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derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Mar 7

I wrote a critique on John Robb’s take on the U.S. progress establishing authoritarian network states. He’s a U.S. Air Force veteran with experience in counterterrorism worldwide. #politics #tech #military #polsky #philsky

The Network State Nightmare

A Critique of Technocratic Primacy * Billionaire technocrats like Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan promote "network states," AI-monitored corporate monarchies inspired by neo-reactionary ideology. * Military theorist John Robb legitimizes network states, arguing that traditional governance is too slow for modern polycrisis challenges. * Robb frames network states as high-performance governance akin to

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · May 14

Holy cow. How have I only now watched Jim Cohen's Little Flags (2000) for the first time? It's an amazing, essayistic documentary on the spectacle of 1990s American propaganda. Released just before that propaganda would get turbo-charged by 9/11, it seems amazingly prescient about what was to come.

Screenshot from Little Flags of a man walking through the aftermath of a ticker tape parade in downtown Manhattan.

Criterion Channel banner for Little Flags

Screenshot from Little Flags of a group of men with "Fuck Saddam" on their shirts.

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derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · May 7

What does this mean?

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derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · May 7

I was tripping mad balls when I took this

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · May 3

We often justify the worst behavior by calling people crazy, but I’ve found that the people who’ve done me wrong were charming people in suits and sound mental faculties who just make abusive decisions. And the crazy people were my friends

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 29

I just showed this to everyone at the bar and nearly started a bar fight

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 29

U.S. companies with federal contracts under a Democrat party president: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

The same companies under Trump: Gulf of America

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 27

The famous anti piracy slogan used a pirated font lmao

Melissa Lewis @melissa.news · Apr 20

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.

“Piracy. It’s a Crime.” PSA

From Wikipedia: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa...

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derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 26

Currently up to no good

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 24

It’s the same tactic every day with these capitalists.

Destabilize. Extract. Exploit.

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 23

Don’t let him go quietly! This should follow him for the rest of his life now that he’s taken his mask off as an oligarch and a neo-Nazi

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 23

After taking a break from writing about surveillance capitalism for a week I feel like I’m just drawing a target on my back. It makes me want to delete the blog. Or repurpose it toward something less hostile. Someone should write it. But maybe this is a conversation between the dominant class.

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 23

lol

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 22

I wish every time an ad appeared on my phone AIPAC lost a politician. Yin yang 🤷‍♂️

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 22

I called Peter Thiel being in on the post democracy gutting coup plan several blog articles ago. I hate being right sometimes

www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/i...

Palantir to build software solution to help US deportation

: Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently

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derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 21

Like the notion of these otherworldly gods that come from some external place as opposed to the internal moral value people can cultivate within themselves

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 21

When they can stop anthropomorphizing other dimensional deities and believe in themselves we might be able to get somewhere

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 21

You get it. It’s definitely a gateway for the traditionalist institution to begin recognizing a better path forward

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 21

Pope Francis was the greatest ally the world remembers having in the chair of St. Peter. The remaining cardinals are largely Francis appointees and religiously progressive who may outnumber euro-centric traditionalists. Fingers crossed. The world does not need another booming far-right voice rn

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 20

You can put a pic and a link with meta data in the same post? Is that a screenshot of Notes app?

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 20

Conservatives have asked me why I would defend trans folks so much if I’m not one. Because I’m indigenous, and I know when racist men take power they’re aligning against both of us. Now my people are targeted by ICE and my white friends say I’m overreacting. My trans friends aren’t so naive

WIRED @wired.com · Apr 20

“This is a country undermining the validity of a government-issued document by another country. If people think that starts and stops with trans people, they’re wrong.”

Trans Musicians Are Canceling US Tour Dates Due to Trump’s Gender ID Rules

Trans artists from Canada are pulling out of US tour dates as Donald Trump continues to crack down on immigration at the border.

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derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 20

Is this a quote?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Apr 19

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service."

Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

Turn off automatic dubbing foryour channel
While automatic dubbing is turned on by default, you can turn it off at any time.
1. Sign in to YouTube Studio on yourcomputer.
2. Click Settings [shows a gear icon] » Upload defaults >Advanced settings.
3. Uncheck the Allow automatic dubbing box.
4. Click Save.

Unpublish dubs
1. Sign in to YouTube Studio 3 on your
computer.
2. Click Content , then select the video you want to manage dubbing for.
3. Click Languages
4. Hover over the relevant language, then click [drop-down arrow] in the "Audio" column.
5. Select Unpublish.
When you unpublish a dub, you can choose to republish it or delete it later.

Delete dubs
1. Sign in to YouTube Studio on your Computer.
2. Click Content , then select the video you want to manage dubbing for.
3. Click Languages
4. Hover over the relevant language, then click [drop-down arrow] in the "Audio column.
5. Select Delete.

Once a dub is deleted, it won't be available and you can't republish it.

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derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 19

Lmao

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 19

lol frfr

derek @derekguzman.bsky.social · Apr 19

They don’t have the same dynamic as the Third Reich where we have Information Age tech keeping us informed faster, and foreign countries like Japan stating they won’t cooperate with an extortionist thug. 2/2