Dave Strock
@davestrock.bsky.social
Oof, what if we did good things for people instead?
Read a book.
Read a book.
This is the guy whining that BlueSky is so mean to him and must just be bots.
What a dick.
Just fucking help people.
What if campaigns helped constituents instead of consultants and pundits?
What a dick.
Just fucking help people.
What if campaigns helped constituents instead of consultants and pundits?
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is the guy whining that BlueSky is so mean to him and must just be bots.
What a dick.
Just fucking help people.
What if campaigns helped constituents instead of consultants and pundits?
What a dick.
Just fucking help people.
What if campaigns helped constituents instead of consultants and pundits?
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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I don't know Jacob Savage from Doc Savage, but it takes a pair of undescended testicles to steal an appelation first coined by Gertrude Stein to describe a generation of writers scarred by war and apply it to whiny white boys who lost a little bit of their priviledge and call it oppression.
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I don't know Jacob Savage from Doc Savage, but it takes a pair of undescended testicles to steal an appelation first coined by Gertrude Stein to describe a generation of writers scarred by war and apply it to whiny white boys who lost a little bit of their priviledge and call it oppression.
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
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The classic move: public opinion is some neutral legitimate thing, but the public opinion of women is a biased, illegitimate thing. Women can never exist within the polity! Only the neutral public can exist... which is actually the public devoid of women, and only of men. Neat!
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The classic move: public opinion is some neutral legitimate thing, but the public opinion of women is a biased, illegitimate thing. Women can never exist within the polity! Only the neutral public can exist... which is actually the public devoid of women, and only of men. Neat!
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HCR has been one of the brightest lights in my life for the past 5 or so years.
The idea that she is now the head of some "ism" is so bizarre.
Plenty I could critic of her from my political position, but I don't go to her for ideology, I go to her for history. And calm.
The idea that she is now the head of some "ism" is so bizarre.
Plenty I could critic of her from my political position, but I don't go to her for ideology, I go to her for history. And calm.
December 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
HCR has been one of the brightest lights in my life for the past 5 or so years.
The idea that she is now the head of some "ism" is so bizarre.
Plenty I could critic of her from my political position, but I don't go to her for ideology, I go to her for history. And calm.
The idea that she is now the head of some "ism" is so bizarre.
Plenty I could critic of her from my political position, but I don't go to her for ideology, I go to her for history. And calm.
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There is a ton of popular support to go hard right now on real social economic justice reform via wealth caps/taxes and flooding the discourse with talk of constitutional rights to things like healthcare, social services, basic income, etc. We need to make the case that this is a 1/
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
There is a ton of popular support to go hard right now on real social economic justice reform via wealth caps/taxes and flooding the discourse with talk of constitutional rights to things like healthcare, social services, basic income, etc. We need to make the case that this is a 1/
Umm, I actually really liked an article in The Atlantic.
It really plays to my neuroscience-curiousness of 2 decades ago that read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and reminds me of Socrates, Aristotle, etc, pointing to the ability to be contemplative as the good life.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
It really plays to my neuroscience-curiousness of 2 decades ago that read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and reminds me of Socrates, Aristotle, etc, pointing to the ability to be contemplative as the good life.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Specific Thing That Left-Wing Populists Don’t Get
The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Umm, I actually really liked an article in The Atlantic.
It really plays to my neuroscience-curiousness of 2 decades ago that read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and reminds me of Socrates, Aristotle, etc, pointing to the ability to be contemplative as the good life.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
It really plays to my neuroscience-curiousness of 2 decades ago that read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and reminds me of Socrates, Aristotle, etc, pointing to the ability to be contemplative as the good life.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Sometimes I do think about not dicking around.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sometimes I do think about not dicking around.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Pretty clear already that you don't need a US visa to be wildly influential on X the everything app, amirite?
SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
zeteo.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Pretty clear already that you don't need a US visa to be wildly influential on X the everything app, amirite?
Bro, your robot says this is a bad idea
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bro, your robot says this is a bad idea
An Irish Goodbye is just leaving without saying anything.
This is more like a Mob Goodbye.
This is more like a Mob Goodbye.
Exclusive: ICE has developed a plan to arrest undocumented migrants who try to voluntarily leave the U.S. via the Mexico border, so they can face formal removal.
Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers.
It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...
Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers.
It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...
ICE Has A Surprising New Plan To Arrest People Already Leaving The U.S.
“Operation Irish Goodbye,” as it’s being called, could be aimed at boosting numbers for Trump’s much-hyped deportation campaign.
www.huffpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
An Irish Goodbye is just leaving without saying anything.
This is more like a Mob Goodbye.
This is more like a Mob Goodbye.
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Imagine you had millions of people in your life who ignored everything you ever said but would show up once a year and make a huge deal about your birthday, claiming they were your biggest fans.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Imagine you had millions of people in your life who ignored everything you ever said but would show up once a year and make a huge deal about your birthday, claiming they were your biggest fans.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
Crazy, right?
Anyway…Merry Christmas.
Plato also described the debate bros (and children), who get an unguided taste of philosophy, as like puppies who emulate their parents thinking themselves doing the real thing.
Yet when confronted with the real thing and tasting defeat, assume the entirety of philosophy to be the problem.
Yet when confronted with the real thing and tasting defeat, assume the entirety of philosophy to be the problem.
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Plato also described the debate bros (and children), who get an unguided taste of philosophy, as like puppies who emulate their parents thinking themselves doing the real thing.
Yet when confronted with the real thing and tasting defeat, assume the entirety of philosophy to be the problem.
Yet when confronted with the real thing and tasting defeat, assume the entirety of philosophy to be the problem.
Plato, by way of Socrates, illuminating the idea of "annoying the country into fascism" (or tyranny) nearly 2500 years before Marc Maron
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Plato, by way of Socrates, illuminating the idea of "annoying the country into fascism" (or tyranny) nearly 2500 years before Marc Maron
Quoting Charlie Kirk's statements is beyond the pale, but this is fine
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Quoting Charlie Kirk's statements is beyond the pale, but this is fine
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Verso's 54 bestselling print books of 2025, plus so much more, on escalating holiday sale
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Bestselling Print Books of 2025
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
www.versobooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Verso's 54 bestselling print books of 2025, plus so much more, on escalating holiday sale
support left media!
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support left media!
www.versobooks.com/collections/...
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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I’ll be discussing Language Machines with Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social and Mike Lipkin @mlipkin.bsky.social at the Sem Coop on Dec 12
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
Leif Weatherby - "Language Machines" - Anna Kornbluh, Mike Lipkin | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
www.semcoop.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I’ll be discussing Language Machines with Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social and Mike Lipkin @mlipkin.bsky.social at the Sem Coop on Dec 12
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
This has me immediately thinking about Obrador and Sheinbaum's huge popularity in Mexico:
"For the good of us all, the poor come first!"
From the Catholic mythological tradition.
"For the good of us all, the poor come first!"
From the Catholic mythological tradition.
We lost our shared story because we stopped telling it.
The Death of Liberal Mythology
A meditation on technocratic surrender
www.notesfromthecircus.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This has me immediately thinking about Obrador and Sheinbaum's huge popularity in Mexico:
"For the good of us all, the poor come first!"
From the Catholic mythological tradition.
"For the good of us all, the poor come first!"
From the Catholic mythological tradition.
What if these Ned Ludd followers stopped fighting the exploitation of children by the owners of these machines, and instead empowered themselves by buying the machines?
And a lot of the Luddites saying (rightly) this tech is bad for children, are also against led painted candy for kids!
And a lot of the Luddites saying (rightly) this tech is bad for children, are also against led painted candy for kids!
"the people who dislike one bad thing also dislike another bad thing"
this is only confusing because you've let genAI melt your brain
this is only confusing because you've let genAI melt your brain
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What if these Ned Ludd followers stopped fighting the exploitation of children by the owners of these machines, and instead empowered themselves by buying the machines?
And a lot of the Luddites saying (rightly) this tech is bad for children, are also against led painted candy for kids!
And a lot of the Luddites saying (rightly) this tech is bad for children, are also against led painted candy for kids!
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.