Derrick Knight's Avatar

Derrick Knight

@knight427

61
Followers
39
Following
91
Posts
15.11.2024
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Derrick Knight @knight427

Post image

I’ll be watching this instead of the pedo in chief.

24.02.2026 22:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

@volts.wtf
I didn’t read it, just did a simple search.

03.02.2026 02:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The FBI Raided A Reporter’s Home, Ignoring Laws Designed To Prevent Exactly That If you want to understand how little the current administration cares about the First Amendment, look no further than a pre-dawn FBI raid on a journalist's home—conducted in apparent violation of a federal law specifically designed to prevent exactly this kind of thing. Last week, FBI agents showed up at the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, seized two phones, two laptops, a Garmin watch, a portable hard drive, and a recording device.

The FBI Raided A Reporter’s Home, Ignoring Laws Designed To Prevent Exactly That

If you want to understand how little the current administration cares about the First Amendment, look no further than a pre-dawn FBI raid on a journalist's home—conducted in apparent violation of a federal law…

26.01.2026 23:34 👍 56 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 2

Every time someone tells me that interoperable protocols are too complicated for the average person, I point out that they use email and the web.

The goal needs to be to get atproto to the point that it is just "how the internet works" and the details fade into the background like https & smtp.

26.01.2026 17:35 👍 492 🔁 79 💬 14 📌 3

Skipping the read (sorry): I’d be happy to show my ID to a human who would not save and or record my ID to a vulnerable database in exchange for simple online age verification.

07.01.2026 02:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gosh. If only some widely read political media properties had been willing to call out Trump's disavowals as nonsense. If only.

02.01.2026 00:09 👍 476 🔁 96 💬 12 📌 3

I recall that over a decade ago, @barackobama.bsky.social put out a vaguely favorable statement regarding net neutrality, and the Ajit Pai/Brendan Carr folks in the FCC absolutely lost their minds, screaming "WE'RE AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY, HOW DARE HE TRY TO INFLUENCE US."

17.12.2025 18:27 👍 644 🔁 196 💬 7 📌 6

I tried to warn them...

www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/f...

16.12.2025 02:39 👍 230 🔁 54 💬 10 📌 1

Mamdani is brining free markets back to NYC by cutting through the red tape installed by anti-market capitalism!!!

29.11.2025 22:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.

Some changes that they can look forward to:

29.11.2025 22:15 👍 16815 🔁 2680 💬 285 📌 400

@mehrsab.bsky.social Are you familiar with @rohangrey.bsky.social ? I’d listen all day to you two discussing law and money.

29.11.2025 22:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image
14.11.2025 23:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image

Making the case for the need to fight back against the war on cash and promote ecash today in
@notus.com

27.10.2025 09:28 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

There have been a lot of changes to ordering to remove as much human interaction as possible. Somehow, forcing all interactions to be mediated by technology has made everything painfully slow.

18.10.2025 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve tried going inside to try to change it to carry out rather than dive through. Mostly everyone ignores you. If you do manage to change it everyone gets confused and the order is wrong (tried that last time).

18.10.2025 22:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@tacobell.bsky.social is the worst customer experience. My girls like it so I’m often stuck in a long slow car line waiting to check in so I can wait in the car line some more to get to the window where they will tell me to pull around and wait some more at the side door. 30 minutes minimum.

18.10.2025 22:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Video thumbnail

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

12.10.2025 15:37 👍 4912 🔁 1057 💬 362 📌 173
Preview
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

10.10.2025 19:18 👍 45 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 13
Superior, Wisconsin Latest City To Build Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network We've long explored how powerful regional broadband monopolies have dominated America, resulting in spotty access, high prices, slow speeds, and terrible customer service. We've also long discussed how the U.S. government has done little to actually fix the problem, ranging from outright coddling monopolies (Trump) to performative fixes (the Biden FCC) that don't take aim at monopoly power. …

Superior, Wisconsin Latest City To Build Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network

We've long explored how powerful regional broadband monopolies have dominated America, resulting in spotty access, high prices, slow speeds, and terrible customer service. We've also long discussed how the U.S.…

08.10.2025 21:55 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Assignment Prompt: A Classroom Currency Experiment Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collect…

Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collectively remake.

06.10.2025 23:57 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

This is the correct “can we afford it” framing for everything.

We always do infinitely more to support each other than what shows up on balance sheets. If work is being done, the capacity is there to pay people for it by definition. And the distributive effects are pretty much always positive.

07.10.2025 13:11 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

"Blue Bonds are the good version of Trump's beloved shitcoins. Rather than wildcat money created by and for speculators, Blue Bonds are a source of public prosperity, backed by a present or future Fed under democratic control, accountable to the people."

-Doctorow

pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

04.10.2025 21:11 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1

There’s an element of trust too. If you are on an AI platform doing social stuff you can trust that everything is fiction. When you are on a social platform you can’t use a simple assumption of mostly real or mostly fictional.

05.10.2025 16:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

@mmasnick.bsky.social the answer is context!

As an engineer, I deal with lots and lots of numbers. What brings value to my work is the context I bring to those numbers as I help project leaders make informed decisions.

05.10.2025 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Memo To Corporate America: How To Stop Being Cartoon Villains I’ve spent considerable time lately documenting how America’s corporate elite have transformed themselves into the exact cartoon villains that Marxists always claimed they were—groveling before authoritarian power, paying tribute to criminal regimes, abandoning every principle they’ve spent decades claiming to represent. But criticism without constructive alternatives is just intellectual masturbation, so let me offer some practical guidance for any CEO who might still possess a functioning moral compass.

A Memo To Corporate America: How To Stop Being Cartoon Villains

I’ve spent considerable time lately documenting how America’s corporate elite have transformed themselves into the exact cartoon villains that Marxists always claimed they were—groveling before authoritarian power, paying tribute to…

01.10.2025 19:05 👍 37 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

I know so little about Africa; I appreciated this episode a lot. I would encourage other listeners to broaden the their understanding of how Africa came to be trapped in their current situation by also learning from Fadhel Kaboub.

bsky.app/profile/fadh...

22.09.2025 08:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It is *literally* "I'm fine with the Nazis and fascists, but can't stand the people who pointed out I was full of shit."

My goodness.

05.09.2025 16:44 👍 187 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 3

the President, who is not running for election, still sends out fundraising emails on the daily. this guy does ads saying "we've reached the max we can spend, don't give us more money." remarkable stuff that I think resonates with people who yearn for change and justice

05.09.2025 15:22 👍 3400 🔁 721 💬 22 📌 3
Video thumbnail

David Graeber warned a few years back about the dangers of so-called "Centrist" politicians.

26.08.2025 01:58 👍 216 🔁 100 💬 3 📌 4
Preview
Zohran’s #ZcavengerHunt was a Rehearsal by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective What yesterday’s New York City #ZcavengerHunt made visible is a coalition rehearsing public works before even winning the general election. It was not …

Zohran’s #ZcavengerHunt was a Rehearsal moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/25/z...

25.08.2025 18:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0