Jacky?!

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Captain of @olamaelcu.net (also web @ @divine.video) + other things. I write (and record) things. I like reading. A lot. ⓘ Mwen pa zanmi ou e li plis pase ou

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Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir omg.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 12

And that's when tourism (or travel) evolves into things like gentrification or other forms of violence. Individually, it's whatever but when industries are built to "facilitate it", it's an economic attack on locals. Just ask the Caribbean and the young girls snatched up by American hotels.

The problem was not with other places, or with the man wanting to see them, but with travel’s dehumanizing effect, which thrust him among people to whom he was forced to relate as a spectator. Chesterton believed that loving what is distant in the proper fashion—namely, from a distance—enabled a more universal connection. When the man in Hampstead thought of foreigners “in the abstract . . . as those who labour and love their children and die, he was thinking the fundamental truth about them.” “The human bond that he feels at home is not an illusion,” Chesterton wrote. “It is rather an inner reality.” Travel prevents us from feeling the presence of those we have travelled such great distances to be near.

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 12

Read this article twice on my way to NYC on a plane and I couldn't agree more. It's up there with "shopaholics".

If you are inclined to dismiss this as contrarian posturing, try shifting the object of your thought from your own travel to that of others. At home or abroad, one tends to avoid “touristy” activities. “Tourism” is what we call travelling when other people are doing it. And, although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk resembles academic writing and reports of dreams: forms of communication driven more by the needs of the producer than the consumer.

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 12

Under this list!

The account reporting screen showing "trump's face labeler" and "bluesky moderation service" when one selects "fake account or bot" after selecting "misleading"

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 10

Stella Bella Petit-Merchant Alciné

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 9

In LaGuardia

This deli is using AI for its flyer for food

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 6

So the US is taking over?

A Hamas official said the group wished for the swift entry of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a body which is tasked with overseeing the future administration of Gaza under a US-backed plan to end Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian territory.

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 4

We out? www.instagram.com/p/DaT0hLmtm5b/

A flyer for a movie night in Bedstuy off 382 Tompkins avenue on 11 July

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 4

my computer is slow but I finally figured this out since I've been up thinking (and tbh I think it's worth having as a concept across any atproto app; the ability to request to filter a feed of content). thank you @cassiecodes.bsky.social for the demo :)

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 4

One day.

A post meant to go into Blacksky's community only but an error indicating that I don't have access to post into the community just yet.

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 3

The magic of medicine: finally remembering to replace the filter in my fridge after two years 😭

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 3

I like things that boost up websites. Now I *kinda* wish it did some sort of ownership validation indicator here (but *handwaves*)

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 3

"I know there's child porn on here. And that's why I stay: the child porn keeps me warm as I stay with the 570 million users - which we don't know for sure isn't mainly bots or phone farms in Taiwan"

She’s certainly right about that. Abuse and misinformation are everywhere on X. Foreign bots run amok; there are entire factories in Russia and elsewhere which exist to drive misinformation and stir up hate on X and other social media.
But that’s exactly why I stay. X remains unparalleled as a social media site focused on news, comment and discussion with around 570 million monthly active users. What happens if those of us who aren’t driven by hate and who try to use reason rather than gut impulse (or at least like to think we do) leave? The bigots, the bots and the lunatics have the place to themselves.

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 3

Glad Wikipedia got this but fuck everyone doing this.

The heading of a page on Wikipedia about a prominent African American woman with a notice about the text being LLM-generated

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 1

THEY POST FOR THE REACTION NOT FOR VALUE! Which is great for advertisers and algorithmic recommendation systems - both want to put The Next Thing in front of you, regardless of its material value to you.

And the answer is: because none of them are interested in accomplishing anything of substance, their aims revolve entirely around being acceptable to one another. Their truth — which they are pursuing competently, even intelligently, as agents — is not about change but about propriety. Ideas, for them, are evaluated based on whether they are proper or not and people in that group succeed based on their ability to reheat one harmless, socially-acceptable idea after another. To reiterate: it's not that they're wrong, it's that the truth that emerges from their purpose is largely detached from any consequence that would be considered meaningful to the rest of us.

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 1

THE RETWEETING CLASS (the most gameable set of folks on any social networking platforms); damn near the cheapest form of folks that Hon talks about in "You've Been Played" www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adria...

We all do it to some degree of course, but some people do it almost exclusively. For reasons that I will get to, it is the backbone of their epistemology and this has interesting consequences that I detail below. One thing that's notable is that the people who favour a worldview built exclusively of retweeted ideas is that they congregate. They prefer one another's company to the company of those (from any political side) with a stronger tendency to interrogate their own assumptions. We can think of them, essentially, as the Retweeting Class.

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 1

From @dissentmag.bsky.social:

$These ruptures have left American politics prey to both the paralysis of the center-left and to the drive of an authoritarian right to break apart the legacies of the civil rights movement and the New Deal. Neither alternative offers a stable prospect for the future, not least because the right has nothing close to the kind of majority that could entrench its own project. Trump’s very focus on unilateral executive action is a sign of political weakness—an inability to build the type of majority that can pursue ends through popular law rather than through presidential diktat. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive” to liberty, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,” and to design the forms of rule “most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” Standing behind these words was an unspoken faith in the constituent power of a people to reestablish the terms of their economic and political life. It is hard to look at the United States today and see its institutions and practices as a hospitable home for the exercise of such power. The mechanisms of collective renewal and meaningful self-government have been fractured.$

Jacky?!@omg· Jul 1

archive.ph/DgjdO

Flashback: Many on the left were disappointed that Harris didn't distance herself from Biden's reflexively pro-Israel stance during the 2024 general election.

In Biden's White House, Harris had considered herself an advocate for on-the-ground activists, including those worried about Palestinians in Gaza. She had her office organize meetings and calls with progressive advocates.
She wrote in her 2025 book, "107 Days," that she privately "pleaded" with Biden to show more empathy for civilians killed in Gaza. "He couldn't do it: while [Biden] could passionately state, 'I am a Zionist,' his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced."
Harris also wrote that she sometimes was frustrated with pro-Palestinian protesters interrupting her campaign events in 2024.

"The issue was not binary, but the outcome of this election certainly was," she wrote.

Jacky?!@omg· Jun 30

the two Americas

Jacky?!@omg· Jun 30

I am who I say I am.

Jacky?!@omg· Jun 29

This is the lawsuit in question: www.law360.com/dockets/6a3d... If I had more time/interest, I'd try to figure out who these people are connected to professionally (looking to see if any work on behalf of Apple or Microsoft).