Alex
@finchburn.bsky.social
"ℐ𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓏𝑜𝑜 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓈 ℐ 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒶𝓁𝓀 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁." - 𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓉
(he/him)
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Slight problem with this: Generally, everyone wants to be on the same network for the sake of interoperability. Anything networked has a particular incentive towards monopoly, making "vote with your wallet" grossly insufficient.
It needs regulation, but still very carefully considered laws.
It needs regulation, but still very carefully considered laws.
Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Slight problem with this: Generally, everyone wants to be on the same network for the sake of interoperability. Anything networked has a particular incentive towards monopoly, making "vote with your wallet" grossly insufficient.
It needs regulation, but still very carefully considered laws.
It needs regulation, but still very carefully considered laws.
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New: DHS is lying to you.
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM
New: DHS is lying to you.
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
Fascinating how when 5 o'clock hits, the music at Taco Bell shifts from more lighthearted fare to melancholy indie-pop.
January 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Fascinating how when 5 o'clock hits, the music at Taco Bell shifts from more lighthearted fare to melancholy indie-pop.
Fear and Loathing in Las Grinch
She’s Just Not That Into Grinch
We Grinched A Zoo
December 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Fear and Loathing in Las Grinch
Candy idea: bright, colorful chewy candies in exciting flavors like: Blue Watermelon, Cherry, Green Watermelon, Yellow Watermelon, and Regular Watermelon.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Candy idea: bright, colorful chewy candies in exciting flavors like: Blue Watermelon, Cherry, Green Watermelon, Yellow Watermelon, and Regular Watermelon.
The Internet could easily become at least 35% better if every platform had a simple one to two-click way to block anyone.
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Internet could easily become at least 35% better if every platform had a simple one to two-click way to block anyone.
In all seriousness, how #StardewValley handles religion is really interesting because Yoba worship exists and Yoba artifacts actually do stuff—but at no point is anyone pressured to be a congregation member to access the community center or its resources.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In all seriousness, how #StardewValley handles religion is really interesting because Yoba worship exists and Yoba artifacts actually do stuff—but at no point is anyone pressured to be a congregation member to access the community center or its resources.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
It's entirely separate from the chapel.
Halloween is arguably a very humanist holiday.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Halloween is arguably a very humanist holiday.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
The whole thing depends on a social contract.
Bunch of posers probably couldn't even make it through the Library.
The Trump administration used a picture of Halo’s Master Chief to call for the destruction of immigrants. Something about seeing the stalwart hero of a beloved video game twisted into an anti-immigrant super soldier hit people pretty hard.
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-admins...
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-admins...
Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Bunch of posers probably couldn't even make it through the Library.
Okay I updated Windows but now I can't find my 3D Objects folder.
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Okay I updated Windows but now I can't find my 3D Objects folder.
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
Where am I supposed to put all my 3D Objects?
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Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...
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I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
www.nbcnews.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
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"The big problem with assigning [autism] blame to vaccines, Tylenol or cold, unloving mothers is that when we’re having discussions about blame, we’re not having discussions about the best way to support autistic people." By @ericmgarcia.bsky.social:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
Opinion | Don’t let RFK, Jr. make you feel guilty for having autistic children
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., continues to sow discord and disinformation about autism and characterize autistic people like me as nothing but burdens.
www.msnbc.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"The big problem with assigning [autism] blame to vaccines, Tylenol or cold, unloving mothers is that when we’re having discussions about blame, we’re not having discussions about the best way to support autistic people." By @ericmgarcia.bsky.social:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... #autism #autistic
Ask ChatGPT to explain John Searle's "Chinese Room" experiment.
September 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ask ChatGPT to explain John Searle's "Chinese Room" experiment.
Today I learned:
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
September 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today I learned:
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
* Foamy the Squirrel is still putting out new episodes? 🙂
* They're pro-AI, with trivial caveats? 🙃
* Design by Humans is dead, itself a testament to the death of Internet culture itself, in favor of social media rage-bait and algorithm-based pyramid schemes. 🙁
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Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
Restocking ASMR is just a ploy by Big Jug to sell more plastics.
August 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Restocking ASMR is just a ploy by Big Jug to sell more plastics.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
July 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
You can't judge a book by its cover.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
I can. I'm built different, with a special innate book sense.
I don't know who needs to hear this, specifically...
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
July 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, specifically...
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
But your radio ads do not need to have slurping or munching sounds. Ever.
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REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
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libertarians and 'small government' conservatives convincing themselves that actually kings are awesome now
June 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
libertarians and 'small government' conservatives convincing themselves that actually kings are awesome now
Inside of you there are two wolves:
* One that recognizes that mecha are grossly impractical.
* One that recognizes that mecha are rad as hell.
* One that recognizes that mecha are grossly impractical.
* One that recognizes that mecha are rad as hell.
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Inside of you there are two wolves:
* One that recognizes that mecha are grossly impractical.
* One that recognizes that mecha are rad as hell.
* One that recognizes that mecha are grossly impractical.
* One that recognizes that mecha are rad as hell.
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
theonion.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
States banning soda from SNAP reminds me of a Penn & Teller bit from years ago, about why taxing sugary sodas would be dumb:
They're actually sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, made cheaper by federal subsidies. In either case, you could maybe just... shift some subsidies somewhere else?
They're actually sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, made cheaper by federal subsidies. In either case, you could maybe just... shift some subsidies somewhere else?
May 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
States banning soda from SNAP reminds me of a Penn & Teller bit from years ago, about why taxing sugary sodas would be dumb:
They're actually sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, made cheaper by federal subsidies. In either case, you could maybe just... shift some subsidies somewhere else?
They're actually sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, made cheaper by federal subsidies. In either case, you could maybe just... shift some subsidies somewhere else?