Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He’s lying about that and you’re repeating his lies. A national wealth tax is not on the table. He is perfectly safe advocating for it in the sure knowledge that it won’t happen. 1223
Reposted by Ben RosengartOakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/08/2026This started out as a vibe report about the trial and then became something else as @meganwachspress.bsky.social dug into her misgivings about the AI Apocalypse narrative, ultimately becoming a piece about why, perhaps, Oakland didn't protest the trial: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/more-and-mor...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgMore and More, and Everyone LosesWhen Musk v. Altman brought the tech imperial core to Oakland, Oakland shrugged 085
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Not in spite of their ignorance but specifically because of it. 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I certainly don't advocate giving up. And pressuring Collins is fine, so far as it goes. I'm skeptical it'll pay off, but I also don't live in Maine, so I'm kind of a bystander here. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 30/06/2026People have made plans based on the possibility that Susan Collins might do the right thing in some cases. Those plans have not been notably successful. 100
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I think rich people are very good at rationalization and managing cognitive dissonance. 050
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 29/05/2026so I guess they weren't in the *habit* of pulling out ... sorry ... 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Absolutely take a stand. But choose times, places, and manners of conflict that discomfit the fascists. Armed confrontation at an ICE facility would be accepting their fight on their terms; unlikely to go well for NJ. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 21/03/2026This is for peasants who use an iPhone more than once 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Oddly I was just listening to Buddy Miles today. 010
Reposted by Ben RosengartKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 21/03/2026It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history. 6067841606
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 20/03/2026an ignorant response to an ignorant slur this thread is sad as hell 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Thank you. I know it’s going to cost you. So much respect. 002
Reposted by Ben Rosengartve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 15/03/2026Has anyone studied values drift over time among people who identify as fans of LLMs? The claim being not that LLM use is causing people’s values to change, but that forming a social identity around AI use is causing people’s values to change in the same ways as happens for other identities 1191
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 14/03/2026💯 And since the war can never be finally won or lost, the authoritarians are headed for a fall — but they can do a lot of harm along the way 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I’m just here to appreciate the Chick tract reference 160
Reposted by Ben RosengartPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse” 273064937
Reposted by Ben RosengartDan Hon @danhon.com · 02/03/2026The Pitt but it was the secretive rollout of APFS 051
Reposted by Ben RosengartAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 28/02/2026your enemies fighting each other can be useful but it doesn't make them your friends. anthropic doesn't want to help with hegseth's apocalyptic fantasy *because they have their own* you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them 8503114
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The evidence that "it was the stroke" is questionable. Before any circulatory incidents, Fetterman decided to grab a shotgun, chase a man, and then hold him at gunpoint, for the crime of jogging while Black. I believe the example of Fetterman can help one evaluate the candidacy of Graham Platner. 330
Reposted by Ben Rosengartweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 20/02/2026(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic 293286789
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 23/02/2026What the fuck? Tell me your S&P people have no Black people in their lives without, etc. 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 22/02/2026“Chuck Schumer, who can’t cook a cheeseburger” omg 030
Reposted by Ben Rosengartve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 21/02/2026Last thought: decentralization as a social organizational attribute isn't a source of trustworthiness. It's an attribute one uses to route around situations of inherent untrustworthiness. But sometimes (a lot of the time) you need actual systems and networks of social trust. 2318
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Every word is an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 13/02/2026My parents, generally well informed lefties, don’t know about this because the New York Times mostly refuses to report on it. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 10/02/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_...en.wikipedia.orgSpeech or Debate Clause - Wikipedia 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Somehow I’m in a diffuse nebula of German-speaking progressive intellectuals. I’m not *completely* illiterate in German but pretty close. 020
Reposted by Ben RosengartVicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Even if, in what would be by far the most conspiracy brained reveal, Epstein convinced the creation of r/pol, 4chan wouldn't have become a major political force in the world if there weren't thousands of people willing to use the platform day after day after day. 114926
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Shared-universe fiction is older than the other kind The “O is implied” era was a blip 000
Reposted by Ben Rosengartabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 28/01/2026fwiw I don't think it is possible to build genAI in such a way that it benefits workers rather than capital because it is fundamentally based on non consensual extraction of labour to get going. what would it actually mean for the workers to own the means of production here 914742
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 27/01/2026This is the energy I want to see from our Congressional reps. Do it for the people, Congresswoman! 💪❤️ 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I think you’re right. These are professional communicators. They have a lot of influence. I think they often make good use of it! 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 26/01/2026It reeks of solidarity, which they reject aesthetically and substantively 130
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The management layer of academia, in particular, were already working with the Biden administration against academic labor, and seamlessly transitioned into pursuing the same project with Trump at the helm. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 25/01/2026It was a pretext for a bribe. Bezos paid $40 million. I think it’s better for him that it flops because that way Trump is sure to understand who’s buying whom. 6623
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 25/01/2026That’s a dispiriting thought, as it seems the Democrats are as usual waiting for civil society to take care of the problem for them. 000
Reposted by Ben RosengartLydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest! 103104242825
Reposted by Ben RosengartYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 24/01/2026One of my weird personal practices is that whenever I walk by a particular piece of my garden, I pull one weed. Sometimes I go out and do more, but I deliberately don't give myself the task of clearing that area "for once and for all", because that is not what is going to keep it free of weeds. 5506
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I remember the NRA’s silence on Philando Castile. 070
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I’m sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing. 010
