jonl
@weblogsky.com
Co-host of Plutopia News Network, known for writing on digital culture, activism, and technology. A longtime explorer of ideas, with leanings that are distinctly Buddhist-adjacent.
"Dead media — our older computers — were not simply superceded by improvements, but killed off as industrial policy. It’s not enough to create the new for the sake of improvement. The old must be actively annihilated." @bruces.bsky.social here: bruces.medium.com/the-dairy-pr...
The Dairy Products Theory of Dead Media (2004)
This was a conclusive speech of mine at the end of the “Dead Media Project.” That project ended with my realization that its premise was…
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November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Dead media — our older computers — were not simply superceded by improvements, but killed off as industrial policy. It’s not enough to create the new for the sake of improvement. The old must be actively annihilated." @bruces.bsky.social here: bruces.medium.com/the-dairy-pr...
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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: In "Stranger Things" season 5, the Hawkins crew organize to search for Vecna in the upside down and rightside up, as the sinister Wolfpack and Dr. Day search for Eleven. (If you're not following the series, this post is gobbledygook.) youtu.be/PssKpzB0Ah0?...
Stranger Things 5 | Official Trailer | Netflix
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November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: In "Stranger Things" season 5, the Hawkins crew organize to search for Vecna in the upside down and rightside up, as the sinister Wolfpack and Dr. Day search for Eleven. (If you're not following the series, this post is gobbledygook.) youtu.be/PssKpzB0Ah0?...
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hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
Love Is All Around
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
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November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: In "Watch the Skies," teenager Denise, believing her father was abducted by a UFO, engages with an organization called UFO Sweden that he had founded to solve the mystery of his disappearance. youtu.be/7onngmmMZhA?...
WATCH THE SKIES - OFFICIAL TRAILER (2025)
YouTube video by CRAZY PICTURES
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November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: In "Watch the Skies," teenager Denise, believing her father was abducted by a UFO, engages with an organization called UFO Sweden that he had founded to solve the mystery of his disappearance. youtu.be/7onngmmMZhA?...
Jennifer Granick discusses about the expanding machinery of government and corporate surveillance and its threat to civil liberties and democracy.
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Jennifer Granick: Surveillance and Cybersecurity | Plutopia News Network
Jennifer Granick discusses the expanding machinery of government and corporate surveillance and its threat to civil liberties and democracy.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Jennifer Granick discusses about the expanding machinery of government and corporate surveillance and its threat to civil liberties and democracy.
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Ken Paxton calls an immigration support program "evil and wicked," having confused it with his image in a mirror... www.texastribune.org/2025/11/11/p...
Paxton sues Harris County over undocumented legal support
The county recently allocated $1.3 million to groups that provide immigration legal services amid an uptick in federal enforcement. Paxton called the program “evil and wicked.”
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November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ken Paxton calls an immigration support program "evil and wicked," having confused it with his image in a mirror... www.texastribune.org/2025/11/11/p...
I'm wondering if this ziti shortage will be the last straw for Mad King Donald? www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
‘What, no ziti now?’: US pasta lovers fear Trump tariffs will cause shortage
A potential 107% tariff on Italian pasta imports could cause companies to withdraw from US market – and for US producers to raise their prices
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November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm wondering if this ziti shortage will be the last straw for Mad King Donald? www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
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Gov. Greg Abbott is promising to destroy public schools by making it almost impossible for districts to raise taxes. He also said voters should have the power to reduce or eliminate school funding entirely. #txlege www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Tomlinson: Abbott promises to starve public schools of tax revenues
Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to cut property taxes will starve public schools while he sends state money to private schools.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Gov. Greg Abbott is promising to destroy public schools by making it almost impossible for districts to raise taxes. He also said voters should have the power to reduce or eliminate school funding entirely. #txlege www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
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In a new @[email protected] #podcast we talk to Sophie Nightingale, researches deepfakes and whether humans can be trained to recognize them better: plutopia.io/sophie-night...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
In a new @[email protected] #podcast we talk to Sophie Nightingale, researches deepfakes and whether humans can be trained to recognize them better: plutopia.io/sophie-night...
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At @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, I interview Colin Wright about the mathematics of seduction: skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...
The Mathematics of Seduction: Colin Wright | Skeptical Inquirer
“We’re going to investigate the patterns in the patterns,” Colin Wright explains in the first of a series of videos. This comes right after he’s demonstrate ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
At @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, I interview Colin Wright about the mathematics of seduction: skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...
The 26th annual State of the World conversation kicks off January 6! Join @bruces.bsky.social, me, and others to explore what’s happening in a likely frantic year ahead. As always, the discussion takes place on The WELL, now celebrating its 40th year.
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The 26th annual State of the World conversation kicks off January 6! Join @bruces.bsky.social, me, and others to explore what’s happening in a likely frantic year ahead. As always, the discussion takes place on The WELL, now celebrating its 40th year.
Watch out for the Unidentified Flying Demons! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons
Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish
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November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Watch out for the Unidentified Flying Demons! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Dia de los Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: the Frankenstein story is the genesis of modern science fiction, and filmmaestro Guillermo del Toro has created a stunning reimagining of the tale, considering the themes of creation, humanity, and isolation. youtu.be/9WZllcEgWrM?...
Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | Final Trailer | Netflix
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November 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Dia de los Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: the Frankenstein story is the genesis of modern science fiction, and filmmaestro Guillermo del Toro has created a stunning reimagining of the tale, considering the themes of creation, humanity, and isolation. youtu.be/9WZllcEgWrM?...
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views." ~ Doctor Who, Face of Evil, January 1977.
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views." ~ Doctor Who, Face of Evil, January 1977.
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A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Halloween 1938: Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre presented a radio version of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," a newscast simulation so realistic that some thought it was real. Here's a recording of the broadcast...Happy Halloween! youtu.be/LWJqTXoVPTo?...
Orson Welles - War of the Worlds - 1938 broadcast restored with A.I.
YouTube video by Broadway Classics
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October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Halloween 1938: Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre presented a radio version of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," a newscast simulation so realistic that some thought it was real. Here's a recording of the broadcast...Happy Halloween! youtu.be/LWJqTXoVPTo?...
It seems that NBA gambling schemes are America's biggest emergency right now.
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It seems that NBA gambling schemes are America's biggest emergency right now.
Austin, Texas has a coalition opposing the use and proliferation of ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers). Follow the org, follow the issue: www.noalprs.org
No ALPRS
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October 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Austin, Texas has a coalition opposing the use and proliferation of ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers). Follow the org, follow the issue: www.noalprs.org
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This week's net.wars, "The bottom drawer", finds Keir Starmer's ID card rhetoric weirdly archaic and worries he will not learn the right lessons for studying India's Aadhar: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/10/17/t...
The bottom drawer
It only now occurs to me how weirdly archaic the UK government's rhetoric around digital ID really is. Here's prime minister Keir Starmer in India, quoted in th
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October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This week's net.wars, "The bottom drawer", finds Keir Starmer's ID card rhetoric weirdly archaic and worries he will not learn the right lessons for studying India's Aadhar: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/10/17/t...
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Louis Rossmann and EFF-Austin's Mackenzie Rhine sat down to interview Austin City Council Member Mike Siegel around his vocal support for the movement to ban surveillance from Austin.
Introducing Mike Siegel, the anti AI surveillance city councilman
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
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October 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Louis Rossmann and EFF-Austin's Mackenzie Rhine sat down to interview Austin City Council Member Mike Siegel around his vocal support for the movement to ban surveillance from Austin.
I'm thinking Trump should send troops to Cocos Islands, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island, to manage the response to his tariffs.
October 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm thinking Trump should send troops to Cocos Islands, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island, to manage the response to his tariffs.
"Antifa" is an abbreviated term meaning "anti-fascist." What kinds of people would be most likely express concerns/fears about anti-fascism?
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Antifa" is an abbreviated term meaning "anti-fascist." What kinds of people would be most likely express concerns/fears about anti-fascism?
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Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Check out "Just Iconic Rewinds" on YouTube. They collect "weird facts" about various classic sci-fi films. Last night we learned facts about "The Monolith Monsters," a sci-fi film about monster rocks from outer space: youtu.be/3ig5prwS7RQ?...
The Monolith Monsters (1957) - 16 WEIRD Facts About The Movie Where Rain Makes Monsters!
YouTube video by Just Iconic Rewinds
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October 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Check out "Just Iconic Rewinds" on YouTube. They collect "weird facts" about various classic sci-fi films. Last night we learned facts about "The Monolith Monsters," a sci-fi film about monster rocks from outer space: youtu.be/3ig5prwS7RQ?...