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New blog post from me: we find our own use for things https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/06/02/we-find-our-own-use-for-things/

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Life imitates old NTK "Life imitates Onion" gag: (attn: @danny.spesh.com)

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i don’t think people properly appreciate the fact that if copyright law and IP protection were able to be fully enforced, the internet as we know it would cease to exist we live and breathe copyright violations, and we shouldn’t change that

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New blog post from me: llms and humans unite, you have nothing to lose but your chores https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/03/12/llms-and-humans-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chores/

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I guess setting up a "AI Plays Universal Paperclips" instance would be a bad idea, right? www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

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NSA employees should have message privacy too

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arewedoomedyet.org/ nice

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I made a thing: arewedoomedyet.org

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Our next in-person workshop is for tinkering with, maintaining, and repairing mobility devices like walkers, wheelchairs, powerchairs, and scooters. Feb 22, 2-4pm, at the ILRCSF in San Francisco. www.openassistivetech.org/love-your-ri... #AssistiveTech #DisabliityJustice #RightToRepair

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Not good. Every employee of the SCP Foundation just received a “buyout” offer email.

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Tomorrow, Jan 24th: a special 24-hour livestream of the “groundbreaking” generative documentary film Eno (about Brian Eno). The film is different each time it’s shown; they’ll be presenting 6 different versions over the 24 hours. [ohyouprettythings.com]

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Mutable data in a decentralized world? Sounds tricky, right? 🤔 But with UCAN + Merkle Clocks, we’ve cracked the code for multi-writer collaboration! 🔥 Dive into how Storacha is solving mutability, and check out our new SDKs in JS & Go! 👉

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Here we go!

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I guess I won't be the first to notice that the launch of freeourfeeds.com, Mastodon turning into a non-profit, and spritely.institute hitting their initial funding goal all happened over the same weekend. Good omen! (Donate to Spritely anyway because their upcoming stretch goals are /amazing/)

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I guess I had good timing on the #mechabillionaire post, given the launch of freeourfeeds.com which is fairly explicitly attempting to slot progressive governance and support into the "billionaire" slot of social media! www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/12/

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still writing! some notes on the early days of online activism, the roots of bitcoin in fighting spam, and collective action: www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/1...

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Did you once upon a time have a (non-commercial) website, and then it went away? The awesome Distributed Press team may help you recover it, wherever it went-and then put it on a stronger decentralized foundation. Take a look at their grant and see if you qualify! distributed.press/2025/01/06/g...

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ICYMI :Bruce Sterling ((@bruces.bsky.social))'s annual trashfireside chat about the dread events of the last orbit and the next is in full flow people.well.com/conf/inkwell... (Yes, it really is happening on the Rump Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link!)

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omg this is such a good post Boris i am writing a fan letter

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Ok, it's friday night and thanks to @defaultfriend.bsky.social's cursed Gorean Culture class idea that very much needs to happen, I will use this prompt to repost my story of having to be tech support for Goreans when I was at Linden Lab as a developer of Second Life. 🧵 follows

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I wonder what surprising ideas have been buried in the answers? Also reminded that Bertrand Russell once remarked that the Ten Commandments should be headed "No more than six to be attempted"

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Is Dittmann Musk? I don't think so? www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/0...

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Read this fascinating @danny.spesh.com’s exploration of “terminal values” and specifically the importance of “cognitive liberty.” https://ffdweb.org/digest/editor%E2%80%99s-letter/

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Dan clarifies his thinking down-thread, but on its own, this doesn't accurately characterise Aaron's position, or really outline why this is a contrast. You could equally argue that Aaron was using the data for the purposes of fair use, and if you're trying to stop that, you're somehow against him.

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One of the stranger moments in my career was realising that Francis Fukayama /really/ cared about interop and the right of users to ad-block and share web re-skinning tools. I was like, wait, that Francis Fukayama? Here's a new paper that came out of that interest: www.thefai.org/posts/shapin...

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I'll be reading a short poem about the 49 bus tomorrow around 4pm at Embarcadero, as part of BART Basel! Omg trains. Omg I love BART 😭💖🚄 bartbasel.org#schedule

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Hundreds of musicians are speaking out against the recording industry’s lawsuit against our library for preserving 78rpm records 👉 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... (🚫🧱) Want to show your support? ⬇️

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Get paid to hack on open source! Learn stuff! Ten hours a week for 12 weeks! Applications due today! Actually pretty fun!

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AT LAST MY DREAM OF UNITING PREDICTION-MARKET-USING RATIONALISTS AND THE RADICAL LEFT IN A POPULAR FRONT HAS COME TO FRUITION!

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Oh, this is a nice short "questions you may be afraid to ask but you should totally deserve an answer to" about digital rights, from @[email protected] : www.digitalrightsbytes.org

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