Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Better that the kids learn about Goatse in this nurturing environment than pick it up on the streets… 110
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Thanks for posting this, mixtapes may be a thing of the past but at least we have syllabi a little longer … 010
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This could be a good forum for my collection of quotations: Who Said It?: Fredric Jameson or Elon Musk?” 010
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 · 09/04/2025Sorry, can’t hear you over the deafening rustle of refolding my actual size world map…. 130
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The only law still being followed is the law of unintended consequences 141
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025W0000, it’s Daphne syllabus drop season, motherfuckers 120
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 · 14/12/2024Why would we read this as a DMCA notice? Seems like it was not sent to the host, it was sent to the poster. So that would make it just a good ‘ol fashioned c&d letter for infringement. 0100
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 · 23/09/2024One thing for sure, that man spent his life doing what he was put on this planet to do - write Marxist analysis of culture - and the endless energy he tapped into to do it was staggering and inspiring to witness. 000
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 · 23/09/2024So, on our kitchen cork board we had a pinned up letter from Ed McMahon announcing: FREDRIC JAMESON, YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE WON $10 MILLION DOLLARS!! 100
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 · 29/07/2024Mid-century backdrops + gratuitous gore = sign me up now 000
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 13/05/2024And even if not, are there other examples of a non-professional musician pointing to the fence before hitting a home run like this? 000
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 · 28/10/2023Also, good to know it’s been paywalled, I’ll post a free copy elsewhere … 040
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/10/2023I hold the rights to it, will email you a copy with permission to use freely… 170
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 · 02/10/2023It's not so much an oath as an independently sworn covenant ... 020
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 · 11/09/2023I mean, if newspapers and networks published how many stories they spike each year because of letters from David Boies would that be the worst thing ... 100
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 · 03/06/2023You can buy a special Cyberstylus for scratching but it’s a monthly subscription… 010
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023Best rote-tern we ever had - Emma, 10:30 am Monday: I think I can write a script that will solve this harassment problem. Emma, 1 pm Monday: Have we considered making the entire site read-only? 031
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 · 28/05/2023"It was a fascinating case study even as it was also a complete shitshow" -- should be available option for every T&S person's tombstone ... 150
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023Yeah I mean, in the end, hell sites are other people's expression. And that song will remain the same ... 010
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023I think there are many broader problems that I don't expect will be solved or meaningfully improved by this approach, and I think it's important people learn that, bc thinking decentralization will solve all ills is also a stage I think we all needs to pass through in order to benefit from it ... 010
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023Second, I think having more people engaged with the process of policy-making and enforcement will hopefully add legitimacy to the system, the same way jury duty does. 220
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023Well, first I think many people think having a choice of more beds with low switching costs will mean more better quality beds bc competition. Let's ... find out? 110
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023I want to support our friends here who are game and trying to build something. So, yes, I think it has merit, but also, I think most likely this leads not to materially better outcomes, but to bad outcomes that at least have more legitimacy... 110
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 · 28/05/2023Remember, one of Darwin’s finches drank blood. If we keep iterating and decentralizing Twitters, we will eventually wind up with the vampire bird, and I’m not saying it will solve anything but getting there probably won’t be dull. 000
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023But this is bc I subscribe to the “animal balloon” theory of trust and safety, that the word “solution” doesn’t belong here, we just reconfigure conditions and trade-offs into new shapes… 100
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023In other words, it’ll be a maybe interesting reconfiguration of all the problems people who do this work have seen a million times. 200
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 28/05/2023My current feeling is that partially or wholly (if that were possible, I think it’s probably not) decentralizing moderation will improve a few things, worsen some things, and create some new-looking problems. 110
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 26/05/2023I would happily recommend investing in robust decentralized moderation if anyone knew what that meant. 240
Alex Feerst @feerst.bsky.social · 15/05/2023Has a more succinct summary of the enclosure movement ever existed? 041
