Paul Philion
@acmerocket.com
Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?
https://github.com/philion
https://seattlecommunitynetwork.org/
https://github.com/philion
https://seattlecommunitynetwork.org/
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Paul Philion
@acmerocket.com
· Jan 16
The great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
-MLK
-MLK
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If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!
Your Vote May Not Have Counted: 1,930 of You Could Decide This Election
Your ballot might be sick. Cure it, please. We can't bear to watch it suffer.
www.thestranger.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!
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And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end
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Hey Seattle voters. The mayor's race may come down to a slim margin of votes, so check TODAY to make sure your signature was validated and ballot was counted. There are easy steps to correct things if your ballot was rejected: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hey Seattle voters. The mayor's race may come down to a slim margin of votes, so check TODAY to make sure your signature was validated and ballot was counted. There are easy steps to correct things if your ballot was rejected: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
"The technocapital hyperobject at the end of time."
i.e. The Mobius Grift
i.e. The Mobius Grift
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"The technocapital hyperobject at the end of time."
i.e. The Mobius Grift
i.e. The Mobius Grift
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📅 03:00 PM: "Intro to OpenTofu: Open Source IaC Overview" by Ted Matsumura in Room 334 #SeaGL2025 #cloud #kubernetes #database pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/8K...
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
📅 03:00 PM: "Intro to OpenTofu: Open Source IaC Overview" by Ted Matsumura in Room 334 #SeaGL2025 #cloud #kubernetes #database pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/8K...
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Musk effectively copied over all of Wikipedia and had Grok go over it to give it a far right bias in its framing in articles to turn it into a propaganda tool. It's conservapedia 2.0 backed by the world's richest man.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Musk effectively copied over all of Wikipedia and had Grok go over it to give it a far right bias in its framing in articles to turn it into a propaganda tool. It's conservapedia 2.0 backed by the world's richest man.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Following the #seagl2025 social, join us on Nov 7 at Ada's Bookstore for a Free Concert from Si Tu Savais from 7:30pm to 9:30pm followed by a Silent Fundraiser Auction benefiting the Seattle Community Network! fundraiser.seattlecn.org
Thank you!
Thank you!
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Following the #seagl2025 social, join us on Nov 7 at Ada's Bookstore for a Free Concert from Si Tu Savais from 7:30pm to 9:30pm followed by a Silent Fundraiser Auction benefiting the Seattle Community Network! fundraiser.seattlecn.org
Thank you!
Thank you!
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📅 09:10 AM: "The Seattle Community Network Stack" by Esther Jang in Room 145 #SeaGL2025 #keynote #networking #FLOSS pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZ...
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📅 09:10 AM: "The Seattle Community Network Stack" by Esther Jang in Room 145 #SeaGL2025 #keynote #networking #FLOSS pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZ...
Imagining a future where humans in “service roles” (peons) are forced to wear “AI“ glasses and read the scripts they are prompted with.
The Mechanical Turk turned inside out: The Prompted Fleshbot.
The Mechanical Turk turned inside out: The Prompted Fleshbot.
The class war rages on as the billionaires keep trying to murder as many of us as possible so they can setup their Ai robot dystopia.
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Imagining a future where humans in “service roles” (peons) are forced to wear “AI“ glasses and read the scripts they are prompted with.
The Mechanical Turk turned inside out: The Prompted Fleshbot.
The Mechanical Turk turned inside out: The Prompted Fleshbot.
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Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
Rape whistles. Used to communicate in the local area that ICE has been spotted.
There's a video top of the thread showing how effective that whistle can be. The ICE cowards fled the scene.
There's a video top of the thread showing how effective that whistle can be. The ICE cowards fled the scene.
It's a community organized initiative. Three shorts is ICE spotted, three longs is ICE is detaining someone.
October 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Rape whistles. Used to communicate in the local area that ICE has been spotted.
There's a video top of the thread showing how effective that whistle can be. The ICE cowards fled the scene.
There's a video top of the thread showing how effective that whistle can be. The ICE cowards fled the scene.
I can do it in three word:
Holiday. Weekend. Deployment.
Holiday. Weekend. Deployment.
"The data's in PDF."
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
October 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I can do it in three word:
Holiday. Weekend. Deployment.
Holiday. Weekend. Deployment.
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Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.
October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.
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I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11
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To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.
October 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.
I'm wondering, @scarlettohairdye.bsky.social, how many mutual friends might be interested in a Democracy Voucher fundraiser?
In a show of incredible sex worker solidarity, tonight one selfless feminist ally tipped a stripper with all four of his $25 Seattle democracy vouchers.
Feminist Ally Tips Stripper with Democracy Vouchers: tinyurl.com/2jr5hnwc
October 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm wondering, @scarlettohairdye.bsky.social, how many mutual friends might be interested in a Democracy Voucher fundraiser?
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
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🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants
Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.
olgalautman.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
Please read, share, and sound the alarm
Hey @governorferguson.bsky.social,
Bear Gulch has only gotten worse over the past 4 weeks, and we can see and smell the smoke in downtown Seattle.
ICE's illegal actions have resulted in nothing but suffering and ashes.
What are you going to do about it?
Bear Gulch has only gotten worse over the past 4 weeks, and we can see and smell the smoke in downtown Seattle.
ICE's illegal actions have resulted in nothing but suffering and ashes.
What are you going to do about it?
NEW from @isabellabreda.bsky.social - Four weeks after ICE arrested him while he worked the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula, immigration officials released firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez from the detention center in Tacoma.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Firefighter arrested at Bear Gulch blaze released from ICE detention
The firefighter had spent nearly four weeks detained by immigration officials. His attorneys argue that was he wrongfully arrested and his constitutional rights were violated.
www.seattletimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hey @governorferguson.bsky.social,
Bear Gulch has only gotten worse over the past 4 weeks, and we can see and smell the smoke in downtown Seattle.
ICE's illegal actions have resulted in nothing but suffering and ashes.
What are you going to do about it?
Bear Gulch has only gotten worse over the past 4 weeks, and we can see and smell the smoke in downtown Seattle.
ICE's illegal actions have resulted in nothing but suffering and ashes.
What are you going to do about it?
Disney’s Message To Employees: Shut Your Trap
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Now, I'm not saying all white people are self-deceived, but whiteness is a hell of a drug, and when you have existed in a world fundamentally organized around whiteness, it becomes difficult to see the possibility that there may be other paths to liberation than what you prescribe.
September 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Now, I'm not saying all white people are self-deceived, but whiteness is a hell of a drug, and when you have existed in a world fundamentally organized around whiteness, it becomes difficult to see the possibility that there may be other paths to liberation than what you prescribe.
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I'm really concerned that white people are just not up to the task. A lot of y'all are well meaning but you're just not up to the task because you've never been systematically oppressed and you refuse to listen to people who have been
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm really concerned that white people are just not up to the task. A lot of y'all are well meaning but you're just not up to the task because you've never been systematically oppressed and you refuse to listen to people who have been