@jennalyn.bsky.social
cat-enthusiast, burned-out millennial, book-buyer (and often book-reader), occasional writer
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I feel like it's apt to bring back this video I made during Christmas 2020 lockdown after I tried to take a nice picture of some cookies I decorated next to the tree but then I dropped them and they shattered and idk it feels appropriate for 2024. sound on <3
December 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
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That’s it for CBS. We should no longer watch anything produced by this media platform.
60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
That’s it for CBS. We should no longer watch anything produced by this media platform.
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AI has made this even worse, because it's trained NOT on science, but on an average of what it finds in the internet. So if you feed it an image of a fluffy grey cat, it will tell you you have yourself a Nebelung cat. Because they are gaining in popularity!
This whole summary is inaccurate.
This whole summary is inaccurate.
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
AI has made this even worse, because it's trained NOT on science, but on an average of what it finds in the internet. So if you feed it an image of a fluffy grey cat, it will tell you you have yourself a Nebelung cat. Because they are gaining in popularity!
This whole summary is inaccurate.
This whole summary is inaccurate.
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A big part of this misconception is from a very common phenomenon of folk assuming things they've learned about dogs having a 1:1 correlation with cats.
Cats are very understudied compared to dogs. So a person that knows dogs are a mix of breeds may, very incorrectly, assume cats work the same way
Cats are very understudied compared to dogs. So a person that knows dogs are a mix of breeds may, very incorrectly, assume cats work the same way
December 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A big part of this misconception is from a very common phenomenon of folk assuming things they've learned about dogs having a 1:1 correlation with cats.
Cats are very understudied compared to dogs. So a person that knows dogs are a mix of breeds may, very incorrectly, assume cats work the same way
Cats are very understudied compared to dogs. So a person that knows dogs are a mix of breeds may, very incorrectly, assume cats work the same way
This thread is great! I roll my eyes at friends who claim to have a "Maine coon" because their cat happens to be big and fluffy. Mine is big and fluffy too. He is a "domestic longhair: born in a shed." I love him to bits. But he is no breed. At best, his breed is "surprisingly soft cat."
I would like to articulate one of the BIGGEST misconceptions about cat breed genetics by talking about the NEBELUNG!
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
December 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This thread is great! I roll my eyes at friends who claim to have a "Maine coon" because their cat happens to be big and fluffy. Mine is big and fluffy too. He is a "domestic longhair: born in a shed." I love him to bits. But he is no breed. At best, his breed is "surprisingly soft cat."
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In short, using AI in your writing is among the dumbest things you can do as a writer as it exposes you to potential legal action while affording you zero legal protections. AI is a nightmare box for idiots. Don't fall into the trap of shortcutting your writing career.
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In short, using AI in your writing is among the dumbest things you can do as a writer as it exposes you to potential legal action while affording you zero legal protections. AI is a nightmare box for idiots. Don't fall into the trap of shortcutting your writing career.
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The courts have ruled multiple times that AI output isn't copyrightable because it has no author meaning:
1) AI writing is public domain. You don't own any of it.
2) You can't be sure that the writing in your piece isn't stolen, because authorship be damned, you are responsible for what you sell.
1) AI writing is public domain. You don't own any of it.
2) You can't be sure that the writing in your piece isn't stolen, because authorship be damned, you are responsible for what you sell.
I can't understand how "writing is my dream job" and "ugh, can't the robot do it?" coexist comfortably inside the same skull, but a lot of people live in cognitive dissonance.
December 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The courts have ruled multiple times that AI output isn't copyrightable because it has no author meaning:
1) AI writing is public domain. You don't own any of it.
2) You can't be sure that the writing in your piece isn't stolen, because authorship be damned, you are responsible for what you sell.
1) AI writing is public domain. You don't own any of it.
2) You can't be sure that the writing in your piece isn't stolen, because authorship be damned, you are responsible for what you sell.
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Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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Seeing a lot of folks who either don’t know what the usual numbers look like or who didn’t go look at the demographics and methodology and are treating this as a _meh_ data point when anything close to this would be earth-shaking. Believe it when you see it, etc, but these are GOP extinction numbers
Generic Ballot Polling Among White Voters:
🔵 Democrats: 50%
🔴 Republicans: 46%
Marist / Nov 13, 2025
🔵 Democrats: 50%
🔴 Republicans: 46%
Marist / Nov 13, 2025
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Seeing a lot of folks who either don’t know what the usual numbers look like or who didn’t go look at the demographics and methodology and are treating this as a _meh_ data point when anything close to this would be earth-shaking. Believe it when you see it, etc, but these are GOP extinction numbers
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we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
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I spent most of my life thinking I was stupid (now I’m “not stupid,” a big mental upgrade) which meant I never assumed I’d understood anything well enough to not try and look up what it means multiple times. From MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to @arif.bsky.social, experts love simple questions
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I spent most of my life thinking I was stupid (now I’m “not stupid,” a big mental upgrade) which meant I never assumed I’d understood anything well enough to not try and look up what it means multiple times. From MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to @arif.bsky.social, experts love simple questions
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
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a very good and important response from @slotkin.senate.gov and company in response to Trump's threats. You absolutely cannot allow a would-be authoritarian to know that the surest way to make his opponents back down is to threaten them with violence.
www.slotkin.senate.gov/2025/11/20/j...
www.slotkin.senate.gov/2025/11/20/j...
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
a very good and important response from @slotkin.senate.gov and company in response to Trump's threats. You absolutely cannot allow a would-be authoritarian to know that the surest way to make his opponents back down is to threaten them with violence.
www.slotkin.senate.gov/2025/11/20/j...
www.slotkin.senate.gov/2025/11/20/j...
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I remember this guy. He was the one on TV two months ago claiming Dems have a culture of condoning violence.
Mike Johnson Justifies Trump Threatening to Execute Democrats
#Trump
#Trump
Mike Johnson Justifies Trump Threatening to Execute Democrats
Republicans are rushing to defend Donald Trump’s extremist ravings.
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I remember this guy. He was the one on TV two months ago claiming Dems have a culture of condoning violence.
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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