Jarrod
@jarrod18.bsky.social
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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2025 in review: hegemonic suicide, medieval peasant brain, and other highlights from a very long year
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
2025: Hegemonic Suicide and Other Innovations
Every generation, on reaching middle age, begins to see the world around them in decline in order to habituate themselves to their own decay.
hegemon.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
2025 in review: hegemonic suicide, medieval peasant brain, and other highlights from a very long year
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
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bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression
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Those of us who believe in American exceptionalism do so because it is a creedal nation. Those who tie greatness to ethnic heritage are little more than undisguised bigots, whose accomplishments in their own lives are so small that they need to look to forbearers for anything of which to be proud.
Many of the people who talk up "Heritage Americanism" today are descendants of people -- Jews, Irishmen, Italians -- who were abominated by the "Heritage Americans" of an earlier time. The Know Nothings and their kin decried the new arrivals as unfit for American life. On it goes.
December 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Those of us who believe in American exceptionalism do so because it is a creedal nation. Those who tie greatness to ethnic heritage are little more than undisguised bigots, whose accomplishments in their own lives are so small that they need to look to forbearers for anything of which to be proud.
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Many of the people who talk up "Heritage Americanism" today are descendants of people -- Jews, Irishmen, Italians -- who were abominated by the "Heritage Americans" of an earlier time. The Know Nothings and their kin decried the new arrivals as unfit for American life. On it goes.
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Many of the people who talk up "Heritage Americanism" today are descendants of people -- Jews, Irishmen, Italians -- who were abominated by the "Heritage Americans" of an earlier time. The Know Nothings and their kin decried the new arrivals as unfit for American life. On it goes.
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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From President Zelensky's official telegram account.
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
From President Zelensky's official telegram account.
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there was a brief but important period in america when you saved your fanciest suit for the opportunity to be in a studio audience watching videos of people getting whacked in the nuts
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
there was a brief but important period in america when you saved your fanciest suit for the opportunity to be in a studio audience watching videos of people getting whacked in the nuts
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Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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Sometimes America is so beautiful it just makes you want to cry. From beauty.
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Sometimes America is so beautiful it just makes you want to cry. From beauty.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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If you live in California, today is an excellent day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and ask him to sign SB 79. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...
Newsom's Fateful Choice
Why the governor needs to sign SB 79
publiccomment.blog
October 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you live in California, today is an excellent day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and ask him to sign SB 79. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...
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RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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The bigger problem is the deregulation that led to the television climate we have today, in which only 6 companies own 90% of the nation's media.
These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America
Discover how six corporations dominate 90% of the media landscape in America, shaping public perception.
www.businessinsider.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The bigger problem is the deregulation that led to the television climate we have today, in which only 6 companies own 90% of the nation's media.
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I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Should We Let Public Transit Die?
Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.
www.bloomberg.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.
September 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.
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We don't do propaganda to make you believe something. It's to make you believe nothing. So you do nothing.
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We don't do propaganda to make you believe something. It's to make you believe nothing. So you do nothing.
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After the Tsar abdicated early in 1917, one provisional government after another rose and fell, each failing to bring parliamentary democracy to Russia. It went on for months. They squandered their tiny window of opportunity arguing over buttons. I say use whatever words you want, but do something.
August 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
After the Tsar abdicated early in 1917, one provisional government after another rose and fell, each failing to bring parliamentary democracy to Russia. It went on for months. They squandered their tiny window of opportunity arguing over buttons. I say use whatever words you want, but do something.
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my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls
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“What do we lose when nostalgia is weaponized to obscure today’s rise of state-sanctioned violence?”
Art historian Sigourney Schultz, who grew up inside Pixar, examines the Studio Ghibli AI trend—and why Miyazaki’s magic can’t be replicated, and what we lose when we try.
Art historian Sigourney Schultz, who grew up inside Pixar, examines the Studio Ghibli AI trend—and why Miyazaki’s magic can’t be replicated, and what we lose when we try.
Dispirited Away: In the wrong hands, ‘Ghiblified’ genAI images erode ethos, empathy, and our very humanity - DesignObserver
An art historian who grew up inside Pixar Studios reflects on what we lose when art once rendered through deliberate labor and deep care can be reproduced in seconds — and weaponized just as quickly.
designobserver.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“What do we lose when nostalgia is weaponized to obscure today’s rise of state-sanctioned violence?”
Art historian Sigourney Schultz, who grew up inside Pixar, examines the Studio Ghibli AI trend—and why Miyazaki’s magic can’t be replicated, and what we lose when we try.
Art historian Sigourney Schultz, who grew up inside Pixar, examines the Studio Ghibli AI trend—and why Miyazaki’s magic can’t be replicated, and what we lose when we try.