oh man they beat me to it
Not every day former Director of Strategy at @EFF soft-launches a new project on your event.
Incredible @mala, his & @farzanehbad Terminal Values.
"In this fifteen-minute talk he argues that free speech, free software, privacy and free association are the ground everyone needs to think and decide, and to change their minds":
Enjoy the show: terminalvalues.org/watch/202ā¦
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Aaron Swartz day comes but once a year, but when it does, act on your anger: aaronswartzday.org/ Hackathon in San Francisco!
The Tragedie of the Forgotten Reader: digitalmedusa.org/the-tragedā¦
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i guess i'm not a humanist any more? religionnews.com/2026/10/26/ā¦
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Pretty wild, given that in the 90s cryptowars to argue code should be protected under the 1st amendment, we had to argue that it *wasn't* a munition...
Hopefully there's a way to AND these results rather than XOR them.
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If you're a #sanfrancisco artist, free yourself from digital monopolies with
@grayarea's Beyond Big Tech. Learn IT ALL from the politics and ethics of decentralized tech, to setting up a Raspberry Pi with your own services. Scholarships available! grayarea.org/course/beyond-bā¦
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I just joined the waitlist for Tau Robotics (@taurobots): a humanoid robot that cleans your home, one hour for $30. Join with my referral link and I move up the list: tau-robotics.com/waitlist?reā¦
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New blog post from me: As Was The Style At The Time: How We Became Cruel oblomovka.com/wp/2026/02/09/ā¦
New blog post from me: AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis oblomovka.com/wp/2026/01/07/ā¦
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There's a great description of this in @nealstephenson 's novel Zodiac. Smart asshole protagonist is stymied by events: ends up looking up the guy who was smarter than him at college. Perfectly unfucked up, lives a quiet life, deconstructs and solves everything in 5 minutes.
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Sitting in Buenos Aires, watching Filecoin, the incentivize global storage protocol and network, and IPFS, the open content-addressed protocol and network, finally connected together with filecoin.cloud . Feels like a golden spike moment for the decentralized web.
me in coalition with previous me
āGossip occupies a weird place between privacy and free speechā, -
@mala from @FilFoundation / @ffdweb / @EFF
Hello! I am looking for a Governance PM at the Filecoin Foundation! This is one the most fascinating places I've had the good fortune to work at, and if you have a background in open source organizing, you might like it too: job-boards.greenhouse.io/filā¦
Paul wants an uncomplicated story. Copyright is good and bad; it's not a foundational right in the UDHR, though protecting moral and material rights of scientists and artists is. It's a tool. It's the wrong tool here, as the article explains.
Copyright is a property right given to people so that they can transact on fair terms with corporations. Itās also one of the foundational rights in the UDHR. Big tech epitomises corporate and global capital power. All the weakness of digital rights lobbying is displayed here.
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