yvette
@smallyew.bsky.social
Former science journalist. MFA, BSJ, no $$. She/they.
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The Yarvinite fanbois nicknamed their movement as "Endarkenment" for a reason.
They see themselves as sole authorities and princes of "network states" with an eternal peasant class that is uneducated, miseducated and easy to lead by the nose.
They are training ppl to not think.
They see themselves as sole authorities and princes of "network states" with an eternal peasant class that is uneducated, miseducated and easy to lead by the nose.
They are training ppl to not think.
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Yarvinite fanbois nicknamed their movement as "Endarkenment" for a reason.
They see themselves as sole authorities and princes of "network states" with an eternal peasant class that is uneducated, miseducated and easy to lead by the nose.
They are training ppl to not think.
They see themselves as sole authorities and princes of "network states" with an eternal peasant class that is uneducated, miseducated and easy to lead by the nose.
They are training ppl to not think.
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This is why I get irrationally angry when folks get smug about literacy et al ..
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is why I get irrationally angry when folks get smug about literacy et al ..
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
Because folks are rushing to rehabilitate Nazis but just casually mocking folks who are being purposely undereducated for decades
Because helping them doesn’t get the points against an enemy
Day before Thanksgiving, the power is out.
Following the ongoing winter storm across the Upper Midwest, another storm system is forecast to impact parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes with wintry weather this weekend. Keep an eye on the forecast and check weather.gov for more information. ❄️
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Day before Thanksgiving, the power is out.
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My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...
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The days of keeping it cute and professional while Trump and the rest of his party say and do whatever they feel like are over.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The days of keeping it cute and professional while Trump and the rest of his party say and do whatever they feel like are over.
Am I watching JD Vance do a dry run for a divorce?
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Am I watching JD Vance do a dry run for a divorce?
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Aye man, DHS took a TikTok that featured a group of black kids sendingn a message to Iran, edited to make it look like they were threatening ICE, then posted that TikTok on their twitter profile and basically federally doxxed them. Like, essentially put a hit out on them…
I wish this was a lie.
I wish this was a lie.
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Aye man, DHS took a TikTok that featured a group of black kids sendingn a message to Iran, edited to make it look like they were threatening ICE, then posted that TikTok on their twitter profile and basically federally doxxed them. Like, essentially put a hit out on them…
I wish this was a lie.
I wish this was a lie.
It literally is the Milkshake Duck Noble Prize.
There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners
The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats
October 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It literally is the Milkshake Duck Noble Prize.
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
So on the nose, it seems intentional. Motto of the "centrist."
Shut up! Change nothing!
Shut up! Change nothing!
Saw this sign at an estate sale over the weekend. What the fuck does this even mean? This is the stupidest political attitude I've ever heard of
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
So on the nose, it seems intentional. Motto of the "centrist."
Shut up! Change nothing!
Shut up! Change nothing!
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Cooking Korean-style steak, supposed to be in Virginia, but living with my parents instead. In Cleveland. I l love my city, but all of my luggage, my whole life, was sent to Virginia and I am here. All of this is on my mind, as I mistake Worcestershire sauce for soy sauce.
October 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Cooking Korean-style steak, supposed to be in Virginia, but living with my parents instead. In Cleveland. I l love my city, but all of my luggage, my whole life, was sent to Virginia and I am here. All of this is on my mind, as I mistake Worcestershire sauce for soy sauce.
There needs to be an equivalent of “touch grass” for people like Klein.
👇🎯 The polite way to say what this conversation reveals is that Coates is operating on a totally different moral plane & Klein is only vaguely able/willing to grasp that difference.
September 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
There needs to be an equivalent of “touch grass” for people like Klein.
The official explanation for MH370 will never sit right with me. It feels like convicting someone of murder without producing the body.
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The official explanation for MH370 will never sit right with me. It feels like convicting someone of murder without producing the body.
Just spent two hours reading about Curtis Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment movement, and...wish I hadn't.
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just spent two hours reading about Curtis Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment movement, and...wish I hadn't.
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Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
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Calls to tolerate social conservatism are asinine because they're not calls to tolerate social conservative views, they're calls to tolerate socially conservative violence. And that's the rub. These are people who can't leave other people alone, and demand to be coddled for it.
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Calls to tolerate social conservatism are asinine because they're not calls to tolerate social conservative views, they're calls to tolerate socially conservative violence. And that's the rub. These are people who can't leave other people alone, and demand to be coddled for it.
Worse things have been said about better men.
Bluesky really doesn't want people to say "rest in piss" about Charlie Kirk
aftermath.site/bluesky-char...
aftermath.site/bluesky-char...
September 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Worse things have been said about better men.
ChatGPT gonna be first against the wall in the Butlerian Jihad.
September 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
ChatGPT gonna be first against the wall in the Butlerian Jihad.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Hey, apropos of things, just noticed this great doc about the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history is free to watch at PBS online (with added resources!):
American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | American Experience | PBS
The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a cam...
www.pbs.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Hey, apropos of things, just noticed this great doc about the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history is free to watch at PBS online (with added resources!):
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In so many ways, the Roberts Court has revived the logic of Dred Scott: that racially targeted groups have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.
Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.
The obvious implication being that SCOTUS will not force the regime’s Racial Purity Police in ICE & CBP to adhere to the Fourth Amendment.
September 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In so many ways, the Roberts Court has revived the logic of Dred Scott: that racially targeted groups have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.
Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.