Bumblefudge
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Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist.
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Bumblefudge
@bumblefudge.com
· Jun 9
PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵
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Muy interesante. Debemos repensar las ciudades para que sean accesibles. No es una cuestión cosmética, es pura funcionalidad social.
Cuando llegué a Berlín, me llamó la atención la cantidad de discapacitados que había por la calle, comprando el pan, saliendo de marcha, cogiendo tranvías, visitando museos, y paseando perros. He pensado mucho en eso mientras cojeaba por el centro de Madrid. Mi columna:
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Madrid no es ciudad para viejos
La incomodidad de la ciudad para los mayores se transforma en una gran oportunidad para la ultraderecha
elpais.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Muy interesante. Debemos repensar las ciudades para que sean accesibles. No es una cuestión cosmética, es pura funcionalidad social.
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Please, Hollywood. No remakes.
Entering the US public domain in 2026: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
More info behind window 28 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
More info behind window 28 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
December 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Please, Hollywood. No remakes.
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i keep saying this but the ai waifu/husbando thing is going to one day produce a political assassin
December 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
i keep saying this but the ai waifu/husbando thing is going to one day produce a political assassin
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Is this your *next* king?
By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,
December 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Is this your *next* king?
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The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place
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In China he would be arrested and I think that’s beautiful
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
In China he would be arrested and I think that’s beautiful
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to be clear the joke I am making here is about how both Nabokov and Stephenson’s prose is designed to be dynamic to enthrall the reader and then discomfort them with that enthrallment but that many readers get stuck on part one
Lolita 🤝 Snow Crash
tech CEOs missing the point
tech CEOs missing the point
December 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
to be clear the joke I am making here is about how both Nabokov and Stephenson’s prose is designed to be dynamic to enthrall the reader and then discomfort them with that enthrallment but that many readers get stuck on part one
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I was just reading Edward Said who pointed me to Martin Bernal's Black Athena, a pioneering study of how racist scholars systematically erased and ignored references to African and Asian influences on Greek culture, which were very numerous. 1
Look, this is where I draw the line at people using “realism” as short for shit they think they know but don’t. One of books of the epic cycle (the myth of the Trojan war collectively) is literally called the Aethiopis and tells of Memnon (son of the dawn) leading an Ethiopian army to aid Troy FFS.
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I was just reading Edward Said who pointed me to Martin Bernal's Black Athena, a pioneering study of how racist scholars systematically erased and ignored references to African and Asian influences on Greek culture, which were very numerous. 1
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this is a cycle i have observed with a lot of issues in the social media age, at least since i started paying attention to how debates worked ca. 2010-11
There are real serious issues with AI and they keep getting ignored for the worst analysis ever.
this work is essentially garbage
December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
this is a cycle i have observed with a lot of issues in the social media age, at least since i started paying attention to how debates worked ca. 2010-11
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Also, news is less and less linear. All content is — look at engagement baiters ripping off stuff that worked for someone else three months previous. But influencers can discover a story they missed, ask why No One is Talking About It… politicians who already dealt w it aren’t ready to respond again
As Dave gets at, Dems content to operate in an info environment dominated by the right surrender the initiative to their political foes.
The right can propagate damaging narratives at will — as Dems wait in vain for a chance to “get the facts out” so they can “let the voters decide.”
The right can propagate damaging narratives at will — as Dems wait in vain for a chance to “get the facts out” so they can “let the voters decide.”
But step back and look at the machinery and you see how sturdy this media/WH infrastructure is. If they want to make a humiliating Democratic scandal the biggest story in the country, they can do it. Dems who think it'll go away if they "win" with local media are going to lose.
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Also, news is less and less linear. All content is — look at engagement baiters ripping off stuff that worked for someone else three months previous. But influencers can discover a story they missed, ask why No One is Talking About It… politicians who already dealt w it aren’t ready to respond again
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How happy are Canadians that their major export is now gay hockey instead of Drake
December 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
How happy are Canadians that their major export is now gay hockey instead of Drake
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If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.
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it’s crazy how obvious it is that donald trump has been actively part of the epstein coverup for half a decade now and he’s just still the president
Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
December 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
it’s crazy how obvious it is that donald trump has been actively part of the epstein coverup for half a decade now and he’s just still the president
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what if we all threw our phones away
December 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
what if we all threw our phones away
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"British Columbia has officially decided to slam the door on new crypto mining projects looking to tap into the province’s power supply. The permanent ban means no new mining operations will be allowed to connect to the public electricity grid." 🫡
finance.yahoo.com/news/british...
finance.yahoo.com/news/british...
British Columbia Locks Out New Crypto Miners from the Grid
British Columbia has officially decided to slam the door on new crypto mining projects looking to tap into the province’s power supply. The permanent ban means no new mining operations will be allowed...
finance.yahoo.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
"British Columbia has officially decided to slam the door on new crypto mining projects looking to tap into the province’s power supply. The permanent ban means no new mining operations will be allowed to connect to the public electricity grid." 🫡
finance.yahoo.com/news/british...
finance.yahoo.com/news/british...
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It’s really funny to see people get mad about historical accuracy in the Odyssey adaptation because there’s a cyclops in that story. There’s a witch who turns men into pig. gods are literally real and manifest physically. It’s okay if there’s a black guy.
December 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It’s really funny to see people get mad about historical accuracy in the Odyssey adaptation because there’s a cyclops in that story. There’s a witch who turns men into pig. gods are literally real and manifest physically. It’s okay if there’s a black guy.
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I think it’s sick how the President announced that we conducted Christmas Eve air strikes on another country on a random radio show and nobody has any idea of it happened or not.
Nobody can predict our next move if we don’t even know if we made a move.
Nobody can predict our next move if we don’t even know if we made a move.
December 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I think it’s sick how the President announced that we conducted Christmas Eve air strikes on another country on a random radio show and nobody has any idea of it happened or not.
Nobody can predict our next move if we don’t even know if we made a move.
Nobody can predict our next move if we don’t even know if we made a move.
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"Florida is dumb guy Wakanda" will ring in my brain for years.
it dumb guy wakanda
December 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Florida is dumb guy Wakanda" will ring in my brain for years.
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Holdup, this kind of account really needs some sort of clear [Deceased Author] tag. We shouldn’t normalize posting under the name of a dead author without some very clear THIS IS A MEMORIAL ACCOUNT disclaimer.
At the very least change the name to something like ‘Ursula K. Le Guin (in memoriam)’ 🙏
At the very least change the name to something like ‘Ursula K. Le Guin (in memoriam)’ 🙏
December 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Holdup, this kind of account really needs some sort of clear [Deceased Author] tag. We shouldn’t normalize posting under the name of a dead author without some very clear THIS IS A MEMORIAL ACCOUNT disclaimer.
At the very least change the name to something like ‘Ursula K. Le Guin (in memoriam)’ 🙏
At the very least change the name to something like ‘Ursula K. Le Guin (in memoriam)’ 🙏
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Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
December 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
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Elon Musk says Rep. Ilhan Omar was “literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia.”
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
WATCH: Elon Musk is upset that Somalian Americans in Minnesota get to vote.
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Elon Musk says Rep. Ilhan Omar was “literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia.”
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
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To understand AI is to realize that the Pleasure Dome is far, far more horrifying than the Torment Nexus.
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To understand AI is to realize that the Pleasure Dome is far, far more horrifying than the Torment Nexus.
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Where do senior coders come from?
Demand for junior developers softens as AI takes over
While coding jobs won’t go away, many IT experts see the job transforming into more of an oversight role.
www.cio.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Where do senior coders come from?