Jasnah Kholin

One thing is absolutely clear when it comes to X vs BlueSky: both platforms are on the decline. The ID community has either left social media entirely or moved on to other platforms I love our community here, but it seems like the future is uncertain. We need to rebuild our community!

Canada is going to Eurovision 2027. It’s up to you to decide who takes the stage. Cast your vote by November 5. www.cbc.ca/eurovision

I co-hosted convo with Brazilian strategist and he described what Meta did in detail. Sorry not to supply time stamp! It was in the latter half of the convo. I am biased but think everything he said is worth the listen. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Among things Meta did in Brazil was have their AI bot within WhatsApp allow users to generate election poster for Flavio but deny requests to do so for Lula. When folks asked for posters for invented candidates, AI tagged them with #22 - Flavio's # - in a country where folks vote by #.

Remember the early days of Covid when people were speculating on N95 masks and hand sanitizer by buying up the scarce supply and selling it for inflated prices; but then we made so many masks and so much hand sanitizer that you could get them super cheap? We could do that for housing if we wanted.

I cannot stress how much you would want this, but because Dextero (lol) worded it in such a vague and scary way, it makes everybody needlessly oppositional towards the concept of such a feature. No this does not leak your private discord conversations.

I cannot stress this enough, this is a good thing, and the ability to opt-out of something like this is also a good thing, however this is only for: Discoverable Servers With >1000 Users In The Server.

every single reporting of this new feature is extremely obnoxious because its fearmongering about a highly requested feature that stems from discussions surrounding troubleshooting and whatnot becoming relegated to closed off discord servers instead of public forums and discussion boards.

This post made me remember a interview from 11 years ago: www.rockpapershotgun.com/peter-molyne...

"Global far-right power grab" is the phrase everyone's looking for, and why we need to stop thinking of fighting them in terms of borders. It's the same like, 200 well-positioned multinational cunts fucking things up, and we need to start thinking of how to excise them wherever they're found

we called it political psychosis, because we've been on high alert and doing absolutely everything in our power to mobilize, organize and take back spaces that the far right had occupied for too long, online and on the streets. It was a collective burst of energy like nothing we've ever seen

"Specialists" are gonna focus on how we fought the algorithm, but a huge part of it was actually about people being on the streets educating others and changing their opinions. News media refused to tell people about the crimes and intentions of the bolsonaro family, so we did that ourselves.

It's another day, so let's talk about this. First of all, Lula didn't win the election alone. He won because more than half of the country FREAKED THE FUCK OUT and built a popular movement that organized several actions both irl and online.

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’. Which will it be? (Would you ‘like’ or rt this one please, so it doesn’t get buried 🙏)

What Marissa Odysseus, back in Mayer wants Ithaca after me to ask AI 20 years 🤝 what is my child like www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Hacked VMS board spotted in Nashville on Korean Veterans Boulevard.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/pol...

For my reporting I'm interested in talking to people who know about old telecom wiring still hanging between wooden utility poles, sometimes unused, and how it's being stolen for scrap. Infrastructure enthusiasts, linemen, rural cops, telecoms scholars: my email is jsilverman@icij.org.

Once again we have dragged ourselves back to regain just one of the things we threw away (taking us 6 years) www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired. trib.al/gANTbMx

a haunted house, but it's just various pieces of corporate software encouraging you to "get into the holiday mood" and take a minute to "have some spooky fun" as you desperately try to get work done

resetting the "days since a very important system used by large parts of critical infrastructure used '4' as a security key" counter to 0

tired of pressing your aeropress down by hand? automate that shit! with a 7 lb tungsten sphere. you will certainly not regret your purchase of a 7lb tungsten sphere!

If you've seen the ugliest vehicle ever made, that was Elon. Those videos showing obscene data center pollution? Also Elon. If you've seen starving African kids being turned away from shuttered aid distribution centers, that was Elon. A car burning on the side of the road? You guessed it

A library of ~12,000 vORFs from 513 viral species was created, unveiling hundreds of viral regulators affecting cell growth, MHC class I presentation, and IFN signaling. PMID:42392077, Cell 2026, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00583-0 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

honestly prosecute merrick garland too

Once again I am recommending Blake Manor, I know I won't shut up about it, but it was another of my favourite games from last year, genuinely incredible detective game with a striking comicbook artstyle. Go play this game, trust me it's something special.

Do you need to know what you think before you start writing? Not necessarily, argues historian Lynn Hunt. In a 2010 #AHAPerspectives essay, Hunt explores how the act of writing itself generates new ideas and why getting words on the page is essential to the thinking process.

Today, for @rewirenewsgroup.com, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social looked into the to the limited data and conflicting guidance around breast cancer screening options for trans women. It's troubling. And it could have life-changing consequences for patients. I hope you'll give it a read.

My thought on AI review: lh3.github.io/2026/10/27/l... TL;DR: journals are banning fully AI-generated review and I think that is the right decision

i guess the closest i have to a glib position is "you shouldn't have to pay a defence contractor to use a computer" plus "subsidizing tools that enable widespread fraud is bad" plus "you should not be surprise if people are judgemental about software that has killed several people"

although i do try and hold a more nuanced view like "machine translation good, extractive corpus bad, duty of care missing" i simply do not have the time or energy or good faith to talk about the finer points, especially when it feels like people are simply carving out exceptions for themselves

The Alex Pretti Memorial, October 2026 chaddavis.photography/memorial-whe...

The family says they've been at the memorial multiple times and visit when they’re in Minneapolis. With tears, they talk about their appreciation of the caretakers that have been tending to the memorial each day. Alex's mother says she saves every single post she sees about Alex.

“The federal government went on tv and lied about Alex. They tried to slander his memory to cover up their crime. Not only was it wrong. It was shameful, unfair, and unacceptable. We want our sons killers brought to justice once and for all.”

This is overdramatic speculation so take it as such but also: boy are the people he's friends with involved in a lot of murders

Flávio Bolsonaro may have fled the country to get away from federal police but if that's the case he may also be trying to get away from all his criminal allies who now no doubt are realizing that he 1. failed to deliver, 2. is a huge coward, 3. sure knows a lot of shit

Balloux paid compliments to Kennedy, but threw tantrums at me for trying to warn about him. Balloux found this guy👇 infinitely more reliable than me.

Aggressive AI scraping “is a real problem that deserves a real solution,” write Lila Bailey (Internet Archive) and Tess Vartanian (Center for Democracy & Technology). But they argue “stealth crawler” bills target anonymity, not the harms.

We used this to generate a metric of the relative strength of local versus metapopulaiton processes in governing regional persistence. This was an idea 10 years in the making and big thanks to @deepit.bsky.social for carrying across the line! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New Preprint: A classic property of epidemic time series is that they get increasingly stochastic and episodic at smaller spatial scales. Metapopulation theory says that dynamics that can't persist at the local scale CAN be rescued and stabilized at larger scales ... which is unbelievably cool.

So the next protest march is on Oct. 31 🎃👻, #Halloween, and it looks this might not be the biggest, but definitely the best dressed. Macron's government is authorising protests only on the marges of cities. A Halloween themed march might attract more attention. (The last image here slayed me)