gemorris
@gemorris.bsky.social
Information Architect, Hermeneuticist, Understanding Enjoyer
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Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision
He's not running the post like it's Amazon, he's using the idea of "data" to offload responsibility for his own politically motivated decisions onto readers
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision
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imo a scam economy is what you get when you try to have an information economy but with no information quality control
The post-industrial period of a developed economy is characterized by three phases.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
February 5, 2026 at 11:45 PM
imo a scam economy is what you get when you try to have an information economy but with no information quality control
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"They start by questioning the assumption that CEOs necessarily seek to advance “legitimate” ends. Instead, they suggest that a persistent issue is predation: the exploitation of asymmetries in information and power to the disadvantage of shareholders, creditors, customers, or employees."
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A related article (for those with access, but the abstract alone is a good 'un), but Bill Black and June Carbone. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol43/i...
February 2, 2026 at 10:26 PM
"They start by questioning the assumption that CEOs necessarily seek to advance “legitimate” ends. Instead, they suggest that a persistent issue is predation: the exploitation of asymmetries in information and power to the disadvantage of shareholders, creditors, customers, or employees."
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One of the messed up things that ultimately drove me out of corporate software engineering was having tech debt catch up with you.
The performance metrics are based on revenue impact. This roughly translates to "deploy more features." But making new stuff is not the same as maintaining old stuff.
The performance metrics are based on revenue impact. This roughly translates to "deploy more features." But making new stuff is not the same as maintaining old stuff.
This also explains the obsession with outputs and metrics. We wrote some code. Users ran that code. God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.
Any conversation around what good running that code did to anyone is detracting from the Computer Purity and must be prevented from occurring.
Any conversation around what good running that code did to anyone is detracting from the Computer Purity and must be prevented from occurring.
January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
One of the messed up things that ultimately drove me out of corporate software engineering was having tech debt catch up with you.
The performance metrics are based on revenue impact. This roughly translates to "deploy more features." But making new stuff is not the same as maintaining old stuff.
The performance metrics are based on revenue impact. This roughly translates to "deploy more features." But making new stuff is not the same as maintaining old stuff.
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
Every time someone asks my why I still haven't published literally anything about my work & method, I'm going to send them this.
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-antime...
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-antime...
The Antimeme Haunting Western Philosophy
Certain ideas naturally resist being encoded into a given medium of communication; epistemic communities built around that medium therefore fail to appreciate the ideas which that medium cannot succes...
kevinmunger.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Every time someone asks my why I still haven't published literally anything about my work & method, I'm going to send them this.
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-antime...
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-antime...
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Appears this is also true for fascism.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Appears this is also true for fascism.
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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position