Alex

Alex

@flanofcrows.bsky.social

Luddite software developer. Participates in capitalism but anarchy-curious. Husband and father to four cats.

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A song by my father-in-law, www.terrysarten.co.nz, inspired by the famous 'first they came for' poem. He asked me to post this here, and I'm happy to: it's chilling and horrifying seeing the violence and death that the American government is using against it's people.

Not paraphrasing, not commentary, actual literal words from his mouth to representatives of much of the world.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

New business venture - fake hands with the wrong number of fingers that you can hold onto up a sleeve in a photo for plausible deniability that you were ever there and the photo was AI generated.

It really is the case that Trump thinks that buying things from elsewhere is losing trade, everything must be made in America. The US trade position cannot be resolved because it is incomprehensible. Also Trump is all poster brain now.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Trump is posting his tariff "letters" to various countries on Truth Social, with Japan and South Korea posted so far. He also ends the letters with "thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Is there a law against citations for inspirational quotes? Work email sent around today with this quote, after doing some digging looks like the only source for this quote is a facebook post by Jim 7 years after his death.

The very least thing about this is that talking about calling it "grok 4" also gives the game away in that this is a marketing exercise, it doesn't have to be different to start a new hype cycle, go Elon, try start a new grift train, grift is all you are.

Finished Expedition 33, good game, should play, now have a hole in heart. What with this and 1000xResist earlier I've been spoilt for great narrative games. Back to balatro until I find the next one I guess.

Alex reposted

LRT with every of these “NFTs deleted; now worthless” stories coming out I need you to remember that we were told it’s the future, it’s inevitable, its the future of money and your house will be registered on it and your car will be registered on it and if you don’t get it NOW you’ll be left behind.

The thing about 1000xResist is I don't think I can spoil it. Tried telling my wife about it but there's just too many small things that you need for context later. It's art, and who you are is part of it, just like the best paintings or music or film or book or life.

Wading back into the river of posts like a bad-take berserker

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Anyway, history is just a sequence of millions and millions of similar events. You can try to categorize them into broad trends, with a little success, but it’s tough and wildly incomplete. Ultimately stuff like this is always going to be what determines the future, and it’s truly unpredictable.

Haha fuck yeah military subs for the government best timeline 100% Tesla knows how to get things out of the sky what the fuck is happening

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Elon Musk's SpaceX is the frontrunner to build Trump's "Golden Dome" missile shield. SpaceX is proposing a subscription service where the government would pay to access the technology, rather than own it. Experts think the project could cost hundreds of billions. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

What worries me is that Seymour seems pretty good at couching his ideology in the phrases that need work to show how messed up they are, work that many have no time for. But his version of 'meritocracy' is rooted in patriarchy, racism and bigotry.

I drank from the garden hose and I'm fine. Some people didn't. Why? No real reason. But we don't make them hold the hose while we drink anymore so it's fine.

And the article shows what a mess this man's thinking is. Profit destroyed Facebook, but it could destroy us too, Mark Z is good it's only because of not standing up to trump that he's bad, Rohingya genocide was because of "misusing facts" - all paper thin ideas without a shred of introspection

Hey, maybe if Facebook is bad for kids brains it's bad for everyone and should be changed? Nope, just do a poorly thought out ban and go back to making colourful brain pictures so that you can cut the depression out of people

It is a good sign when politicians identifying basic shapes and colours like a toddler is the exception rather than the norm

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social

Vance is on the record today saying it makes sense that America has a trade deficit in bananas, and while it's great he's acknowledged the basic fact that we don't grow bananas, it requires me to remind you that THEY CAN EXEMPT BANANAS FROM TARIFFS AT ANY TIME AND REFUSE TO DO IT

Rise up ye downtrodden, take thy pitchfork and by doing so your freedom.

ceej@ceej.online

A company is like a kingdom, and as CEO I am a sort of a king. Managers: my liege lords. Sales team, you are my soldiers. Devs are court wizards. And Customer Support is kind of like, you know, the lowborn… not peasant exactly, but like: help me out here. The wormy sort of, dirty, plaguey villagers

We now have the graphs showing the ability of the group to be stupider than the sum of its parts as we see the market whipsaw around the suggestion that things, while still terrible, aren't as bad as they could have been (for now).

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸@resistrebelrevolt.net

This feels like the captain of a 747 taking an intentional nose dive to crash the plane & kill all of the passengers. At the last second, the captain pulls up & saves the plane. Then gets on the loudspeaker & says, "Sign up for 200 more flights with me!" & SOME motherfuckers ACTUALLY signed up. 😵‍💫