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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In college there were guys you knew could NOT take you home because they usually sought out the drunkest girls to hook up with so if they were taking you home you were tanked. we called these dudes sluts and laughed and laughed and now at least one of them is a priest and it is all still rape.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People haven't heard the living in texas song and are acting like they're out of touch with popular music when the reality is that the monoculture has almost disappeared and that song is at the top of the billboard because of social media and spotify plays happening in places you don't go.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Laine, as always, is right on the money. companies flocked to SV because the military industrial complex had already gathered all the engineers, technology, and money there. A bunch of dudes in garages didn't build the infrastructure that made SV such a brilliant lab for developing new technology.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

after annihilating a few lakes so I could set up all the scripts I now have Bookorbit ingesting all my libro.fm and libby books and syncing across my Kobo, xteink readers and iPhone. and it shouldn’t be so hard to just read books without Amazon or someone else controlling the whole stack.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the NYT’s Best TV shows list is like that one super pretentious friend who reads about TV and rarely actually watches it. just 50% mediocre awards bait. millennial ass grey of lists. we have more television than we’ve ever had and it was reduced to this???

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My mom, who has dementia, was watching a PBS documentary yesterday about NYC during early COVID and asked if I'd lived there during that time and when I recounted my experiences in a rush we both learned that apparently COVID was super traumatic in NYC! And not nearly enough other places...

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Texas politics is weird because I’m constantly getting fundraising texts like DON’T YOU HATE TRANS PEOPLE AND MUSLIMS AND ”ILLEGAL“ IMMIGRANTS. Like woah boy that’s the plan? Just hope everyone is super bigoted and weird?

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank fucking God. It was inhuman before climate change and now its demonstratively monstrous.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

diesel prices so high my tiktok is all memes about trucks tasting ag diesel for the first time. lot of dipsticks gonna be coming back red soon.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So happy Cornyn and others noticed what a horrible shitheel Bo French is but fun fact—his racist tweet about students at the UT game? not even the worst thing he’s said THIS YEAR. Terrific primer from February about why Texas might be stuck with him. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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He Wants to Deport 100 Million “Third World Savages.” He May Win Statewide Office in Texas.

He calls his opponents “gay” and “retarded,” and he wants to deport 100 million “third world savages.” Naturally, he’s running for railroad commissioner.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

spent a whole afternoon installing a Toto bidet toilet seat and NO REGRETS except not holding the nut when detaching the water hose which required a visit to the hardware store to buy a new fill valve. Why are bidets not standard? I thought we lived in a society!!!!

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the way to stop out of control AI is to regulate the humans creating the out of control AI. oh your ai broke containment and caused millions in damage? that’s not an act of God, that’s you not building adequate safeguards.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

as evidenced by the entire tech world’s mindset it’s never been more critical to have humanities education

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The people who take old peoples' calls and have to help them? I don't think any of them get paid enough.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

…i like unsettling baby link from the new zelda game.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lioness is like 40% Zoe Saldaña doing Taylor Sheridan-written rants about how dumb most Americans are. it's super condescending but also like 95% right. and it feels like the most accurate portrayal of the rural Texan mindset I've seen on TV.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

80 percent of recipients are single mothers. this is just further punishment of women for not being married and deigning to have lives outside of marriage and the policy is reductive and abhorrent and deeply deeply sexist.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the thing! AI is a tool! It's a powerful and useful one! It's just the people deploying it are doing so in the most reckless, greedy and destructive way possible and being shocked everyone isn't hailing the technology as the next iPhone.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Glad all the AIs are down so I can do actual work instead of setting our atmosphere on fire to make my homelab and ubersicht layout look good. but I assume I'll be able to return to setting the world aflame to vibecode a little project later.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Literally behind every single miracle fully automated service, from LLMs to self-driving cars, there's actually a bunch of poorly paid people being taken advantage of by companies with lots of funding and a "fake it til you make it" ethos. The only automated stuff is the beautiful AI app slop.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

becoming a unifi sicko and sad the amplifi routers can’t tie in.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The district attorney in Fort Worth Texas for years was also a man named Tim Curry. And it led to a very confusing discussion with my lawyer mom about the show Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

gonna rewatch the series finale of Grace and Frankie where Dolly cameos as God. she really was the best of us (southern white women).

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the number of times i’ve had to explain to people the JKR stuff isn’t a “separate the art from the artist” thing because she’s repeatedly used her money to harm trans people is shockingly high. like in the US her transphobia is well known unless you’re very online.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this was me blindly trusting AI to help me fix NFS permission issues between Orbstack on my Mac and my Synology NAS and the meat proxy should have been doing more than just copy pasting!

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

basically, what emily said. Goddamnit I love a season finale that fucks me up in the best possible way 🎆 bsky.app/profile/emil...

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

this is why i’m so curious to see how elon musk loading money into Texas goes. data centers and people associated with them are political poison and everyone is concerned about the cost of diesel.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is the one good thing about a super rural restaurant. You walk in and see the former menu and know you're gonna have a good time--or at least interesting. You see the latter and you know you're getting dinner by Sysco with a dash of TikTok trends from five years ago.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Part of the statement from the Hood County, Texas constable (that's where I live!) explaining why Hood County has ended it's relationship and covered up all of the Flock cameras in the county. There were only three, and this decision was made back in April, but hell yes.

An image of a clip from a Facebook post. It says "I’ve also seen some discussion suggesting that I am opposed to law-enforcement technology. I’m not.
I spent 20 years as a Houston police officer and sergeant. I know that technology can help officers find stolen cars, locate dangerous suspects, find missing people and solve serious crimes. There is absolutely a legitimate place for technology in policing.
But there is a difference between using technology to investigate a crime and building a network capable of keeping a searchable record of where ordinary people travel.
One camera reading a license plate at one location is one thing.
Thousands of interconnected cameras that can be searched to determine where a vehicle has been over time is something else entirely.
That’s where I have a problem.
When government has the ability to collect, search and share information about the movements of people who aren’t suspected of committing a crime, I believe that raises serious Fourth Amendment and privacy concerns.
The answer can’t simply be, “Trust us. We won’t misuse it.”"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

yes. the Bluth family stair car is in Captain America: Civil War, linking it to St. Elsewhere via the Detective Munch path.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

being an adult with free will and a 3d printer rules

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i have found real comfort in reading about the byzantine empire the last few years and how it managed to persist for millennia despite random insanity like an emperor almost deposed by fans of two sports teams.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you live in or around Fort Worth and you ever visit the Fort Worth subreddit you know exactly who this guy is. Just a horrible grotesque racist who spews hate and misogyny at every turn and now wants one of the most powerful roles in the state after governor and attorney general.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

you just know this man's airbnb demands you take out all the trash, make the beds, and wash the windows or get hit with a $1000 cleaning fee.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

got pretty disillusioned the last few years as I chased the most popular stuff so I could cover it as a consumer tech journalist. Turns out apps that tells you what to watch and phones that get between you and the world and lots and lots and lots of cool on their face gadgets are bullshit!

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I strongly suspect us finance folks are subject to the same collapse of mass popular media the rest of the us population is dealing with. that means they’re likely getting all their info from an echo chamber divorced from the wider world.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have a lot of conspiracy theories I deeply enjoy, but what’s crucial is to know from the beginning they are conspiracy theories. which is all to say “pics or it didn’t happen”

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

3d printing is getting me back into loving gadgets again.

An image of a 10 inch 3d printed server rack in brown, beige, and translucent olive green. it includes a switch, jetkvm, mac studio, synology, and many glowing surprises.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

has he figured out how to keep bandwidth up in densely populated areas? like eventually bro will run out of remote customers and he has a long term scaling problem which is the nature of the satellite isp beast.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

so much of news now is terrified to call a spade a spade, and thinks “digging tool” is enough. it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of journalism and it’s killing democracy in the United States.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

First they made all weed illegal and now they're denying the rights of rich folks trying to take advantage of AI hype by building data centers. 😔

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A way to feel like both an all powerful technogod and an absolute ecological disaster is to get a 3d printer and print out a whole homelab frame and then use claude to help you quickly set up a whole new workflow in docker.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Many data centers being built don't even have confirmed customers? and they're also just giant server rooms. they bring a large increase in jobs during construction and then not after and because many don't even have confirmed customers there's a real chance they could sit empty/unused.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

the company that was really good at helping you find information has decided to be the company that lets you fabricate new information and I’m not sure Google realizes how fundamentally different and potentially dangerous that is.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dog sitting rules until you try and eat a bit of cheese in peace

An image of a lab and a westie both up in my business because I have cheese. Their similar coloring is adorable but somehow terrifying.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is a DEEPLY offensive slate and like nearly everything happening at CBS News feels way too similar to what happened to Gawker Media. Just the worst people you know trying to manage a company with zero understanding or real desire to do good. Just swinging egos around and breaking things.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

a terrific example of why regulation IS important if, for some reason, the poo poo salad stuff hasn’t convinced folks! companies are not incentivized to do good, they are regulated to do good.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There's so much weirdness around rural America--especially from folks who never lived there--and I don't want to say folks are wrong but I do want to point out I went to Tractor Supply today and they were selling throwing knives and metal throwing cards.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Folks would be surprised how often "people just stopped caring about governance after a bunch of rich people took power" has led to the downfall of republics. like western civilization is really good at this one terrible trick.

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