Max Fenton
@maxfenton.bsky.social
Web developer. Used to help with some startup stuff, some publishing stuff, and some art stuff.
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NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
August 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
This was a great project. Another casualty of the Manifest V2 EOL.
Citizen Ex (2015), a browser extension which showed you how the network uses and abuses your physical location: citizen-ex.com I wish these old artworks didn't keep feeling so relevant. But we lost that one. Onwards.
What's Your Algorithmic Citizenship?
How does your browsing affect your human rights? Find out at Citizen Ex.
citizen-ex.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This was a great project. Another casualty of the Manifest V2 EOL.
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This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My kid just played through “Thank Goodness You’re Here” and learned a thing (and a word) or two
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My kid just played through “Thank Goodness You’re Here” and learned a thing (and a word) or two
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Oddly enough, Nuzzi’s Biden expose was published the same week the Trump people were said to be contacting RFK’s team to talk about an alliance. Makes you think.
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Oddly enough, Nuzzi’s Biden expose was published the same week the Trump people were said to be contacting RFK’s team to talk about an alliance. Makes you think.
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Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
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I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Short version:
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
How Chuck Schumer Planned the Shutdown Capitulation to Trump
In brief. And then in excruciating detail
hillheat.news
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Short version:
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet.
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
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Self care tip for the sky line
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Self care tip for the sky line
This is the messiest c-list breakup
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is the messiest c-list breakup
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
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Cults will sure teach you some things about politicians lol
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Cults will sure teach you some things about politicians lol
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In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
Tomorrow they’ll say this press conference was AI, but I’ll enjoy it for now
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Tomorrow they’ll say this press conference was AI, but I’ll enjoy it for now
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An interesting thing about dementia - something I learned first-hand with my mom. Take the dementia patient out of contact with a negative person, substitute with a positive person, and the dementia patient becomes more positive.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
An interesting thing about dementia - something I learned first-hand with my mom. Take the dementia patient out of contact with a negative person, substitute with a positive person, and the dementia patient becomes more positive.
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
Chuck Schumer retire
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Chuck Schumer retire
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
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I missed the first time that he actually said "yes." I thought he left it implied, because Trump stepped on the line, but he did actually say it.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I missed the first time that he actually said "yes." I thought he left it implied, because Trump stepped on the line, but he did actually say it.
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folks this is what true rizz looks like
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
folks this is what true rizz looks like
Every time someone posts about a cool game I want Valve to take my money and give me a Steam Cube
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Every time someone posts about a cool game I want Valve to take my money and give me a Steam Cube
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We are working on *lots of things* but last night we soft-launched a change I am psyched about that makes our timelines filterable. Now you can see all of a case's entries on a given timeline in one place:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We are working on *lots of things* but last night we soft-launched a change I am psyched about that makes our timelines filterable. Now you can see all of a case's entries on a given timeline in one place:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...