Jeffery Irvin
@thegrayprofessor.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Science Enthusiast.
Author of "The End Is Not Near"
https://a.co/d/2zbT1WJ
Presently working on a book titled "Artificial Intelligence in the Waning Days of Neoliberalism".
Author of "The End Is Not Near"
https://a.co/d/2zbT1WJ
Presently working on a book titled "Artificial Intelligence in the Waning Days of Neoliberalism".
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It's pretty clear that LLMs will not lead to AGI a la @garymarcus.bsky.social.
However, the bigger question is, could present neoliberal regimes respond to the dislocation of AGI given their animus to the welfare state?
The answer is no, which is why we need #UBI, #MEDICARE4ALL, & #FREEEDUCATION.
However, the bigger question is, could present neoliberal regimes respond to the dislocation of AGI given their animus to the welfare state?
The answer is no, which is why we need #UBI, #MEDICARE4ALL, & #FREEEDUCATION.
"Nutlick" earns his nom de guerre.
#ItHasHappenedHere
#ItHasHappenedHere
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"Nutlick" earns his nom de guerre.
#ItHasHappenedHere
#ItHasHappenedHere
The most hilarious part of this story is that no one yet accepts the high probability that Trump never makes it to his 80th birthday.
#VenousInsufficiency
#IsHeDeadYet
#VenousInsufficiency
#IsHeDeadYet
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The most hilarious part of this story is that no one yet accepts the high probability that Trump never makes it to his 80th birthday.
#VenousInsufficiency
#IsHeDeadYet
#VenousInsufficiency
#IsHeDeadYet
All these people think they are Kurt Cobain prior to Nirvana going mainstream when they're Amy Grant momentarily flirting with secular music.
#Poseurs
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
#Poseurs
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Bari Weiss’ Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism
The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the 'Things That Matter' series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
All these people think they are Kurt Cobain prior to Nirvana going mainstream when they're Amy Grant momentarily flirting with secular music.
#Poseurs
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
#Poseurs
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Worst ever attempt at haiku.
Let me show him how it's done.
White patriarchy
Questionable manhood feared
Asserts its power
#SmallDickEnergy
Let me show him how it's done.
White patriarchy
Questionable manhood feared
Asserts its power
#SmallDickEnergy
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Worst ever attempt at haiku.
Let me show him how it's done.
White patriarchy
Questionable manhood feared
Asserts its power
#SmallDickEnergy
Let me show him how it's done.
White patriarchy
Questionable manhood feared
Asserts its power
#SmallDickEnergy
In a few months, when Trump realizes his Potemkin village has been found out the caption of this cartoon should read, "Now, look what you're making me do!"
December 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In a few months, when Trump realizes his Potemkin village has been found out the caption of this cartoon should read, "Now, look what you're making me do!"
I'm about eight minutes into the #Trump speech and think the only thing lacking are some inflatable, flailing arm displays.
#ItHasHappenedHere
#IsHeDeadYet
#ItHasHappenedHere
#IsHeDeadYet
a man is standing in front of a group of clown sculptures
ALT: a man is standing in front of a group of clown sculptures
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I'm about eight minutes into the #Trump speech and think the only thing lacking are some inflatable, flailing arm displays.
#ItHasHappenedHere
#IsHeDeadYet
#ItHasHappenedHere
#IsHeDeadYet
Wouldn't be hilarious if Trump didn't make it to his 80th birthday next June and then Biden lived until he was a hundred?
🤣
🤣
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Wouldn't be hilarious if Trump didn't make it to his 80th birthday next June and then Biden lived until he was a hundred?
🤣
🤣
If I was the presidential historian of this era, my title would be "A Confederacy of Wickedness: How the Greatest Experiment in Democracy Came to an Ignominious End."
#ItHasHappenedHere
#ItHasHappenedHere
December 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If I was the presidential historian of this era, my title would be "A Confederacy of Wickedness: How the Greatest Experiment in Democracy Came to an Ignominious End."
#ItHasHappenedHere
#ItHasHappenedHere
I need someone to point me to an article that plausibly explains the belief that GDP will grow by 3% in 2026. I just can't see it. 🤔
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social you got anything?
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social you got anything?
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I need someone to point me to an article that plausibly explains the belief that GDP will grow by 3% in 2026. I just can't see it. 🤔
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social you got anything?
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social you got anything?
Just heard on PBS that Barron Trump is a fan of the Tate brothers, the two guys being investigated in three different countries for rape and sex trafficking.
I'm sad mostly because it doesn't surprise me at all. 😔
#ItHasHappenedHere
I'm sad mostly because it doesn't surprise me at all. 😔
#ItHasHappenedHere
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Just heard on PBS that Barron Trump is a fan of the Tate brothers, the two guys being investigated in three different countries for rape and sex trafficking.
I'm sad mostly because it doesn't surprise me at all. 😔
#ItHasHappenedHere
I'm sad mostly because it doesn't surprise me at all. 😔
#ItHasHappenedHere
Getting going on Substack.
Just added this post I wrote years ago, now with some new introductory remarks.
jeffirvinphd.substack.com/p/white-repl...
Just added this post I wrote years ago, now with some new introductory remarks.
jeffirvinphd.substack.com/p/white-repl...
White Replacement Fear Is Not New
The Forgotten Legacy of the White Christian Republic
jeffirvinphd.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Getting going on Substack.
Just added this post I wrote years ago, now with some new introductory remarks.
jeffirvinphd.substack.com/p/white-repl...
Just added this post I wrote years ago, now with some new introductory remarks.
jeffirvinphd.substack.com/p/white-repl...
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Stephen Miller is Charles Murray on cocaine at a Klan rally. 😒
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Stephen Miller is Charles Murray on cocaine at a Klan rally. 😒
This is not a story of empowerment (pun intended).
This is a story of desperation against an economic system we've decided cannot be countered by public, democratic action.
Things need to change!
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
This is a story of desperation against an economic system we've decided cannot be countered by public, democratic action.
Things need to change!
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Small plug-in solar panels gain traction as an affordable way to cut electricity bills
For years, solar power at home was mostly limited to people who owned their rooftops and could afford the steep upfront costs. But now, a new generation of small, affordable systems — often called “pl...
www.pbs.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is not a story of empowerment (pun intended).
This is a story of desperation against an economic system we've decided cannot be countered by public, democratic action.
Things need to change!
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
This is a story of desperation against an economic system we've decided cannot be countered by public, democratic action.
Things need to change!
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I've always thought of Maher as a thirsty comic, the kind that laughs too much at his own jokes when the audience offers only a light guffaw.
This scene makes Maher look as thirsty as ever, desperate for Joe Rogan-level popularity while going for the pseudo-intellectual gravity of Jordan Peterson.
This scene makes Maher look as thirsty as ever, desperate for Joe Rogan-level popularity while going for the pseudo-intellectual gravity of Jordan Peterson.
Bill Maher: "The truth never makes me uncomfortable, it only exhilarates me."
Ana Kasparian, coyly: "Wanna talk about Gaza, get exhilarated? I can exhilarate you."
Maher: "You're gonna say genocide, you don't know what the word means."
Ana: "I'm Armenian, I know what the word means."
Ana Kasparian, coyly: "Wanna talk about Gaza, get exhilarated? I can exhilarate you."
Maher: "You're gonna say genocide, you don't know what the word means."
Ana: "I'm Armenian, I know what the word means."
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I've always thought of Maher as a thirsty comic, the kind that laughs too much at his own jokes when the audience offers only a light guffaw.
This scene makes Maher look as thirsty as ever, desperate for Joe Rogan-level popularity while going for the pseudo-intellectual gravity of Jordan Peterson.
This scene makes Maher look as thirsty as ever, desperate for Joe Rogan-level popularity while going for the pseudo-intellectual gravity of Jordan Peterson.
Michael Connelly has a new novel out in which the world of tech, AI, and the incel world collide. It illustrates one dangerous aspect of #TheAIGrift, it's potential to corrupt the mind of the young into doing stupid shit.
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Michael Connelly has a new novel out in which the world of tech, AI, and the incel world collide. It illustrates one dangerous aspect of #TheAIGrift, it's potential to corrupt the mind of the young into doing stupid shit.
I was looking at this and it hit me why Trump et al. must be cruel and unrelenting in their deportation scheme, if they weren't the people below would have no one to point to and say, "At least we're better off than them."
#RelativeDeprivation
#RelativeDeprivation
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I was looking at this and it hit me why Trump et al. must be cruel and unrelenting in their deportation scheme, if they weren't the people below would have no one to point to and say, "At least we're better off than them."
#RelativeDeprivation
#RelativeDeprivation
Something like this. 😁
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Something like this. 😁
Am I the only one who gets Aunt Gladys vibes from this woman? 😧
p.s., screw philanthropy! Pay some fucking taxes!! 🤬
p.s., screw philanthropy! Pay some fucking taxes!! 🤬
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Am I the only one who gets Aunt Gladys vibes from this woman? 😧
p.s., screw philanthropy! Pay some fucking taxes!! 🤬
p.s., screw philanthropy! Pay some fucking taxes!! 🤬
A much-needed corrective to all #TheAIGrift bullshit being slung by our so-called free press. 🙄
open.substack.com/pub/gedsperb...
open.substack.com/pub/gedsperb...
AI isn't coming for your job: Melting the Iceberg
Why the new MIT Study speaking of 11.7% automation is horseshit and why the way it's being reported is even worse
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A much-needed corrective to all #TheAIGrift bullshit being slung by our so-called free press. 🙄
open.substack.com/pub/gedsperb...
open.substack.com/pub/gedsperb...
I have not yet seen a video of a puppy nodding off next to a video of #DozyDon nodding off in his cabinet meeting yesterday.
Come on, Internet! Don't disappoint me now. 😁
Come on, Internet! Don't disappoint me now. 😁
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I have not yet seen a video of a puppy nodding off next to a video of #DozyDon nodding off in his cabinet meeting yesterday.
Come on, Internet! Don't disappoint me now. 😁
Come on, Internet! Don't disappoint me now. 😁
The great middle between the depressive, and largely correct, screeds of Chris Hedges and the pollyannaish pablum of Ezra Klein appears to be this excrement.
None of it helps the average hardworking American.
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
None of it helps the average hardworking American.
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
Olivia Nuzzi, Michael Wolff, Maggie Haberman and Canada’s Postmedia Empire Show how MSM Became Crisis Management for the Powerful.
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Olivia Nuzzi, Michael Wolff, Maggie Haberman and Canada’s Postmedia Empire Show how MSM Became Crisis Management for the Powerful.
“Olivia Nuzzi, Michael Wolff and the Media–Power Cartel”
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The great middle between the depressive, and largely correct, screeds of Chris Hedges and the pollyannaish pablum of Ezra Klein appears to be this excrement.
None of it helps the average hardworking American.
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
None of it helps the average hardworking American.
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
Time to crush up some more Adderall into the Diet Coke.
#IsHeDeadYet
#IsHeDeadYet
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Time to crush up some more Adderall into the Diet Coke.
#IsHeDeadYet
#IsHeDeadYet