JK
@miniver.bsky.social
user experience strategist ✦ hermeticist ✦ flâneur ✦ recovering natural philosopher ✦ nerdy & geeky
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JK
@miniver.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Arizona Public Service killed my mother
www.APSKilledMyMom.com
I put together a proper website
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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ask anyone on the left about high-speed trains
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 7:37 AM
ask anyone on the left about high-speed trains
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It’s an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.
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It’s an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.
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February 18, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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It’s an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.
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It’s an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.
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New treasure get!
February 18, 2026 at 4:04 AM
New treasure get!
A great performance from a great Hey It’s That Guy guy.
‘What Happened Was …’ isn’t a great film but it’s a good film and it’s very unmistakably HIS film.
‘What Happened Was …’ isn’t a great film but it’s a good film and it’s very unmistakably HIS film.
Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.
February 18, 2026 at 4:56 AM
A great performance from a great Hey It’s That Guy guy.
‘What Happened Was …’ isn’t a great film but it’s a good film and it’s very unmistakably HIS film.
‘What Happened Was …’ isn’t a great film but it’s a good film and it’s very unmistakably HIS film.
It gives me no pleasure to report that a great many Americans believe this, including many who •oppose• him
Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service."
February 18, 2026 at 3:24 AM
It gives me no pleasure to report that a great many Americans believe this, including many who •oppose• him
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Last week, in a move opposed by Multnomah County and the City of Portland, the EPA rolled back rules that regulated greenhouse gas emissions.
Read County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson's and Mayor Keith Wilson's responses to this rollback here: multco.us/news/chair-j...
Read County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson's and Mayor Keith Wilson's responses to this rollback here: multco.us/news/chair-j...
February 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Last week, in a move opposed by Multnomah County and the City of Portland, the EPA rolled back rules that regulated greenhouse gas emissions.
Read County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson's and Mayor Keith Wilson's responses to this rollback here: multco.us/news/chair-j...
Read County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson's and Mayor Keith Wilson's responses to this rollback here: multco.us/news/chair-j...
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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
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basically, they're (1) making following the law illegal in cases of immigrants pursuing green cards and citizenship by (2) violating the law. It's effectively a state of exception... an arbitrary "prerogative state."
February 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
basically, they're (1) making following the law illegal in cases of immigrants pursuing green cards and citizenship by (2) violating the law. It's effectively a state of exception... an arbitrary "prerogative state."
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Almost like teenagers who have experienced divisive and violent events that make proximity peer relationships difficult will seek out other, more distant peers with similar trauma to form support networks they can’t access locally.
(Seriously, we’ve known this since Yahoo Groups.)
(Seriously, we’ve known this since Yahoo Groups.)
An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.
Meta's own research found parental supervision doesn't really help curb teens' compulsive social media use | TechCrunch
An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.
techcrunch.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Almost like teenagers who have experienced divisive and violent events that make proximity peer relationships difficult will seek out other, more distant peers with similar trauma to form support networks they can’t access locally.
(Seriously, we’ve known this since Yahoo Groups.)
(Seriously, we’ve known this since Yahoo Groups.)
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i think a campaign geared toward what people online were arguing about in 2022 is probably not going to work out
Stephen A. Smith: "We wouldn’t have a border crisis under my watch."
"We ain’t defunding any police… There’s gonna be more."
It's with much regret I foresee the inevitable, he's running
"We ain’t defunding any police… There’s gonna be more."
It's with much regret I foresee the inevitable, he's running
February 17, 2026 at 8:21 PM
i think a campaign geared toward what people online were arguing about in 2022 is probably not going to work out
Thread about one of my heroes
(You may think that you already Know How This Story Will End, but you don’t, because it hasn’t ended.
The Sun still shines.)
The Sun still shines.)
February 17, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Thread about one of my heroes
I presume that massive investment in “AI” datacenters creating component shortages is more an unintended consequence than this, but it is at least true that “AI” leaders are •inclined• toward the empire-building centralization this tech implies
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i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
February 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I presume that massive investment in “AI” datacenters creating component shortages is more an unintended consequence than this, but it is at least true that “AI” leaders are •inclined• toward the empire-building centralization this tech implies
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Have started seeing vibe coded projects show up at work and, speaking as a mediocre white man, the mediocre white man energy coming off them is PALPABLE.
February 17, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Have started seeing vibe coded projects show up at work and, speaking as a mediocre white man, the mediocre white man energy coming off them is PALPABLE.
I saw ‘Silence’ again recently and was struck by its diligent and catastrophically unsuccessful attempt to avoid reïnforcing transphobia.
Honorable of Levine to step up and speak to it.
Honorable of Levine to step up and speak to it.
I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
February 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I saw ‘Silence’ again recently and was struck by its diligent and catastrophically unsuccessful attempt to avoid reïnforcing transphobia.
Honorable of Levine to step up and speak to it.
Honorable of Levine to step up and speak to it.
This election is important. We cannot afford to take any chances.
And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise
February 17, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This election is important. We cannot afford to take any chances.
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I don't think society has really started to grapple with how dangerous it is to distribute AI that basically just agrees with anything you say -- even if that "anything" happens to be "viciously abusing and stalking a former romantic partner"
February 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I don't think society has really started to grapple with how dangerous it is to distribute AI that basically just agrees with anything you say -- even if that "anything" happens to be "viciously abusing and stalking a former romantic partner"
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In neighbourhoods across Berlin, a quiet rebellion is unfolding in the form of Kiezblocks (or “neighbourhood blocks”). What began as a grassroots response to political inertia and rat-running cars has evolved into a compelling experiment in bottom-up urbanism coordinated by @ccitiesorg.bsky.social.🧵
February 17, 2026 at 10:04 AM
In neighbourhoods across Berlin, a quiet rebellion is unfolding in the form of Kiezblocks (or “neighbourhood blocks”). What began as a grassroots response to political inertia and rat-running cars has evolved into a compelling experiment in bottom-up urbanism coordinated by @ccitiesorg.bsky.social.🧵
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The reason LLMs suck at chess is the same reason they initially sucked at drawing fingers and currently suck at counting to 100: state space
Hands are photographed and drawn from every angle, all chess books show every piece in every position, every list of numbers up to 100 shows every such number
Hands are photographed and drawn from every angle, all chess books show every piece in every position, every list of numbers up to 100 shows every such number
February 17, 2026 at 10:17 AM
The reason LLMs suck at chess is the same reason they initially sucked at drawing fingers and currently suck at counting to 100: state space
Hands are photographed and drawn from every angle, all chess books show every piece in every position, every list of numbers up to 100 shows every such number
Hands are photographed and drawn from every angle, all chess books show every piece in every position, every list of numbers up to 100 shows every such number
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Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."
And.
Yup.
And.
Yup.
February 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."
And.
Yup.
And.
Yup.
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These things are complicated and there is no simple comparison but in many ways, both in the UK (even more probably) and US, trans people were portrayed more favorably in popular culture/news than gay people
One of the best selling books in the UK in 1974 by one of its most well known writers
February 17, 2026 at 9:38 AM
These things are complicated and there is no simple comparison but in many ways, both in the UK (even more probably) and US, trans people were portrayed more favorably in popular culture/news than gay people
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The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
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My default position on TikTok is that every video I see is someone saying whatever shit they think will go most viral with 0% overlap with their actual beliefs and information levels
All right, this just about wrecked me
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
My default position on TikTok is that every video I see is someone saying whatever shit they think will go most viral with 0% overlap with their actual beliefs and information levels
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RAM will be unaffordable soon too. AI is cancer.
Man, I'm not loving what's happened to prices on SSD hard drives in the last 3 months
February 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM
RAM will be unaffordable soon too. AI is cancer.
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A thing I like to do is look up who wrote a song I love and see what else they wrote. So often, as here, the result is me going "Oh, shit! Right! Of course!"
I love humans so fucking much.
Raise a glass.
I love humans so fucking much.
Raise a glass.
Billy Steinberg RIP
You may not immediately know the name but by jingo you've heard Like A Virgin, Alone, So Emotional, True Colors, I Touch Myself, I Drove All Night, I'll Stand By You and Eternal Flame.
You may not immediately know the name but by jingo you've heard Like A Virgin, Alone, So Emotional, True Colors, I Touch Myself, I Drove All Night, I'll Stand By You and Eternal Flame.
February 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
A thing I like to do is look up who wrote a song I love and see what else they wrote. So often, as here, the result is me going "Oh, shit! Right! Of course!"
I love humans so fucking much.
Raise a glass.
I love humans so fucking much.
Raise a glass.