Reposted by Ben RosengartGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 6hMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 496123252906
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 44mMm, self-regarding ideologues sure are a plague, aren’t they 100
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 45mOkay. And yet, people flee into cities to be safer from hate. I don’t think that stops without other locales becoming more intolerant of intolerance. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 1hSo you think the phenomenon Anand talks about is not real? I don’t understand. 100
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 2hI need more of those rural and suburban non-haters to actively reel in the haters. Too many of them treat “difference” and “hate” like equally valid opposing opinions. 100
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 4hWe worked this out on Twitter over ten years ago: if it doesn’t say “all men”, it doesn’t mean “all men”. This discourse is so stale, it has a Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NotAllMenen.wikipedia.orgNotAllMen - Wikipedia 120
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 5hI don’t think Jess was talking about all men. I think she was talking about, specifically, you. That’s why you felt targeted. (I didn’t.) 110
Reposted by Ben RosengartIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026City 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...foxnews.comMemphis City Council devolves into chaos after data center moratorium vote postponedMemphis 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. 218263
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026I just take a walk or sth, but I guess that is one method 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026Evan! You’re comparing a movement *against* capital to a movement *sponsored by* capital! Of *course* one gets heard better than the other — no rhetorical strategy can fix that! I mean sure we should reject false nuance — I do — but we’ll still be battling gale-force headwinds no matter what. 020
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026I’m a nice person, but I wouldn’t wish being my roommate on anyone, lol 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026Bars! Racial segregation has always been the primary purpose of the idea of “musical genre”! 070
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026This was a social murder. A straight up casualty of class war. 033
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026A wacky person on Mastodon who fancies herself a truth teller got CRAZY in my mentions when I said I withheld my vote from Ms. Harris. I vote in California … 🤷♂️ 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026He looks a lot like Thomas Klebanow from The Wire (no insult meant to David Costabile, who played him) 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026I 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...tilde.zoneBen Rosengart (@fivetonsflax@tilde.zone)@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 ... 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026It seems to me that after the smash-and-grab is over, the next Democratic administration will face demands by the bond market to impose austerity. I don’t honestly know how even a well-coordinated movement that understands the moment will be able to impose its agenda. Let alone the Democrats. 031
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026TIL 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? 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026I have no credentials in organizational psychology, but given my industry’s attitude towards credentials, I’m more worried about knowing what I need to know, than about having a piece of paper to prove it. I wonder if I still have the attention span to inhale a stack of books like I used to. 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026It’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? 101
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026One sad detail that leaped out at me was that the assault by pulling out medical tubes (2010) was *before* they got married (2011). He was suffering in that relationship for a long time. 060
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026He says the neglect thing was a setup, she was in charge of the kid that day. 010
Reposted by Ben RosengartMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Once 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 14754277
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026My association is: moldy bread and not enough of it 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026SF school district contracted with “Revolution Foods” for school lunch and I’m like — whoever branded this doesn’t read much history. 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026Is this slop meant to convince anyone of anything? I don’t think they put their “A team” on it. 030
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026Sad and horrifying stuff. “AI” culture is rotten to the core. 030
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026@moiradonegan.bsky.social Shitty Media Men, Silicon Valley edition. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026💯 Kai’s statement is blatant ableism. You don’t know why the applicant chose to bring a drink — maybe it helps with some medical issue that they don’t need to disclose to you. Unless it has bearing on their ability to do the job, just ignore it. Is that so hard? 3591
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026I feel that portion of my brain has been stolen for profit, and I want restitution 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026We can’t coordinate collective sense-making or action because the tools we’d use to do that have been under sustained, effective attack by a corrupt and short-signed ruling class, IMO 182
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026It might lead to electoral victory. But not to realigning the media, big business, big law, higher ed, philanthropy, etc., on the scale that Project 2025 did. Without which, an electoral victory may only consolidate our losses. 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026So the GOP’s second-biggest donor went from $200MM+ to $20MM+ this cycle. (I wish he’d be mad at *me* like that.) Interesting. The article also says the GOP, though expected to lose, is out-raising Dems by far. To me that’s the more interesting angle! I wonder why NYT doesn’t explain that, LOL. 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026Yup. Now let’s talk about Prince’s “Cream” and why T. Rex should get a writing credit … 000
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026Maciej turns a great phrase. And for a minute there, he was building real community in tech against fascism. Then, for some reason, a horrible heel turn; he’s dead to me now. Which is sad in part because it means I don’t get to personally mock him for helping elevate Jared fucking Golden. 0131
Reposted by Ben Rosengartalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Anyone 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. 8940321
Reposted by Ben RosengartTyler 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.”orlandosentinel.comDocs 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... 9655492163
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026Cussing a Snickers bar is no fun, they don’t react 030
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026Runner-up: The Second Coming (“Things Fall Apart” disqualified for not being conservative) 010
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026Waiting but also doing whatever I can think of to hasten it 110
Ben Rosengart @fivetonsflax.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026I think we had a collectively terrible reaction to that awful event, and we’re still having it. There’s no Trump without Bush and the orgy of immorality they called the Global War On Terror. Also, good for young Jess, I’m proud of them for their lonely and principled stand. 010
