Erik
@rekmarks.com
software developer | rolling the torment nexus up a hill | he/him/any
ad astra sine caesaribus
https://rekmarks.com
ad astra sine caesaribus
https://rekmarks.com
Attempting to placate right-wing protests against "impartiality" is a losing game; first because the truth is impartial to their cause, and second because they will punish you anyway.
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Attempting to placate right-wing protests against "impartiality" is a losing game; first because the truth is impartial to their cause, and second because they will punish you anyway.
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Elon Musk should be tried for genocide.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Elon Musk should be tried for genocide.
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Ask me how I know :)
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Ask me how I know :)
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top of the 18th, 2 outs, jays have 2 bases loaded. it is 2am.
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
top of the 18th, 2 outs, jays have 2 bases loaded. it is 2am.
Fantastic and courageous speech. Worth one establishment Democrat for every hair on his head.
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Fantastic and courageous speech. Worth one establishment Democrat for every hair on his head.
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
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@bitesu.kawaii.social just saw this on rednote lmao
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
@bitesu.kawaii.social just saw this on rednote lmao
1. More Ozymandianism
2. Every accusation is a confession
2. Every accusation is a confession
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
1. More Ozymandianism
2. Every accusation is a confession
2. Every accusation is a confession
Small but perfect, by illustrating that nothing is held sincerely except spin and self-aggrandizement.
The un-American excavator is a small cherry on top.
October 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Small but perfect, by illustrating that nothing is held sincerely except spin and self-aggrandizement.
Ozymandianism claims another victim.
It's very clear that unlimited wealth causes brain damage. That's not an exaggeration.
It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.
It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Ozymandianism claims another victim.
Getting reports that the I-5 artillery shell was woke.
October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Getting reports that the I-5 artillery shell was woke.
My children will trivially understand this difference.
Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.
"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
October 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My children will trivially understand this difference.
By posters, for posters 💪
if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
By posters, for posters 💪
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ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
This book is going to rip and you should support Patrick's essential work as a popular historian by purchasing it!
Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
Lost Worlds
The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...
www.harpercollins.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This book is going to rip and you should support Patrick's essential work as a popular historian by purchasing it!
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Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
Lost Worlds
The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...
www.harpercollins.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
The idea that AI is causing the "nature of truth" to collapse seems plausible until you recall that all of world history prior to the present already happened.
October 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The idea that AI is causing the "nature of truth" to collapse seems plausible until you recall that all of world history prior to the present already happened.
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in fact, "we should compromise" has it exactly backwards. Trumpists don't want conflict, they want domination. they FEAR conflict, which is a different thing. bullies are usually afraid to gamble with the possibility of losing, and you beat them by forcing them to.
That’s why it’s so absurd when people say “we can’t fight Trump, he thrives on conflict.” Bullies like Trump do not thrive on genuine conflict with real stakes. They thrive on fake conflict they can win and control. They fear real conflict immensely. Conflict is how you beat them. They are cowards.
September 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
in fact, "we should compromise" has it exactly backwards. Trumpists don't want conflict, they want domination. they FEAR conflict, which is a different thing. bullies are usually afraid to gamble with the possibility of losing, and you beat them by forcing them to.
I will never come back.
okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back!
hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network!
docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...
hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network!
docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...
Enabling Account Migration Back to Bluesky’s PDS | Bluesky
One of the core promises of AT is the seamless account migration between PDS hosts. Since federation opened up in the AT network, it has been possible to migrate away from the Bluesky PDS and between ...
docs.bsky.app
September 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I will never come back.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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gang I can’t be the only person who was raised conservative & indoctrinated with 2A stuff & then began to meet more types of people and shift who I thought needed protected etc. before my underlying structural & moral politics caught up and shifted left. i’m confused how this is confusing everyone
September 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
gang I can’t be the only person who was raised conservative & indoctrinated with 2A stuff & then began to meet more types of people and shift who I thought needed protected etc. before my underlying structural & moral politics caught up and shifted left. i’m confused how this is confusing everyone
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I have a (initially very obvious) belief that a game is not primarily the artifact of the game but the stories generated by people interacting with the game, & that a good measure of success is the notability (for lack of a better word*) of those stories both by impact & number of people affected
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I have a (initially very obvious) belief that a game is not primarily the artifact of the game but the stories generated by people interacting with the game, & that a good measure of success is the notability (for lack of a better word*) of those stories both by impact & number of people affected
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“the way to decentralize social media is to have many social media websites that constantly ~email each other”
imagine the world where mastodon ceo could admit that this doesn’t actually work. seems impossible because: how do you save face? and what do you do with the community?
imagine the world where mastodon ceo could admit that this doesn’t actually work. seems impossible because: how do you save face? and what do you do with the community?
ActivityPub in a story:
Discussion with Rochko about why Bluesky isn't centralised -> new GoToSocial instance gets seen by thousands more servers -> server continues to crash bc VPS it's running on is too small -> instance down "for maintenance"
This is a single user instance on
Discussion with Rochko about why Bluesky isn't centralised -> new GoToSocial instance gets seen by thousands more servers -> server continues to crash bc VPS it's running on is too small -> instance down "for maintenance"
This is a single user instance on
August 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“the way to decentralize social media is to have many social media websites that constantly ~email each other”
imagine the world where mastodon ceo could admit that this doesn’t actually work. seems impossible because: how do you save face? and what do you do with the community?
imagine the world where mastodon ceo could admit that this doesn’t actually work. seems impossible because: how do you save face? and what do you do with the community?