jonah tennant
@withswords.bsky.social
29, grad school dropout, horror writer
the less likable co-founder of JAWScast
the less likable co-founder of JAWScast
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jonah tennant
@withswords.bsky.social
· Apr 6
Dear Evelyn
Podcast · JAWScast · Sparrows come home to roost.From the small town of Keen's Cross, Indiana came a missing persons case that rocked the country. A housewife and mother of two, married to the beloved...
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Fall down the hole in the middle of small town America:
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#horror #arg #podcast #dearevelyn
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#horror #arg #podcast #dearevelyn
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In his 1992 novel Snow Crash, writer Neal Stephenson coined the phrase "Metaverse" to describe a VR world experienced through goggles.
Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future: “People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do.”
Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future: “People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do.”
The man who coined Metaverse now says Meta’s glasses are creepy
Neil Stephenson has changed his mind about VR and AR.
www.theverge.com
March 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM
In his 1992 novel Snow Crash, writer Neal Stephenson coined the phrase "Metaverse" to describe a VR world experienced through goggles.
Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future: “People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do.”
Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future: “People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do.”
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Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.
Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing British author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children's nanny in New Zealand.
US judges dismiss lawsuits accusing fantasy author Neil Gaiman of sexual assault in New Zealand
Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing British author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children's nanny in New Zealand.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.
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They just want to make everything worse. They want us to die from diseases that could eradicated. They want dirty food and air and water. They want increased child mortality. They want a more unsafe, disgusting, hateful world. And the corporate press is like “but that’s a valid perspective tho?”
A group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts are now paying off.
The EPA is expected to revoke the endangerment finding, which has underpinned the government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009.
The EPA is expected to revoke the endangerment finding, which has underpinned the government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009.
A Campaign to Revoke the Endangerment Finding Appears Near ‘Total Victory’
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
nyti.ms
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
They just want to make everything worse. They want us to die from diseases that could eradicated. They want dirty food and air and water. They want increased child mortality. They want a more unsafe, disgusting, hateful world. And the corporate press is like “but that’s a valid perspective tho?”
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM
jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
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Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
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Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
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When American libs call Maduro a “brutal dictator” what they mean is he won’t hand his country’s resources over to US corporations.
January 3, 2026 at 12:22 PM
When American libs call Maduro a “brutal dictator” what they mean is he won’t hand his country’s resources over to US corporations.
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As a Ukrainian, if you ever cared about Russia's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Ukraine, you should absolutely care about US's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Venezuela. My solidarity and best wishes to all Venezuelans.
January 3, 2026 at 7:27 AM
As a Ukrainian, if you ever cared about Russia's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Ukraine, you should absolutely care about US's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Venezuela. My solidarity and best wishes to all Venezuelans.
#brushweek2025 roundup of all my art for the week! part 1
December 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#brushweek2025 roundup of all my art for the week! part 1
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The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
oolong.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
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Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.
new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.
new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Im telling you, this is still the best way to combat this, because it would be a massive fuck you and remove *most* of the younger membership of the WI - something they desperately need to have a future at all.
The answer, in terms of 'what the Average Joe do to combat the attempts to oust trans people from society' is to just start new clubs that are renamed the inclusive womens institute, and let their crusty old clubs die with their members.
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Im telling you, this is still the best way to combat this, because it would be a massive fuck you and remove *most* of the younger membership of the WI - something they desperately need to have a future at all.
"His kiss was sleight of hand, his tongue a misdirect. Iago nearly missed the love like a dagger being slipped between his ribs."
#illustration #art #gay #originalcharacter
#illustration #art #gay #originalcharacter
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"His kiss was sleight of hand, his tongue a misdirect. Iago nearly missed the love like a dagger being slipped between his ribs."
#illustration #art #gay #originalcharacter
#illustration #art #gay #originalcharacter
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This is as good as this stuff will ever be, this is the phase where we're all supposed to be getting hooked in to this disruptive new thing. Once the free money dries up and they have to turn a profit, it will inevitably get worse and worse
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is as good as this stuff will ever be, this is the phase where we're all supposed to be getting hooked in to this disruptive new thing. Once the free money dries up and they have to turn a profit, it will inevitably get worse and worse
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This is Avi Arad btw, one of the producers for the Zelda movie
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is Avi Arad btw, one of the producers for the Zelda movie
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The Israeli genocide continues as expected: with all infrastructure brutally and intentionally destroyed, Palestinians in Gaza are dying from Israel's continued blockade on aid, Israel's continued land theft, and Israel's continued murdering.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Displaced Palestinian families suffer as heavy rains flood Gaza tent camps
Palestinians call for better tents and other supplies as Israel maintains restrictions on aid to war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
www.aljazeera.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Israeli genocide continues as expected: with all infrastructure brutally and intentionally destroyed, Palestinians in Gaza are dying from Israel's continued blockade on aid, Israel's continued land theft, and Israel's continued murdering.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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Good point. And elite impunity relies on a complicit mainstream press that’s ever more populated by elites or aspiring elites. Will eg the nyt’s Sulzberger, an ultrarich heir, or Kahn, another ultrarich heir, cover Epstein with the zeal they’ve reserved for pet right-wing projects like transphobia?
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Good point. And elite impunity relies on a complicit mainstream press that’s ever more populated by elites or aspiring elites. Will eg the nyt’s Sulzberger, an ultrarich heir, or Kahn, another ultrarich heir, cover Epstein with the zeal they’ve reserved for pet right-wing projects like transphobia?
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Mentally ill people are largely seen as expendable and our deaths never preventable or meaningful
Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Mentally ill people are largely seen as expendable and our deaths never preventable or meaningful
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Can't let an endless list of human rights abuses, murder of journalists, modern-day slavery, etc etc stop you from building a temporary THEME PARK
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Can't let an endless list of human rights abuses, murder of journalists, modern-day slavery, etc etc stop you from building a temporary THEME PARK
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.