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Legitimacy is the currency of power. Every time the system attacks someone or something, they spend it. How much they spend is a function of how effectively legibility can be translated from the dominant system to those who must support that system. If people come to understand that the […]

That said, this is well thought out and worth the time to read.

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I think there are some pieces missing here. Hosting does scale down poorly, but it only scales poorly because of how we host. There *is* an increased cost and complexity to shutting down small sites. If we can change the way we host, make it easier to replicate, then there *is* an asymmetry. It […]

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Thesis, antithesis, parenthesis - following a tangent to a more interesting idea.

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Also this is a big argument in the alternative. For technical reasons related to context limits and training data, none of this shit actually works well enough to replace software at any meaningful scale. To paraphrase @pluralistic by way of Jensen Huang: AI will not take your job. A boss using […]

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AI does not disrupt. AI entrenches. AI turns money into more money; AI turns investment into dependency. We are living in a funhouse mirror of that right now where the combination of overly-plausible demos and first-one's-free incentives are swamping the actual balance-sheet math. But the […]

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Linus is saying the quiet part out loud: AI-native projects are environments where the key ingredient is _capital_. Abstraction can be performed by a quiet appreciation. True automation can be disruptive. AI-based architectures (again, assuming that the AI works reliably, which is a highly […]

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It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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Abstraction is leverage. Automation is the amplification of power. Abstraction is democratization. Automation repeats a duplicative process so you can stop thinking about it and focus on something higher level. Abstraction elides so architecture can expand. AI is anti-leverage. Where an […]

hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

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#DearLazyWeb: I need an internet radio thing like @somafm (with channels that are entirely instrumental) but like... 250 bpm. Soma is great for a lot of stuff, but I need a lot more to power through poorly designed enterprise-looking code. Any recommendations?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

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Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2… Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

So why was Kolektiva offline?

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember

NEW SKILL NOVEMBER

[an art nouveau painting in autumn colors of a woman playing the harp]

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR REBUILD AN OLD ONE; THE ONLY RULE: DO IT YOURSELF, DO NOT USE AI

Sketching, knitting, whittling, a musical instrument, a foreign language, a tricky video game, cooking, weaving, changing oil, riding a bike, painting, pixel art, website design, digital image editing, bookbinding, calligraphy, identifying mushrooms, embroidery, soldering, that one thing you've been putting off

Do the hard part yourself, no matter how imperfect it feels. Learn and internalize how it really works. Consult guides written by human experts, and ask your fellow human beings for help. Take pride in knowledge and abilities that are an intrinsic part of your existence and not dependent on renting from corporations.

art by Charles Louis Hinton for a November issue of Harper's Bazaar, 1896
banner by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@tiotasram awesome! Yeah, I moved everything to a codeberg site and a static site generator, and fixed the url while I was at it. I'm glad it's inspiring. :) I feel like we really need those stories to help people see what's possible. I'm glad you're on them. :)

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Of all the times people misunderstand the whole thing about dismantling the master's house with the master's tools, that is exactly what we're talking about here in terms of the solution. To throw a bit of arm-chair #cybernerics at this... Capitalism uses markets as an evolutionary algorithm […]

hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

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This is pretty wild. It's been decades since I've been in Salem. It was pretty conservative then. I remember it was a hot spot for Proud Boys during the beginning of Trump's first term. But it's always been more complex than that and this is a good reminder of that fact. It's good to see folks […]

Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

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@Hex I was thinking something very similar this morning in the context of AI "solving math problems" via academic espionage. The chatbots themselves obviously do not have agency or intelligence. But they are part of a parasitic emergent "hive mind" phenomenon that is exploiting real human minds […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

There is, of course, some nuance here. While there can be systems that use people, these very same systems (or related systems) may not use others and may be used by them. I *think* that the flow of agency is not about the system in use but about the way it is used and the person using it or […]

hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

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I've been rolling over something in my mind for the past couple of days, tumbling this way and that. It's still not completely smooth, but there are so many interesting implications that it might be worth a glance in it's rough form. By happenstance I started digging in to critical cybernetics […]

hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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Alright, I put in my CCC talk proposal. Let's see what happens next.

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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

None of this started on October 7th. It's been continuous, and so must resistance be if we're to ever curb these horrific atrocities. These years will rightfully define us.

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@simon_brooke Humans are interesting in that we are non-Malthusian individually but can act either as Malthusian or non-Malthusian organisms depending on ideology. So I might argue that it's not humans that are Malthusian, but the state and capitalism.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@Hex Curiously, there's another organism active at present on planet #Earth that is systematically poisoning the air it breathes, to the extent that it (and sadly, most other complex lifeforms) are likely to be extinct within a very short period. The name of this organism escapes me for the […]

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Plsik (born in 320 ppm) @plsik.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@Hex Yeast also multiplies rapidly in an environment rich in sugar. Its byproduct is alcohol, which ultimately kills the yeast. Because it has no self-regulating mechanism.

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

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iLands is just a spam generator and that ActivityPub server is wasting CPU (perhaps also GPU), memory, storage and bandwidth for absolutely zero good reasons. it's essentially no better than a bunch of ordinary bots doing a truncation of `cat /dev/random` as posts and replies.

Michael Graaf @michaelgraaf.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

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@Hex For this reason, always substitute "degenerative" instead of "generative" in this context.

hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A couple of billion years ago, cyanobacteria evolved the ability to photosynthesize. Suddenly they could turn the abundant atmospheric C02 into carbon for replicating themselves. The only side effect was the release of oxygen. It was a monumental success, but it ended up turning Earth's C02 […]

lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

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If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Boosting with a cw of sexual violence (which is, perhaps, implied by the screenshot).

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"community for me and not for thee" is the soul of the fascist program. Keep your enemies isolated, and your allies united.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Economically, kids cost so much money and are so much work. The majority of that work benefits society, not the parents. The emotional rewards all exist outside of capitalism, and parallel the emotional rewards of other pro-social behaviors, like mutual aid, that capitalism can't quantify (and […]

hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

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Capitalists: "People are driven by greed. They won't work without some kind of personal incentive, like money." Ok, cool, but do you know what "a baby" is?

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: social.coop/@coopcloud/117367491305… Co-op Cloud is a really unique project that blurs some of the lines around what open source is. It's both a toolset and a federation, software and community, that can't really be disentangled. It is an exercise in community management, in […]

Co-op Cloud @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

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An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure Co-operative Cloud: save the date! **Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC** (time.is/compare/1900_15_Oct_2026_in…) A public event reintroducing our project: a community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was a wonderful discussion with The Gunpowder Coven. Check out the latest with moi in episode 13! allmylinks.com/the-gunpowde...

The Gunpowder Coven: episode 13 - the warmest cold open, the nomad games, bisexual pose moonie, himbos, and social media pits featuring tacticool girlfriend.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173398259… OK! Meta evaluated this as intended behavior, not applicable for a bug bounty, so therefore responsible disclosure no longer applies so here goes: any process run within the VM can access the socket that provides inference with no […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

It occurred to me that "AI" is following the Walmart model. If they could keep token prices suppressed long enough to kill everyone able to use their brain, then they can recover the losses by being the only provider of those skills. It looks to me like a move to swap LLMs for oil as the main […]