Rob Vincent (is not using this site)
@rob-t-firefly.bsky.social
https://RobVincent.net
He/him 🩷💜💙 NYC
Lucky husband of @gilahava.bsky.social!
Voice on @offthehookradio.bsky.social & https://modern.technology
Main social is Mastodon, https://masto.hackers.town/@Rob_T_Firefly
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Stop AI slop.
He/him 🩷💜💙 NYC
Lucky husband of @gilahava.bsky.social!
Voice on @offthehookradio.bsky.social & https://modern.technology
Main social is Mastodon, https://masto.hackers.town/@Rob_T_Firefly
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Stop AI slop.
Pinned
If you're among those ditching or considering ditching this site, you might be interested to know that I can be found on Mastodon at masto.hackers.town/@Rob_T_Firefly as well as on some other online junk via robvincent.net/contact/soci... .
Quoted from social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/11... :
> Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...).
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> Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...).
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Fedi.Tips (@[email protected])
Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (https://cyberplace.social...
social.growyourown.services
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Quoted from social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/11... :
> Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...).
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> Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...).
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Has this site stopped being up its own ass about human rights yet?
Details of what's going on summed up in a good thread on Mastodon: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/1... (click "show more" on the post once it loads.)
Details of what's going on summed up in a good thread on Mastodon: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/1... (click "show more" on the post once it loads.)
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@[email protected])
Content warning: Bluesky CEO trolling trans people and trans allies
social.chinwag.org
October 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Has this site stopped being up its own ass about human rights yet?
Details of what's going on summed up in a good thread on Mastodon: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/1... (click "show more" on the post once it loads.)
Details of what's going on summed up in a good thread on Mastodon: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/1... (click "show more" on the post once it loads.)
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
If you see this, post a bridge.
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you see this, post a bridge.
Taking a very accommodating @gilahava.bsky.social to a screening of #Hackers in Brooklyn this evening. #NYC area folks, ping me if you'd like to go with!
www.bam.org/film/2025/cl...
#HackersMovie
www.bam.org/film/2025/cl...
#HackersMovie
Hackers
Teenage hackers fight for their lives after they’re framed for stealing millions of dollars.
www.bam.org
September 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Taking a very accommodating @gilahava.bsky.social to a screening of #Hackers in Brooklyn this evening. #NYC area folks, ping me if you'd like to go with!
www.bam.org/film/2025/cl...
#HackersMovie
www.bam.org/film/2025/cl...
#HackersMovie
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so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
August 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
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Capitalism colonizes the brain and limits the scope of imagination into a ledger.
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Capitalism colonizes the brain and limits the scope of imagination into a ledger.
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Fascists hate non-white people, Jews, Roma, the LGBTQ community, democracy, socialists, dissenters, liberals, those with disabilities, political opponents, etc., etc., etc.
Antifa hates fascists.
It's really that simple.
Antifa hates fascists.
It's really that simple.
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Fascists hate non-white people, Jews, Roma, the LGBTQ community, democracy, socialists, dissenters, liberals, those with disabilities, political opponents, etc., etc., etc.
Antifa hates fascists.
It's really that simple.
Antifa hates fascists.
It's really that simple.
Hail to Saint Saxophone.
September 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Hail to Saint Saxophone.
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Reminder that this is murder, and nothing but. It is not legal, and I really hope that everyone involved in these operations, from planning through to execution, end up being prosecuted for these murders.
Here's what we know as of Saturday morning. If White House figures are to be believed, the U.S. has killed 17 people on ships in the Caribbean this month.
The US hit ANOTHER boat in the Caribbean today. Trump shared video of it, again accusing the crew of being drug traffickers. With 3 allegedly killed, this brings the total killed in all 3 attacks to 17 this month, per White House figures. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/us-thir...
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reminder that this is murder, and nothing but. It is not legal, and I really hope that everyone involved in these operations, from planning through to execution, end up being prosecuted for these murders.
Someone said the Star Wars and Marvel fans would never cancel their Disney subscriptions.
Imagine real oligarchs and nazis staying in power because folks they're oppressing won't stop buying stories about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis from their own oppressors.
Imagine real oligarchs and nazis staying in power because folks they're oppressing won't stop buying stories about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis from their own oppressors.
September 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Someone said the Star Wars and Marvel fans would never cancel their Disney subscriptions.
Imagine real oligarchs and nazis staying in power because folks they're oppressing won't stop buying stories about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis from their own oppressors.
Imagine real oligarchs and nazis staying in power because folks they're oppressing won't stop buying stories about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis from their own oppressors.
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ah, well
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
ah, well
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Reposted by Rob Vincent (is not using this site)
The "Off The Hook Overtime" experiment on Google captioning censorship is now complete.
September 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The "Off The Hook Overtime" experiment on Google captioning censorship is now complete.
Hey, we're live on @offthehookradio.bsky.social!
"Off The Hook" airs TONIGHT at 7 pm EDT at wbai.org & 99.5 FM in NYC, "Overtime" follows at 8 pm EDT at www.youtube.com/live/zsOFslh....
It's our last "Overtime" for a few weeks due to scheduling issues.
It's our last "Overtime" for a few weeks due to scheduling issues.
WBAI Radio 99.5FM NYC
wbai.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hey, we're live on @offthehookradio.bsky.social!
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DID U KNOW all us hackers friggin' hated hackers when it came out.
Couldn't see the forest for the trees (the trees, in this case, being technical inaccuracy, and the forest, in this case, being the soundtrack album and also Angelina Jolie)
Couldn't see the forest for the trees (the trees, in this case, being technical inaccuracy, and the forest, in this case, being the soundtrack album and also Angelina Jolie)
September 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
DID U KNOW all us hackers friggin' hated hackers when it came out.
Couldn't see the forest for the trees (the trees, in this case, being technical inaccuracy, and the forest, in this case, being the soundtrack album and also Angelina Jolie)
Couldn't see the forest for the trees (the trees, in this case, being technical inaccuracy, and the forest, in this case, being the soundtrack album and also Angelina Jolie)
It's the 30th anniversary of the film "Hackers!" Celebrate by checking out what happened when I introduced @gilahava.bsky.social to the movie.
Hit modern.technology/2021/05/02/m... or get "Modern Technology Watches" episode 213 in your podcast app.
#Hackers #HackersMovie #Hackers30th #HackThePlanet
Hit modern.technology/2021/05/02/m... or get "Modern Technology Watches" episode 213 in your podcast app.
#Hackers #HackersMovie #Hackers30th #HackThePlanet
Modern Technology Watches – Episode 213 – Hackers (1995) – The Modern Technology Podcast Network
modern.technology
September 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's the 30th anniversary of the film "Hackers!" Celebrate by checking out what happened when I introduced @gilahava.bsky.social to the movie.
Hit modern.technology/2021/05/02/m... or get "Modern Technology Watches" episode 213 in your podcast app.
#Hackers #HackersMovie #Hackers30th #HackThePlanet
Hit modern.technology/2021/05/02/m... or get "Modern Technology Watches" episode 213 in your podcast app.
#Hackers #HackersMovie #Hackers30th #HackThePlanet
Somehow, @gilahava.bsky.social and I were only joined by one other audience member in the entire theater for a showing of #SpinalTap2 last night. Nevertheless, it didn't disappoint in the slightest. Highly recommended if you liked the first film! 🎸
#SpinalTap #SpinalTapII
#SpinalTap #SpinalTapII
September 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Somehow, @gilahava.bsky.social and I were only joined by one other audience member in the entire theater for a showing of #SpinalTap2 last night. Nevertheless, it didn't disappoint in the slightest. Highly recommended if you liked the first film! 🎸
#SpinalTap #SpinalTapII
#SpinalTap #SpinalTapII
Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
September 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
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God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.
I'm so old, I remember when online was the place to escape from the dumbass shit going on in the world.
September 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'm so old, I remember when online was the place to escape from the dumbass shit going on in the world.
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all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
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Debate in the performative sense is ultimately the weapon of reactionaries and assholes. It’s stealing valor from the concept of a civilized, good faith discussion of issues with actual reasoned arguments for and against them, which is also called “debate.”
September 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Debate in the performative sense is ultimately the weapon of reactionaries and assholes. It’s stealing valor from the concept of a civilized, good faith discussion of issues with actual reasoned arguments for and against them, which is also called “debate.”
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Open debate is for economic policy and whether we should charge for public transportation. Open debate is not whether some human beings are lesser than others. Some ideas are so vile, so odious, that they should not be entertained.
September 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Open debate is for economic policy and whether we should charge for public transportation. Open debate is not whether some human beings are lesser than others. Some ideas are so vile, so odious, that they should not be entertained.