Joseph Bleckman

Arts & Culture. ~distux-sarmul on @urbit -- Also called: 金鷹 -- Editor-in-Chief @calvirtue

[Joseph Bleckman @thefogbus]

Coming across Year 2000 Date compliance clauses in old contracts is the Millennial attorney version of reconnecting to our inner child.

[kazi @x0kazi]

Really sad watching girls who have 0 friends and have no choice but becoming buddy buddy with the 5 orbiters that are desperately trying to fuck them

[Andrew Branca Show @TheBrancaShow]

"Yes. The government should seize all university endowments to settle the debts."

This is 1,000% the correct answer.

If aluminum siding salesmen did to elderly homeowners what colleges and universities do to American 18-year-olds, they'd all be in prison.

[Joseph Bleckman @thefogbus]

This is such a low hanging fruit policy. Even swing state GOP candidates should be pushed to get on board with this. Any Dems who are serious about winning back working class men could extend a serious olive branch by adopting this platform plank as well.

[Bronze Age Pervert @bronzeagemantis]

To social conservatives: begin to show your commitment to the family by making paternity tests mandatory to put a father’s name on a birth certificate.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

I used to be a big believer in the idea that everyone should be responsible for their own student loans. Taxpayer money should not be used to bail out a minority

However, the more stories I hear and read, I drift towards the Peter Thiel camp where I think the problem is unsolvable without government intervention

The next generation is watching the American dream crumble in front of their eyes. Housing and family affordability move further away each day

If anyone else has a more realistic solution, would love to hear it

[VanMan @Man_with_a_van]

The fact that we dont have giant herds of cattle and bison is the very evidence of lack of golden age. USA beef and bison should be the envy of the entire world. Our farmers and companies like mine trying to better the food supply should be given the government benefits that went to Somali daycares and Indian scam gas stations and vape shops

[steve @SteveMoraco]

I’m actually pretty upset Apple allowed this. While the feature is cool, the technical functionality that enables it is not cool.

If I was Tim Apple, OAI would be temporarily banned from the App Store until this is reversed, and here’s why:

I use iMessage because it’s quantum encrypted, with server keys I can own. Local caches are on devices that are encrypted with my passwords, not apples keys.

This makes it and computationally and legally impossible for anyone else to access chat history but the people I trust and directly communicated with.

But *now* the copies of my messages from years ago on *anyones* laptop in what is *supposed* to be an encrypted-at-rest local cache only can now be fetched directly by chatgpt without my permission or even knowledge and stored and processed in plain text forever on openai / Microsoft servers unencrypted and requested by any government entity at a moments notice without my knowledge and openai/Microsoft legally have to provide that, in federally enforced total secrecy. And they’re never legally allowed to admit they do it.

AND because of default chatgpt settings most people haven’t bothered to turn off, all those private texts can now be used for training and will end up in the weights of future models, so all future AI models will permanently know all of our private lives as a part of the weights, immortalized forever as training checkpoints.

Total architecture abandonment and user trust betrayal on Apples part. This should be the most viral story of 2026 by 100x. The permanent end of private communication in the US.

[Joseph Bleckman @thefogbus]

@sigilante 0 means truth; faith is the null hypothesis

[Owen @Owennfa]

WHEN YOU REALIZE THE BABY BOOM WASN'T JUST SOLDIERS COMING HOME HORNY.

It was soldiers coming home to the GI Bill free college, 0% down home loans, low-interest business loans.

It was strong unions. Pensions. A house that cost 2 years of salary.

It was confidence that the future was actually going to be better than the present.

That's what produced a baby boom. Not romance. Security.

You want a higher birth rate now?

Give people a future where they know their kids will actually be okay.

That's the whole formula. It's not complicated. It's just expensive, and nobody in charge wants to pay for it twice.

[Neet @neet_sol]

if you look at your older coworkers and don’t want to have similar lives you should probably quit

[Dabs🩸 @DabsMalone]

every company eventually becomes 11 people doing actual work and 64 people asking for updates

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇭🇹 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

This is the third time Trump has said that grass has “life like humans.” He is close to embracing the truth of 無情佛性 (wúqíng fóxìng), the Buddha-like nature of all things, and rejecting the false binary of sentience/insentience.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

"Grass has a life like humans have a life. This has all been redone... If you're grass, you're very happy. It was given, free of charge."

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

Something that hits hard as a Millennial is realizing how much false security we were sold in the 2000s.

We were told if you got the degree, took on the debt, played by the corporate rules, and stayed loyal to a company, you’d own a home by 30 and retire comfortably at 65.

Instead, an entire generation is watching pension plans disappear, entry-level jobs require 5 years of experience, and starter homes turn into institutional rental property portfolios.

It’s not just that the economy got harder……it’s that the entire social contract we built our early lives around was quietly dismantled while we were working.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Seize the endowments, use them to pay off student debt, end all federally backed student loans and subsidies

[Joseph Bleckman @thefogbus]

San Francisco liberals still pretend that they made a difference by recalling “Chesa”.

Deckchairs straightened out on the Titanic.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

Lmao your ordered liberty saar. Why just as the Founders intended. These Sons of Liberty outrageously incarcerated, probably for not paying their stamp tax

[Scott Morefield @SKMorefield]

Imagine a stay-at-home order with teeth, a $100 ticket mailed to you if a Flock camera takes a picture of your vehicle during certain hours. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities. If you had the slightest problem with the government's insane overreach during the Covid era, just imagine how much easier enforcement would have been if they had had this technology. This is the wettest of all wet dreams for the powers that be, and Americans are just rolling over and letting it happen.

[oecolamp @oecolamp]

The best of our generation are basically resigning from civilization in disgust. No one has advocated for their interests, and no one ever will. When this civilization disintegrates, no one will apologize for them. "For no reason at all, 'the people' stopped working."

[Joseph Bleckman @thefogbus]

Snow White needs her Seven Dwarves

[breadloaf 🛤️ @taxspendlib]

I get stressed out when I see a friend group that consists of 3-6 dudes orbiting one eccentric woman