John Tinker

I am the engineer at KPIP-LP, a community radio station in Fayette, Missouri. In the wider world I am known as the lead plaintiff in the 1969 U.S. Supreme Court students rights decision, Tinker v. Des Moines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines_Independent_Community_School_District
[@howardcountyprogressives](https://a.gup.pe/u/howardcountyprogressives ) John F. Tinker Foundation (npub1p9d…tt68) John F. Tinker Foundation (npub1p9d…tt68) #genocide #Palestine #studentSpring

Substack: https://johntinker.substack.com
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/johntinker.bsky.social
Just My Toots: John Tinker (npub1u7e…rju7)">https://justmytoots.com/John Tinker (npub1u7e…rju7)

Last Notes

2026-11-06 15:56:40 GMT

- reply

"AI" is such a broad term that, some day, something called AI WILL be able to handle scientific data.
Not all AI is LLM.

2026-11-06 14:36:37 GMT

- reply

I have been considering block lists too. I'm thinking that they could be subscription based. Maybe it is already being done.

2026-11-06 14:06:48 GMT

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DailyGaza/117569863377686037
The evil of the genocide penetrates into every corner of it. That we allow this to exist condemns us, too. History will not be kind to most of us, I think.
#note1uua…3ns3

2026-11-06 13:04:44 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.cc/@dtm/117569611433364641
It is crucial that we not allow the DNC and other Democratic Party big wigs claim this victory that belongs to grass-roots democrats with a small-d.

2026-10-26 18:14:31 GMT

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/26/iran-war-live-trump-rules-out-strikes-today-israeli-forces-raid-hebron Tehran says agreed with Mecca pact states to seek peace #iran #ksa

2026-08-06 19:44:08 GMT

RE: https://mstdn.social/@kathimmel/117050076404613931
A writer named Cory Doctorow makes the point that what matters is not the AI, what matters is who is using the AI to do what to whom. That is what is being missed by seeing the ai itself as evil, or some secular equivalent.
Chatbots can be provoked to same some very interesting, perhaps useful, things.
The real enemy here, besides the technobroligarchy, is the proliferation of data centers, and the burden which they put on the environment.
But, where is the market which will pay for the data centers? What will the data centers be bringing to market? Well, it will be fantasy imagery, graphics in 3d, and high definition video. Data centers are not about being elaborate slide rules or about solving ultimate equations. They are about providing fantasy cinema.
I had been noticing that nearly everyone connected to the empire was wearing a necktie, so I told a chatbot that I wanted to see a non-definitive surjection of a normative set of human motivations upon the symbolic form of the necktie.
The result was useful, and it did not require a new data center to do it. #necktie
#note158j…8uns

2026-07-05 11:36:12 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116866547547121657
The rights that have been claimed for human beings can only be diminished and diluted by claiming them for our institutions as well. This cartoon captures the essence of a very important principle. #democracy #fascism
#note18xc…gkrr

2026-07-03 12:28:07 GMT

The IDF is squeezing the Gaza pocket at the moment, killing a Palestinian family that was well inside of the "yellow line".
It is a genocide, still continuing, still in broad, plain, public view.
We can only ponder why our leaders pursue this course.
We can only wonder why the likes of NPR (National Public Radio) has so much else to talk about.
Sudan, too. Even worse. The murderous ones - here, there, everywhere - are well-funded.
To humanity, it must seem to be exactly what is going on.
https://www.alaraby.com/
#genocide #gaza #palestine

2026-06-04 11:04:23 GMT

RE: https://mastox.eu/@jeremycorbyn/116691382300968018
Does the UK really want to hand-off its data to a US company that is currently creating target lists for a genocide? Hum...
#UK #Genocide #Gaza
#note1htw…p7ky

2026-06-02 23:15:37 GMT

Does anyone else feel kind of weird that the genocide has been obvious for a long, long time, yet the crimes against the Palestinians just continue. The US and Israel are obvious war criminals in the eyes of the world. Yet it just continues. What kind of a world is this? #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

2026-05-31 15:49:07 GMT

- reply

Excuse me, but I find the chatbot to be very reliable for returning the types of information that I ask it to return.
My view is that the author the prompt must understand the basic facts of the type of machine that they are dealing with.
When I enter a prompt to the chatbot, I am expecting to tap into the language of what others have said. That is all I expect of it.
https://chatbotics.org/Conversations-With-The-Machine/

2026-05-31 15:22:33 GMT

- reply

The different expressions of "AI" each live within their own distinct paradigm of what constitutes an answer, and what, therefore, constitutes an appropriate question to put to it.

2026-05-29 23:21:03 GMT

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/116658736608865343
This person is sharing his point of view, but I am pretty sure that it is more fundamental to understand fascism as the integration private capital with governmental power.
With this as the basic form, the seeking of the mythical past, which is mentioned in this video, would be seen as a tactic of fascism, to access primitive tribal forces.
But to put that tribal force at the center is to view the capital and the government combination as peripheral.
I will bet the capital * government junta prefers the explanatory power of the myth being the driver, rather than their greed to own more than their fair share, which is obvious beyond question.
However, if holding up the golden past, and our duty to return to it is a tactic, rather than a strategic goal. then the whole matter of the myth is optional, being itself tactical rather than strategic.
Letting the nexus of capital and governmental power be the basis for the definition of fascism, lets us see Italy and Germany as having been instances of it, rather than to define the fundamental meaning of the term.
The point of view that I am advocating regarding the definition of fascism allows us to continue to track the phenomenon as fascism, even if it may not deploy the psychological ploy of the golden past.
#fascism
#note16df…6j7q

2026-01-21 11:54:37 GMT

RE: https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115932934205392790
The genociders are in control of the "Board of Peace". Two plus two equals five is too obvious. Better to put the murderers in charge of the peace. That is more subtle. #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #vampires
#note1lez…z7f2

2026-01-12 15:12:22 GMT

https://johntinker.substack.com/p/metaphysics
#metaphysics #sociology #psychology #politicalscience #mythology #activism #metaphor #narrative #llm #ai

2025-12-20 11:52:59 GMT

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/20/msf-urges-israel-to-let-critical-aid-into-gaza-as-children-freeze-to-death #genocide #Gaza #vampires

2025-10-14 10:18:03 GMT

#ai #fractals #psychology #sociology #politicalscience #philosophy #ethics #religion
Fractal forms are useful in conceptual models:
https://johntinker.substack.com/p/fractal-analogies-micro-meso-macro