Bumblefudge
@bumblefudge.com
Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist.
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Bumblefudge
@bumblefudge.com
· Jun 9
PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Hey, recently came to the same realization: choosing to store my data as JSON files on disk (rather than rows in a DB) has actually paid some good dividends.
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hey, recently came to the same realization: choosing to store my data as JSON files on disk (rather than rows in a DB) has actually paid some good dividends.
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...
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i really like the way @chrisshank.com put it here
Dearly lacking discourse in local-first... the prerequisites for "data ownership" is it must be freely addressable (e.g. via the file system) and one must be able to adversarially do things with it (e.g. open/ubiquitous formats).
Having data in indexeddb is no more "owned" than having it in an http cache. Both are on your hard drive. Both are obscure formats you can't and won't do anything with. Data ownership requires using open formats. Almost no one doing local-first is even trying to do that.
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i really like the way @chrisshank.com put it here
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The United States going all in on concentration camps and magical pseudo-science (to include advanced technologies) as a result of an inability to cope with the idea of climate change is actually pretty much what I was worried about and thought was a sign I was probably going insane 25 years ago
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The United States going all in on concentration camps and magical pseudo-science (to include advanced technologies) as a result of an inability to cope with the idea of climate change is actually pretty much what I was worried about and thought was a sign I was probably going insane 25 years ago
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Evergreen
It’s just like this all the time now, I guess
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Evergreen
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in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
if theyre already geofencing clientside for age verification couldnt they prompt users in the same flow if they want to opt into national and/or linguistic discover feed?
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
if theyre already geofencing clientside for age verification couldnt they prompt users in the same flow if they want to opt into national and/or linguistic discover feed?
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
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This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
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Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
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really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
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basically everyone zohran has put on his transition team has proven he knows ball both on policing and housing
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
basically everyone zohran has put on his transition team has proven he knows ball both on policing and housing
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also something to consider:
September 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
also something to consider:
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these can be purchased at walmart and tractor supply respectively (among many other vendors) for less than 20 dollars. just some knowledge to tuck into your brain folds
October 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
these can be purchased at walmart and tractor supply respectively (among many other vendors) for less than 20 dollars. just some knowledge to tuck into your brain folds
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I said constantly between the 2022 and 2024 that Trump could very well win Nevada if he ran again. He did. Book it now: Democrats have a chance of flipping the governorship, at least two seats and if they are lucky, a Senate seat in Iowa.
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I said constantly between the 2022 and 2024 that Trump could very well win Nevada if he ran again. He did. Book it now: Democrats have a chance of flipping the governorship, at least two seats and if they are lucky, a Senate seat in Iowa.
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every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat
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David Sacks is a lying sack of shit who will take any handout he can get, every single time, and every American should treat him as a conniving, extorting enemy at all times.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
David Sacks is a lying sack of shit who will take any handout he can get, every single time, and every American should treat him as a conniving, extorting enemy at all times.
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Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
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People don't talk enough about how the mother of the majority of RFK Jr's kids (4/6), Mary Kathleen Richardson, died by suicide after catching him in 37 (!!) affairs based on his own journal about it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
People don't talk enough about how the mother of the majority of RFK Jr's kids (4/6), Mary Kathleen Richardson, died by suicide after catching him in 37 (!!) affairs based on his own journal about it.
not just possible, trivial if the left had 1/10 as much control of the media and cashflushed thinktanks to coordinate the talking points
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
not just possible, trivial if the left had 1/10 as much control of the media and cashflushed thinktanks to coordinate the talking points
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it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
it’s also a thing where people can be convinced. the right got some people worked up about trans women in sports but possible to get people a lot more worked up about individual/parental rights, genital inspectors, etc