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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 3h

Grading ChatGPT-generated work’s about to get just a little less interesting

Grave Robber-tson @gemofamara.com · 3h

if chatgpt allows adult content then that means it'll start training on porn, so my question is will every response it gives start becoming a little bit pornographic in tone

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 3h

“Why would *I* change, I’m the one paying all this money, surely it’s literally everyone else who needs to”

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 3h

This is a wonderful interview on both sides

thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

thereveal.film

Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 4h

Why put in all the work of *getting* therapy when I can weaponize therapy-language in the service of my being a big ole baby?

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 5h

Once again begging guys to be even just a little bit chill/reflective about events.

It’s fine if she makes more! I’m sure you’re cool/manly/desirable/whatever in other ways.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5h

apple.news/A5hb-fXeDQci...

The plight of the trophy husbands — Business Insider

Kim Dhatt, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist, was in a relationship with her ex-partner for four years. When they first got together, he earned slightly more than she did, and the difference didn't...

apple.news

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 7h

Doubtful—I know I couldn’t 😂

Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 9h

I also like it when they tell me to “meet your body with forgiveness,” like “I forgive you for decades of slovenliness and indifference”

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear, this podcast features a brief, but entirely sincere, comparison between late-career Harry Kane and the late output of that trickiest of wingers, Philip Roth.

(Which is to say it’s a must-listen)

Libero @liberopodcast.bsky.social · 1d

England can seal World Cup qualification with a win in Riga tonight.

@jackpittbrooke.bsky.social , @migueldelaney.bsky.social and @jonawils.bsky.social discussed Thomas Tuchel’s time in charge - and his dropping of Jude Bellingham - on today’s pod.

pod.fo/e/33cc5a

Libero: Libero 061: England's Jude Bellingham Problem

Jude Bellingham is seen as England's biggest star, which is why it's very glaring that Thomas Tuchel has broken with decades of protocol and left the Real Madrid man out of his latest squad. Amid t...

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

great story, this chart RULES

Charts showing average battery pack cost in 2024 $/kWh and battery storage capacity additions globally in GW

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Håkon Gleditsch @hakongle.bsky.social · 2d

🤌🤌🤌

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 2d

I think the funniest form of inconsequential agency regularly offered me is when the video yoga teacher says excitedly “you can keep your back toes pointed or flexed, it’s completely up to you.”

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 2d

If Lorne Michaels were still alive, he’d already have fired whoever booked Role Model, which is comfortably the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen on SNL.

Inclusive of whatever is your least-favorite sketch.

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 4d

people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 4d

On the World Cup as an authentic exemplar of American culture, especially under the grift regime

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely hard to understand the imagined audience for that review

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 4d

Pitchfork said “it sounds a bit too much like the old,” which, one of them has been dead? Tough to invent a new style with old recordings

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 5d

Clickbait in podcast titles!

Screenshot of a podcast title in Overcast:

LIBERO
Libero 060: The Premier League:
Thatcher's Greatest Triumph
OCT 10, 2025 • 1:02:46
Hated, adored, never ignored, Margaret

Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 5d

This man is trying to make me give up footy

Sam Kunti @samindrakunti.bsky.social · 6d

Infantino writes on his Instagram: "President Donald J. Trump definitely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his decisive actions.👏"

The state of things.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 6d

Slightly weird framing: Claude has persistent memory across chats (not just in-project memory) and provides docs on importing/exporting memory: support.claude.com/en/articles/...

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 9d

He wasn’t even a goalie in that sport but, can confirm

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 9d

One of my favorite parts of Apple Maps is when its photos of some area are from Foursquare.

Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 10d

Autocomplete has lost its damn mind

(The context is a silly photo of our dog I’d sent the 22yo. Obviously the missing word is “move”)

Screenshot of a draft txt:”+
Beckett heard the video game console switch on and is trying to figure out whether I'm mean enough to make her”

And autocomplete suggestions of: feel
believe
laugh

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Kathy Hermes @ctexplored.bsky.social · 10d

Wesleyan University is hosting the symposium, free & open to the public. The event includes new research presented by: Paul Grant-Costa, Sarah Sportman, Alice King, Thomas Wickman, Vicki Welch, Lucianne Lavin, Jim Sarbaugh, Katherine Hermes, and Alexandra Maravel.
events.wesleyan.edu/event/wangun...

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 10d

Beckett, every time Krypto comes on screen

A brindle boxer on a red couch, looking up at the tv