i feel like it would be fun to experiment with setting my home directory in /tmp there's a wisdom in forgetting things

Today's date in Old Mandarin in the Phag Pa script which was what the mongols used for 100 years and transcribed many languages even appearing in Europe babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Old...

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

I am guessing this is not about a secret store for the impending organisation / industrial sabotage of big tech

No way? Nor way!

"undifferentiated awareness prior to emergence of self and other" oh yeah I know that I call it "my autism" lol xD

Days reading french at A1 level (not yet able to ask for directions): 4. Mentions of Wittgenstein spotted in childrens / comic books: 2

The sky told me to be gay and do crimes

What the fuck! OSX Finder's Quickview resets the mtime to "right now" on every single file you look at with Quickview! What the actual fuck?! I usually mount all my drives read-only to stop .Trashes $RECYCLE.BIN .fseventsd & shit from getting written all over everything. Erasing mtime is horrible!

Well, this is exciting.

oh youtube

Lael Wilcox (I had no idea about this) she set off to beat Mark Beaumonts cycling record, started in US and 14 days she crossed, spain and into france and just abandoned due to the extreme heat. Watch for her to go again... she super inspiring that record is *scary* fast road.cc/news/lael-wi...

This is, quite literally, the Internet’s Enclosure of the Commons moment

In a recent essay @sujato.bsky.social points out that when people are talking about "open" for their LLM models - where is the infrastructure? This isn't linux that can be copied on a .iso

Their entire survival as businesses depends on getting regulatory capture now

i feel like it would be fun to experiment with setting my home directory in /tmp there's a wisdom in forgetting things

"Digital transformation" was the political buzzword through which strategic public functions were transferred to closed, private technological infrastructures in one or two jurisdictions. A de facto privatisation and abdication of sovereignty. With AI, it will get worse than that.

Together with @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social and @okfn.bsky.social we aim to build a positive agenda for recognising and supporting open knowledge systems as critical infrastructure within the current digital public infrastructure, digital commons and "digital sovereignty" initiatives

now *THAT* is how you infographic

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov maybe don’t sign the age verification bill because it’s actually a mass surveillance bill.

i appreciate bob dylan's willingness to be like "this one goes out to all the war profiteers, it's called 'i hope you fucking die'"

Partway through Bridget Read's unmissable chronicle of pyramid ("multi-level marketing") schemes, *Little Bosses Everywhere*, there comes a dual revelation: no one is selling any product to end-users *and* no one knows it: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/f... 1/

@wilful.bsky.social I do recognise your profile image and I can't recall where from and what's coming to mind is some of the art books in 90s in Annandale also what comes to mind is about a 1997 aesthetic in surry hills random street art but I got a feeling this image is like New York 70s?

An old pond. Frog jumps in. Plop. #washington

Trans folk are invited to insurge near me anytime they feel the urge for a spot of insurgency. I shall make the tea.

Quiggin's short essay has been rolling around in my mind since I read it a couple days ago. Then, yesterday, I spotted this essay by Owen McGrann entitled "The Dead Economy Theory": www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-e... 13/

Today, Goldman Sachs isn't merely all-in on crypto - it's all-in on the Spacex IPO. As Quiggin writes, the bank has signed off on Musk's claim that "Musk's ragbag of assets" will grow *one hundredfold* in the next *40 months*. 12/

You could hardly ask for a better example of investing in vibes over value than shutting down *real* cancer research to free up money for teaching more words to the word-guessing machine because it's about to become God and cure cancer. 11/

When horrified NIH lifers begged the DOGE boys not to shut down long-running medical research projects, Musk's broccoli-haired brownshirts laughed in their faces, saying we don't need cancer research because "GAI" is almost here and *it* will cure cancer. 10/

Spacex is just a continuation of the logic of crypto, in which something is valuable because some people think other people will pay more for it in the future, and *not* because it does useful things: johnquiggin.com/2018/02/09/b... 8/

Today, not only do all the big banks offer crypto services, people have largely stopped calling it crypto*currency* because no one is even pretending that it's a form of money. It's a tradeable collectible, not even particularly useful for paying for crimes or laundering money. 7/

I would add that post-2020 Musk created the world's hungriest money-furnace, an automated child-porn production tool called "XAI": crookedtimber.org/2026/06/15/o... 4/

Quiggin declares that this is the era in which "financial markets fail in the task of valuing assets accurately," and "the institutional structures that are supposed to make them work have given up trying." Nor did this start with the Spacex IPO. 5/

i had to watch the press club address twice in order to make this, please watch it so i didnt ruin my day for nothing

NEW: Dialog—the secretive, invite-only organization of elites founded by Peter Thiel, often referred to as the Bilderberg Group for tech—exposed the private information of attendees to its annual meeting this year in Ireland. san.com/cc/peter-thi...

I don't want another tool that makes me upload my documents to a server I have no control over. I want a program that allows me to manipulate my document on my computer off-line with no connection to the internet.

All of us need to make this on Saturday.

whoa man, food insecurity is just like tetris

@ponder.ooo omg you’re so funny 😆

(from the github repo linked above) examples of "contentious" topics that anthropic directly trains their models to be waffling fence-sitters about:

i ate too many nutter butters

@akareilly.bsky.social hey I saw you like goats & wool in profile, on a long bicycle tour last year I saw lots of goats in remote national park in .au and thinking about how someone could help remove them + provide fire barriers + live as a shepard - kind of bicycle tour thinking hehe

Ugh, apparently neither @github.com, nor @fastmail.com, nor @slack.engineering support post-quantum TLS key exchanges, making everything sent and received over these connections vulnerable to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, maybe as early as 2029.

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

:look:

This is the purpose of data centers. Not ChatGPT that yall keep screaming about. Nobody needs 40,000 acres for a search engine The future of mass surveillance & neo-feudalism (where we are headed) depends on the government AND corporations maintaining a permanent underclass using mass surveillance