Yvan Vivid
@yvan-vivid.bsky.social
Yvan Vivid is a researcher at The Red Aesthetic and a fellow of the Vivid Institute.
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And you subsequently open up your laptop in the restaurant, logging into the restaurant wifi, into the VPN and ssh into a server and find out that the vendor put a comma in an identifier in unquoted CSV files. As you fix this mess, people watch you and say "wow, that looks complicated"
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
And you subsequently open up your laptop in the restaurant, logging into the restaurant wifi, into the VPN and ssh into a server and find out that the vendor put a comma in an identifier in unquoted CSV files. As you fix this mess, people watch you and say "wow, that looks complicated"
Seriously, though, the phone call no dev wants to receive is one saying that an old script written by someone else in shitty Python failed to load critical data from a vendor into a mysql DB while you are two glasses of red wine into dinner at an Italian restaurant with your partner and friend.
October 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Seriously, though, the phone call no dev wants to receive is one saying that an old script written by someone else in shitty Python failed to load critical data from a vendor into a mysql DB while you are two glasses of red wine into dinner at an Italian restaurant with your partner and friend.
No real relationships for people under 18. Real relationships are where real violence happens. Let's keep things virtual. If you think computers and algorithms are harmful, you should see what other people do.
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
No real relationships for people under 18. Real relationships are where real violence happens. Let's keep things virtual. If you think computers and algorithms are harmful, you should see what other people do.
Precision vibes. Even before bro put pencil to paper that job was some precision ASMR shit.
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Precision vibes. Even before bro put pencil to paper that job was some precision ASMR shit.
It's almost as though the Democrats are willingly shouldering the grotesque embarrassment of the Republicans' right-wing barbarism, and thus are afraid, on their behalf, to bring it up.
April 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's almost as though the Democrats are willingly shouldering the grotesque embarrassment of the Republicans' right-wing barbarism, and thus are afraid, on their behalf, to bring it up.
Along with Gavin Newsome's disastrous podcast launch, I feel like these are exemplars of how the Democratic Party continues to address right-wing rhetoric at the level of its disingenuous manifest content and not dig into its obvious latent agenda: to restore and enforce the social hierarchy.
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Along with Gavin Newsome's disastrous podcast launch, I feel like these are exemplars of how the Democratic Party continues to address right-wing rhetoric at the level of its disingenuous manifest content and not dig into its obvious latent agenda: to restore and enforce the social hierarchy.
Klein also seems to take at face value the right wing rhetoric around "government efficiency", responding with a "yes, but...", rather than acknowledging and addressing that "government efficiency" is a bad faith metonym for the maintenance of a rigid and essentialist social hierarchy.
April 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Klein also seems to take at face value the right wing rhetoric around "government efficiency", responding with a "yes, but...", rather than acknowledging and addressing that "government efficiency" is a bad faith metonym for the maintenance of a rigid and essentialist social hierarchy.
During the discussion, he name-checked Bari Weiss, taking seriously her suggestion that birth control pills should be restricted to married women, and only for the sake of tactically spacing out their breeding duties. Klein contends with Weiss only on the basis of efficacy towards its aims.
April 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
During the discussion, he name-checked Bari Weiss, taking seriously her suggestion that birth control pills should be restricted to married women, and only for the sake of tactically spacing out their breeding duties. Klein contends with Weiss only on the basis of efficacy towards its aims.
It sounds like he's just putting everything on the table as debatable and wagering that the values he'll back out of his disquisition will not end up being regressive. It seems like another attempt at someone from the Democratic wing trying to win over conservatives with discursive concessions.
April 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It sounds like he's just putting everything on the table as debatable and wagering that the values he'll back out of his disquisition will not end up being regressive. It seems like another attempt at someone from the Democratic wing trying to win over conservatives with discursive concessions.