Jared Dunn
@jddunn.bsky.social
Itinerant Librarian & Community Technologist. Internet Old.
There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.
All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.
February 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.
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the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
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Cool.
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FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 AM
the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
discord betrayed you? lol, I wouldn’t know, I’ve been self-hosting an open source voip server for the past fifteen years. it’s super low-latency and has much better chat tools than whatever your precious “nitro subscription” gets you. and as soon as I make even one friend,
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While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.
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Bad Bunny performs.
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Bad Bunny performs.
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
The NYT: What is sugar cane?
WaPo: What are politics?
Fox News: What is Spanish?
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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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I picked up about 1/3 of this stuff, because I, y'know, have a humanities education and understand symbolism and have enough Spanish to barely get by. But it was so great to have the whole thing explicated and be able to appreciate it better as a celebration and suspected political message.
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 AM
I picked up about 1/3 of this stuff, because I, y'know, have a humanities education and understand symbolism and have enough Spanish to barely get by. But it was so great to have the whole thing explicated and be able to appreciate it better as a celebration and suspected political message.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
"Markdown isn’t 'content' in an agent ecosystem. Markdown is an installer."
Did anyone even think about this for a combined total of like 5 seconds? Or did they have Claude think about it for them, and Claude was like "YOLO, and more tokens for me!"
Did anyone even think about this for a combined total of like 5 seconds? Or did they have Claude think about it for them, and Claude was like "YOLO, and more tokens for me!"
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February 8, 2026 at 9:17 PM
"Markdown isn’t 'content' in an agent ecosystem. Markdown is an installer."
Did anyone even think about this for a combined total of like 5 seconds? Or did they have Claude think about it for them, and Claude was like "YOLO, and more tokens for me!"
Did anyone even think about this for a combined total of like 5 seconds? Or did they have Claude think about it for them, and Claude was like "YOLO, and more tokens for me!"
What race? Why is it a race? What is anything even for?
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:12 PM
What race? Why is it a race? What is anything even for?
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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I feel like over and over, people are presented with the choice between "wow, these cognitive hazards are very powerful, I should take steps to protect myself from them" vs. "wow, this technology is literal magic", and making the incorrect choice
February 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I feel like over and over, people are presented with the choice between "wow, these cognitive hazards are very powerful, I should take steps to protect myself from them" vs. "wow, this technology is literal magic", and making the incorrect choice
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They are so, so desperate to own slaves again and I wish they’d just fucking come out and say it
They want to create a white ethnostate not in the sense that only white people live here but in the sense that only white people are people
(Also as the comments point out he’s completely wrong)
They want to create a white ethnostate not in the sense that only white people live here but in the sense that only white people are people
(Also as the comments point out he’s completely wrong)
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 8:16 PM
They are so, so desperate to own slaves again and I wish they’d just fucking come out and say it
They want to create a white ethnostate not in the sense that only white people live here but in the sense that only white people are people
(Also as the comments point out he’s completely wrong)
They want to create a white ethnostate not in the sense that only white people live here but in the sense that only white people are people
(Also as the comments point out he’s completely wrong)
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How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:19 AM
How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
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So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?
January 31, 2026 at 12:27 PM
So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?
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I may have a stroke.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
January 30, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I may have a stroke.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
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Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
Extremely rough chuckles, extremely well done
when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Extremely rough chuckles, extremely well done
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i don't know if it's actually new, but what seems to be new is people getting enraged that they went through all the trouble to put on this unconvincing show (lie) and people weren't considerate enough to pretend to believe them
The online-ification of politics is producing enormous tension here. Elected officials have become accustomed to tweeting or holding a press conference and having words accepted as reality, and in this instance people are noticing that the actual reality on the ground does not match it at all.
There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.
January 29, 2026 at 4:17 PM
i don't know if it's actually new, but what seems to be new is people getting enraged that they went through all the trouble to put on this unconvincing show (lie) and people weren't considerate enough to pretend to believe them