Jacob Kramer-Duffield

Also pretty excited for y'all to read this!

Hard to believe it has been 10 years since @mkramer.bsky.social and I had this convo. www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2...

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is an attempt to outsource a key state responsibility—providing subsidized housing to poor people—to private for-profit actors so the state does not have to raise and spend tax money. It is profoundly neoliberal policy.

V. good thread as always from Dave; also great/infuriating conversation with @reckless.bsky.social and Roose. The most generous thing I can offer about his entire project is that I think it's clear he likes AI people and doesn't like its critics and that that colors his analysis to a fatal degree.

This was an excellent conversation, give a listen.

Screening. First in Chapel Hill. This Thursday. See you there. www.chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/event/power-...

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

This remains consistent with the explanation that independent/unaffiliated voters - who have been increasing greatly over the last generation but mostly have *behaved* as reliable partisans - might be breaking disproportionately against the GOP (some early vote data also suggests same).

It's off-leash hours in Prospect Park and there is absolutely nothing people can say to call their dogs off the overflowing barrels of garbage.

THIS.

Oh this is very good indeed. Krislov had an excellent tenure at Oberlin, a good pick to rebuild trust in a place with a similar culture.

In general I think this would be a tremendously positive development but one side effect would be that the Sulzbergers would also lose control of the NYT. There are scenarios where that might be *good* but Elon or the Ellisons ending up in control would be - as we've seen w/Bezos+WaPo - very bad.

"In general, people do not want to pay writers any money at all. As a writer, you get used to it. But for software people, being perpetually devalued is pretty novel." — @ftrain.com aboard.com/the-web-is-m...

First Juncos of the season! By the dozens in Fort Greene Park.

This is exactly the principle that has fucked up everything from deli flyers to UX in billion-dollar products Once upon a time, even if you were doing something on your own, it took long enough to do that it made you think about what you were doing! You had time to think "hang on, this sucks."

Southland Tales, an absolutely beautiful and compelling utter mess of a movie.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

this is like a reverse "daisy." an ad so reprehensible that it detonates the candidate's campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

This is the eighth World Series between two franchises both seeking their first titles It’s the first of those where both franchises have been waiting for 25+ years (first WS 1903)

Very very good thread.

there's a lot to this even in many FT/TT jobs (now vanishing) your real intellectual community are people you see once a year at a conference; perhaps your employer pays for you to attend and perhaps not your job itself is a constant effort to prove to your "institution" that your job should exist

[carefully crafting a letter to the deans explaining that the entirety of history from 5000BCE to 1945 is still worth hiring ~1.5 professors to teach about because actually it laid a lot of the intellectual and practical groundwork for the compressed air thrusters that have transformed our world]

This is fabulous local history about, IMO, the best train in Brooklyn

When I reported this story on Bob Uecker's legacy with the Brewers, everyone I talked to told me something to the effect of: "Ueck wanted to see the Brewers win the World Series more than anything." They're now just 4 wins away:

We cannot keep asking our children to be brave enough to survive school shootings. Our leaders must be brave enough to stop them.

A key thing to remember about the Trump admin - true to a certain extent in Trump I, necessary as a qualification in Tump II - is that every single member is just about the most unpleasant person you've ever met. You see this every time they're on camera but they're also like that *with each other*

this is one thing where it's gonna be hard for people doing this by hand to continue to derive meaning from AI is just automatically "solving" problems people have been working on in teams for years in a matter of hours + barging into open source repositories & stealing / "helping" their work

as ever, the concept of biopolitics remains the rosetta stone for undestanding the otherwise-bizarre twists and turns of conservative paranoias

Pretty soon might be pretty soon, now.