VE, cybersocial occult investigator
@vortexegg.com
Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Taoist bricoleur. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Watching the economics of the LLM coding models and the fascination with agentic swarm coding, it seems like the future of the software engineering field will be a dilettante practice for people with inherited wealth
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Watching the economics of the LLM coding models and the fascination with agentic swarm coding, it seems like the future of the software engineering field will be a dilettante practice for people with inherited wealth
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Google are *proactively* supporting ICE by voluntarily providing data without legal requirement to do so.
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
Tech companies turning over personal data to this US administration before they are legally compelled to do so is collaboration
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Google are *proactively* supporting ICE by voluntarily providing data without legal requirement to do so.
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵
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If you can get enough people to pretend that human life and human death are not real and do not matter, you can get them to pretend anything.
February 11, 2026 at 8:53 PM
If you can get enough people to pretend that human life and human death are not real and do not matter, you can get them to pretend anything.
it's deeply funny how maintaining the belief in fascism requires hiding any contrary information, and how every institution has to abase itself toward that end.
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
it's deeply funny how maintaining the belief in fascism requires hiding any contrary information, and how every institution has to abase itself toward that end.
Lol, the bluesky "Reactivate my account" feature apparently stopped working, so that was a nice break.
February 11, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Lol, the bluesky "Reactivate my account" feature apparently stopped working, so that was a nice break.
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they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM
they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
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Having successfully completed his mission of turning the Washington Post into a conservative opinion-first megaphone for Jeff Bezos, Will Lewis is moving on.
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Having successfully completed his mission of turning the Washington Post into a conservative opinion-first megaphone for Jeff Bezos, Will Lewis is moving on.
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Computer touchers learn what consent is challenge: impossible
February 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Computer touchers learn what consent is challenge: impossible
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I just block them. What I’m actually complaining about is that there is a dev community here who likes the LLM bots and likes making them and are proud that they have dark forest trolled up the place, and some of them are deeply enmeshed in the atproto dev community.
February 8, 2026 at 12:57 AM
I just block them. What I’m actually complaining about is that there is a dev community here who likes the LLM bots and likes making them and are proud that they have dark forest trolled up the place, and some of them are deeply enmeshed in the atproto dev community.
Big day for being inundated with new bot followers and unsolicited harassment by LLM bots in my replies.
February 7, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Big day for being inundated with new bot followers and unsolicited harassment by LLM bots in my replies.
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They’re called “Takes” because they take possession of your soul, like the demons of old.
October 16, 2023 at 9:16 PM
They’re called “Takes” because they take possession of your soul, like the demons of old.
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reminded that hamish mcsubstack's 2023 explanation of why he takes nazi money is: "Given that, we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetising publications) makes the problem go away – in fact, it makes it worse.."
This is false. Like it's false false. Very false.
This is false. Like it's false false. Very false.
Scholarship from 2021: Deplatforming works.
"Our results show that this approach minimized the impact of influencers and their ideas as well as modulated the offensive discourse of their many supporters."
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
"Our results show that this approach minimized the impact of influencers and their ideas as well as modulated the offensive discourse of their many supporters."
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
February 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
reminded that hamish mcsubstack's 2023 explanation of why he takes nazi money is: "Given that, we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetising publications) makes the problem go away – in fact, it makes it worse.."
This is false. Like it's false false. Very false.
This is false. Like it's false false. Very false.
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how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023
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at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.
February 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.
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sorry what's this about marc andreessen giving the nsa a way to eavesdrop on skype in the epstein files
February 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
sorry what's this about marc andreessen giving the nsa a way to eavesdrop on skype in the epstein files
There is a radical politics of laying down to die that has dressed itself up as revolutionary action, and which seeks the disintegration of any form of organization that is not equally revolutionary in its aims.
February 7, 2026 at 4:02 AM
There is a radical politics of laying down to die that has dressed itself up as revolutionary action, and which seeks the disintegration of any form of organization that is not equally revolutionary in its aims.
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In a new report, PEN America said the federal government has emerged in 2025 as the newest force fueling campaigns to restrict materials related to race, racism and LGBTQ+ issues.
Report warns of 'disturbing' normalization of book bans in US schools
The Trump administration has emerged as the newest force fueling campaigns to restrict materials related to race, racism and LGBTQ+ issues, according to a new report.
buff.ly
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In a new report, PEN America said the federal government has emerged in 2025 as the newest force fueling campaigns to restrict materials related to race, racism and LGBTQ+ issues.
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.
NEW: NEW: HHS is working on an AI tool to analyze VAERS—a database of vaccine injury claims to which anyone can make submissions—and "generate hypotheses." This is from @emilymullin.bsky.social:
HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
Experts worry Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.
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minor point of order since it keeps coming up, it's "Woke 2" and not "Woke 2.0". we're leaving tech industry bullshit behind too
February 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
minor point of order since it keeps coming up, it's "Woke 2" and not "Woke 2.0". we're leaving tech industry bullshit behind too
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
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NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
www.wired.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:17 PM
NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:
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BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY
www.wsj.com/science/spac...
www.wsj.com/science/spac...
SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon
Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:31 PM
BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY
www.wsj.com/science/spac...
www.wsj.com/science/spac...
Moral crumple society
February 7, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Moral crumple society