Mandy Keifetz
@besecretandexult.bsky.social
Inky, impatient, and left of you. I write books which can be purchased or borrowed from libraries. If you'd care to buy one for your weirdest friend, I’d appreciate it.
Pinned
Still a bit swollen because I just had it done. Please make note of font in case they photoshop “antifa” on it in comic sans or whatever
An AI just emailed me praising one of my books in a mish-mosh of language from various reviews and offering me a "free visibility audit"
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
An AI just emailed me praising one of my books in a mish-mosh of language from various reviews and offering me a "free visibility audit"
This book is so funny and readable. I used it as the main text in my AI literacy class, and even though it predates the LLM horror-madness, it provided all the foundation we needed to really dig in. Great deal!
The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
Book: You Look Like A Thing — Janelle Shane
www.janelleshane.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This book is so funny and readable. I used it as the main text in my AI literacy class, and even though it predates the LLM horror-madness, it provided all the foundation we needed to really dig in. Great deal!
Consider this DPA rug-pull from @attackerman.bsky.social around your holiday tables
www.forever-wars.com/how-to-expro...
www.forever-wars.com/how-to-expro...
How To Expropriate An Artificial Intelligence Oligarchy
An industry whose bubble is set to burst is crucial to U.S. national security, you say?
www.forever-wars.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Consider this DPA rug-pull from @attackerman.bsky.social around your holiday tables
www.forever-wars.com/how-to-expro...
www.forever-wars.com/how-to-expro...
A message from #visibilitybrigade for tomorrow, up over the BQE last night
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A message from #visibilitybrigade for tomorrow, up over the BQE last night
up over the BQE last night
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
up over the BQE last night
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Start your holiday off by standing in community with and for our immigrant neighbors 🕯️
6pm outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in BK
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
6pm outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in BK
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Start your holiday off by standing in community with and for our immigrant neighbors 🕯️
6pm outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in BK
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
6pm outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in BK
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
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Tear gassing a one-year-old U.S. citizen.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Tear gassing a one-year-old U.S. citizen.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
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Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
I will never forgive any of these ghouls. I will carry this burning grief and rage to my grave with the hope that my disparate electrons find ways to make everything they care about worse.
This is not an evidenced-based claim. This is a curse.
This is not an evidenced-based claim. This is a curse.
The CDC just updated its website saying "Scientific studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of autism." Adds "this statement has historically been disseminated by the CDC and other federal health agencies within HHS to prevent vaccine hesitancy."
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I will never forgive any of these ghouls. I will carry this burning grief and rage to my grave with the hope that my disparate electrons find ways to make everything they care about worse.
This is not an evidenced-based claim. This is a curse.
This is not an evidenced-based claim. This is a curse.
Another fine evening for a #visibilitybrigade event
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Another fine evening for a #visibilitybrigade event
I want these ghouls the fuck out of my city
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
www.thecity.nyc
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I want these ghouls the fuck out of my city
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Periodic reminder that direct action is a fundamental form of protest.
It is the original form of protest.
To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.
It is the original form of protest.
To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Periodic reminder that direct action is a fundamental form of protest.
It is the original form of protest.
To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.
It is the original form of protest.
To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.
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CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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Allllllll of these people have “fck off & go buy an island” money—or at least “fck off & go live on an island” money—but instead they are busy dismantling the department of education & withholding lunch money from needy children.
That is some sinister villain shit & it needs to be talked about more
That is some sinister villain shit & it needs to be talked about more
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Allllllll of these people have “fck off & go buy an island” money—or at least “fck off & go live on an island” money—but instead they are busy dismantling the department of education & withholding lunch money from needy children.
That is some sinister villain shit & it needs to be talked about more
That is some sinister villain shit & it needs to be talked about more
It feels important to acknowledge that this is a really shitty couple few days for people with C-PTSD. Inside me, there's a homunculus screaming:
1. They never come take the monsters away
2. Now the villagers are against you too
3. The monsters will continue to fail up
1. They never come take the monsters away
2. Now the villagers are against you too
3. The monsters will continue to fail up
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It feels important to acknowledge that this is a really shitty couple few days for people with C-PTSD. Inside me, there's a homunculus screaming:
1. They never come take the monsters away
2. Now the villagers are against you too
3. The monsters will continue to fail up
1. They never come take the monsters away
2. Now the villagers are against you too
3. The monsters will continue to fail up
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Like I get it. Tripping is cool. Can you please not take away the cancer vaccines?
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like I get it. Tripping is cool. Can you please not take away the cancer vaccines?
(Hot, private, written by Leigh Brackett)
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
(Hot, private, written by Leigh Brackett)
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What do you expect from the guy who wants to build the analog version of the Torment Nexus?
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino "also revered Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein's 1959 military sci-fi classic about an interstellar war between humans and alien bugs - a book his sister says he still reads to this day."
An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old.
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What do you expect from the guy who wants to build the analog version of the Torment Nexus?
I do not believe in hell, karma, or the carceral state. But I do believe in slapstick, so I am left with the wish that many anvils, safes, and pianos fall out of many windows. This is all I want now.
Anvils in Warner Bros. Cartoons
YouTube video by Matt Hunter
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I do not believe in hell, karma, or the carceral state. But I do believe in slapstick, so I am left with the wish that many anvils, safes, and pianos fall out of many windows. This is all I want now.
Considering asking my AI Literacy class to do a focused freewrite on the choice by Broligarchs to go with names like Palantir and Prometheus
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Considering asking my AI Literacy class to do a focused freewrite on the choice by Broligarchs to go with names like Palantir and Prometheus
Come see some art?
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Come see some art?
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Fuck these ghouls.
November 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Fuck these ghouls.
My media studies students at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social wrote the most amazing reflections comparing AI with Oulipo, sampling, cut-up, and collage.
November 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My media studies students at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social wrote the most amazing reflections comparing AI with Oulipo, sampling, cut-up, and collage.
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Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesn’t serve faculty or student interests and often doesn’t work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Here’s a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.
"Christopher Newfield called for academics to 'seize the means of knowledge production' by working 'step by step ... toward direct control of universities.' ... I think the most imperative, but also the most apparent pressure point for academics looking to act upon his call is education technology."
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesn’t serve faculty or student interests and often doesn’t work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Here’s a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.