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Bob Stark

@bobstark.bsky.social
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Founder of Datagotchi Labs -- an R&D project to empower people with information that's hidden from them: datagotchi.net

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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mass tech layoffs aren't about AI replacing workers—they're about post-ZIRP stock buybacks and cloud enclosure. Here is how @DatagotchiLabs connects macro tech trends to local-first tools, worker syndicates, and deterministic workflows: medium.com/@bobstark/be...
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Beyond Black-Box AI: How We Build Local Sovereignty in an Era of Tech Enclosure
Over the past two years, the technology industry has spun a very specific narrative: mass engineering layoffs were an inevitable side…
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
as I grew up, I figured doing the Right Thing to make Others Feel Better was what everyone knew life was about. then I became an adult in America...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A 'tidal wave' of forever chemicals are being pumped out to satisfy the AI industry, according to The Guardian. Nearly all of the 10 biggest manufacturers of Pfas are planning to increase production for use in semi-conductors and data center cooling systems.
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've been seeing this for a long time
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Breaking: businesses don’t want you to have a shorter work week.
Fox: bernie sanders' 32-hour workweek plan could make like 'more unaffordable' club for growth president warns
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I saw the DHS is doing something similar. Did neither of them understand that Minority Report was a warning?!
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Updated a previous Medium post with a new image: a Gemini-generated representation of a "brain rot" piece of art by a past sub student of mine last year: medium.com/@bobstark/wh...
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Why Younger Generations Need a Completely New Type of Design
We are designing digital interfaces for a world that no longer exists that represents the digital enclosure of billionaire oligarchs’…
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
wait, so it IS class war after all?! (and he's senile as fk) 😛
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Trump says data centre critics ‘want to end up backwards and poor’
US president urges voters to ‘let Data Reign’ as unpopular building boom roils midterm campaigns
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration is closing research projects that help fight cyclospora, the foodborne parasite giving thousands of Americans diarrhea and pain this summer. Three out of the three government projects that help combat the parasite are effectively shutting down.
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USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations
The shuttering of three projects is expected to hinder vital research at a time when consumers are increasingly worried about the safety of the food supply.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
55% of companies that laid off workers citing AI now regret it, per Forrester.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The only possible solution is to create a durable politics that recognizes the pain but also names the right enemies. You can't only do the first part. FDR gave you the playbook, use it, or it's only a matter of time before it's over for all our asses
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Global food prices will ultimately rise by 12% this year, according to a new study released by Oxford Economics.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
U.S. debt is on track to reach historic levels
Debt held by the public as a percentage of the gross domestic product, 1792-2055
- Historical - • Projected → Without Bush and Trump tax cuts
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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Entrepreneurship is key for us neurodivergents
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ever wonder where "the cloud" actually lives? It drinks from local watersheds and burns through utility grids. Here’s my piece on why sovereign tech starts on Rum Creek in Rockford, MI: medium.com/@bobstark/th...
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The Data Center in the Watershed: Why Sovereign Computing Starts at Rum Creek
From Local Cold-Water Tributaries to Sovereign Compute: Reclaiming the Craft of Human Systems in an Age of Cloud Enclosure
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As a kid I had an automated ticketing system idea as I was very excited about technology, BUT THEN I GREW UP AND REALIZED THE RISKS FAR OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The woke mob is mad about my murder spree even though it's creating lots of new jobs at funeral homes
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The state also showed an internal message in which a former Meta employee wrote that Instagram "is a drug.” pro.stateaffairs.com/ca/courts/te...
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Tennessee Puts Meta on Trial over Instagram Claims
Tennessee began a civil trial Monday, alleging Meta designed Instagram to be addictive for children and concealed its known impacts.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In 2017 Mark Zuckerberg decided that Meta's top priority would be teens, according to documents revealed by the state of Tennessee, which is suing the social media giant. The state said Meta's overall goal was to maximize the time teens spent on their social media platforms. /1
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Tennessee Puts Meta on Trial over Instagram Claims
Tennessee began a civil trial Monday, alleging Meta designed Instagram to be addictive for children and concealed its known impacts.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again?
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Gross
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...
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Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers
In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My last post on Gen Z/Alpha was about software. This is about actually subbing: treating them as equal humans (not yelling) while collaborating together to get work done. The brain rot is the cure: medium.com/@bobstark/th...
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The “Brain Rot” Is the Cure: Why the Future of School Is Radical Collaboration, Not Control
I spent the last school year substitute teaching in middle and high school classrooms, and I walked away with a realization that most…
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In 2023, I argued AI isn’t risky because it’s "smart," but because of "hidden delegation"—automating actions via probabilistic models to evade human liability. Now? The wheels are off. Look at Gaza’s algorithmic target factories. The math held up. medium.com/@bobstark/wh...
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Why is AI dangerous? Automation!
As previously explained, artificial intelligence (AI) is just processing data and returning similar training instances¹. This can become…
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Four states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations that Meta designed Facebook ‌and Instagram to addict kids, and misled the public about their safety. www.engadget.com/2209332/meta...
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Meta is facing $1.4 trillion in state lawsuits over social media addiction - Engadget
Meta is facing a massive lawsuit from four US states over the addictive designs of its platforms.
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Going along with some not-exactly-productive Datagotchi Labs Medium posts, here's another piece on my 2e auDHD + polymath attributes oblige me to spend my time, energy, and sanity on fixing our broken society in the ways that I can: medium.com/@bobstark/th...
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The Architecture of the Outlier: The “Slime Mold” Reality
In traditional statistics and machine learning, an “outlier” is treated as an anomaly, a piece of noise, or a bug to be smoothed out or…
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This one is definitely less positive than my last few, but that's because I wanted to call out all the different ways billionaire oligarchs are trying to save their own skin and hoard their wealth while our society crashes because of them: medium.com/@bobstark/so...
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Sovereign Life Rafts vs. Corporate Enclaves
In my last piece, “The Sinking Corporate Ship: Mapping the Oligarch’s Playbook for Late-Stage Tech Survival,” I detailed how the tech…
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Like the I Ching taught East Asia long ago, everything shifts causally over time—yielding both Confucianism (rigid order) and Taoism (flowing adaptation). The West is finally catching on to how humans and technology are deeply "entangled." My latest on how this drives Datagotchi Labs:
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The Mangle of Automation: Engineering for Sociomaterial Adaptive Capacity
We are witnessing the terminal velocity of a broken technical paradigm. As centralized cloud multi-tenancy chokes on its own scale, the…
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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The Sinking Corporate Ship: Mapping the Oligarchs’ Playbook for Late-Stage Tech Survival
When you look past the algorithmic hype cycles and marketing PR of centralized Generative AI, you find a foundational reality built on…
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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We Don’t Need Infinite Data Centers. We Need to Reclaim the Craft of Human Systems.
Burning down power grids to feed bloated, monolithic corporate models isn’t an engineering feat — it’s an architectural delusion that…
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A new Medium post today for how "Big Data" has turned into the "Generative AI" scam by billionaire oligarchs to continue surveilling us online to make money from advertisers: medium.com/@bobstark/be...
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Beyond the Data Slop: Reclaiming the Enterprise Mind Through Sovereign Computing
Look across the modern corporate landscape, and you will see an open secret that few are willing to name: our enterprise software…
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/06/2026
My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.
A post from @matzollerseitz.bsky.social reads:

“So what I'm getting from this is, incrementalism is bullshit and we should just do the stuff that we say would be good for society”

And the post is quoting a post from @owillis.bsky.social that reads:

“They call him WIN-dani 

Mamdani delivers promised rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/mamdani-delivers-promised-rent-freeze-00977449”
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today the Supreme Court just blocked thousands of lawsuits claiming Roundup causes cancer. The court sided with chemical giant Monsanto, ruling that federal law preempts cancer victims from bringing these lawsuits in state courts, where most of the claims are filed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTmt...
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Does Roundup Cause Cancer? They Don’t Want You to Know
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Bob Stark @bobstark.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"maker of Roundup" = Bayer after they acquired Monsanto, wow even PBS is hiding information about fking oligarchs destroying our world
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
BREAKING: The Senate has joined the House in voting to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran and block Trump's authority to wage this war. Four Republicans broke ranks in the bipartisan 50-48 vote.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.
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