Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
@parisien.cc
24 | she/her | trans lesbian | radical-liberal
I love my girlfriend so fucking much, she’s perfect 🥰
I talk and reskeet a lot about geopolitics, politics, economics and a whole bunch of other things.
https://ko-fi.com/aricie
I love my girlfriend so fucking much, she’s perfect 🥰
I talk and reskeet a lot about geopolitics, politics, economics and a whole bunch of other things.
https://ko-fi.com/aricie
Pinned
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL PENTAGON PIZZA TRACKER ISNT REAL
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
FWIW I didn’t leave Substack because of the Nazis, though they didn’t help. I left because the management of that company is fundamentally duplicitous, it’s become a toxic social network, and there is no reason to give them 10% of your profits when there are better and less expensive options.
not doing this to start beef but I mean come on - I spent much of my tough first years as a freelancer trying hard not to write for publications that felt too objectionable, I lost a noticeable amount of my income when I left Twitter - journalists do have rent to pay! everywhere sucks these days!
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
FWIW I didn’t leave Substack because of the Nazis, though they didn’t help. I left because the management of that company is fundamentally duplicitous, it’s become a toxic social network, and there is no reason to give them 10% of your profits when there are better and less expensive options.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
for hundreds of years shipbuilding has been a battleground between "this new technology will change everything" and "please for the love of God just plan better" and somehow the first team usually wins, with dubious results
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
for hundreds of years shipbuilding has been a battleground between "this new technology will change everything" and "please for the love of God just plan better" and somehow the first team usually wins, with dubious results
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
that has its virtues. otoh sexual abuse of maids and female servants was endemic on a level comparable to Epstein
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
that has its virtues. otoh sexual abuse of maids and female servants was endemic on a level comparable to Epstein
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
apple what are we doing here
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
apple what are we doing here
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
don’t bring your little fake feds with their camo pants and their skull masks here, we don’t like it
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
don’t bring your little fake feds with their camo pants and their skull masks here, we don’t like it
Best position ever to read tbh
Bless the youth librarians who ask your kid like two questions, peer deep into their soul, and hand them a pile of books they will love.
(Also no I don’t know why he reads like this)
(Also no I don’t know why he reads like this)
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Best position ever to read tbh
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
Anyway, this is just my experience as a software engineer; I haven't even touched the stuff DOGE did to public health or foreign aid. But from a distance it looks pretty clearly motivated by the same swirl of anti-government, anti-minority conspiracy theories.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Anyway, this is just my experience as a software engineer; I haven't even touched the stuff DOGE did to public health or foreign aid. But from a distance it looks pretty clearly motivated by the same swirl of anti-government, anti-minority conspiracy theories.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
I really fucking hope justice will prevail and those fucking monster will see the consequences of their actions and have to suffer those consequences for the rest of their miserable lives.
They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.
The majority of DOGE's "work" is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords "LGBTQ," "BIPOC," and similar, and then to cancel those grants.
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I really fucking hope justice will prevail and those fucking monster will see the consequences of their actions and have to suffer those consequences for the rest of their miserable lives.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.
The majority of DOGE's "work" is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords "LGBTQ," "BIPOC," and similar, and then to cancel those grants.
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
I've taken a deep dive into the DOGE bro's open source software code commits to verify they never wrote (or even oversaw) any code beyond culture war messaging. It's all trivial stuff like this: taking out the "nonbiary" option on some form.
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I've taken a deep dive into the DOGE bro's open source software code commits to verify they never wrote (or even oversaw) any code beyond culture war messaging. It's all trivial stuff like this: taking out the "nonbiary" option on some form.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
Although DOGE occasionally pretended to modernize some computer system, the only non-vaporware changes to software they ever oversaw (mostly they didn't write the code themselves, just leaned on someone else to do so) were to remove "DEI" stuff from government websites
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Although DOGE occasionally pretended to modernize some computer system, the only non-vaporware changes to software they ever oversaw (mostly they didn't write the code themselves, just leaned on someone else to do so) were to remove "DEI" stuff from government websites
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
I think the right-wing conspiracy active here is quite old and mundane: the belief that government is full of freeloaders, or full of leftists which are the same thing
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I think the right-wing conspiracy active here is quite old and mundane: the belief that government is full of freeloaders, or full of leftists which are the same thing
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
Before we were fired, we were interrogated. This had a very Office Space "so what would you say you do here" vibe, appearing to assume that government employees are ineffective, our systems broken.
They kept announcing things like "performance standards" as though we didn't already have them:
They kept announcing things like "performance standards" as though we didn't already have them:
Original Email to Employees
Welcome to opm.gov
www.opm.gov
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Before we were fired, we were interrogated. This had a very Office Space "so what would you say you do here" vibe, appearing to assume that government employees are ineffective, our systems broken.
They kept announcing things like "performance standards" as though we didn't already have them:
They kept announcing things like "performance standards" as though we didn't already have them:
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
18F was liquidated at midnight and our website deleted at the same moment, apparently to end our leftist conspiracy. In general DOGE appeared quite preoccupied with the idea that websites, mass emails, etc controlled by longtime government employees would be used to conspire against them.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
18F was liquidated at midnight and our website deleted at the same moment, apparently to end our leftist conspiracy. In general DOGE appeared quite preoccupied with the idea that websites, mass emails, etc controlled by longtime government employees would be used to conspire against them.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
My group's firing appears to have been a consequence of a right-wing article from 2023 calling us, and I quote, "a cabal of perpetually triggered leftists obsessed with politics and pronouns"
The article echoed around Twitter until Musk saw it, tweeted we were "deleted" which DOGE then implemented
The article echoed around Twitter until Musk saw it, tweeted we were "deleted" which DOGE then implemented
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
My group's firing appears to have been a consequence of a right-wing article from 2023 calling us, and I quote, "a cabal of perpetually triggered leftists obsessed with politics and pronouns"
The article echoed around Twitter until Musk saw it, tweeted we were "deleted" which DOGE then implemented
The article echoed around Twitter until Musk saw it, tweeted we were "deleted" which DOGE then implemented
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
Partisan messages like this violate the Hatch Act and, as nonpartisan civil servants sworn to uphold the law, we would never do this.
But conspiracy-brained people don't know we truly uphold the law, and in this case probably don't even know the law at all.
But conspiracy-brained people don't know we truly uphold the law, and in this case probably don't even know the law at all.
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Partisan messages like this violate the Hatch Act and, as nonpartisan civil servants sworn to uphold the law, we would never do this.
But conspiracy-brained people don't know we truly uphold the law, and in this case probably don't even know the law at all.
But conspiracy-brained people don't know we truly uphold the law, and in this case probably don't even know the law at all.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
They thought we, being radical leftists apparently, would put a "DOGE sucks" type of message onto government websites or into government communication systems
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They thought we, being radical leftists apparently, would put a "DOGE sucks" type of message onto government websites or into government communication systems
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
Reposted by Aricie | 아리시 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦
One possible motivation to demand access was to steal data, and I think that was a part of it, but also I think DOGE (or Musk, anyway) was motivated by a conspiracy theory:
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
One possible motivation to demand access was to steal data, and I think that was a part of it, but also I think DOGE (or Musk, anyway) was motivated by a conspiracy theory:
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.
The belief that government workers would conspire to use the government's computer systems against them.