#elite tech solution

[reality-detective]

FALL OF CABAL: The Criminal Network that Terrorizes Humanity

Who controls the wars that devastate nations? Why are groundbreaking cures suppressed while humanity suffers? Why are millions of children disappearing every year? The answers are in the explosive docuseries THE FALL OF THE CABAL.

The Hidden Hand Behind Global Suffering

This shocking series uncovers the elite network orchestrating wars, suppressing health solutions, and perpetuating corruption. Poisoned food, toxic skies, and unspeakable crimes against children—this is not accidental. This is a calculated plan by a shadow cabal to maintain power and wealth.

Unveiling Their Dark Secrets

Witness accounts expose horrific truths: elite hunting parties targeting children, connections between royals and human trafficking, and satanic rituals carried out by those in power. Names like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and George Soros are revealed as key players in this twisted global conspiracy.

Pizzagate, Child Trafficking, and Ritual Abuse

The series digs deep into child trafficking, exposing Hollywood, adoption agencies, and political figures involved in the exploitation of children. From PizzaGate to the horrifying rituals tied to adrenochrome and the elite’s obsession with power, the evidence is undeniable.

Media Manipulation and the Great Cover-Up

The mainstream media is complicit, silencing whistleblowers and spreading propaganda to hide the truth. From Project Mockingbird to censorship by Big Tech, the illusion of freedom is shattered.

A New Dawn: The Great Awakening

The people are rising. With Trump at the helm, patriots are uniting to expose this cabal, red-pilling the masses, and dismantling the old guard. The storm is here, and nothing can stop what’s coming.

This isn’t just a documentary. It’s a wake-up call. Demand justice. Spread the truth. Patriots, it’s time to fight for humanity’s freedom.

The fall of the cabal marks the rise of a new era. Let’s finish this fight. MAGA forever!

Actually it will "Make Earth Great Again" 🤔

[jackied0minguez]

Remote Work Redefined: TopDevz CEO Ashkan Rajaee on the Future of Flexible Business

In a world where remote work has rapidly shifted from a temporary solution to a long-term strategy, TopDevz CEO Ashkan Rajaee is leading by example. Speaking ahead of the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show, Rajaee shared insights on how his company has seamlessly integrated remote operations into its DNA—and why he believes this model isn’t just a passing trend.

A New Kind of Software Solutions

TopDevz isn’t your typical tech firm. Comprising an elite team of software developers, designers, project managers, and quality assurance specialists based in the United States and Canada, the company tackles the unique challenges that conventional off-the-shelf software can’t resolve. Rajaee explains that while standard solutions can cover 80–90% of business needs, the remaining nuances often cause significant inefficiencies. TopDevz fills this gap by offering custom solutions designed to address those critical details, ensuring that their clients achieve peak operational efficiency. With an impressive 96% workforce retention rate and 63% of their business coming through referrals, the company’s model speaks volumes about its effectiveness and employee satisfaction.

Mastering Remote Operations

Long before the global pivot to remote work, TopDevz was already thriving in a fully virtual environment. Rajaee emphasizes that the success of remote operations lies in having the right infrastructure and clear communication channels. “Working remotely isn’t as simple as logging in from home,” he notes. “It demands disciplined processes and a commitment to best practices—elements we’ve honed over the years.” His team’s seamless transition during the pandemic only reinforced the idea that a well-organized remote workforce can outperform traditional office setups.

The Indefinite Future of Remote Work

For TopDevz, remote work isn’t a temporary workaround—it’s the future. Rajaee envisions a business landscape where companies can lower overhead costs while empowering employees to work from anywhere. This flexible model not only drives client satisfaction by reducing expenses but also enriches employees’ lives by allowing them to choose environments that inspire creativity and well-being.

Rajaee even shares a personal touch: his passion for working from a yacht. Equipped with reliable Wi-Fi and satellite services, his unconventional workspace symbolizes the freedom that remote work offers. “If your current job doesn’t support the lifestyle you aspire to, it’s time to consider other opportunities,” he advises. His own journey from renting a yacht to eventually making it part of his regular work life underscores the importance of aligning one’s career with personal values and ambitions.

Empowering the Next Generation of Remote Entrepreneurs

Beyond leading TopDevz, Rajaee is passionate about sharing his remote work philosophy. Through his “RemotePreneur” initiative, he provides aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals with a playbook for building successful remote companies. This resource addresses the nuanced challenges of remote business management—from overcoming financial stagnation in traditional roles to confronting the inevitable criticisms that come with venturing off the beaten path. Rajaee’s message is clear: true freedom in work comes from rethinking established norms and embracing the possibilities that remote operations can offer.

Embracing a New Era

As businesses around the globe continue to navigate the evolving work landscape, Ashkan Rajaee’s vision serves as a powerful reminder that remote work, when executed with precision and passion, can unlock unprecedented opportunities. His leadership at TopDevz demonstrates that with the right approach, remote operations can not only sustain but also drive innovation, employee satisfaction, and overall business growth.

In a time when flexibility and adaptability are more important than ever, Rajaee’s insights offer a compelling roadmap for companies eager to thrive in a remote-first world.

[mariacallous]

The glow of the tech bros’ halo is dimming and, in 2025, the computing industry’s sheen of glamor will continue to fade too. While other STEM fields are making strides in broadening participation in their workforces, year after year, computing, a supposedly innovative field, fails to recruit, retain, and respect women and nonbinary workers. For example, precision questioning, abstraction, aggression, sexism, and a disdain for altruism—serving the social good—are a few of the core values driving culture in computing worksites. These values and the ways they are policed via bias, discrimination, and harassment in high-tech companies form the “Bro Code.”

The Bro Code perpetuates high tolerance of sexual harassment. It also contributes to the field’s failure to rectify its stark segregation. Only 21 percent of computer programming positions are held by women. Of that 21 percent, only 2 percent are African American, and only 1 percent are Latina. While sorely underrepresented in the field overall, women are disproportionately affected during industry’s downsizing. For example, nearly 70 percent of those laid off in the 2022 tech layoffs were women. This tracks with my experience in Big Tech. As soon as the company went public, stockholders demanded annual layoffs. For the first two years, the only people terminated in my department were women.

Further, due to their massive wealth and masterful branding, Bro Code bosses believe themselves to be wizards or priests. They lean into authoritarianism, prompted to repress complaints and resistance. Some programmers imitate this behavior. For example, in 2023, tech bros mobbed the Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest conference for women and nonbinary tech workers. Women attendees I spoke with described men at the career expo simply barging in front of them in lines, and some said they were verbally harassed and assaulted.

In 2025, the march toward a future dictated by algorithmic lords will falter. Coalitions between feminist movements and labor activism will increase public scrutiny of tech culture. These efforts will start to crack the Bro Code. Bro Code bosses talk a big game about its socially revolutionary impact, but participants in my research felt thwarted when trying to use their technical skills to serve others. For instance, Lynn reported that the eye-tracking device she developed to help people with disabilities was repurposed for marketing analysis; Shauna’s lab mates nicknamed her “accessibility bitch” when she worked on projects to help those disenfranchised in computing.

As Big Tech continues to deliver empty promises instead of solutions to social ills—while dodging taxes, quashing regulations and fueling a yawning pay inequality gap—the public will continue to grow disenchanted with the industry. In 2025, thwarted altruistic efforts like Shauna’s and Lynn’s will accelerate growing skepticism about computing’s service to humanity.

Disenfranchised tech workers will continue to help us hold Bro Code bosses accountable for not only failing to live up to its widely publicized altruism, but also for their efforts to conceal the social harms of their products. As recent organizing activities by tech workers show, strong coalitions across workers are what scare these reigning elites the most. For example, in 2018, more than 20,000 Google employees across the globe staged a walkout against sexual harassment and systemic racism in the company. In 2025, activism against the militarization, racism, sexism and economic exploitation in the tech industry will skyrocket higher than Bro Code bosses' space jets.

[helix-enterprises117]

Spill the deets on Redux.

AN ACTUAL ASK AND ONE FROM A FREND!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. Here we go.

THE EPOCHS OF HUMANITY: A HISTORY OF FIRE AND RESURRECTION - In the lightless gulfs of Primordial Space, long before time was counted by men or stars bore names, a war raged beyond mortal comprehension. The Jjaro, an ancient precursor species—tall, godlike, and bearing the unmistakable genetic fingerprint of humanity—stood as the last defense against extinction. Once caretakers of the galaxy, the Jjaro faced annihilation by a parasitic intelligence: The Flood. The Flood consumed thought and identity, reduced civilizations to biomass, and mocked the very idea of free will. Desperate and outnumbered, the Jjaro forged a final solution: The Halo Arrays. Ringworlds. Planet-killers. Built not just to destroy the Flood's biomass, but to starve them of what they needed most—sentient hosts. The Halos were 2,000-kilometer-wide toroidal megastructures, lined with Forerunner-tier weaponry and the raw elegance of Stanford-Torus design, constructed in the silent ruins of forgotten solar systems. And when they fired... Life across the Milky Way died. The Jjaro vanished. The Flood were imprisoned. The galaxy was sterilized. But life... finds a way.

REIGNITION (6000 BC - 2552 AD) - Civilization sparked once more on Earth. Slowly, over millennia, life returned—flora, fauna, and eventually, mankind. But the memory of the Jjaro was lost. Technology, once sublime, was now myth. Humanity crawled back into the stars, this time not as heirs, but as wanderers. From 2070 to 2552, the Earth sphere was plunged into a century-long Interplanetary War. Superpowers, megacorporations, and rebellious colonies clashed across the void. Mars burned, Titan was glassed, and Europa floated with debris fields larger than continents. It was the crucible through which mankind was reforged. Only after this dark century did the factions unify. A new age dawned.

THE FORMATION OF THE UESC - Out of chaos rose The United Earth Star Coalition (UESC), a constitutional republic formed by Earth and her strongest colonies—Mars, Titan, Luna, and the orbital nations. The UESC wasn’t a government. It was a declaration: “We are united, we are armed, and we are done kneeling to tyranny.” The UESC’s navy became the most powerful military force in known human history. And for a time—there was peace.

THE PHFOR WAR (2553 - 10,019) - That peace shattered when humans encountered the Phfor. An alien coalition of scavengers and bio-engineered war-slaves, the Phfor roamed the galaxy pillaging old Jjaro vaults, seeking artifacts of power and secrets of immortality. They found humanity instead. What followed was seven thousand years of brutal, attritional warfare. Entire star systems were lost and reclaimed. Humanity, outgunned and outnumbered, began to reverse-engineer Phfor tech—warping it, hacking it, merging it with their own innovations. Starships became smarter. Soldiers became faster. Planets became fortresses. The war ended only when the UESC shattered the Phfor homeworld and drove the survivors into the edge of the galactic core. But the void abhors a vacuum.

THE RISE OF THE COVENANT - Out in the dark, the Shaan’Shyuum, self-proclaimed Prophets of Unity, rose from the ashes. They rallied the shattered remnants of the Phfor, bolstered them with new warrior species—Elites, Brutes, Jackals, Drones—and baptized the new alliance under one purpose: To find the Jjaro’s legacy. To awaken the gods. Thus began the Covenant War—a crusade unlike any other. Faster. Smarter. Religious. Where the Phfor wanted power, the Covenant wanted revelation. The UESC, desperate to stem the tide, turned to forbidden sciences: The Spartans – Genetically engineered from birth. Born on heavy-gravity colonies. Trained in war, discipline, and loyalty. The ultimate natural warriors. The Battleroids – Dead soldiers reborn in chrome and neural-gel. Human minds inside technological monsters, designed to kill, then kill again.

THE MARATHON LAUNCH - The war raged on. In secret, the UESC spent 64 years building a new vessel from the ruins of Mars' moon Deimos: the Marathon. A massive colonial starcruiser and weapons platform, it was meant to house a new generation of Spartans and scientists. General Malcolm Keyes, a decorated veteran and war tactician, was placed in command. His orders were simple: Explore uncharted systems. Find answers. Come back alive.

THE BOY WHO KNEW THE STARS - In the shadow of the Covenant's empire, a child was born in chains. John Reyes—orphaned by war, enslaved by the Covenant. Not to mine. Not to fight. But to operate Jjaro Reclaimer tech—devices that only a rare human genome could interface with. He was a freak to them. A tool. A means to an end. But fate had other plans. Rescued during a covert raid by the megacorp Traxus Global, John was taken in—not out of compassion, but potential. Traxus was known for backroom deals with black-market tech, both alien and human. They rebuilt John into something new. Reclaimer. Mercenary. He became their blade. Their ghost. A child-soldier who fought in more ops than most ODSTs see in a lifetime.

THE HALO IS DISCOVERED While scouting deep-space anomalies, The Marathon discovered what no one had seen since the time of the Jjaro: A Halo Ring. A toroidal construct that dwarfed planets. Jjaro craftsmanship, untouched for eons. But the Covenant had already arrived. A massacre followed. Most of the UESC crew was slaughtered or captured. The Marathon was taken. Only fragments of a distress signal escaped.

THE MISSION - It's the year 30,000 AD. Now a grown man, John Reyes operates under ONI’s command. Officially, he doesn’t exist. Unofficially, he’s the most valuable asset the UESC has ever recovered. His mission: Infiltrate the Halo. Recover the survivors. Secure the artifact. And if necessary... Destroy it.

[james007anthony]

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[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

Zagreus liveblog

(This one will be long, y'all)

Poor Charley, she needs a break

OF COURSE there's an Alice in Wonderland theme

Thank you @daughterofheartshaven for telling me in advance this would be the Brigadier because my first guess at random guy we're supposed to know was Brax

Oh! THAT'S where the Zagreus bread reference came from!

Even amnesiac (again), he's so quirky I love him <3

Awwww the tardis is projecting itself into memories to help

Oh, this is delightfully creepy

Going back and forth is a bit confusing, though

Whyyyyy is it always Alice in Wonderland? I like my stories to have just a trace of logic

Schrodinger's cat is incredibly Time Lord, though

Ok, this whole history thing is clearly meant to be one of those dream sequences where all the characters have familiar faces, but it doesn't really work in audio so I have to keep the cast list open while I listen

OH! Cassandra really is historical to Gallifrey and was just turned on the vampire world! Why is the lore in this universe like this??

Oh, THIS time the Doctor will be changed permanently. Uh-huh. I totally believe you

Rassilon is so evil I love it!

Ah! Sudden vampires!!

I LOVE the glimpse into ancient history, this is so good!!

@the-worms-in-your-bones's lore notes are going to be so incredibly long for this one

"Gallifreyan elite" oof

Oh do the higher houses become the chapters?

Oh no! Sudden evil tardis!

Omega and who?? Did they just name the Other?

Oh the idea of the vampires as the innocents is so delicious

I do like the idea of vampires only being humanoid to blend in

I do not like the idea of Rassilon making other beings into humanoids

I don't get this divergent universe thing, but it sure does horrify me

The idea of tech replacing naturally occurring magic omg

How much of the tardis has the Doctor destroyed over the course of his life??

"Through every civilized society in the universe. Oh, and the Time Lords" lmao

The idea of the tardis, his one constant, his home and safe place, betraying the Doctor is so sad

Gallifrey being turned into an amusement park long after its death is hilarious, we should talk about this more

Not even getting into what they mean by a dead star though

Or how these machines could have lasted billions of years

McCoy does grief so, so well

{not typing them up but I did have several sentences here trying to figure out where and when we were this story is confusing as hell}

Eight being helpless makes me feel things

Ah! Romana so suddenly I have whiplash!

And writing her actual, literal fanfic ffs

I guess she needs a hobby but STILL

Ok she knows Brax by now, that's good to know

She's so dramatic, I love her

"...the fate of the universe, they can all go hang-" because she's busy writing

AH Brax's giggle

Leela!!!!!

Did she just casually break into the President's room?

Also you would think Romana of all people would not call people savage

Ok in reality this is a writers' failing, but my new headcanon is that Time Lords have a term for aliens from pre-time travel civilizations, translated here as "savage." It would go with this story's themes

Oh! The Death Zone!

I am fascinated by the theme song being more or less broken each time we hear it

Oh Romana is so bossy!

And judgy!

"Sorry, didn't you know?" RUDE

Picturing Leela crossing her arms and tapping her foot as Romana insults her

"Daleks and yeti and quarks, oh my" lol

OF COURSE Rassilon built himself a private Matrix dwelling

Wait what does she mean this isn't unexpected? Did she think Rassilon would just call on her one day?

Why are the writers so awful to Leela's characterization?

Love Romana being so offended at Rassilon and dropping all reverence

Oh WOW! She was so ready to die, just like that! She was writing fanfic in her room ten minutes ago

"I shall carve my name on both your hearts" oh that's hot

Charley is surprisingly good at explaining this nonsense

Oh Romana, you really are so Time Lord here, ready to kill your best friend as a practical solution

The Doctor's definition of friendship being "caring for someone else more than yourself" really does explain so much

I don't love the tardis being anthropomorphized, but I do love her being hurt and jealous

Oh my he jumped right to goading the ship to torture him

He's either too used to being tortured or into it, and both are concerning in the context of his life

Wait the demat gun was a Rassilon thing? Did I know that? I don't think I did

He's so heartbroken :'(

STOP WITH THE SAVAGE

"inorganic polymers that nature has forgotten" is a hell of a line

Big missed opportunity here for Rassilon to go "Doctor Who? This is Zagreus now"

Romana BE NICE

Ooooh yes love Leela being shot

The misogyny about the girls: not cool

The Doctors ganging up on Rassilon with the conses of his quences: very cool

"A whole universe in your dungeons?" "Several, in fact" oh that's chilling

HE HAS AN ACTUAL TIME KNIFE OH NOOO I'M WHEEZING HELP

The Doctor being stabbed yes

"Rushing to my doom? You should know me better than that" I mean...the whole series they're about to make about you says otherwise

Romana doesn't see tardises as sentient, interesting (but not out of character from the show, which suggests the Doctor's personification is treated as an odd quirk)

Oh are they flirting?

Though it is a bit out of character for Leela to misjudge a wound that badly

Oh I love Eight being tormented

I don't like Charley so much here; not for killing him, but for immediately jumping to he must not really love her

(though she is only 18 I guess? I still don't like it)

I enjoy the Anti-Time voice buzz

"Our duty is to the inevitability of events" is interesting, as is "the timeline is not yours to write." Since when, Ma'am?

Oh dang, the Doctor is so vengeful!

Yes still with the "My Lord"

"I haven't even ravaged the cosmos yet" lmao

I am Concern, things seem far too ok at this point

Oh, I actually do like the idea of him going to make peace with the divergents. It's very Doctor

Never meet your heroes, for real. No wonder the Doctor is bitter

"He listens, but he does not hear" accurate

This parting doesn't actually seem as bad as everyone made it out to be. He was a bit harsh to Time Lords and Romana personally, sure, but they still seem to be friends who understand each other. It's tragic, but she doesn't seem resentful

Wait, no time travel in that universe even with a tardis? Fascinating!

(Does that mean they didn't time travel within e-space either?)

[dreamlandiasims]

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Erwin: Back in the 70s, Strangerville was a military base and research facility. Well, it was a town before that, too, but the government presence really made it what it is today. The story is they got a report one day of some strange plant growing here and the feds rolled into to check it out. Turns out, the plant was alien in nature. The military did their best to cover it up, but it caught the attention of some of the early ufologists, namely the Curious brothers. Long story short, the military lost control of the situation, the plant-alien threatened to take over the town, and the ufologists had to dispose of it.

Frankie: There’s no way a single word of that is true.

Erwin: Yeah, well, that’s what a lot of people said to the Curious brothers. The government sealed the case up tight, and without any proof, no one believed them. Anyways, the town was pretty quiet after that. Officially, the military operation here was done. But in reality, they had worked out an under-the-table deal with some private organization, which bought the lab and took over research there.

Frankie: I met someone at the lab who said he owned it—well, paid for it at least. Ted Roswell?

Erwin: Ah, the Roswells. So this organization that bought the lab, it’s called Agnos. I don’t know much about it—there’s, like, nothing online—but it seems to involve the leaders and wealthy elite of cities all over the country. I’m talking Del Sol Valley, San Myshuno, Willow Creek… I don’t think the Roswells are really involved at the highest level. But they have the money to keep the lab in operation, so they’re given just enough power and influence to stay loyal.

Frankie: Wait… so how does BioSim Tech come into all of this?

Erwin: Well, now that’s the next piece of the puzzle. BioSim Tech is a real, legit company—but it’s owned by Agnos. They seem to dabble in a lot of different industries, but “bio engineering” is their main focus. On paper, the company is dedicated to “developing cutting edge solutions towards a brighter future for Sims everywhere”.

Frankie: Okay, sure.

Erwin: So it seems like they’re working on cures for disease, operations to increase longevity, things like that. But—and this part is just my theory, by the way—I think it’s all a front. I think what they’re really interested in is Strangerville’s connection to the extraterrestrial.

Frankie: Here we go…

Erwin: See, the alien plant… no one knows how it got here. It just appeared one day. Now, one of the leading theories among ufologists is that there are certain places in the world—places where there’s a higher frequency of abduction stories, UFO sightings, what have you—and that this means that the fabric, the material, separating our world from others is thinner, or more fragile. And so, periodically there are events that may cause a small tear—

Frankie: Aaaand you’ve lost me. How does any of this help me find my mom?

Erwin: I’m getting to that, if you’ll just listen…

Frankie: I’m trying! Could you get there a little faster maybe?

Erwin: Fine. Forget my theories, here’s what I know. A few years ago a new team of scientists showed up, some sort of changing of the guard. Still part of BioSim Tech, but… different somehow. More secretive, more controlling. And things have been weird here ever since. Technology going haywire, people losing their memories, and… well… people coming to town and never leaving.

Frankie: Wait, what?

Erwin: It’s not every person that drives through. But every now and then, they’ll decide to stick around—sometimes they’re tourists, sometimes… they have car trouble. And within a few days, they’ve disappeared. No one sees them leave, but we all just assume they skipped town. You know… helps us sleep at night.

Frankie: And you didn’t think to tell me this sooner?

Erwin: Look, I’m sorry. Like I said, it’s not every person that comes through. I didn’t want to scare you unnecessarily. Also… they scare the shit out of me. Agnos seems to have eyes and ears everywhere. People that go out of their way to warn others… also disappear.

Frankie: … What are they doing with the people they take?

Erwin: That… I don’t know.

Frankie: Then let’s find out.

Erwin: I, erm, what?

Frankie: You and me, Merlin. We’re getting into that lab.

[themargauxs]

🚀 Ashkan Rajaee on the Future of Tech Hiring

Ashkan Rajaee, CEO of TopDevz, is transforming tech recruitment with elite remote talent, AI-powered hiring, and cost-effective solutions. His insights reveal how businesses can stay ahead in the evolving workforce landscape.

[dominiquedevlin]

#TechLeadership: Ashkan Rajaee’s Vision for Topdevz

Ashkan Rajaee, the Founder and CEO of Topdevz, has built a premier software development company that stands out for its high-quality talent and agile methodologies. The Silicon Review highlights Rajaee’s journey, emphasizing his commitment to remote work, elite engineering talent, and a culture of excellence.

Under his leadership, Topdevz has flourished by recruiting top-tier developers from North America, ensuring high-caliber software solutions without outsourcing overseas. Rajaee attributes the company’s success to a rigorous vetting process and a work environment that fosters innovation and productivity.

With a background in entrepreneurship and tech, he has positioned Topdevz as a leader in custom software development, digital transformation, and IT consulting, catering to Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. Rajaee's vision for the future includes continued growth, innovation, and a commitment to delivering world-class software solutions.

[lazywriter-artist]

Guess who’s out of ideas again so it’s time for more oc dumps

Mostly just me dicking around with AdMech design ideas this time around UwU—

C0c71 - (he/they/Any) Silly tech priest, idk lol— not much lore stuff for him tbh. The little guy just kind of vibing helping run his forge world with his ArchMagos and friends, let him live idk. Can you tell my inspo for them tee hee?

Can you tell I h8 drawing clothes? Let me show off their silly robot bodies

Az-M0D3u5 - (They/Them/Any) A snake themed heretek, I decided perhaps a Techpriest from a forgotten forge world, originally started near the sort of outskirts of its galaxy only to find it was much too unstable to be a viable forge world and thus abandoned. Most of the elites and those important got out fast leaving those who couldn’t scramble together as quickly if they had means to leave at all to fend for themselves.

Feeling abandoned by the Omnissiah and the closest thing to family they have ever known? They turn to forbidden teachings and seek to survive in the desolate wasteland of a planet they’re forced to call home. Using various xeno’s technologies to try their very hardest to stabilize their own little corner on this forgotten hellscape. They aren’t doing half bad tho!

Some inspirations for the imagination are definitely mad max meet fallout meet 40k (obvi) this barren wasteland filled with people chomping at the bit to use what little resources they have left to survive while blowing eachother to bits 🥰

8r-14n - (it/they) servitor? Weird, too human shaped. Not a fan. ServoSkull? Cute. Not cuddly enough tho— wel fear not!!!!! Has 8r-14n have the solution for you!!!!!! Brain in goop and become Pubby :)

Who made em? Fuck if I know. Why they a silly Pubby? Let them live, what are you? An Arbites? Stop questioning the silly fella so much!!!

Needless to say they’re just kind of- glorified ServoSkull built for extra murder cuddles 🥰

[darkmaga-returns]

They thought cutting off Russia’s tech would cripple innovation.

Pavel Velikhov, Engineering Manager at Yandex, lists 5 ways in which sanctions forced Russia’s IT boom:

Western Exodus = Russian Gold Rush

"Sanctions freed up $74B in market share. Giants like Yandex, T-Bank & Wildberries took over overnight."

When US/EU firms abandoned clients—some even left systems unusable—Russian devs stepped in. Overnight demand.

No Choice But To Innovate

"Before 2022, companies resisted Russian software—'too risky.' Now? 'When can we migrate?!'"

Legacy Western tech was a monopoly. Sanctions broke it.

Now, Russian solutions are the only option.

Data Paranoia = Russian Cloud Boom

"US clouds = weaponized risk. Now, only Russian or 'friendly' tech is trusted."

Post-2022, data security fears killed Western cloud reliance. Russian alternatives exploded.

No More Silicon Valley Worship

"We were colonized by US tech. Now? We know we can compete globally."

Sanctions shattered the myth that only America builds elite software. Russian confidence is sky-high.

The New Playbook: "No Sanctions" = Huge Selling Point

"Now we pitch: 'Our tech won’t vanish over politics.' It’s a massive advantage in Asia, Africa, LATAM."

While US firms chase stock bumps, Ru

[grandhotelabyss]

Thoughts on Trump picking a writer as VP?

I haven't read Vance's book, so I don't know if he's a good writer, but I've heard it's a reasonably effective memoir, written mostly before he had this level of political ambition.

I just read his personal essay about his conversion to Catholicism today. I am cautious around writing that proclaims its humility and thereby forces me to search for its will to power; this is why I proclaim my will to power and allow you, but only if you want, to discover my humility, my debility, my "male vulnerability." Other than that, the essay is most moving and persuasive where it refutes the simplistic materialism of the likes of analytic philosophers and Sam Harris, and where he details his real spiritual experiences (I believe him). His critique of the left's superficially compassionate but actually cruel attitude toward the poor ("like sympathy for a zoo animal") is also exactly right. But I find it overly solemn, anxious, barely concealing the abandonment of his natal Protestantism for its plebeian or peasant quality—no less part of his desire for acceptance by an elite than was his earlier atheism. I was raised in plebeian or peasant Catholicism myself, on the other hand, which has nothing at all to do with the authorities he cites, like René Girard and St. Augustine. I look slightly askance on adult converts drawn in by the theology and morality. It has always seemed to me that the point of Catholicism—and I mean this much more religiously and much less blasphemously than it sounds—is the architecture and the incense, the barely sublimated sex and the eros of death. But I also love, as an outsider, the reckless, almost doom-seeking individualism of certain strains of Protestantism, some of them laundered as atheism. Since these seem to me to be the point of America, I am wary of overly intellectual Catholics and social democrats, their philosophies literally reeking of the over-crowded warrens of 19th-century Europe, moralistically tut-tutting about it. His second long quotation from Augustine gives me a chill, not in a good way. "[I]n his own affairs let everyone with impunity do what he will in company with his own family, and with those who willingly join him," our theologian jeers. Yes, Bishop, that's the American dream. Why not be a climate-doomer de-growther flinging soup in a museum with an attitude like that? The solution to poverty is abundance.

Possibly more significant for practical purposes, however, is Vance's tie to the literary-philosophical network around the Silicon Valley dissidents: Yarvin, BAP, and their associated publications and social media presences. (This is a good time to revisit James Pogue's Vanity Fair piece on the new right from 2022.) As Walter Kirn observed yesterday, that makes this election different from the last two. The last two were organized around the force of Trump's personality as he tried to hold together a fraying and fracturing Republican coalition of "provincial capital" (the proverbial boat dealer), the (mostly but not entirely) white working class, and the old Reagan Republican business constituencies of defense and energy, even as finance defected to the Democrats, while entertainment, academia, and intelligence pursued total war against their almost undefended reactionary enemy. The belligerent entrance of Musk and Andreessen into this election on Trump's side as representatives of big tech, with Vance as the political figurehead of big tech's literary and philosophical vanguard wing, makes it a much more even and generally significant contest: a true class war between incumbent and emergent elites. Literature has played no small part in this class war, as so many now widely-read writers and thinkers, love them or hate them, have resigned from the old left-liberal consensus. I don't mean to sound excessively neutral on the subject, but I belong to neither of the contending classes, and neither is at all democratic. I'm still not totally sure how the emergent elites' values are connected to a downbeat puritanical Augustinian Catholicism either, but since it seems to have everything to do with the aforesaid René Girard, we are still in the realm of literary theory if not literature.

In any case, the service of literature to any political faction or project should be the taming of its worser tendencies and the opening of its members to dialogue, irony, sympathy, and fresh perspectives. I will be told this is too idealistic.

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