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Jacob Metcalf

@jakemetcalf

Technology ethicist, dog haver, mountain dweller, forest critter, mover of heavy things. Writing a book about wildfire, AI, and Cali. Senior Researcher @ D&S @datasociety.bsky.social‬. Founder @ Ethical Resolve. Formerly @undersequioas in the Bad Place.

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I think he really does mean nationalization, which is realistically an end game of all this.

06.03.2026 21:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Hey @hypervisible.blacksky.app is this luxury surveillance or some new category? 🤔🐠📸

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

04.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah but at least nerds got pizza then. What do we get now?

04.03.2026 16:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's very hard for the public to learn who is behind these accounts, but if any prosecutors did want to take up this case, it would likely be trivially easy to subpoena all the evidence they need.

01.03.2026 14:01 👍 241 🔁 75 💬 6 📌 0
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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

01.03.2026 02:09 👍 13986 🔁 4440 💬 472 📌 359

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

05.02.2026 21:20 👍 840 🔁 283 💬 11 📌 10

"Partially automated mediocre not-gay space not-communism" is a vision we can all get behind.

28.02.2026 00:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We all know Elon could lie on every line of the Form S-1, and the SEC would not lift a finger.

27.02.2026 23:56 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The biggest news of the night is that Trump’s effort to steer control of CNN to a lackey by threatening the corrupt use of regulatory power is moving closer to reality. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/trump-es...

24.02.2026 22:44 👍 751 🔁 314 💬 28 📌 21
A screenshot from a mobile phone showing a disclaimer text that is black font on a dark grey background, rendering it unreadable.

A screenshot from a mobile phone showing a disclaimer text that is black font on a dark grey background, rendering it unreadable.

New innovations in dark patterns engineering: literally put the disclaimers in black text on dark grey background.

24.02.2026 17:28 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Would be interested to hear what you can find out about the "Stargate" thing being built in Saline, MI, against a lot of local opposition.

23.02.2026 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is on his mind because a few hours earlier he was reviewing economic analysis of what RAM price point would make it feasible to wire together a warehouse of toddlers.

21.02.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Prediction: Neil Gaiman will be seen in public with Elon Musk in the very near future.

Nerds who are rape fans are a growing market.

21.02.2026 17:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Proposal for a new terminology: hiring slop.

17.02.2026 19:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a lot of words for "due to my class privilege, I suffered from Duning-Krueger before COVID. I still do."

17.02.2026 19:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not to mention Newsom has literally sued to make sure the next president doens't have these powers.

16.02.2026 21:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a Californian, fuck Newsom.

But it's patently absurd to assert that he would send masked paramilitaries into cities, build concentration camps, dismantle public health and scientific research, undermine any climate hope, raid the Treasury, and staff DHS with insurrectionists.

16.02.2026 02:53 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.

There is maybe another contender from the same Super Bowl? www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

10.02.2026 21:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

10.02.2026 15:41 👍 15401 🔁 5888 💬 237 📌 161
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.
Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?
Zachary: Correct.
Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

06.02.2026 15:00 👍 5859 🔁 1969 💬 61 📌 203

The only acceptable phrase after the "but" is "I also don't think 20, 30, or 40 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls".

06.02.2026 00:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a resident of a rural area -- 60 min from Silicon Valley -- that lacks cell coverage, I will say that Starlink is the only high quality product in Musk's catalog.

05.02.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Has anyone considered that outer space just might be outside of any jurisdiction that could prosecute for his giant CSAM servers?

05.02.2026 17:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The secret sauce tying together all these ghouls has always been a commitment to eugenics. It was Epstein's main "intellectual" interest, and is entirely copacetic with the kiddie rape entertainment.

05.02.2026 17:05 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Peasant brain in a tech vampire's body.

05.02.2026 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's how Epstein broke the internet His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

Ask me what is the wildest conspiracy theory I believe and I'll answer that online conservative "populism" is an invention of a pedophilic cabal using weapons designed for information wars and psyops. I've believed that since Cambridge Analytica, & even more now. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

05.02.2026 15:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ya just know that every Ivy and Ivy-adjacent student newspaper has staff searching the Epstein files for the name of the professors who give them the creeps.

05.02.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Official internal comms from DHS leadership to their paramilitary forces are calling the 4th Amendment a lie spread by "Deep State forces."

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

05.02.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They just blindly shot through the fucking door.

"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

03.02.2026 22:25 👍 4927 🔁 2013 💬 56 📌 71

So "calm and cool" that they broke his ribs.

30.01.2026 17:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0