ben lowery
@blowery.org
dev in saratoga springs, ny, working on tumblr.com (tumblr.com/blowery), your favorite hellsite.
Go Blue! BSE 99
Go Blue! BSE 99
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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Someone asked me if I’d take a deal where I got $50k, but my worst enemy got $100k.
I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."
I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."
April 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Someone asked me if I’d take a deal where I got $50k, but my worst enemy got $100k.
I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."
I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."
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Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
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I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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Anyway, it turns out Nihilist Arby's was never a bit.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Anyway, it turns out Nihilist Arby's was never a bit.
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This year, many people resigned their posts at the slightest hint that the Trump regime was displeased with them instead of staying and making someone fire them.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This year, many people resigned their posts at the slightest hint that the Trump regime was displeased with them instead of staying and making someone fire them.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Where your email finds me
All I want for Christmas is a $32K spaceship recliner pod from Neiman Marcus, 1982.
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Where your email finds me
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Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does
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Extremely cool and also a reminder that conservatives in America campaigned so hard against HPV vaccination because they thought getting a vaccine to prevent cancer by preventing HPV would make a bunch of teenagers have sex
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Extremely cool and also a reminder that conservatives in America campaigned so hard against HPV vaccination because they thought getting a vaccine to prevent cancer by preventing HPV would make a bunch of teenagers have sex
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"Your AI-generated slop looks just like my AI-generated slop, you stole my prompt" when did humanity take the wrong turn?
December 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"Your AI-generated slop looks just like my AI-generated slop, you stole my prompt" when did humanity take the wrong turn?
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The thing that always gets me about the whole “mass migration means immigrants recreate the conditions of their country of origin!” thing is that it is so transparently fucking nuts that there is not a single example of it ever being true in all of human history
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The thing that always gets me about the whole “mass migration means immigrants recreate the conditions of their country of origin!” thing is that it is so transparently fucking nuts that there is not a single example of it ever being true in all of human history
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fucking yes
also designing and writing code is the fun part. make an AI that goes chasing down half a dozen stakeholders and gets them to agree on requirements or something.
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
fucking yes
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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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In a world without Section 230:
😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance
😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc
😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance
😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc
December 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In a world without Section 230:
😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance
😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc
😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance
😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc
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Kid JPF talking with me, time traveling JPF: What’s the future like? Are there flying cars? Are people telepathic? Did we visit other planets?
Me: When you pay a bill, they ask you to take a survey about the experience.
Me: When you pay a bill, they ask you to take a survey about the experience.
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Kid JPF talking with me, time traveling JPF: What’s the future like? Are there flying cars? Are people telepathic? Did we visit other planets?
Me: When you pay a bill, they ask you to take a survey about the experience.
Me: When you pay a bill, they ask you to take a survey about the experience.
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Tapping the sign again.
December 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Tapping the sign again.
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Extensive and detailed investigation about russian drone intrusion into Germany and Netherlands. The full scope might supprise you, including civilian lead counter drone operation
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Extensive and detailed investigation about russian drone intrusion into Germany and Netherlands. The full scope might supprise you, including civilian lead counter drone operation
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
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Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
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Keeping the servers cool in space is enough to make this a bad idea, and that's not even the hardest part.
Bezos and Musk are just unbelievably gullible.
Bezos and Musk are just unbelievably gullible.
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Keeping the servers cool in space is enough to make this a bad idea, and that's not even the hardest part.
Bezos and Musk are just unbelievably gullible.
Bezos and Musk are just unbelievably gullible.
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Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away