GreatFaker
@greatfaker.bsky.social
Lover of all things cyberpunk
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we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
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It's Dates & Wires Steam release anniversary! Now you can enjoy our VN about dating sad Eastern European cyberpunks for less than a cup of coffee ☕ #visualnovel #indiedev #datesandwires
Save 60% on Dates & Wires: Augmented Edition on Steam
The year is 1995, and you're newly single and ready to mingle in Stradania, the dysfunctional micronation whose chief exports are pig iron, human misery, and radioactive souvenir mugs. Sample the nigh...
store.steampowered.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's Dates & Wires Steam release anniversary! Now you can enjoy our VN about dating sad Eastern European cyberpunks for less than a cup of coffee ☕ #visualnovel #indiedev #datesandwires
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Calling all stream teams — think you’ve got what it takes to be the best on Twitch? 👀 Well, it’s time to prove it!
Join us for the World AIDS Day Invitational, where teams will battle it out across multiple games to help raise money for HIV and AIDS research.
Join us for the World AIDS Day Invitational, where teams will battle it out across multiple games to help raise money for HIV and AIDS research.
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Calling all stream teams — think you’ve got what it takes to be the best on Twitch? 👀 Well, it’s time to prove it!
Join us for the World AIDS Day Invitational, where teams will battle it out across multiple games to help raise money for HIV and AIDS research.
Join us for the World AIDS Day Invitational, where teams will battle it out across multiple games to help raise money for HIV and AIDS research.
@2libras.bsky.social entertaining the high-tech lowlives tonight at Central Saloon
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
@2libras.bsky.social entertaining the high-tech lowlives tonight at Central Saloon
Pictured: The president demonstrating his take-charge leadership skills in an unexpected crisis
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Pictured: The president demonstrating his take-charge leadership skills in an unexpected crisis
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The secretary of HHS running the second someone has a medical crisis is a fucking metaphor.
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The secretary of HHS running the second someone has a medical crisis is a fucking metaphor.
Great show at Central Saloon tonight with @daemonchadeau.com's Prelude To A Pistol
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Great show at Central Saloon tonight with @daemonchadeau.com's Prelude To A Pistol
Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on the same stage! For a conversation about enshitification and the rot economy
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on the same stage! For a conversation about enshitification and the rot economy
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Look, I'm just gonna say this and add my voice to the others who are saying the same basic things.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
October 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Look, I'm just gonna say this and add my voice to the others who are saying the same basic things.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
New Perturbator album, Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius - YouTube
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
New Perturbator album, Age of Aquarius
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Thoughts?
September 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thoughts?
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We just got a glimpse of how Black towns, businesses, churches, schools, homes, and Black bodies were destroyed and killed
In white Utah at a white college at a white rally a white man killed by another white man resulted in anger at… Black people & institutions.. just like in the past.
In white Utah at a white college at a white rally a white man killed by another white man resulted in anger at… Black people & institutions.. just like in the past.
September 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We just got a glimpse of how Black towns, businesses, churches, schools, homes, and Black bodies were destroyed and killed
In white Utah at a white college at a white rally a white man killed by another white man resulted in anger at… Black people & institutions.. just like in the past.
In white Utah at a white college at a white rally a white man killed by another white man resulted in anger at… Black people & institutions.. just like in the past.
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I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.
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I have watched Rot Economy stooges like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg destroy an internet that made me human, and I will never forgive them for what they’ve done to the computer. They peddle digital asbestos. They must be stopped.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
December 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I have watched Rot Economy stooges like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg destroy an internet that made me human, and I will never forgive them for what they’ve done to the computer. They peddle digital asbestos. They must be stopped.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
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"In parts of the country, the government would like sites to collect an unprecedented amount of identifying information about their users. In the whole country, the government would like to track down and prosecute those users if they are rude... It doesn’t take a mastermind to see the risks."
The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it
Age verification was already risky — now it’s downright dangerous.
www.theverge.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"In parts of the country, the government would like sites to collect an unprecedented amount of identifying information about their users. In the whole country, the government would like to track down and prosecute those users if they are rude... It doesn’t take a mastermind to see the risks."
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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"Mondo 2000, it was the media darling magazine of the emerging “cyber culture,” a glorious kaleidoscopic confluence of technology, drugs, pop culture, and bizarre conspiracy theories, put together by a brainy group of psychonauts and counterculture weirdos.. It was required reading
A History of Mondo 2000 Part 1
Up and Down With the Next Millennium’s First Magazine
jackboulware.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Mondo 2000, it was the media darling magazine of the emerging “cyber culture,” a glorious kaleidoscopic confluence of technology, drugs, pop culture, and bizarre conspiracy theories, put together by a brainy group of psychonauts and counterculture weirdos.. It was required reading
Can't wait to see this:
youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ
youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ
THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer
YouTube video by The Librarians Film
youtu.be
September 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Can't wait to see this:
youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ
youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
"How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It" Cory Doctorow at CloudFest 25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
August 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It" Cory Doctorow at CloudFest 25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry
August 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry