Dan Fockler
@dfockler.bsky.social
Responsible for two fur freaks 🐈🐈
digital art, @baneklugman on Tiktok
making computer systems do stuff
living with my ride or die, Jaimie
📍Portland, Ore
digital art, @baneklugman on Tiktok
making computer systems do stuff
living with my ride or die, Jaimie
📍Portland, Ore
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November 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
automatic software updates were sold as a user convenience or a security feature but really just enabled corporate control of software and hardware
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
automatic software updates were sold as a user convenience or a security feature but really just enabled corporate control of software and hardware
shimmering facetation
#codeart #creativecoding #abstractart #abstractanimation #geometricart #algorithmicart
#codeart #creativecoding #abstractart #abstractanimation #geometricart #algorithmicart
October 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
shimmering facetation
#codeart #creativecoding #abstractart #abstractanimation #geometricart #algorithmicart
#codeart #creativecoding #abstractart #abstractanimation #geometricart #algorithmicart
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We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
capitalism just gets us a few gross families dueling each others robot armies over scraps of resources to build more robot armies and launch some frozen corpses into space. we need a better story.
September 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
capitalism just gets us a few gross families dueling each others robot armies over scraps of resources to build more robot armies and launch some frozen corpses into space. we need a better story.
September 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
the scary part is that once you admit the internet has real consequences in the world, you have to reckon with the awful bits if you want to understand what’s actually happening
September 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
the scary part is that once you admit the internet has real consequences in the world, you have to reckon with the awful bits if you want to understand what’s actually happening
It's stunning to see the elites capitulate so quickly. You'd think they would want to protect the law and the constitution that put them in power, instead of handing over their rights to a geriatric sex criminal.
September 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's stunning to see the elites capitulate so quickly. You'd think they would want to protect the law and the constitution that put them in power, instead of handing over their rights to a geriatric sex criminal.
after a certain point, the design of digital tools becomes arbitrary. then it becomes arts and crafts, where people have to make decisions and implicitly or explicitly put their values and ideas into a product.
September 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
after a certain point, the design of digital tools becomes arbitrary. then it becomes arts and crafts, where people have to make decisions and implicitly or explicitly put their values and ideas into a product.
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The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.
Contemptible & pathetic.
Contemptible & pathetic.
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one thing I think we shouldn't lose sight of: these people are stupid, their ideas are bad, they are always wrong about everything. there is no mea culpa big enough to erase the fact that they have a child's understanding of the world and their vision for the future is not worth taking seriously
Since tariffs, I noticed a surprising trend: elite Trump supporters saying they might have made a mistake. So I asked them what they were thinking, both in November and today.
One big takeaway: they thought Elon was actually competent. That error proved catastrophic.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
One big takeaway: they thought Elon was actually competent. That error proved catastrophic.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets. We asked them why.
After the tariffs, they’re worried they made a MAGA mistake.
www.vox.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
one thing I think we shouldn't lose sight of: these people are stupid, their ideas are bad, they are always wrong about everything. there is no mea culpa big enough to erase the fact that they have a child's understanding of the world and their vision for the future is not worth taking seriously
you can tell, Trump is ready to croak
August 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
you can tell, Trump is ready to croak
It's a moment for something better
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morena_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morena_...
Morena (political party) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It's a moment for something better
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morena_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morena_...
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i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
August 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
Is AI the most efficient way to turn money into waste heat?
August 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Is AI the most efficient way to turn money into waste heat?
owls, cats, and octopi, are equivalent animals but for air, land, and sea
August 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
owls, cats, and octopi, are equivalent animals but for air, land, and sea
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Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.
August 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.
August 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
AI is the ultimate accountability sink. An incomprehensible god object that can absorb all blame without the possibility for reconciliation.
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
AI is the ultimate accountability sink. An incomprehensible god object that can absorb all blame without the possibility for reconciliation.
Cities that want to sustain themselves beyond volatile capital markets need robust volunteer cultures and institutions that are volunteer led and operated
July 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Cities that want to sustain themselves beyond volatile capital markets need robust volunteer cultures and institutions that are volunteer led and operated
June 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
the task for the next generation of humans is finding ways of living and thriving in a world filled with pollution.
June 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
the task for the next generation of humans is finding ways of living and thriving in a world filled with pollution.
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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
June 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country