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Dave
@daswickerman.bsky.social
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Product Manager, Luthier, Game Historian, founder of Ask Francis, Dog Appreciator.

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daswickerman.bsky.social
Absolutely shameful that serious people like @khanna.house.gov are still on X. Might as well start hosting his monthly town halls in pedophile nazi bars.
January 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
Going full CSI on a mountain lion while a adjudicated rapist and pedophile runs the country.
January 6, 2026 at 1:06 AM
daswickerman.bsky.social
The rampant AI in Duolingo is a huge part of why I refuse to pay for it. It's sloppy and results in extremely low confidence that there's value in the instruction I'm receiving. Ex:
A hard exercise in Duolingo where it is giving the feedback that there's a typo in the answer however the part of the answer with the typo is the part supplied by Duolingo which I could not change.
January 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
Grand Rapids has been fascist as hell for decades. It's a white supremacist town.
taliajane.bsky.social talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d
Activist arrested on-camera in Grand Rapids, Michigan while summarizing the reasoning behind a peaceful protest against the U.S. government’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro held earlier that day.
January 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
Dark days but blue skies. #kingtides
Blue sky with clouds over a boardwalk and marsh Blue sky reflected in water of a marsh Blue sky over a slough
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
General strike now.
January 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
daswickerman.bsky.social
"An American Ceausescu" has a nice ring to it.
sregorn.bsky.social Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 3d
“ceausescu”. it’s an ancient word but a beautiful word.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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gregpak.net
Any D who doesn't push for impeachment should get primaried. This is it. No excuses. No more.
January 3, 2026 at 6:48 AM
daswickerman.bsky.social
A screenshot of the Drill tweet: "I'm not owned! I'm not owned!!", I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM
daswickerman.bsky.social
The New Yorker Man
bokane.org Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 5d
For Americans, Dick Clark was the personification of all the preceding year’s misfortunes and sorrows.
Each year a Dick Clark was chosen to be feasted and feted for the final week of December, until being sealed inside a ball by temple attendants for the sacrifice on the night of the 31st.
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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olivia.science
to my new followers and not, see this if you want to understand why and how much the AI bros hate women and people generally (by @spookyachu.bsky.social, Annelies K, and me):

Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Nov 19
yes, and the history so SO BAD, see: Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
figure 2 from Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jqxb6 table 1 from Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jqxb6 The original non-fictional instance of Pygmalion displacement, enabled by ideas like Turing (1950, as discussed above), is the history of how it came to be that women, human computers, were replaced by machines, digital computers. One of the first women computers was Nicole-Reine Lepaute who was a French astronomer in the 18th century. Scientific calculations for such cases like for astronomical observatories, for ballistic trajectories, as well as the material realities of the Second World War and the Cold War, pushed the need for fast computations and in large numbers (Grier 2005). Performing these calculations was a task which was considered tedious, was low in rank, was paid poorly, and was even mocked; and thus perhaps unsurprisingly, was carried out by immigrants and women. So-called “computer girls” were the main computing workforce. They worked hard, innovated immensely, and were often highly educated (Grier 2005). However, they were also often framed as enjoying so-called boring work, which is a valuejudgement without basis, and written out of history (Mundy 2017). Even when (underhanded) compliments were attempted they were patronising, e.g., “the women enjoyed the challenge of this work and did not find it tedious or boring.” (Ceruzzi 1991, p. 239, reproducing a text from 1942) As were descriptions of these women’s understanding, e.g., “[i]t is doubtful these women knew in 1942 [...] that they were part of a profound event of modern social and technical history.” (p. 239) These statements appear sexist and racist on their face. Why would these women (the quote previously is specifically about inter alia African American women who worked for the predecessor to NASA), or indeed anybody, not think they were helping in radical and unprecedented ways to, e.g., defeat the Nazis or send/return people from/to space? This is bizarre since, due to asking them for secrecy, they were also explicitly told they were obviously part of the war effort. Thus, while these w… The systemic forces that subjugate us, by trapping us in an endless cycle of AI-enabled displacement, will by no means benefit from being named. And indeed being named and described — being able to say “this constitutes a Pygmalion displacement” — are the first steps to providing us with some understanding, which itself is a precursor to ending this hitherto endless cycle. If just following orders, has been deemed insufficient as an excuse when collaborating with fascistic forces, we must ask ourselves where we stand today within capitalist patriarchy, which commands to either take up certain jobs for lesser pay, and then roll over unfazed when we are automated away. Lest we be interrogated and found lacking in humanity by future generations, we should think carefully about our complicity in our own, as women, as denizens of the Global North, etc., and others’ technological subjugation. Do we take a stand, minimally rhetorically, against our own violent displacement, or do we stand by it? To paraphrase the quote from Penny (2017) we used above, women unlike fictional robots who uncover their own “humanity” or sentience, we already know we are human and we already experience sentience. We also already know our own position. We will rebel, and we will not be stopped. I will rule these machines; they will not rule me. Eileen Buckholtz, 2020, p. 59
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange
December 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Merry and happy, to those who celebrate
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and wife at their trial shortly before they were taken outside and shot against a toilet block wall
December 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
It wouldn't be Christmas without the @criterionchannl.bsky.social Room Tone video!
www.criterion.com/current/post...
Room Tone 2025
Celebrate the holiday season with this special treat from our production team.
www.criterion.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
Holiday beer is a Trappistes Rochefort this year!
December 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
daswickerman.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
daswickerman.bsky.social
This Christmas Eve I'm thinking about how in a deserted building on the Google campus there's plenty of room to store Google bikes while our unhoused neighbors are facing down a massive storm.

Something's gotta change.
December 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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gporterwx.bsky.social
I've never seen the nadocast have such a high risk of tornados in the Bay Area before. This is for Christmas morning.
December 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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mbazzi.bsky.social
Israel has bombed Lebanon once every 4 hours on average since a “ceasefire” took effect in late November 2024, according to ACLED, an independent conflict monitor.
Israel attacking Lebanon every 4 hours on average: Research
LONDON: Israel is attacking Lebanon at a rate equal to one strike every four hours despite the reaching of a ceasefire more than a year ago, new data has shown. ACLED, the independent conflict monitor...
www.arabnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
This is a great video essay by Andrew Lee from Ripped to Shreds on how heavy metal upholds white supremacy (and what needs to be done about it). Absolutely watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o5R...
How Heavy Metal Upholds White Supremacy
YouTube video by andrew lee
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
America desperately needs opposition politicians running on a platform of tribunals, truth & reconciliation committees, and severe punishment for the worst offenders in this administration.
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
Would love to see @cityofsunnyvale.bsky.social pull the plug on the Flock cameras. It's not responsible and it doesn't make people safer.
youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?...
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
daswickerman.bsky.social
Been working on this guitar build for the Pedals for Palestine org to raffle off. It's getting closer and I'm really pleased with how the flag and gold leaf turned out.
The rear bout of a black offset guitar with a map of Palestine with the palestine flag inside of it. the borders of Palestine and the lines between the flag colors are detailed in gold leaf.
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
daswickerman.bsky.social
I love the Premier League signing signaling of these announcements. It's so damn targeted at a VERY specific type of person.
The announcement photo fro Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning, Leila Bozorg from the Mamdani administration. Bozorg is signing something, Mayor Mamdani has his hand on their shoulder, leaning in smiling, and there's a MANHATTAN jersey on the right side of the image on stand. It looks exactly like a premier league (soccer) signing announcement.
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM