Mareike Jenner

Mareike Jenner

@mareikejenner.bsky.social

She/her. Lieber Linker Spinner als Rechter Spinner. Author: American TV Detective Dramas, Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television (ed 1 & 2), Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics

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I've identified several of my/other articles taken down (on Project 2025's proposed porn ban, right-wing pedophilia conspiracy theories, anything w/ 'porn' in headline, etc)— when I asked the owner about this, he sent me rude/useless emails and said I "owe Jezebel an apology"

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

It's one thing that they're all hypocrites who won't let their children use social media, but Silicon Valley now truly fetishises bad parenting by trying to 'solve' problems you really shouldn't have with that amount of money. Worst case should be that you ask your nanny.

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for me it's also prestige vehicles where a female actor is playing a destitute, desperate person (who has the most sculpted Pilates arms you have ever seen)

Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social

the continuing scourge of veneers may not be the most important issue facing the world, but network procedurals keep trying to convince me that an unemployed dirtbag crashing at his sister's apartment before being arrested for child trafficking has eerily perfect teeth

So, Meta currently needs to pay $200.000 per day (this was already increased from $100.000) of non-compliance with the order. Basically: they don't give a fuck bc a Bolsanaro win would mean that nobody cares. And Trump is happy. Fine them real money (for them). A billion a day.

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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...

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Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

It's been years since anyone asked me if I’m vegetarian by conviction and as I tried to answer that question and doing justice to the historical meanings of that question, I kept wondering: conviction that climate change is bad?

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People mention LLMs a lot in terms of "increasing accessibility" And as someone with intermittent cognitive disabilities, I *really* want to highlight how much work it is to sort through AI slop to try to find accurate information

James Baillie@jubalbarca.bsky.social

The main way the LLM boom has affected my life is to make a lot of things so much harder. It makes information filtering an even more constant grinding process than it already was: it's noticeably worsened search info quality and makes it harder to find anything reliable and/or human and/or real.

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Replying to @donmoyn.bsky.social

A key part in Andreessen's MAGA origin story appears to have been totally made up. He said Biden officials promised to ban AI startups. They called bullshit on it. Sounds like Andreessen was looking for an excuse to switch sides (like Musk complaining about not being invited to a meeting).

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Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Just randomly remembered that in the audio commentary for US Queer as Folk season 2, the actors say something along the lines of 'it's a good thing a gay guy joined our cast because that’s how we learned that there is more than one position in gay sex'.

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I go to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas every year. I've seen flying cars there for the last five years at least. Obviously you can make a car fly. We make way more complicated shit fly daily. We don't make flying cars because have you been outside?

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

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Short thread on Jason Arday & Cambridge: where things are: (1/n) about ten days ago, 45 senior staff sent a letter to the Chancellor, reminding the University that a thorough review had been promised, and was nowhere in sight. The Afzal review was on one specific matter alone

The BBC has a doc out about JKR, which, I'm sure, will ask her to take accountability for this. Hard-hitting journalism is made at fancy dinners and ballrooms...

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When the AI bubble pops, we can’t repeat past corporate bail outs. We need to be ready with policies that protect ordinary people and hold tech execs accountable. We also need to talk about nationalizing AI companies — or maybe even abolishing them altogether… @astra.bsky.social @theguardian.com

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Today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self-defense; founded by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland California. October 15, 1966. Let's revisit their ten-point plan and how it holds up today

Honestly, how did one person accumulate this much power?

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

People are claiming that Elon Musk messed with Starlink in Ukraine because Trump asked him. I think a more likely reason is that Ukraine damaging Russian data centers embarrassed Elon by showing how many of his Twitter followers are nonexistent and how much traffic on Twitter is driven by bots.

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I never want to tell anyone what their experience was, I don’t want to use words that may scare the person telling me a story, but men have told me about things that have been done to them & those stories have broken my heart. I want to end the culture of sexual violence for *all* of us.

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com

Because my job can be a real bummer, when I am searching for instances of sexual violence among men in a defined group, you don't search for "sexual assault," you search for "hazing." We have euphemized language because we really, really don't want to address this in any real terms.

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Who would ever want “stories without struggle or mystery”!!! Without “glimpses of strange beasts”!!! Math is crazy, do not let its mystery be destroyed

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

But, you know, Jason Arday did... not sure, actually.

Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com

On October 10 2026, The Daily Telegraph (7am), Daily Mail (5.20pm), and GB News (12.25pm) all published news reports that a University of Oxford lecturer had been charged with possessing indecent images of children; three classed as category B (the second most serious category)

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This is NOT an ad for @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social’s new documentary “MUSK” (in theaters now). We are promoting it for free. Join us right here on October 20, 2026 at 9am Pacific/noon Eastern for a livestream hosted by @niedermeyer.online.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

Huge special thanks to @bsky.app for partnering with me on the October 20 stream with @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social! All of my ETTW livestreams are exclusive to the AT Protocol, for reasons that we will very much be discussing throughout the various conversations. Recordings will be available later.

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I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.