Darren Gasser
@dgasser.bsky.social
Tech guy who mostly rambles about politics and random news here.
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
"America doesn't fight religious wars - that's why I like living there." -Gust Avrokotos
Not good.
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"America doesn't fight religious wars - that's why I like living there." -Gust Avrokotos
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The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!
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“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”
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imma start calling Palantir “Hufflepuff”
once again if you brought him back and told him what people were doing to his work J.R.R. Tolkien would buy a gun
“Join the Shirriffs! Serve the Big Chief! Arrest your neighbors! Scour the Shire!”
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
imma start calling Palantir “Hufflepuff”
Yikes. More and more lights blinking red.
Amazon announces they are laying off the largest amount of workers ever in the company’s history.
30,000+ workers will lose their jobs.
30,000+ workers will lose their jobs.
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yikes. More and more lights blinking red.
I'm glad people are starting to actively discuss this. During the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis I felt I had a good idea what the tech industry would look like on the other side.
This time I have no idea what comes next after the house of cards falls.
This time I have no idea what comes next after the house of cards falls.
It's not going to be fun when the bubble pops (and it won't even make AI go away). Disaster capitalism will be ready.
I think we need to figure out what it would mean for us to get ready in turn.
I think we need to figure out what it would mean for us to get ready in turn.
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I'm glad people are starting to actively discuss this. During the dot-com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis I felt I had a good idea what the tech industry would look like on the other side.
This time I have no idea what comes next after the house of cards falls.
This time I have no idea what comes next after the house of cards falls.
Sommelier General sounds like a groovy gig.
The French Army’s wine stock before the Battle of Gallipoli, Dardanelles Campaign. The Dardanelles Campaign of 1915/16 was a failed WWI military campaign in modern Turkey Gelibolu. The Entente powers, Britain, France and Russia, sought to take control of the Turkish straits.
October 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Sommelier General sounds like a groovy gig.
Old enough to remember the "Microserfs" story of how early Microsoft made a business model out of overworking and burning out young engineers through stuff not even 1/4 as stupid as this.
30 years later and too many companies are still failing to learn basic lessons about project management.
30 years later and too many companies are still failing to learn basic lessons about project management.
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
October 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Old enough to remember the "Microserfs" story of how early Microsoft made a business model out of overworking and burning out young engineers through stuff not even 1/4 as stupid as this.
30 years later and too many companies are still failing to learn basic lessons about project management.
30 years later and too many companies are still failing to learn basic lessons about project management.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
Miller must be pushing hard for martial law.
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Miller must be pushing hard for martial law.
Portland is justifiably proud of their improv theater chops, but California still has all the designers, directors, and cinematographers.
Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping.
📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP
📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP
October 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Portland is justifiably proud of their improv theater chops, but California still has all the designers, directors, and cinematographers.
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npr: so, no kings
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
npr: so, no kings
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
tyrannosaurus rex: yes
npr: how shall I put this
trex: this interview is over
Yikes.
Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock
Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock
The partnership allows police agencies who use Flock software to request footage from Ring users in the Neighbors app.
buff.ly
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Yikes.
I hope you’re listening, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
This is the future of the party, not the consultant-driven triangulation we hear from guys like you
This is the future of the party, not the consultant-driven triangulation we hear from guys like you
This is a Democratic Party I could actually believe in and be proud of. Radically inclusive, welcoming, joyful, respectful, and full of hope.
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
m.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I hope you’re listening, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
This is the future of the party, not the consultant-driven triangulation we hear from guys like you
This is the future of the party, not the consultant-driven triangulation we hear from guys like you
Wait. Turning in your ballot early reduces the amount of text spam and junk mail?
How did I not know this?
How did I not know this?
CALIFORNIANS!!!!
You’re gonna start getting your ballots. Vote YES for prop/ state measure 50, (it will be titled differently in different counties.)
Vote as soon as you get your ballot so that phone calls and texts can be directed to people who need more convincing.
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You’re gonna start getting your ballots. Vote YES for prop/ state measure 50, (it will be titled differently in different counties.)
Vote as soon as you get your ballot so that phone calls and texts can be directed to people who need more convincing.
1/
October 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Wait. Turning in your ballot early reduces the amount of text spam and junk mail?
How did I not know this?
How did I not know this?
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been struggling with how to articulate this for a while now, but it's a big part of what's going on now. i don't want to marinate in my own resentments, and certainly not in theirs. i don't want to work through someone else's daddy or mommy issues. it stinks!
I personally do not want to live in a bunch of stupid racists' potemkin reality
We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
been struggling with how to articulate this for a while now, but it's a big part of what's going on now. i don't want to marinate in my own resentments, and certainly not in theirs. i don't want to work through someone else's daddy or mommy issues. it stinks!
AND MAYBE A BIT OF A NAP LATER
I'm starting to wonder if the ridiculously over-wrought fascism is secretly helping them because it's so hard to take seriously.
I still think we should laugh heartily at these weenies.
I'm starting to wonder if the ridiculously over-wrought fascism is secretly helping them because it's so hard to take seriously.
I still think we should laugh heartily at these weenies.
NEXT ARRIVES THE HOUR OF LIGHT SNACK AND RETURN SOME EMAILS. THEN SOX-YANKEES.
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
AND MAYBE A BIT OF A NAP LATER
I'm starting to wonder if the ridiculously over-wrought fascism is secretly helping them because it's so hard to take seriously.
I still think we should laugh heartily at these weenies.
I'm starting to wonder if the ridiculously over-wrought fascism is secretly helping them because it's so hard to take seriously.
I still think we should laugh heartily at these weenies.
Soviet-style political officers in units when?
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Soviet-style political officers in units when?
Alarming and depressing thought that’s all too plausible. Miller, Vance, and others are absolutely not above something like this.
So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real
September 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Alarming and depressing thought that’s all too plausible. Miller, Vance, and others are absolutely not above something like this.
Headlines from a dystopian tale.
The State of Oregon sues for an injunction blocking Trump's planned military occupation of Portland.
September 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Headlines from a dystopian tale.
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Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky
“You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”
“You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
September 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky
“You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”
“You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”
They’ve radicalized the people who know how to find all the hidden Mickeys.
Amazing.
Amazing.
just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg
September 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
They’ve radicalized the people who know how to find all the hidden Mickeys.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Some days it's about the small wins.
I shudder to think about how much more damage they'd be doing in multiple areas if they were even remotely competent.
I shudder to think about how much more damage they'd be doing in multiple areas if they were even remotely competent.
So basically RFK Jr’s antivax ACIP were unable to make any big changes to vaccine access because they were too incompetent. We should all take this as a win I guess…
September 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Some days it's about the small wins.
I shudder to think about how much more damage they'd be doing in multiple areas if they were even remotely competent.
I shudder to think about how much more damage they'd be doing in multiple areas if they were even remotely competent.