Falcon in front of a purple toked cemetery while François Hadji-Lazaro is in the bottom right corner of the foreground. The tagline reads “Zombies, guns and sex, oh my!”

Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1d

Extremely weird behaviour.

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Conner has been on it youtu.be/oYLxkGz00d0?...

Irish Mob

YouTube video by Conner O'Malley

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1d

Rot in piss Ian Watkins

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Who Was Jeffery Epstein? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

it’s a simple countermessage, you just … don’t have to accept the right-wing framing as valid

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

the correct response to scaremongering about trans kids in sports is:
1) kids should be able to play sports with their friends
2) you want the government inspecting yr kid’s genitals? asking for chromosome and hormone tests? seems messed up!
3) sports governing bodies also already figured this out

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1d

There is no such thing as a technology that is not biased towards the historical conditions under which it was created, no matter how badly nerds want to convince you otherwise.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1d

I’m not sure if it’s the newest macOS update or the newest Resolve update because I updated both around the same time last week but anything I do in Resolve lately makes it freeze for like forty-five seconds and I am going to smash my computer with a hammer real soon.