Machines Against the Rage

Blog

Below are various essays/articles/blog posts/journal entries I've written that don't fit anywhere else on the site. I will try to keep it mostly tech related, but no promises. They may be updated as time goes on. These are living documents. An RSS feed for new posts can be found at https://machinesagainsttherage.org/blog/feed.xml.

Newest Post

Image of a digital collage combining a historical painting of a miner with a large grid of small online images. At the center, a muscular miner works underground with a heavy drill inside a dark tunnel. To the left and along the bottom, hundreds of tiny square images form a dense mosaic, suggesting scraped internet content. A bright beam of light connects the image grid to the miner’s drill. On the right, a block of colorful digital noise contrasts with the detailed painting, reinforcing the link between physical mining and data extraction

Alexandria

Originally published on August 5, 2026

One "hobby" I like to check back in with every now and then is making a drive of a bunch of data one may need when the internet isn't an option.

Featured Posts

Photo showing the world turned red before Cyclone Narelle in Australia and a photo showing a neighborhood flooded with ice in Idaho

Anthropocene

Originally published on April 22, 2026

Remember climate change? The thing that threatens to kill us all and end society as we know it?...

Screenshot showing the Onion article titled "Report: Nobody Fucking Cares"

If you want things to change, you have to do something

Originally published on July 8, 2026

I'm begging (and venting)

Image showing a highly-contrasted digital landscape of a train going West with settlements in the bottom left. The image has 5 boxes symbolising computer vision, with text that reads "settler" "beckoning mountains" and "the future awaits" and "indigenous population" which is non-existent

You don't hate AI...

Originally published on April 29, 2026

The threat you think AI to be is actually just the systems that allow for it to exist...

Image showing three green rabbits sit at the bottom of the image with dotted lines in a square around them, with an "i" information symbol captured within a speech mark. In the background is a sketch, set against a purple background. A neural network diagram is overlaid the background

Be Vegan

Originally published on May 27, 2026

I said I would mostly keep it tech related.

Image showing Palantir CEO Alex Karp wielding a sword

Palantir and the Antichrist

Originally published on June 10, 2026

Palantir and the people around them are... something.

All Posts

Image of a digital collage combining a historical painting of a miner with a large grid of small online images. At the center, a muscular miner works underground with a heavy drill inside a dark tunnel. To the left and along the bottom, hundreds of tiny square images form a dense mosaic, suggesting scraped internet content. A bright beam of light connects the image grid to the miner’s drill. On the right, a block of colorful digital noise contrasts with the detailed painting, reinforcing the link between physical mining and data extraction

Alexandria

Originally published on August 5, 2026

One "hobby" I like to check back in with every now and then is making a drive of a bunch of data one may need when the internet isn't an option.

Don't give Meta your face

Originally published on July 29, 2026

Recently, you may have been asked by Instagram to give a video selfie. It may sound harmless, but before you press record you should really think about why they want it...

Image showing A library of photos. One photo has been highlighted by the system, and a series of pointers suggest it has been marked as in some way meaningful by the archival and retrieval system

Making an HTML Zine

Originally published on July 22, 2026

I've wanted to turn some of the content on the site into a zine for a while now, but I didn't know where to start...

Image showing an archival image of a medieval dinner scene. On one side, there is a Penelope (from Greek mythology) weaving, but instead of thread, it is a board of binary code. On the other side, there is a a drink spilling and other figures looking distressed/chaotic

It's Getting Harder to Defend Proton

Originally published on July 15, 2026

Proton has long been considered the holy grail or de-Googling, but recently their reputation has faltered...

Screenshot showing the Onion article titled "Report: Nobody Fucking Cares"

If you want things to change, you have to do something

Originally published on July 8, 2026

I'm begging (and venting)

Screenshot showing the article for Google's former motto, "Don't be evil", shared by Depths of Wikipedia

Spend more time on Wikipedia NOW!

Originally published on July 1, 2026

If you couldn't tell by my absurd amount of links or my blurb about how it's my favorite thing humanity has ever done, I love Wikipedia...

Photo showing Oracle's offices in Redwood City, California

The Oracles

Originally published on June 24, 2026

Oracle, their co-founder/CTO/executive chairman Larry Ellison, and his son David Ellison may be entities you've heard of a lot recently when keeping up with political and tech news...

Ecosia

Originally published on June 17, 2026

Its... complicated.

Image showing Palantir CEO Alex Karp wielding a sword

Palantir and the Antichrist

Originally published on June 10, 2026

Palantir and the people around them are... something.

Image showing a collage that shows multiple repeated tabs with the words "people who liked this also liked...". In the middle, there is a painting of a woman feeding a goat. The goat has been highlighted in a yellow bounding box. The background is a painted nature scene

Block Everyone

Originally published on June 3, 2026

Since creating this blog post, I've added it's content to the Social Media and Streaming page.

Image showing three green rabbits sit at the bottom of the image with dotted lines in a square around them, with an "i" information symbol captured within a speech mark. In the background is a sketch, set against a purple background. A neural network diagram is overlaid the background

Be Vegan

Originally published on May 27, 2026

I said I would mostly keep it tech related.

Image showing a collage with mirrors reflecting diverse human figures, symbolizing AI data's human origin and the 'human in the loop' concept

Dear orgs, please stop using AI

Originally published on May 20, 2026

Maybe it's just me, but it feels like every time I check the newest posts from the many advocacy-type organization accounts I follow that multiple of them have artificial intelligence generated audio, video, or images attached to them...

Image showing a collage of circuit boards interwoven with aerial photographs of water treatment facilities, agricultural lands, industrial sites and mining machinery

Making a Site

Originally published on May 13, 2026

While making this site, there's been a lot of pieces of info I've had to really do digging for and things I wish I knew sooner...

Image showing the installer for the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator failing after it was taken down

Nintendo

Originally published on May 6, 2026

Nintendo sucks...

Image showing a highly-contrasted digital landscape of a train going West with settlements in the bottom left. The image has 5 boxes symbolising computer vision, with text that reads "settler" "beckoning mountains" and "the future awaits" and "indigenous population" which is non-existent

You don't hate AI...

Originally published on April 29, 2026

The threat you think AI to be is actually just the systems that allow for it to exist...

Photo showing the world turned red before Cyclone Narelle in Australia and a photo showing a neighborhood flooded with ice in Idaho

Anthropocene

Originally published on April 22, 2026

Remember climate change? The thing that threatens to kill us all and end society as we know it?...