Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 09/11/2025So then I was like, look, bro if you think you can do so much better than Giuliani maybe you should run for mayor but once you’re in, don’t let anyone ever tell you to pull out of that race… 050
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 17/03/2025What’s the opposite of optimizing? Asking for a friend who wants to do that … 010
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 11/11/2024It’s always encouraging to see a company engage with trust and safety issues at the board level — www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvq...youtube.comRoboCop: Director's Cut | REMASTERED - ED-209 Malfunction Scene (1080p)YouTube video by Vee XXL 080
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 26/10/2024How is it that there has never been a serious TCPA class action against a political party or campaign? This volume of trash is something commercial spammers could only dream of … 100
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 23/09/2024Just one sign of a life well lived — being reported to the FBI by Philip K. Dick for Marxism: linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/print/0105/c...linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.orgLingua Franca - May/June 2001 | Cover Story: Marxist Literary Critics Are Folloing Me! 020
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 23/09/2024During grad school I lived in a shared house of lit and English students, one of them would occasionally house sit for Jameson, look after the pets, throw out the junk mail, etc. 120
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 13/05/2024Is “I’m looking for a man in finance” the first crowdsourced summer banger? 100
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 13/02/2024I don't even know what we did before Zillow rationalized this housing market ... 030
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Considering naming our first born child "Builder's Remedy" ... 250
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 03/10/2023I see endless news articles about drug use in tech but in all my decades have never seen an article about whether, say, cocaine, might have some role in wall street trading patterns ... 030
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 02/10/2023What is it about big tech biographies that makes journalists with great track records self-immolate...? 020
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 10/09/2023TBF, the monkeys were red bull pounding gamers working at a fast-paced startup... 0110
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 29/06/2023Every startup founder should get a little piece of that submersible to keep on their desk like the Berlin Wall 050
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023Here's a thought -- instead of describing a new tech in terms of the problems you hope it solves, describe it in terms of the problems it's likely to create. If we took on the more modest goal of creating interesting new problems, at least all this would make sense ... 041
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023Content moderation is mostly human problems with a thin tech coating. If you think it’s fundamentally a set of tech problems, you’ll never even make it to the part where the failures get interesting. 120
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023For folks new to trust and safety, a thought — your language should always show the due humility that fundamentally human problems require. Don’t say “we’re solving x.” You are solving nothing. You’re at best making a novel collage. Which is ok. Don’t sound like Jared off to “fix” the middle east. 040
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 15/05/2023Has a more succinct summary of the enclosure movement ever existed? 041
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 06/05/2023Current vibes here remind me of cool afterschool club like newspaper or theater where you can hang out and complain about the asshole fascist teacher down the hall… 020
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 04/05/2023There’s a brief moment when all the dark, Sisyphean lessons of trust & safety are not yet relevant, and it is beautiful. 040
