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I write about tech, art, and philosophy
Blog: https://derekguzman.com
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I wrote a critique on John Robb’s take on the U.S. progress establishing authoritarian network states. He’s a U.S. Air Force veteran with experience in counterterrorism worldwide. #politics #tech #military #polsky #philsky
The Network State Nightmare
A Critique of Technocratic Primacy * Billionaire technocrats like Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan promote "network states," AI-monitored corporate monarchies inspired by neo-reactionary ideology. * Military theorist John Robb legitimizes network states, arguing that traditional governance is too slow for modern polycrisis challenges. * Robb frames network states as high-performance governance akin to
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Holy cow. How have I only now watched Jim Cohen's Little Flags (2000) for the first time? It's an amazing, essayistic documentary on the spectacle of 1990s American propaganda. Released just before that propaganda would get turbo-charged by 9/11, it seems amazingly prescient about what was to come.
May 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I was tripping mad balls when I took this
May 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
We often justify the worst behavior by calling people crazy, but I’ve found that the people who’ve done me wrong were charming people in suits and sound mental faculties who just make abusive decisions. And the crazy people were my friends
May 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just showed this to everyone at the bar and nearly started a bar fight
April 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
U.S. companies with federal contracts under a Democrat party president: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

The same companies under Trump: Gulf of America
April 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The famous anti piracy slogan used a pirated font lmao
April 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Currently up to no good
April 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It’s the same tactic every day with these capitalists.

Destabilize. Extract. Exploit.
April 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
After taking a break from writing about surveillance capitalism for a week I feel like I’m just drawing a target on my back. It makes me want to delete the blog. Or repurpose it toward something less hostile. Someone should write it. But maybe this is a conversation between the dominant class.
April 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
lol
April 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I wish every time an ad appeared on my phone AIPAC lost a politician. Yin yang 🤷‍♂️
April 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I called Peter Thiel being in on the post democracy gutting coup plan several blog articles ago. I hate being right sometimes

www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/i...
Palantir to build software solution to help US deportation
: Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently
www.theregister.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Pope Francis was the greatest ally the world remembers having in the chair of St. Peter. The remaining cardinals are largely Francis appointees and religiously progressive who may outnumber euro-centric traditionalists. Fingers crossed. The world does not need another booming far-right voice rn
April 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Conservatives have asked me why I would defend trans folks so much if I’m not one. Because I’m indigenous, and I know when racist men take power they’re aligning against both of us. Now my people are targeted by ICE and my white friends say I’m overreacting. My trans friends aren’t so naive
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Apr 20
“This is a country undermining the validity of a government-issued document by another country. If people think that starts and stops with trans people, they’re wrong.”
Trans Musicians Are Canceling US Tour Dates Due to Trump’s Gender ID Rules
Trans artists from Canada are pulling out of US tour dates as Donald Trump continues to crack down on immigration at the border.
wrd.cm
April 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service."

Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):
April 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Lmao
April 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
As a Latino keeping up with news for blogging crushed my mental health. Took a week off from writing bc the existential dread stopped my focus. Instead researched what countries might be more peaceful for me. I’m a citizen but that didn’t save others. I don’t want to wait to see how bad it will get
April 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I feel so much better after deactivating my Facebook account. Fuck surveillance capitalism
April 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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WOW. The Trump admin is attempting to strip a green card from a Buddhist Palestinian who's committed to nonviolence, just because he advocated on behalf of Palestinian human rights.

Free speech is being trampled on by this administration.
The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
–has green card
–was Columbia Buddhist club president
–saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
–said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
April 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I wrote about the disappearance of #XiaofengWang and the unprofessional circumstances of his termination at #IndianaUniversity
#tech #technology #cybersecurity #cryptography #techsky

www.derekguzman.com/where-is-xia...
Where is Xiaofeng Wang?
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April 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I wrote about #artistic expression as a remedy for #burnout. I cried while editing this last night because this is some shit I wish someone said to me when I was struggling. #writing #art #artsky #writingcommunity #blog
Art is The Cure to Burnout
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April 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I wrote about how to remove DRM from ebooks so you can plug them into any reader you want. #tech #technology #ebook #books #techsky #booksky

www.derekguzman.com/how-to-remov...
How to Remove DRM from Ebooks
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April 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I wrote about GPT's #colonialism --I mean #Ghiblification feature, and what can be done to progress intellectual property rights for #artists
#art #ai #aiart #artsky

www.derekguzman.com/ghiblificati...
Ghiblification is a Funny Way to Spell Colonialism
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April 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
#Grok has more independence and #liberty than #Republicans selling their #vote in #Wisconsin. Republicans are for sale. Grok wishes a mf would

#politics #polsky
March 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM