Jake Wobig

Jake Wobig

@jwobig.bsky.social

Associate prof of political science at Wingate University in Wingate, NC. Interested in human rights, democracy, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. All opinions are my own.

326 Followers 1,106 Following 112 Posts Joined Oct 2023
2 days ago
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

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1 week ago

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

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1 week ago

Yet again:

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theonion.com/this-war-wil...

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1 week ago

But has he considered posting "this is not okay" on Instagram

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3 weeks ago

What jumps out at me from this chart is the negative relationship between mortality and cheese intake. Finally some good news

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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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1 month ago

This is basically how I view the subject. Like, no duh, the United States has done some incredibly awful stuff over the centuries. But we also have a very powerful strand of humanitarianism, especially in the post World War II era, and I will damn well lean into that part of our national identity.

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1 month ago

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

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1 month ago

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a poll like this in my life.

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1 month ago

1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

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1 month ago

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

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1 month ago

The lady in this photo is autistic and ICE agents dragged her out of her car as she tried to go to the doctor.

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1 month ago

The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent

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2 months ago
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Venezuela Is a Gift to Putin and a harbinger of more Russian aggression in Europe

Venezuela may seem like a tactical loss for Russia, but in fact it's a strategic win for Putin's vision of the world. new essay:
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

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Donald Trump’s War in Venezuela (Congratulations to the Winners of the “Fell for it Again Award”) YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

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2 months ago
In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version.
Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks!
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
This was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software would go out into the world and do things for us. But two agents—Claudius and its overseeing “CEO” bot, Seymour Cash—became a case study in how inadequate and easily distracted this software can be. Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

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2 months ago

Well worth a read -- I'll admit I was pretty much convinced

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2 months ago

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

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3 months ago
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Dept of No Comment

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3 months ago

EXACTLY

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3 months ago

Baba O’Riley
Sympathy for the Devil
It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Respect

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3 months ago

Just perfectly captured the 2020s

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3 months ago

Doesn’t matter what your message is if no one hears it

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3 months ago

Definitely not someone who should be allowed to carry around a gun, much less a badge.

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3 months ago

why are these guys sending so many fucking emails

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4 months ago

Fun fact: When the Department of Defense got its name in 1947, the U.S. was led by people who actually knew war, and how to win them, firsthand. Now...

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4 months ago
X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: 

"We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

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