Rachel Fagen
@rachelfagen.bsky.social
Tech, democracy, and civil society // social internet platform and AI governance
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Here's a draft I made! My 7 year old helped my with some suggestions of things she likes to do at the library. And I made a custom one for myself of things I want to do next year at the library.
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Here's a draft I made! My 7 year old helped my with some suggestions of things she likes to do at the library. And I made a custom one for myself of things I want to do next year at the library.
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: drags out the drum labeled "venture capital is a financial project to appropriate and privatize communal savings vehicles under the guise of 'institutional investment' while socializing and devolving risk and has been since ~1976" and bangs it was gesturing aggressively at this thread :
These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking."
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
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December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
: drags out the drum labeled "venture capital is a financial project to appropriate and privatize communal savings vehicles under the guise of 'institutional investment' while socializing and devolving risk and has been since ~1976" and bangs it was gesturing aggressively at this thread :
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This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.
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Legitimacy is not a substance. Legitimation is a process. Things become illegitimate because you treat them as such.
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Legitimacy is not a substance. Legitimation is a process. Things become illegitimate because you treat them as such.
The ICE & DHS budgets and the AI bubble/datacenter spending spree are mutually constitutive. As @fucktheory.bsky.social says: there is only one economy.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The ICE & DHS budgets and the AI bubble/datacenter spending spree are mutually constitutive. As @fucktheory.bsky.social says: there is only one economy.
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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Vision: Imagining the Future (19 Sept – 14 Nov)
Join with socially aware science fiction writers to explore how they do the work of imagination and creating vision - Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Paolo Bacigalupi, Monica Byrne & Claire Coleman.
Register here: imaginingthefuture.l...
Join with socially aware science fiction writers to explore how they do the work of imagination and creating vision - Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Paolo Bacigalupi, Monica Byrne & Claire Coleman.
Register here: imaginingthefuture.l...
August 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Vision: Imagining the Future (19 Sept – 14 Nov)
Join with socially aware science fiction writers to explore how they do the work of imagination and creating vision - Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Paolo Bacigalupi, Monica Byrne & Claire Coleman.
Register here: imaginingthefuture.l...
Join with socially aware science fiction writers to explore how they do the work of imagination and creating vision - Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Paolo Bacigalupi, Monica Byrne & Claire Coleman.
Register here: imaginingthefuture.l...
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Thinking of years of don’t-be-hysterical-ism in pop media. One strain: “they’re not going to OVERTURN Roe, stop acting like this is an emergency when it’s not.” Another: “we’re not moving backward on LGBTQ issues, there are, like, rainbow flags at Starbucks now. You can’t reverse that.” Anyway.
Starbucks to Take Down All Pride Decorations in Disgusting Cave to Far-Right
The decision all but guarantees further attacks on LGBTQ people and culture.
newrepublic.com
June 13, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Thinking of years of don’t-be-hysterical-ism in pop media. One strain: “they’re not going to OVERTURN Roe, stop acting like this is an emergency when it’s not.” Another: “we’re not moving backward on LGBTQ issues, there are, like, rainbow flags at Starbucks now. You can’t reverse that.” Anyway.