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Ben Rosengart

@fivetonsflax.myatproto.social
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Eh, you can probably guess.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
City chambers shut down as #Memphis residents fight back against tech-fascist Elon Musk's data center. "...protesters chanted inside City Hall, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby." www.foxnews.com/politics/mem...
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Memphis City Council devolves into chaos after data center moratorium vote postponed
Memphis City Council delayed a vote on a data center moratorium as protesters chanted, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby.
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026
This was a social murder. A straight up casualty of class war.
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026
I wrote up (at too much length to repost here directly) why I expect the next Dem administration will face a debt crisis. Would love to read any well informed disagreement. tilde.zone/@fivetonsfla...
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@alter_kaker@hachyderm.io The business cycle will turn for the first time since the US retreated so dramatically from its role as global hegemon. Meanwhile, various factors will organize capital into ...
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
TIL that the French set up a separate and unequal high school for poor immigrant kids in Seine-St.-Denis and named it Rosa Parks. Has there ever been a better emblem of the French tendency to point at American racism while ignoring their own?
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
It’s hard to understand what the next phase of my career should look like when the big trends out there are austerity and ‘AI’ hype. What is the equivalent, for a UNIX-at-scale nerd, to shorting nVidia? Can I profitably teach organizations how to recover from their encounters with “AI” footguns?
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026
@moiradonegan.bsky.social Shitty Media Men, Silicon Valley edition.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not being a mark is praxis
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 31/08/2026
Using my passport for the first time in a long time. I’m going to a place with an actively enforced lèse-majesté law yet I’m looking forward to breathing free air. What a time to be alive in the US.
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 24/08/2026
Stay winning, @karenattiah.bsky.social! And I appreciate the solidarity in your post for Felicia Sonmez and others!
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Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026
Beat this if you can. www.imdb.com/title/tt0108...
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