In order to work, the #50501movement will need to do the following 3 things: 1. Articulate clear and politically achievable goals 2. Target the capital that supports fascism, not just their representatives in government 3. Scale and escalate #50501protests IMHO, it should also message itself as a "pro-democracy" movement, since Trump and Musk are both profoundly undemocratic but also the US electorial system that lead to Trump/Musk is profoundly undemocratic. 🧵

Hey fellow tech folks. We might get asked to do something terrible. I'd like to start a bit of an open discussion about how to deal with such requests. The first thing I might recommend is enthusiastically agree to do whatever it is then forget about it and do something else. If asked about it in the future, pretend this is the first you've heard about it. Play as dumb as you can for as long as you can. Now, if you can't get away with delaying by not doing anything anymore then find the absolute most complicated way to do whatever it is. This is actually a great time to use an LLM. Have an LLM write all your code then just run it. Ask the LLM to fix anything that's broken. Take some extra steps to force downgrade or upgrade libraries to incompatible versions. Write all of your own interfaces by hand. Write your own date parsing library. Write all of your own SQL without any abstractions. Add an LLM in the middle some how. Use libraries that haven't been supported for 15 years. Ever want to write code in Python 2.0? Now's your chance! Debug everything with Wireshark, no matter what it is. I bet there's a VB script library to do what you need to do, and if you can just write a C wrapper around that it'll interface perfectly with perl, as soon as you can get that old FoxPro program running in wine. I bet it would be easier without that commit hook that changes every zero to a capital letter O. "I'm getting the craziest error. It works on my system!" There are a million ways to make things insanely complicated, and most of us have seen people legitimately do these things out of pure incompetence. Now, if you end up against the wall and think you might get fired package everything up and hand it off to someone else, but make sure you make it clear that you're almost done and it should be super easy to finish. Leave behind some fun puzzles for the next person to figure out. "How strange...the output changes when I change the whitespace, but not when I change the text. What is that?" Who's got some other fun suggestions for extremely malicious compliance?

I posted a while back saying that #FreeLuigi has to make it to the streets to really mean something. It has to be more than a hashtag. Revolutionary change is a DIY project. There have been some actions, and there can be a lot more. If we can keep building momentum in to January 20th, we can give #Trump a real problem. His base overwhelmingly supports Luigi, while he and his donors are #BrianThompson. #Luigi drove a wedge between the oligarchs taking power and the wolf they've been holding by the ears. The deeper we drive that wedge, the more energy the oligarchs will have to spend in damage control and the less they'll have to damage us. I didn't provide good guidance on how to make that happen. Fortunately, It Could Happen Here made one:

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IMHO, we have to do two things: 1. Unite eachother 2. Divide our enemies To fulfill the first objective, look at all the ways oligarchs fail. Healthcare is a big one. How can we build systems that fill the hole they profit off of digging? Take care of eachother in all the ways they hurt us (support houseless camps, support immigrants, support people fighting for healthcare, etc). Organize locally to improve mass transit. To fulfill the second, keep focusing on this issue. Banner drops, street protests, noise demos, posters, benefit shows, etc, all keep people's minds on this. The longer we talk about #LuigiMangione, the more we erode the facade of culture war and the more we reveal the underlying reality of class war.