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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 02/09/2026

Billboard in SF. Gross. I use 9s (reliability) in my typical work conversations, so I know what they’re referencing there. But also, ewww

Billboard reading:
Resolve.AI
Bag More 9’s
Make your software reliable

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 06/03/2026

Was reminded of the conference I held a couple years ago at the new Barves Stadium in Atlanta. Chat, I gave a land acknowledgement to open the conference. I do it other conferences too, but I really made a meal out of it for that venue. I haven’t punched a nazi (yet), but there is still time.

I wish to acknowledge and honor the Mvskoke (or Creek) people, who lived, worked, produced knowledge on, and nurtured the ancestral homeland that this stadium is built upon. I invite you to join me in acknowledging the Mvskoke, their elders past and present, as well as future generations.

A quick history lesson: President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 to seize land acquired through coerced treaties, after decades of working to displace native people. In 1832, when the Supreme Court ruled that Native Nations had sovereignty in Worcester vs Georgia, Jackson refused to enforce their ruling. In 1836, the federal government drove the last Mvskoke from their land in Georgia and Alabama. 3,500 of the 15,000 Mvskoke who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip. Today, we call this journey "The Trail of Tears."

By acknowledging this history while standing just a few feet from the Chatahoochee River- (or "Painted Rocks" in Mvskoke), in a gathering place where people use caricature gestures and chants to cheer for their sports team as part of a "tradition" all of 30 years old, I hope to help us consider something important about context: we don't all share it, and what we choose to ignore says as much about our values as what we choose to pay attention to.

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 14/08/2025

I mean - it’s not a terrible idea. At least put it away while you are walking and driving

Flyer that says:

ARE YOU HUMAN OR CYBORG)
SOCIETY FOR A PHONE-FREE SOCIETY (SPFS) bears witness to the major bio-cultural shift from human as sentient-animal to human as programmed-cyborg. SPFS calls for the abolition of all cellular phone technology, We recoanize the massive detrimental effects that cell phone use has had on the general public and along with the dismantling of the $1 trillion industry that is propped up by the public's financial support of it.
an unprecedented surveillance-state over the entire world's population.
specifically on the youth of the world, all while the corporate powers who financially benefit have created We want freedom from the corporate data-mongering moguls and seek to reinstate "boredom" as a part of human life and existence, and by extension, "daydreaming" and free-flowing thought, as part of human life
the machines that are destroying us!!!
and existence. We call for a REVOLUTION of observation and interaction with the world. The SPFS aims to destroy
Generation
Years
Human Civilization
Generation Z
Phone time (daily)
w/OUT tele-communications
6,000
6.5 hrs
Millenials
175
6.0 hrs
with telegraph
Generation X
150
5.0 hrs
with telephone
50
Boomers
3.5 hrs
with cellular phone
Silent
1.5 hrs
We recognize humanity's deep entangled relationship with these dumbing-down-devices and we accept that the revolution from a cyborgian, "streamed" reality back to a human sentient one will be difficult and take a long while. In this predicament, we accept that the first stage of global phone elimination will be that of the eradication of phones from the public sphere!.. a PHONE-FREE SOCIETY!!!
THE SPFS DEMANDS:
1) NO MORE PUBLIC PHONE USE
-(public: in view of other people; when others are present -Oxford dictionary)
-this includes every conceivable thing you might be doing with your phone/headphones/"devices"
2) PHONES ARE TO BE KEPT/LEFT:
-in pocket/bag/purse (so-so)
-in car (ok)
-at home (good)
-in dumpster (best)
3) THE PUBLIC SPHERE SHALL

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 08/08/2025

Drop an old person that you’re going to turn into in the future

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 29/05/2025

Would be pretty cool to be comfortably traveling like this at 174mph across a country, instead of airplanes at higher cost and lower comfort

Overhead screen in Italian train, showing 280 Kilometers/hour speed and approaching Milano Rogoredo station

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 12/04/2025

Because of the nature and quality of their “output”?

Clipped headline and photo from a website that asks: “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?”

Many round/faceted logos are reproduced on a cartoon butt, above text reading “if you pay attention to AI company branding, you’ll notice a pattern:”

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 14/12/2024

Just say that you’ve lost the will to try and be happy

White Tesla Model Y on College Avenue in Oakland, CA, with the vanity license plate “0 CARBS”

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 30/11/2024

Yes I’m religious, I believe in the holy trinity

Slices heirloom tomatoes, with a couple unsliced tomatoes behind them

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 17/11/2024

I must report that Bad Walter’s in Oakland makes the best single best ice cream I’ve ever tasted - with Ritz crackers as part of the base and fudge (and Reese’s pieces and Nutter Butters). www.instagram.com/p/DAERa8Cytb... I’d be excited to try *any* other dessert application now.

A picture of ice cream on a spoon, screenshot on Insta. A description is part of the screenshot.

The ice cream is from Bad Walter’s in Oakland, and it is called Slumber Party. It has a Ritz Cracker custard base, Reese’s Pieces, Nutter Butter, and Fudge swirl

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 15/11/2024

If you see this, post a beach from your gallery

Beach near Cartagena. Inviting water, some shadows from a tree

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 13/11/2023

Is “Beef Wellington Guy” an appropriate personality substitute? Asking for a friend

Beef Wellington prepared as a single serving bun, split in half, with demiglace on the plate, red meat with plenty of pate/mushroom around it with crispy pastry, with an rosemary herb bundle standing on end in the middle

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 05/08/2023

Let me read this article about how a Cruise autonomous taxi went wrong...woops, pop-up in the way. apnews.com/article/selfdriving-cars… Well done, everyone

Pop-up ad that pitches autonomous vehicles as safer, cleaner, and more accessible. It urges contacting the "CPUC" to tell them politics shouldn't block progress. CPUC means *googles* California Public Utilities Commission

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 01/06/2023

Went a little nuts at Forbidden Planet, but honestly bought way less than I wanted.

8 sci-fi fantasy books. Reply if you need a listing, please

Beer, wings, anarchy neon sign at Brewdog Seven Dials, London

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 31/05/2023

Show me the movie or television character you wanted to be growing up vs. the one you feel like you became

Han Solo, shrugging while holding a blaster

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 30/05/2023

You can get everything at The Store

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EricP 🍉 @ericproegler.com · 18/05/2023

I was raised in the sub-50% part. This percentage is past 95% today, not that anyone’s approval is necessary. We’re going to defeat transphobia, too. It’s effective for scaring Boomers for clout at the moment, and we need to protect our folks everywhere. But we’re going to win