Jacqueline Ellis
@jellis1969.bsky.social
Writer, professor, amateur detective, part-time psychic.
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Happy Holidays.
This Friday at 3:45 PM EST, I’m calling it. It will be The Holidays. I cannot take anymore input. It’s over. This year is over.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Happy Holidays.
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forever mood
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
forever mood
Iconic
October 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Iconic
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I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop
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A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.
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It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.
😆😆
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
😆😆
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Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
1000%
As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War
September 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
1000%
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Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”
September 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”
Real talk
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."
Honest Academic Job Postings
English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...
buff.ly
September 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Real talk
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Put another way, it's as if someone made a real life version of AI-slop in an effort to align reality with the slop.
August 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Put another way, it's as if someone made a real life version of AI-slop in an effort to align reality with the slop.
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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"How to Report ICE" zine editions now available for free printable download:
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
All of Massachusetts
Northern California from Humboldt to Monterey Counties!
More to come! Please share widely.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
All of Massachusetts
Northern California from Humboldt to Monterey Counties!
More to come! Please share widely.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
August 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"How to Report ICE" zine editions now available for free printable download:
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
All of Massachusetts
Northern California from Humboldt to Monterey Counties!
More to come! Please share widely.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
All of Massachusetts
Northern California from Humboldt to Monterey Counties!
More to come! Please share widely.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Perfect.
New research from Burning Glass concludes that only one in eight nondegree credentials yielded meaningful gains in earnings a year later. Given that returns to short-term certificates typically fade over time, this is not a great outcome. (gift link)
More Workers Are Getting Job-Skill Certificates. They Often Don’t Pay Off.
Many of the thousands of online courses and other credentials employees pursue to boost careers fall short in delivering, a new study finds.
www.wsj.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Perfect.
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Red - the juice of tomatoes!
Black - the dark of olives sliced!
Black - the dark of olives sliced!
August 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Red - the juice of tomatoes!
Black - the dark of olives sliced!
Black - the dark of olives sliced!
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I wrote about John “Ozzy” Osbourne—a working class lad made good, who rose from a slaughterhouse killing floor to the highest echelons of rock stardom in spite of himself, who gave us heavy metal and left a more complex legacy than many realize—for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Ozzy Osbourne, Rock God Despite Himself (1948–2025)
The Prince of Darkness, who gave us heavy metal as we know it, has been laid to rest.
www.thenation.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wrote about John “Ozzy” Osbourne—a working class lad made good, who rose from a slaughterhouse killing floor to the highest echelons of rock stardom in spite of himself, who gave us heavy metal and left a more complex legacy than many realize—for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
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ICYMI-- I did.
A study of software developers found it took them 19% more time to do their work when they used AI tools.
At the same time, they *perceived* they had saved time. They thought they would work faster and so they falsely "believed AI had sped them up by 20%."
A study of software developers found it took them 19% more time to do their work when they used AI tools.
At the same time, they *perceived* they had saved time. They thought they would work faster and so they falsely "believed AI had sped them up by 20%."
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...
metr.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Yup.
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Yup.
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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
HUNTSVILLE, AL—In an effort to comfort the child by telling her the funds had gone to a far better place, local parents Blake and Allison McKee gently explained to their daughter Friday that their mon...
theonion.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.