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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @benroyce@mastodon.social

Yup, both things are true:

All horizontal/peer-to-peer mass-media including actually-existing oligopolistic SocMed (TwiX, FB etc) massively increases ordinary folks's understanding of the lives of those in different circumstances
SocMed in the hands of the West's genocidal nutter 0.00001℅ who control the advertising-industrial complex, has supercharged & sped up various destructive spirals.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@evan@cosocial.ca You might still see that in the desert

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Unixbigot@aus.social Every spam text is a free RPG side quest

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social OK who's hacking Google Maps 🤣🤣🤣🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social @oftencalledcathy@mastodon.ie @evoterra@podvibes.co @hoare_spitall@mastodon.world @brad@1040ste.net @ariaflame@masto.ai @JustRobForNow@mastodon.social Yup. Both a) any meaningful change, and b) maintaining any existing bulwarks against concentration and abuses of wealth & power, necessitates; Street power/protest, organising & building parallel institutions as required, organising against AND within existing orgs such as the dominant parties, and (if vaguely functional democracy is in place) iteratively voting for candidates closer to your position etc etc

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@glyph Interesting frame. I've long held that there's an obvious overlap between the middle management bullshit jobs a-la Graeber, and the tasks LLMs are genuinely good at, and the real problem is the bullshit jobs... And this is an adjacent point.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@hoare_spitall@mastodon.world @evoterra@podvibes.co @benroyce@mastodon.social @JustRobForNow@mastodon.social I understand your position and respectfully disagree. IMVHO the Australian system puts the friction in approximately the right place: spoiling your ballot - legal. Not showing up, illegal. Edit: in my case, 3 — have voted in UK (FPTP, optional vote), NZ (proportional, optional vote) & Aus (proportional, compulsory vote).

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@annaecook@mastodon.social early 50s here. Same realisation hit me very hard at age 34 and I never quite recovered. Basically I'd been living the illusion that if I pushed real hard for a few years I'd then be able to take it reasonably easy. Nup. (And I'm in Australia with, yknow, Medicare for all and stuff). Sigh.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social @gabrielesvelto@mas.to I had a friend who interviewed for Nomura and noped out _during_ the interview.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

The legal and mainstream redefinition of antisemitism to include criticism of the actions of the State of Israel is a massive step into #newspeak
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-23/authors-quit-university-of-queensland-press-jazz-money-matt-chun/106596326

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@roytoo@mstdn.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social +1 for Nagata... I've recently enjoyed: Ann Leckie Sue Burke (Semiosis) Annalee Newitz S.B. Divya Nnedi Okorafor Benjanun Sridungkaew Essa Hansen Martha Wells Kimberly Unger Audrey Schulman ("Theory of Bastards" is a fucking underrated piece of work) Cath Valente Charlie Jane Anders Emily St John Mandel...

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social @Ashmire@pagan.plus @Tesseks@mastodon.social links with Bannon's "flood the zone with shit" and Arendt's "The point of modern propaganda... is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth."

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@su_liam@mas.to @benroyce@mastodon.social @oftencalledcathy@mastodon.ie @evoterra@podvibes.co @hoare_spitall@mastodon.world @brad@1040ste.net @ariaflame@masto.ai @JustRobForNow@mastodon.social Yes. Work hard always to improve the mechanisms of democracy at various levels.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@oscarjiminy@aus.social @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Yeah as a parent of 2 teens (1 cis lad, 1 transmasc son) there _is_ a period of time where it kicks in hard and the "learning to regulate your emotions" @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io mentions has to be speedran, and during that period the chemicals sloshing in the system actually _are_ some justification for lashing out, but all things being equal that period of time is like, a few DAYS, maybe a handful of weeks tops.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@Daojoan Truly the pivot to video is complete. One of the worst things about this timeline.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @oscarjiminy@aus.social In our case it was seeing red & punching the sib. Accepted by us parents as a mitigating factor for a few days when the hormones hit like a train. Then... Yeah, no longer even a mitigating factor, it's your problem to control your reactions, kid.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@desantis @jwz Yeah there's a combo of cognitive dissonance and the fact that AI is genuinely good at speed running David Graeber bullshit jobs, that is leading to some very weird places...

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@anagnostes@mstdn.io @jeffowski@mastodon.world In some ways his best work

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@janneke @nixCraft Not voluntarily no, but basically everyone in an office job is exposed to it every working hour, and many of us have very explicit LLM use KPIs too. Edit: Out of business? Probably not, because their lock-in is so strong, but they WILL go the way of IBM, drifting into irrelevance because they keep shipping things everyone hates.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@left_adjoint This. You don't have to go full ecomodern to reject the accelerationist doomer narrative, which is mostly spread by Russian bots to spread despair & confusion.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@timitii I will share.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@timitii Hope it works out great 👊

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@timitii I love the long light source

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@timitii I'm building a (much less ambitious and professional) reading nook myself this year, and you've inspired me to think more carefully about light 😍

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al You have to do some motivated reasoning to think it's OK in any way shape or form. I just blew my $ budget and carbon budget to link up with US friends who were travelling overseas, coz I know this might be the last chance to see them.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@soulexpress@musician.social @nullagent@partyon.xyz @cdarwin@c.im This is the key point. The further right, the worse on Palestine/Israel, basically no exceptions.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@falcennial@mastodon.social pretty sure there's already an ML layer in the 10cent refund glass machines & similar?

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@desantis @jwz Totally. Middle management was already basically an exercise in iterated butt-covering and accountability-diversion... They were always gonna be all over a machine to automate the process of fucking things up an exactly industry-standard amount which they can call "standard practice". 😩

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@jwz I get it, but even if I changed jobs the likelihood of that other job morphing to include AI use is high, so I'm not gonna feel _too_ guilty about doing the task I'm assigned, when it's sometimes literally "get me a CoPilot summary of X in format Y".

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@cyberia@tilde.zone @ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot Paid for out of British taxpayer money, including Scots. So while it might not be subject to this tax, the British subjects paying for it certainly include Scots, and they are subjects of the resident within, who is a massive tax dodger, so it makes the point rather well.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@oscarjiminy@aus.social @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Yeah there's a lot of context needed before getting judgemental about any response, for sure.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@nettings@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I do the same

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@technihilism

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@christi3k I have largely stopped fighting it. It would mean losing my job for a start.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@desantis @jwz The honest answer? Because the boss who is asking needs to tick off the KPI marked "evidence of AI adoption by my team".

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@sendai@eigenmagic.net @therightarticle@mas.to Much of their value proposition comes from being wealth-and-power-adjacent enough to siphon data to & from the same authorities who would come down like a ton of bricks on anyone less cozy.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@vonKordke@social.vivaldi.net @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social MRW I wear my Batman costume to JAQ off in front of my neighbor's sprinkler at 3:32am every third Tuesday of the month

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@mason I'm inclined to take your word for this, but do you have a link to a piece you think crosses the line so I can see what you mean?

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Boosted by @welcome@friends.deko.cloud

@Kmrnhr@mastodon.social Hello. Will you be writing a bio and doing an #introduction post?

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Aakerbeere Es ist kompliziert. Ein Musiker/Kunstler*in wird Moglichkeiten verloren, wenn sie nur im Fedi bleibt... aber es kann sich lohnen weil die andere Optionen so vollig böse sind.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Garwboy Nice bit of centralised infrastructure you've built there. Be a shame if someone were to... Nationalise it.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social @Cadbury_Moose@wandering.shop @mwshook@pdx.social +1 for antimemetics division

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social @gabrielesvelto@mas.to 🎯🤒

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@maxschrems I remain convinced that with political will there are imaginative and effective ways to clamp down on this revolving door regulatory capture. 😡😡😡

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@dukepaaron He's only just come onto my radar. I see what you mean.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@be_far Locked down and all plugins prohibited and only Edge may be used.

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@eribosot@mastodon.social "invidia" in Italian is just envy. I always assumed they just meant enviable. But, yeah....

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Jay @jaystephens@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@oscarjiminy@aus.social @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io I hear ya, but I mean, all things being equal, the period in which the parent should accept it as mostly excusing the lashing out, is only a few days long. Excuse my #PoFacedResponseToLightheartedPost

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