Daniel Steigerwald

Local-first (user-owned) software is inevitable · building @evoluhq · czech posts @steidacz

[✙ Constantine ✙ @Teoyaomiquu]

Elon Musk says he wants to save russian conscripts. Then he should understand how the russian empire produces them.

russia crushed Chechnya. Now Chechen men are threatened, kidnapped and forced to fight russia's next war.

russia occupied Crimea. Now Crimeans are conscripted into the russian army.

russia occupied Donbas. Then Ukrainian men were rounded up and forced to fight against their own country.

The Buryats, an indigenous people absorbed into the russian empire centuries ago, are dying disproportionately in russia's war against Ukraine.

Even in Abkhazia, under russian military influence, young men with russian citizenship face the threat of conscription.

This is how empires work.

They conquer territories, subjugate their populations, turn them into military manpower, and use that manpower to conquer the next territory.

The cycle repeats.

Every new russian conquest creates another population that can be exploited for the next war.

If Elon Musk genuinely wants to save russian conscripts, he should focus on stopping the imperial expansion that keeps producing them.

Because the people russia conquers today become the soldiers it sends to conquer someone else tomorrow.

[Jack Hinson @Jack_Hinson214]

@saintjavelin He's mad because shutting off Starlink caused several countries to reconsider proposed Starlink or starshield contracts and decided to build their own, probably costing SpaceX hundred of billions. Actions have consequences.

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

@davekiss @opencode “Wtf, why you did not fix that???”

🤖 …

[ReasonRiffs @ReasonRiffs]

I can't recommend this interview enough. Highlighting the viscous crimes of Russia has never been more important given the utter mistreatment of Ukraine and Zelenskyy by Trump.

Not only Ukraine but the European community as a whole is lucky to have Zelenskyy as a leader.

Certainly one of @StevenBartlett's most impactful interviews.

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

1. Yes, Russia invaded Ukraine under Obama and Biden. But Russia occupied Ukraine throughout Trump's first term too, and Trump even withheld military aid. Now he's stopped providing substantial new US-funded military aid, lifted sanctions on Russian diesel, suspended new sanctions against Russia, and is pressuring Ukraine instead of Putin. He's actively helping Russia.

2. Agreed, the Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster. But Trump negotiated the withdrawal with the Taliban, excluding the Afghan government. Biden's mistake was sticking with that deal and botching the execution.

3. Those billions in equipment were mostly supplied to the Afghan army over many years. They fell into Taliban hands when the Afghan army collapsed.

I'm not defending Biden. I'm saying Trump is much worse.

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

You know what’s ironic?

I have a few friends in the US who are hardcore right-wingers. Libertarians and such. I’m an ancap. To me, even libertarians are socialists. Yet I’d vote Democrat in the US right now.

Why? Because Trump is an even bigger socialist and a Russian agent. Even if you couldn’t care less about Ukraine and his incredibly systematic lies about Ukraine, because you want America First, Trump is doing enormous damage to America.

My hardcore right-wing friends will still vote Republican, because Democrats, eww.

Suicidal idiocy.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

If Elon is doing that to Starlink, he is definitely doing it to X

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

@jordwalke Tidal app made all important text (album / song / author etc names) unselectable. That was when I understood how hatred develops to the point of jihad. Ux hell.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Musk's handwork in Ukraine.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

@elonmusk The US has been MAKING MONEY from selling Europe weapons that they then give to Ukraine to stop your buddy Putin from bringing his barbarians further into the continent. Since February 2025, the US stopped all aid and Europe had to pick up the slack.

Learn something.

[Eli @EliStrawmaning]

@elonmusk You are an evil compromised demon.

The fact the richest man in the world has been captured by Putin’s psyop is almost as alarming as the president being captured by it.

You’re both the harbingers of our destruction. The exact opposite of what you think you are.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Elon Musk is having a total meltdown, just lying his ass off in the most ridiculous ways imaginable about Ukraine today. Absurd and crazy Russian propaganda, one after another. What else from the biggest welfare recipient and immigration fraudster ever in our history?

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

@tmikov @reactuniverse_ I put a lot of thought into that reply, so I hope you’ll read it.

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

usually i tell people that 100 years ago, 99% of people worked in agriculture. today it's 1% (don't nitpick)

and most people in the jobs you mentioned already do nothing. now they'll do nothing with ai

just kidding, let's be real

there are two kinds of people: complicators and simplifiers
ai just gave both a slop / gold cannon

one bad worker keeps ten good ones busy
with ai, we now have -100x workers

work isn't writing code or ordering a machine to write code
work is ordering other people

that urge is endless

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Just once, it would be nice to see anyone in MAGA say how terrible it is that Russia invaded Ukraine, launched a murderous war, is targeting civilians in major cities, and should stop immediately. Instead, they keep attacking Ukraine. Curious.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

**You need to watch Zelenskyy's interview with Steven Bartlett.**

Sitting in front of the camera is an utterly exhausted, at times visibly broken man who has spent almost five years personally managing a war, making critical decisions day and night.

From the very first minutes, you can see just how drained he is. When asked the routine question, "How are you?" he replies that he barely sleeps because he spends his nights in military group chats, moving the last remaining air defense systems from one region to another.

Two stories are particularly heartbreaking.

The first is about a missile that struck a children's playground within seconds, while parents watched from their apartment windows as their children were torn apart.

The second is about presenting posthumous military awards to the families of fallen soldiers:

"You present an award to a father, feel his strong hand, and then he quietly asks, 'Can we hug?' At that moment, I simply cease to exist inside. These people are gone. They will never be the same again."

When the host tries to take him back into his past, showing old photographs from Kryvyi Rih, his student comedy performances, his voice acting as Paddington Bear, and scenes from *Servant of the People*, Zelenskyy looks at them with detachment, almost as though he is watching someone else's life.

He also recalls February 2022 without any attempt to portray himself as a hero.

He says that for the first 20 days, he simply ran from office to office on adrenaline, calling everyone he could and trying to organize deliveries of water and food to Kyiv.

Fear and the full realization of what had happened only caught up with him three weeks later, when Bucha was liberated and mass graves containing hundreds of murdered civilians were discovered.

Using Bucha as an example, he explains why advice from outsiders to simply negotiate a quick deal causes him such deep frustration:

"Imagine that in the United States or Britain, a mass grave is discovered containing 500 tortured people with their hands tied. How could you simply forgive everything after that?"

The rest of the conversation revolves around the deadlock in which Ukrainians, and indeed everyone involved, now find themselves.

Zelenskyy explains the causes of the war in simple terms: Moscow is trying to forcibly rebuild the Soviet empire because Ukraine's integration into Europe would finally bury that project.

But when the conversation turns to the present, there is unmistakable bitterness in his words.

Almost one-fifth of Ukraine's territory is occupied. The east is under relentless bombardment. Cities are left without electricity. People are dying every single day.

Meanwhile, every discussion about a ceasefire runs into the same demand: Kyiv must withdraw even farther from its fortified positions, without any guarantees that Russia will not launch another offensive a year later.

Toward the end, the conversation turns to Trump and Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities.

Trump publicly reprimands Zelenskyy over attacks on Russian refineries because he fears rising diesel prices for American farmers ahead of the elections.

And this is where you can see just how deeply that approach affects Zelenskyy.

His country is burning.

Moscow has rejected his proposal for a mutual halt to attacks on energy infrastructure.

Patriot missiles paid for by Europe are being redirected by the Americans to the Middle East.

And somehow, Zelenskyy is the one being blamed for fuel prices in the United States.

The entire interview leaves you with a profoundly bleak feeling.

Here is a man trapped between the daily deaths of people in his own country and the pragmatic bargaining of allies who have their own elections, their own interests, and their own political calculations.

And yet, he can no longer step away from this responsibility.

**Watch it.**

[log4j @log4j]

@tiburciogabriel just assume everything is weaponized, but the specifics being slowly uncovered is fascinating.

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

one of the new post-ai jobs:

crapware destroyer

[log4j @log4j]

so i figured out why my samsung TV is so sluggish.

samsung uses your own hardware for post-processing of data including audio, screenshots, and your aid (your cross-device tracking ID) and more telemetry.

computer vision processing and models run on your TV.

[Daniel Steigerwald @steida]

a friend thinks ai will turn humans into pets because there will be no work:

"New jobs for hundreds of millions of white collar workers? Doing what? Extremely unlikely."

usually i tell people that 100 years ago, 99% of people worked in agriculture. today it's 1% (don't nitpick)

and most people in those white-collar jobs already do nothing. now they'll do nothing with ai

just kidding, let's be real

there are two kinds of people: complicators and simplifiers
ai just gave a slop / gold cannon to both

one bad worker keeps ten good ones busy
with ai, we now have -100x workers

work isn't writing code or ordering a machine to write code
work is ordering other people

that urge is endless