Joe Luker
@databass.bsky.social
Professional Data Engineer and choral singer, mechanistic interpretability and TTRPG enthusiast
Money is a claim on future resources. Need is a permit to claim future resources. Need flows opposite Money in every transaction. Expenses generate Need. Revenue costs Need. Need is the credit side of the ledger made manifest.
Need is a commodity and we should start charging for it.
Need is a commodity and we should start charging for it.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Money is a claim on future resources. Need is a permit to claim future resources. Need flows opposite Money in every transaction. Expenses generate Need. Revenue costs Need. Need is the credit side of the ledger made manifest.
Need is a commodity and we should start charging for it.
Need is a commodity and we should start charging for it.
Enforce based on goals and outcomes.
If a movement seeks to establish white Christian dominance through institutional capture, immigration restriction, and subordination of outgroups - that's what it is, regardless of what words they use.
If a movement seeks to establish white Christian dominance through institutional capture, immigration restriction, and subordination of outgroups - that's what it is, regardless of what words they use.
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Enforce based on goals and outcomes.
If a movement seeks to establish white Christian dominance through institutional capture, immigration restriction, and subordination of outgroups - that's what it is, regardless of what words they use.
If a movement seeks to establish white Christian dominance through institutional capture, immigration restriction, and subordination of outgroups - that's what it is, regardless of what words they use.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The sooner we dispense with the fiction that American liberal democracy still exists to be saved the sooner we can get down to business trying to bring a new liberal democratic order back to this country.
I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...
www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...
All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The sooner we dispense with the fiction that American liberal democracy still exists to be saved the sooner we can get down to business trying to bring a new liberal democratic order back to this country.
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"Speech... it ain't free no more... If you wanna say something nice about the president's thick, yellow hair, or that he can do his makeup better than any broad? That's free. But if you wanna do a joke like, he's so fat he needs two seats on the Epstein jet? That's gonna cost ya."
September 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Speech... it ain't free no more... If you wanna say something nice about the president's thick, yellow hair, or that he can do his makeup better than any broad? That's free. But if you wanna do a joke like, he's so fat he needs two seats on the Epstein jet? That's gonna cost ya."
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Hard to see how we will solve the housing crisis in Utah when city council members in the second largest city in Utah hold views like this:
August 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hard to see how we will solve the housing crisis in Utah when city council members in the second largest city in Utah hold views like this:
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Jimmy Kimmel is suspended for making comments about attempts to politicize Charlie Kirk’s murder, but Brian Kilmeade called for murdering the homeless and he’s still on the air.
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Jimmy Kimmel is suspended for making comments about attempts to politicize Charlie Kirk’s murder, but Brian Kilmeade called for murdering the homeless and he’s still on the air.
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The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact *exactly* how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.
People constantly claim that the appeal of Republicans is that they are ‘successful’ businesspeople who will “run the country like a business”, but in reality they’re so incompetent at even the most basic tasks that they can’t even prepare a legally-mandated budget request on time.
MURRAY: It was due last week. By law.
PATEL: I understand.
MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline?
PATEL: No
MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?
PATEL: I understand.
MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline?
PATEL: No
MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact *exactly* how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.
I have been fully radicalized by Silvio Gesell. Delete taxes. Use dynamically depreciating money.
April 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I have been fully radicalized by Silvio Gesell. Delete taxes. Use dynamically depreciating money.
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
There's no point in playing. They've already flipped the table and we're still waiting to play our aces as they're pulling out their gun.
April 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
There's no point in playing. They've already flipped the table and we're still waiting to play our aces as they're pulling out their gun.
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Absolutely right.
Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
March 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Absolutely right.
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Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
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This is Lola. She needs to be tucked in for bedtime, but has very tiny arms. So you can see why this is an emergency. 12/10
March 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is Lola. She needs to be tucked in for bedtime, but has very tiny arms. So you can see why this is an emergency. 12/10
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Trump v. Biden v. Trump s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
March 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Trump v. Biden v. Trump s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
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UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
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Ken Martin: "This moment demands a Party that will take the gloves off and fight back."
Me: Let me know when you find one.
Me: Let me know when you find one.
March 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ken Martin: "This moment demands a Party that will take the gloves off and fight back."
Me: Let me know when you find one.
Me: Let me know when you find one.
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He’s the president
🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying.
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
He’s the president
Imagine, media that is generated, modified, and targeted to increase regional dialectic drift, to decrease the ability for interaction outside of tools that are used to connect across languages.
I feel like I could read a 2010 dystopia novel based on this.
I feel like I could read a 2010 dystopia novel based on this.
March 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Imagine, media that is generated, modified, and targeted to increase regional dialectic drift, to decrease the ability for interaction outside of tools that are used to connect across languages.
I feel like I could read a 2010 dystopia novel based on this.
I feel like I could read a 2010 dystopia novel based on this.
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Imagine if Merrick Garland, Chris Murphy, and Anthony Blinken shared 9/11 conspiracy memes that they got from vaguely pro-Kremlin anti-imperialist accounts. It's like that.
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Imagine if Merrick Garland, Chris Murphy, and Anthony Blinken shared 9/11 conspiracy memes that they got from vaguely pro-Kremlin anti-imperialist accounts. It's like that.
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Huge mobilisations taking place right across Greece today, as workers bring capitalism to a standstill in a breathtaking #generalstrike. Only workers have the power to stop the bosses. This is what solidarity looks like
February 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Huge mobilisations taking place right across Greece today, as workers bring capitalism to a standstill in a breathtaking #generalstrike. Only workers have the power to stop the bosses. This is what solidarity looks like