proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 9hIts the after school special theory of change. You guy up you make a big speech and all the sudden everyone agrees with you, stands up and claps and then it fades to black and there is a line of text saying how everything changed after that. 030
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 9hContrapoints is half right. It ain't about getting power. Critiquing power is merely a means the end of everyone stopping to realize that their the most special and smartest widdle boy/girl and then getting revenge on everyone who doubted them. 1323
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Except it will take months to determine what the broken features even *should* do. It'll take years to find the latent bugs where things mostly, but not quite or not always work. Code has never been the bottleneck of development. 11102
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The onion never recovered from their move out of the Midwest. There was a very "screw all your self important weirdos. People in power are just weirdos with power." vibe that was lost when it's writers became NY failsons who depended on those weirdos for their trust funds. 1451
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Onion and John Stewart made their chops busting the media for bothsiding bullshit. Then became friends with people in the media and adopted the media's narrative of "Republicans are evil, but lets shit on Democrats". The saddest sell outs are the ones who don't even realize they sold out. 0134
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That is what I did. In pickem league I decided based on which team moniker would win in a fight. I came in 4th out of 10th. 000
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I wonder how much of the persuasive power is driven by the perception of AI as a neutral arbiter vs a thing that will argue for a long time with infinite patience 3511
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Democrats should 100% run on restoring trust and becoming a high trust society. I think the current... utter stupidity does reflect underlying problems with society. And *everything* can go back to trust. LITERALLY EVERYTHING. 000
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Even someone is stupid as Hegseth knows he will spend the rest of his life in then die in a South American prison if Republicans ever aren't in power. That is what makes him very dangerous. 120
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can we point out that even if he did attend a game in atlanta that doesn't mean he met Willis? Atlanta is a big city! 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time I see this nonsense it just reminds me of how little coverage of politics is focused on policy and its effects. A lot of people put effort into following politics end up just knowing the Soap Opera politics: who who is mad at who and who has a minor scandal, but very little about policy. 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026GLOBAL EXISTENTIAL COLLAPSE CRISIS More words equals more serious 051
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The name search thing really shows how they're more interested in and addicted to attention then they are in their work. Their work is just a means to get that attention, they don't care about the craftsmanship of their work, their only concern is how much attention it gives them. 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Taken in the Black Company. They're just powerful people who do not care who they hurt. Some enjoy hurting others, but most just don't seem to care. They have something they want to do and anyone in their way is dealt with quickly. 080
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Elites the world over will burn down everything rather than admitting they made even the smallest mistake. 070
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Because there are a lot of people with more money than sense. The company I work for has acquired two companies with "cutting edge AI tools", but when we got a look at them they were just calling openAI, not even a customized model. 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It really demonstrates their outright addiction to covering him. They couldn't even manage a few days without it. 190
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think part of their reactionary nature is taking offense that so much of coolness is derived from non-white culture. So having a member of one of those cultures say they're cool "reclaims" coolness in their fucked up heads. 0101
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Regulating AI is a legal problem, not a technical problem. The people writing the legislation don't need to know anything about AI or even computers, they just need lay out how to assign liability. The bill could be a single page. 030
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If someone is determined to engage in bad faith there is literally nothing you can do to stop them. No amount of background, caveats, explaining will work. If someone is determined to engage in bad faith they will. 0100
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just a pure distillation of privilege right there. "My right to not get upset at news is greater than someone else's right to participate in democracy". 061
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm remembering the EA Spouse blog of the '00s that exposed how terrible Electronic Arts treated her husband, and others, working there. Maybe we need an EA Spouse of the '20s to expose how terrible it is for effective altruists to not invite her husband to orgies 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I too look forward to every left of center candidate getting dragged into a catch 22 of having to refight a decade of streamer drama or piss off his fan base. It's a very good use of our time as a nation and the resources of the media. 000
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It has a long and storied tradition. Steinbeck's frequently misquoted "temporarily embarrassed capitalist" was describing how rich failsons would join progressive/socialist movements, drive out working people then fuck off back to their rich daddies when they were done slumming. 1110
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Can confirm. There is an earnest belief among right wingers that all America secretly agrees with them and people only pretend to be liberal and once they're given permission and a voice everyone will stand up and declare their right winged beliefs. 1241
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Add a group for Rural, and Rural Cosplay, Gentry. There are many people with modest fortunes who rule their local country like a feudal lord, but off the books. And plenty of guys in 100k trucks they drive to their sales job who seek to emulate their domination from the burbs. 121
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There are times when I think they've crossed from passively complicity to actively engaged in it. 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And it's good that people are starting to judge the economy not just on how they are doing but also on how others are doing! 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Renewables and Medical tech don't have a huge PR industry deeply tied to the press. SV has completely co-opted them into their PR apparatus and the press appears unaware of it. Every time a fang company sneezes there are a dozen articles about it from major media outlets, usually laudatory. 030
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026To me the driver is Blizzards obsession with (space) elves. Humans are just the chaff for the magic (space) elves to serve as the true protagonist who must do Heroic Sacrifice because the humans are dumb. 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I assume avoiding liability is why they programmed it to respond like a person and constantly push the "maybes it already sapient?!?!?!?" bullshit. 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The lack of Honesty and corresponding Trust in our society leave this massive hole that everyone seems to realize is there, but doesn't get talked about. We no longer trust companies to provide basic products, governments to provide basic services or our fellows to act with basic decency. 082
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I've been thinking over a theory that someone put a curse on the American media that makes them unable to see or process the existence of anyone below the rank of Director at a corporation. 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Tech debt is up there along with rust as things that are an invisible tax on everyone, but we don't think about day to day. It's good to see resources allocated to fix issues 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yeah, the OTC guy and Civics guy were blatant self inserts. They put out a lot of Heinliens usual libertarian wankery about how regulation just leads to more regulation to fix regulations problems, etc. 1651
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Its like a polygraph. It doesn't work, but that is the point. It lets the people using it launder their bias through scientific sounding means. 0101
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People always think they would totally see through someone sucking up to them. Very few actually do. It can take *years* for people who get into positions of authority to realize that what everyone below them is doing. 2210
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026On one hand we have economic damage and the embarrassment of America. On the other hand I get to watch the Republican party get humiliated because of straight cowardice. In conclusion: America is a land of contrasts. 030
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think Democrats try what you're suggesting every day, but the media, and the audience, just ignores it. To me what made Harp the center of a media cycle was how the White House responded to a very oblique jab. It was a response so wildly out of proportion people took note. 060
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A big part of it is that Doctor is a much higher status position than manager. The socio part of socioeconomic class ain't there just because academics like big words. 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026People are not ready for the conversation about how much medical cost is driven by doctors. Not just their salary, but things like over testing, over prescribing, etc. Yeah, it ain't the only cost driver, or even the biggest but it's still a large factor. 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It is a symptom of the underlying mindset of "why pay for what I could just take" becoming the norm in business 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026things clicked into place for me when I found out that some states had property requirements that all but required holding slaves to run for office. Just a total capture of political, religious and economic power to orient their entire society around their ownership of human beings. 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think academics need to tailor their critique based on the intended audience. It is not the failing of a 20 minute YouTube video or 300 page book that it doesn't cover the full minutia of a subject that a PhD program would. No shit Sherlock! The audience knows that! 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"I think we should focus on the very real damage being done do this country and the destruction of public trust not making react content to what some guy sitting in his mom's basement playing orcs and dorks online says." 0180
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Pundits are committed to the "vibe shift" bit because the alternative would be admitting that the public is dangerously misinformed about candidate policies and they are partially to blame. 020
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026As a guy in tech its a big story because large organizations are often times drowning in tech debt and no one is willing to admit it, let alone assign resources to fixing it. Tech Debt is probably right up there along with rust as things that cost way more money than your average person realizes. 3141
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026He should assign half the NYPD's PR office to cover other public affairs then it might get coverage. 010
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The propaganda in the games themselves pale in comparison to the way social media algorithms have linked anything video game related to the far right. The link is so strong I question if it was deliberately engineered by companies. 110
proactiveretcon.bsky.social @proactiveretcon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The writers of this season of reality are just hacks. Oh look the over extended military has a rusted out shop sail back into harbor. We get it dudes, you don't need to lay it on that thick. 000
