🌐 Patrick Jones
@pmtj.bsky.social
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neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
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Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition
Sousveillance over civil war.
www.theverge.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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My latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December.
aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...
aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...
On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)
(Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version.
aiguide.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
My latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December.
aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...
aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
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tbh one of my complaints with AI has been "for how nuts the technology is why are the product designs and concepts all so boring, why aren't they trying the kind of insane shit designers got up to in the 90s" and uhh I guess here it is
Have you heard about Gas Town? No? Well I'm gonna explain what it is anyway.
www.todayintabs.com/p/all-gas-to...
www.todayintabs.com/p/all-gas-to...
All Gas Town, No Brakes Town
You sling beads to a hook which activates a polecat according to GUPP.
www.todayintabs.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:53 AM
tbh one of my complaints with AI has been "for how nuts the technology is why are the product designs and concepts all so boring, why aren't they trying the kind of insane shit designers got up to in the 90s" and uhh I guess here it is
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"Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the U.S. to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark?"
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
January 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the U.S. to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark?"
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
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"No peaceful demonstrator should ever be killed for standing up to their government. Unless, of course, they’re a suburban mom in an SUV that’s driving away from law enforcement."
We Support Protesting Against Any Authoritarian Government Except Our Own
"President Trump called on Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting against their government and warned that those responsible for killing demonstrat...
buff.ly
January 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"No peaceful demonstrator should ever be killed for standing up to their government. Unless, of course, they’re a suburban mom in an SUV that’s driving away from law enforcement."
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Ten years since Alan Rickman passed. Legend.
January 14, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Ten years since Alan Rickman passed. Legend.
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Rich cultural text that Will Stancil is in the streets of Minneapolis fighting ICE while the ten thousand losers who want him to dead are petrified of No Kings events because they might see a mom with a cell phone.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
January 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Rich cultural text that Will Stancil is in the streets of Minneapolis fighting ICE while the ten thousand losers who want him to dead are petrified of No Kings events because they might see a mom with a cell phone.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
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One thing that would definitely work to increase the birth rate is decreasing the length of pregnancy. 9 women could work together in a team to produce a baby in one month
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
One thing that would definitely work to increase the birth rate is decreasing the length of pregnancy. 9 women could work together in a team to produce a baby in one month
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Who did this? Because I fucking love it and I want to shake your hand, sir (not gender specific)
![[Benoit Blanc voice] and nine to the race of men, who above all else desire --- what? powah. precisely. but they were all of them deCEIved. for ANOTHAH ring was made](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ezf2n46jjyd2jfxxrafa54ih/bafkreicvhf5dqa4u47vfwhlssnzxmo5uhdoxpembmfokq6q62lsa3p37xm@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Who did this? Because I fucking love it and I want to shake your hand, sir (not gender specific)
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"Jacobin" has a huge article on Jewish politics in which they claim the fact that Mamdani's career was not destroyed by allegations of antisemitism, as Jeremy Corbyn's was, is evidence politics are changing.
They do not even consider the possibility Corbyn is an antisemite and Mamdani is not.
They do not even consider the possibility Corbyn is an antisemite and Mamdani is not.
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"Jacobin" has a huge article on Jewish politics in which they claim the fact that Mamdani's career was not destroyed by allegations of antisemitism, as Jeremy Corbyn's was, is evidence politics are changing.
They do not even consider the possibility Corbyn is an antisemite and Mamdani is not.
They do not even consider the possibility Corbyn is an antisemite and Mamdani is not.
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the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun
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The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
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Abolish ICE should be more than just an activist slogan. Time to put meat on the bones. By the same token, we need Democrats who won’t run away from good policy, needed accountability measures, and crucial democracy protections simply because they’re scared of Republican lies.
Abolish ICE—For Real This Time
Neither activists nor elected Democrats should repeat the mistakes of the past.
www.offmessage.net
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Abolish ICE should be more than just an activist slogan. Time to put meat on the bones. By the same token, we need Democrats who won’t run away from good policy, needed accountability measures, and crucial democracy protections simply because they’re scared of Republican lies.
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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
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Habermas was cooking here:
![Is the Internet the solution to this problem? Not so, in
Habermas’s view. Under liberal regimes
the emergence of millions of “chat rooms” scattered
throughout the world and of globally networked “issue
publics” tends rather to fragment the huge mass public,
which in the public sphere is centered on the same issues
at the same time in spite of its size. This public disintegrates in virtual space into a large number of contingent
fragmented groups, held together by special interests. […]
For the present, there are no functional equivalents, in this
virtual space, for the structures of publicity which reassemble the decentralized messages, sift them, and synthesize
them in edited form. […] Political communication within
national publics seems at present to be able to benefit from
online debates only when groups which are active on the
Web refer to real processes, such as election campaigns
or current controversies, for example, in an attempt to
mobilize the interest and support of members. (Habermas
2009b, 157f.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreibhwfg4on4lu536wifnvhh644bdvth62rfcddwxwo3f5ugl4p6eda@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Habermas was cooking here:
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Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of
Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of
1. Fallout: New Vegas
2. Disco Elysium
3. Deus Ex
4. Baldur's Gate 3
5. Half-Life 2
6. Mass Effect
7. Pentiment
8. Stardew Valley
9. Dragon Age: Origins
10. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
2. Disco Elysium
3. Deus Ex
4. Baldur's Gate 3
5. Half-Life 2
6. Mass Effect
7. Pentiment
8. Stardew Valley
9. Dragon Age: Origins
10. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Of the 31 games that won the 'now' votes, rank as many as you can. That could be just voting for your favourite, or a top 3, or 10, or just go mad and rank all 31.
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
January 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
1. Fallout: New Vegas
2. Disco Elysium
3. Deus Ex
4. Baldur's Gate 3
5. Half-Life 2
6. Mass Effect
7. Pentiment
8. Stardew Valley
9. Dragon Age: Origins
10. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
2. Disco Elysium
3. Deus Ex
4. Baldur's Gate 3
5. Half-Life 2
6. Mass Effect
7. Pentiment
8. Stardew Valley
9. Dragon Age: Origins
10. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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As of today the full scale invasion (3 day special military operation) officially lasts longer than the entire eastern front of ww2
January 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
As of today the full scale invasion (3 day special military operation) officially lasts longer than the entire eastern front of ww2
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I am the exact kind of pedantic nerd that would make this kind of argument if it were true, but I am also old enough to have used these. And yes, we just called them floppies. Almost nobody actually said diskette.
there is a woman on TikTok who has been arguing for months now with randos that keep insisting that nobody called 3.5" disks "floppy disks" or "floppies" at the time. it's weird. no matter what kind of proof she provides or how many agree with her, people are coming out of the woodwork to disagree
January 10, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I am the exact kind of pedantic nerd that would make this kind of argument if it were true, but I am also old enough to have used these. And yes, we just called them floppies. Almost nobody actually said diskette.
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In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.
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I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
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This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?
January 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?