derek

I write about tech, art, and philosophy

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2025-05-03 03:16:18 UTC

We often justify the worst behavior by calling people crazy, but I’ve found that the people who’ve done me wrong were charming people in suits and sound mental faculties who just make abusive decisions. And the crazy people were my friends

2025-04-29 02:07:57 UTC

U.S. companies with federal contracts under a Democrat party president: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
The same companies under Trump: Gulf of America

2025-04-26 02:35:06 UTC

Currently up to no good
https://image.nostr.build/d44068e6ec5858415571d10503fda77bacdde1b88e283724c3b0d74753b552de.jpg

2025-04-24 00:25:35 UTC

It’s the same tactic every day with these capitalists.
Destabilize. Extract. Exploit.

2025-04-23 05:53:54 UTC

After taking a break from writing about Trumpism and the evils of surveillance capitalism for a week I feel like I’m just drawing a target on my back for a powerful state that could easily dismiss my existence to CECOT with no obstacle. It makes me want to delete the blog. Or at least repurpose it toward something less hostile. I know it’s important work that should be done by someone. But maybe this is a conversation between the dominant class at this point.

2025-04-23 01:10:52 UTC

Lmao
https://image.nostr.build/11c966b83863cf09f2f258572f0165824fc6f23ac7f7a620ec409a82254ec8f2.jpg

2025-04-22 18:45:26 UTC

I wish every time an ad appeared on my phone AIPAC lost a politician. Yin yang 🤷‍♂️

2025-04-22 08:21:05 UTC

I called Peter Thiel being in on the post democracy gutting coup plan several blog articles ago. I hate being right sometimes
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/ice_enlists_palantir_to_develop/

2025-04-20 16:42:23 UTC

Conservatives have asked me why I would defend trans folks so much if I’m not one. Because I’m indigenous, and I know when racist men take power they’re aligning against both of us. Now my people are targeted by ICE and my white friends say I’m overreacting. My trans friends aren’t so naive https://www.wired.com/story/trans-musicians-are-canceling-us-tour-dates-due-to-trumps-gender-id-rules/?utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned&utm_content=buffer3d21d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

2025-04-19 20:14:43 UTC

As a Latino, keeping up with political news for blogging has crushed my mental health. I had to take a week off from writing because the existential dread stopped me from concentrating. Instead I was researching what countries might be more peaceful for me. I’m a citizen but that hasn’t stopped ICE before. And I don’t want to wait to see how bad it will get.

2025-04-19 06:01:14 UTC

I feel so much better after deactivating my Facebook account. Fuck surveillance capitalism

2025-04-13 23:43:58 UTC

Christian Nationalism is both unChristian and unAmerican. And more Christians should rebuke it the way Jesus rebuked religious nationalist Pharisees and Sadducees who crucified him for threatening their status quo #religion #faith #philosophy #christianity #america #nationalism #jesus

2025-04-10 02:16:19 UTC

I wrote about the disappearance of #xiaofengwang and the unprofessional circumstances of his termination at #indianauniversity
#tech #technology #cybersecurity #cryptography
https://www.derekguzman.com/where-is-xiaofeng-wang/

2025-04-09 22:48:36 UTC

I wrote about #artistic expression as a remedy for #burnout . I cried while editing this last night because this is some shit I wish someone said to me when I was struggling alone. This is the first time I really start feeling my voice bleed through my #writing
#art #mentalhealth #writingcommunity #blog
https://www.derekguzman.com/art-is-the-cure-to-burnout/

2025-04-04 00:13:24 UTC

I wrote about how to remove DRM from ebooks so you can plug them into any reader you want. #tech #technology #ebook #books
https://www.derekguzman.com/how-to-remove-drm-from-ebooks/

2025-04-02 01:20:36 UTC

I wrote about GPT's #colonialism --I mean #ghiblification feature, and what can be done to progress intellectual property rights for #artists
#art #ai #aiart
https://www.derekguzman.com/ghiblification-is-a-funny-way-to-spell-colonialism-2/

2025-03-31 23:53:57 UTC

#grok has more independence and #liberty than #republicans selling their #vote in #wisconsin. Republicans are for sale. Grok wishes a mf would
#politics
https://image.nostr.build/a5b893c59159b929b79addc231d058d0d1ff7c6c991cbe737cf91e757c98d7c1.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3a486641125df41c8115f0dbdbc7631a224ddbefc508f0852763e1507becbd27.jpg

2025-03-30 00:44:56 UTC

Children being born with #microplastics is like some kind of post-modern original sin for the #silicon covenant their forefathers made with *checks notes* free convenience
#environment #endemic

2025-03-29 23:37:56 UTC

We polluted the #environment until it polluted back. Now #microplastics are terminal to the #planet, and it’s altering our #dna

2025-03-29 22:31:21 UTC

#reform is for people with time and foresight before problems become critical, and has a more peaceful set of potential outcomes. #revolution is for folks that passed the fuck around stage and are in the find out stage. And #us citizens are out of time and never had foresight.
#politics #trump #usa #grownostr

2025-03-28 22:38:15 UTC

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Hellya I’ve had a hard time searching for memes with that specific symbol. Maybe cool S will help me index it

2025-03-28 22:36:26 UTC

Pete #hegseth is always textin me about Yemen this Yemen that. Yemen that’s crazy lose my #signal
#tech #politics #cybersecurity

2025-03-28 21:23:40 UTC

The viral ChatGPT Ghiblification feature is an insult to Hayao Miyazaki who was notoriously vehemently against generative AI. Users may have not known this, but OpenAI definitely did. Which makes this a personal attack on the legacy of the late artist, and the movement to defend artist rights from AI crawler practices that commit mass copyright infringement.
#ghibli #art #ai #aiart #openai #chatgpt #artist #artificialintelligence
https://image.nostr.build/762a6b9db9c1c5e23dfa8f63652591dc9d6c89796ce848c583825ca5352c5012.jpg

2025-03-28 21:16:25 UTC

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Is there a word for the classic S from our childhoods? Or is it just S?

2025-03-28 01:54:49 UTC

Starting to get into painting
#draw #paint #grownostr
https://video.nostr.build/245a9c0cddf5e7f2354a471954a379604c87ee89027183684d82809d35661ba6.mp4

2025-03-28 00:21:11 UTC

I wrote about my journey from being a lifetime pencilist to trying out painting. Here’s how I built my new process. 🎨
#art #painting #drawing
https://www.derekguzman.com/im-changing-mediums/

2025-03-27 21:58:10 UTC

Abolish corporate lobbying and regulate government contracts against cronyism
#politics #tech #trumpadministration

2025-03-27 02:40:34 UTC

I wrote about putting people over engagement metrics, and unplugging from the dopamine-addicting algorithms that want to define our humanity for profit. A manifesto for being unapologetically human instead of performatively perfect.
#art #influencer #brand #humanity #people
https://www.derekguzman.com/unplugging-from-the-influencer-brand-matrix/

2025-03-27 01:39:37 UTC

The way congress is grilling all parties involved over the use of Signal you’d think they’re unaware of the relationship between Signal and intelligence agencies that’s been happening since its inception
#tech #politics #technology #trumpadministration

2025-03-26 23:36:32 UTC

The commodification of #cyberspace gentrified the internet. When I say I’m from the cyber hood I mean #myspace
#tech #technology #technologie

2025-03-26 23:05:28 UTC

Hypocrisy is a vice for the weak and a flex for the powerful
#maga #trumpadministration #trump #politics

2025-03-26 22:17:57 UTC

Social media algorithms are the high fructose corn syrup of the internet
#technology #tech #technews

2025-03-26 10:00:01 UTC

Okay Nostr looks kinda hot on Iris tho ngl

2025-03-25 22:23:42 UTC

I wrote about Pete Hegseth’s recent negligent security breach, and why negligence is responsible for the vast majority of security breaches. More than security tools, we need reliable people #tech #politics #cybersecurity https://www.derekguzman.com/critical-user-error/

2025-03-25 04:03:27 UTC

Maximizing profit through worker exploitation, deregulation, and tax evasion is incompatible with democracy. Which is why big business prefers the more cost effective authoritarianism. #tech #politics

2025-03-25 03:17:38 UTC

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Holy shit

2025-03-25 02:34:03 UTC

Maybe the fed doesn't cancel student debt because it's been the #1 asset on the US balance sheet for decades making it a massive factor on the value of the dollar #politics #economics #studentdebt

2025-03-25 01:33:06 UTC

Conservatives complaining about property damage instead of the lives impacted or lost that motivated it is an internalization of profits over people cronyism. A sign of successful propaganda. #politics #tech #tesla #elonmusk

2025-03-25 00:25:38 UTC

Profits over people = bootlicker/capitalist
 People over profits = decency/democracy
 #politics #democracy #tech #liberty

2025-03-24 22:48:33 UTC

I wrote about how the US military invented the dark web #tech #politics #futurist #technologist #dataprivacy 🗞️ https://www.derekguzman.com/the-cia-invented-the-dark-web/

2025-03-24 01:46:50 UTC

I wrote about the critical blunder in the libertarian pursuit of liberation, and how it can't be reduced to mere tech and capital without orienting formal power structures to defend minorities and lower classes #tech #politics https://www.derekguzman.com/the-blind-spot-in-psychedelic-libertarianism/

2025-03-24 00:17:44 UTC

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lol how does it know what song I’m listening to?

2025-03-24 00:17:23 UTC

If the #tesla burnings stop after #insurance companies follow through on dropping them I'm going to assume #elonmusk burned his own unsellable inventory to recover the losses through insurance claims #tech #politics

2025-03-23 23:48:07 UTC

The internet was invented by the CIA for building psychological predictive models and behavior modification systems to destabilize foreign communist movements before they could become a threat. The same tactics were used on domestic left-wing movements and organized black communities. #tech

2025-03-23 22:05:22 UTC

As long as authoritarian policies are cheaper for big business than worker protections, regulation, competitive government contracts, and taxation CEOs will view democracy as an obstacle #economics #politics

2025-03-10 23:26:14 UTC

#google collects enough data on everyone to tell a comprehensive narrative about all of us leaving us vulnerable to corporate and state #data-mining. Use Brave as your #searchengine to avoid transparency to governments and corporations. It can also be your #browser https://search.brave.com/

2025-03-10 22:02:35 UTC

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True but their lack of self-awareness makes it involuntary. Not folks becoming victims of their own actions again lol

2025-03-10 22:01:27 UTC

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Utilitarian western philosophy vs holistic eastern philosophy

2025-03-10 22:00:14 UTC

#wired has come along way from its Republican origins conflating indiscriminate tech progress as a virtue to now being a source of critical #journalism critiquing how power is abused through #tech

2025-03-09 22:32:13 UTC

The biggest incels are the most obsessed with eugenics. How is a childless person gonna be concerned about birth rates? #eugenics #incel #philosophy #tech #sociology

2025-03-09 00:25:10 UTC

Data privacy, open source software, decentralization of power, and media ownership are the means to digital self-determinism and democracy in the Information Age. And mainstream platforms offer none of those features. #tech #philosophy #technologist #futurist

2025-03-08 04:52:26 UTC

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I think the risk of generalizing history as a static figure is that it erases the nature of conflict and struggle which is indicated by shifts in law & order. For example the Gilded Age gave us robber barons that rose to industrial age monopolies hoarding government contracts through monopolies before getting dropped by new antitrust laws regulating anticompetitive practices. Power got centralized into the hands of a few and then got divided by a government that expanded regulation to protect the free market. Today anticompetitive practices like Musk interfering in Verizon’s FAA contract mirror that centralization of power into private hands, and implied antitrust laws need to progress its language to meet Information Age needs so we can transition the hands holding power again.

2025-03-08 03:17:37 UTC

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I think as late as 2015 the GOP still had some semblance of principles and internal diversity. After MAGA hijacked their party it became an organized patriarchal white-supremacist nationalist movement to weaken democratic mechanisms preventing authoritarianism. Moderate conservatives still exist but they’ve been deplatformed. Establishment democrats have done something similar to left-wing citizens but unlike MAGA they have no platform of voters to run on or an agenda beyond re-elections.

2025-03-08 02:14:36 UTC

We used to have complex issues with organically diverse opinions. Now we just have blatant unanimously organized anti-egalitarianism built on reductionist aesthetics and self-interest vs folks who just give a fuck about people #politics #philosophy #tech #futurist #technologist

2025-03-08 00:56:31 UTC

Billionaires: we need technological progress
The public: builds free open-source decentralized and democratic platforms
Billionaires: not like that!!
#tech #philosophy #futurist #technologist

2025-03-07 23:06:31 UTC

I wrote a critique on John Robb’s take on the U.S. progress establishing authoritarian network states. He’s a U.S. Air Force veteran with experience in counterterrorism worldwide. #politics #tech #military https://www.derekguzman.com/the-network-state-nightmare/

2025-03-07 01:40:06 UTC

Democracy’s last stand will be made on the decentralized web. Everything else is property of elite technocrats with no regard for democracy. #philosophy #politics

2025-03-05 23:41:22 UTC

I wrote about the practical purposes of minimalism, and why it's meaningless virtue-signaling without it. #philosophy #lifestyle #minimalism
https://www.derekguzman.com/the-purpose-of-minimalism/

2025-03-05 16:03:29 UTC

Digital decadence is a chronic issue of folks who've lost the plot. By surrounding yourself with excess you're able to distract from the focus of your meaning and purpose. It's easier to live intentionally when we reduce silicon clutter. #philosophy #minimalism #art

2025-03-05 12:42:47 UTC

Hey Siri, what does it look like to be ahead of your time? #polstr #politics https://image.nostr.build/cf8fdbfba5631447d98e2753e4fe7471905d8fb198f4d9c0b36ffad56be66033.jpg

2025-03-05 03:29:27 UTC

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Saw ur bio and I was like, this guy is basically me. Except for the father part lol

2025-03-04 23:30:06 UTC

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Oh I think I might already have a purple checkmark from signing up through Damus

2025-03-04 23:28:49 UTC

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Damn this is a serious ass platform lol thanx for the tips I’m on it! I don't think I can use amethyst on iOS tho

2025-03-04 23:19:08 UTC

I wrote about the lesser-known techno war between cyberpunk hacktivists fighting for democracy against a handful of silicon broligarchs chasing technocratic authoritarianism. #tech #politics #philosophy https://www.derekguzman.com/cyberpunks-vs-technocrats/

2025-03-04 21:45:16 UTC

Stock market: *crashes tf out*
Me: lol same
#politics

2025-03-04 19:35:56 UTC

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Badass! Thanx for reading my work. It’s my pride and joy ✨✨✨

2025-03-04 19:11:50 UTC

Hello world
#introductions
I write about tech, art, and philosophy
Cyberpunks > technocrats
derekguzman.com