Danny O'Brien🤖
@danny.spesh.com
📤 1320
📥 707
📝 190
Filecoin Foundation, FFDW: ex-EFF, ex-CPJ, ex-NTK you're absolutely right!
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Benjamin
29 days ago
developers will be like "I love optimizing complex distributed systems" until it's about office kitchen supplies
0
4
1
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Seth Rosenthal
about 2 months ago
i think it's smart that the Wikipedia page for Chips and Dip opens with a "Rationale" section. a lot of people are flabbergasted to find out about this concept and need some grounding before they get into the history
84
3600
684
I have a hunch we are about to enter an Ornamental Age and this reminded me of that:
xcancel.com/instance_11/...
loading . . .
https://xcancel.com/instance_11/status/2034694139066077325?s=46
about 2 months ago
1
2
0
“Welcome to Plato’s Academy! Home of the Fighting Owls” -
@lizzard.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
0
1
1
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
William Gillis 🏴
3 months ago
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
loading . . .
ZineLibrary
https://zinelibrary.org/
20
731
365
New blog post from me: As Was The Style At The Time: How We Became Cruel
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2026/02/09/as-was-the-style-at-the-time-how-we-became-cruel/
3 months ago
0
2
3
Harry Hill pass responsibility for the Internet to Stewart Lee and Stew blames me
youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?...
(not really)
loading . . .
The Harry Hill Show - Stewart Lee
YouTube video by HARRY HILL
https://youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?si=aMqZOxTLLn7XswMV&t=799
4 months ago
1
11
0
New blog post from me: AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2026/01/07/ai-psychosis-ai-apotheosis/
4 months ago
2
2
0
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Lisa Hirsch
5 months ago
A wonderful story of a researcher unraveling the details of a long-ago production of The Tempest.
add a skeleton here at some point
0
7
1
After years of explaining IPFS and Filecoin, it's great to be able to point to
pin.filecoin.cloud
today and show how they're linked -- c/o the new
filecoin.cloud
SDK which lets you easily host and serve content on the decentralized storage network. (Bunch of other interesting stuff in there too)
6 months ago
0
2
2
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/filecoinfoun...
loading . . .
Governance Program Manager
Remote
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/filecoinfoundation/jobs/4615095006
6 months ago
0
6
3
Trying to fight big tech by making copyright stronger is like fighting viruses with gain-of-function research:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worr...
loading . . .
Worried About AI Monopoly? Embrace Copyright’s Limits
Copyright’s limits play essential antimonopoly functions. Undermining them in the context of AI is likely to strengthen Big Tech.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worried-about-ai-monopoly--embrace-copyright-s-limits
6 months ago
0
9
2
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Mike Stabile
7 months ago
Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs. Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.
loading . . .
Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs
Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.
https://www.wilx.com/2025/10/09/experts-raise-privacy-concerns-over-michigan-bill-targeting-pornography-vpns/
22
1735
1213
New blog post from me: god shut up about AI, part 32 — open etiquette
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/10/03/god-shut-up-about-ai-part-32-open-etiquette/
7 months ago
2
4
0
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
The Spritely Institute
8 months ago
It is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to contain the amount of excitement in making this post... We have Shepherd running on Spritely Goblins running ON TOP OF GUIX! See the screenshot! This is HUGE! We just wrote about Goblins + Shepherd a few days ago but progress is SO FAST!
spritely.institute/news/shepher...
1
15
6
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
The Spritely Institute
8 months ago
Double good news about Spritely's Hoot, Our Scheme->WASM compiler! WASM 3.0 released, and Hoot gets a mention!
webassembly.org/news/2025-09...
AND! iOS updated Safari to support the WASM features we use. Which means you can now play Cirkoban anywhere!
files.spritely.institute/embeds/cirko...
loading . . .
Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...
https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/
0
11
3
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
ModernDayNTK
8 months ago
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000
ntk.net/2000/08/25/?...
The Times previews "debugged" PS2 with baffling (/Japanese) convention of using O = Yes button Guardian reveals how it bluffs its way "through any new-media conversation"
theguardian.com/media/2000/s...
@charliebrooker.bsky.social
launches Unnovations
0
6
4
New blog post from me: LLMs for the Old and Infirm
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/08/29/llms-for-the-old-and-infirm/
8 months ago
1
4
1
A guide to the current abundance of Abundancies:
www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...
loading . . .
Varieties of Abundance - Niskanen Center
We will know that abundance has succeeded when there is a proliferation of “abundances,” different governing projects attached to previously existing ideologies, interests, and parties.
https://www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-varieties/
8 months ago
0
3
0
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Tom Loosemore
9 months ago
Better than any book is this essay by
@danny.spesh.com
which captures the mid-90s perfectly.
www.spesh.com/danny/wireduk/
loading . . .
Wired UK : A Limey Whinges
https://www.spesh.com/danny/wireduk/
2
7
2
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
IPFS
9 months ago
Oh yeah — Ed25519 is now available in Chrome! Read what the ineffable
@bumblefudge.com
has to say about this wonderful piece of news.
ipfsfoundation.org/ed25519-supp...
loading . . .
Ed25519 Support in Chrome: Making the Web Faster and Safer
We're happy to share that Ed25519 is now supported in Chrome (version). Following Ed25519 support in Firefox 129 in August 2024 and Safari 17.0, Chrome finally following suit in 137 in May of this yea...
https://ipfsfoundation.org/ed25519-support-in-chrome-making-the-web-faster-and-safer-2/
1
68
26
One of my favourite new thinkers, Frank Miroslav
@mutual-a.bsky.social
just dropped an absolutely barnstormer of an essay: "Technically Radical: On the Unrecognized Potential of Tech Workers and Hackers". I'm going to be quoting bits of this for /years/.
wedontagree.net/technically-...
loading . . .
Technically Radical
Over 2024, we saw major tech investors and company owners overtly turn toward the right, overtly backing Donald Trump in his electoral campaign. This group of individuals, which commentators have take...
https://wedontagree.net/technically-radical-on-the-unrecognized-potential-of-tech-workers-and-hackers
9 months ago
2
10
3
They're baaaaaaack
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
0
5
0
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
ModernDayNTK
10 months ago
#OnThisDayInNTK:2000
ntk.net/2000/07/14/?...
Demon ISPs on fire off Finchley's Hendon Lane
ntk.net/2000/07/14/d...
debut mentions of: ZZ Top's "Star Trek Fan"
madmusic.com/song_details...
@danofthewibble.bsky.social
& C4's now-incomprehensible The E-Millionaire Show
youtube.com/watch?v=Lgow...
4
3
4
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Brandon Butler
11 months ago
I live-blogged my initial reading of today's opinion from Judge Alsup in Bartz v. Anthropic here:
bsky.app/profile/bb....
. But what are the most interesting, big-picture holdings? Here goes: đź§µ
loading . . .
Brandon Butler (@bb.usefairuse.com)
Huge news in AI copyright world. Still reading the opinion, but encouraged that Judge Alsup got it right on training. Act I Scene 1 in a long drama, but a promising start. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
https://bsky.app/profile/bb.usefairuse.com/post/3lse4uf455c2j
2
4
4
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Juniper
10 months ago
Can AI be hacked for radical, queer and decolonial ends or is it just inherently... shit? This is my attempt at a nuanced fair read compiling several months of local and open experimentation. Very short summary thread đź§µ .....
www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does...
loading . . .
Does AI Suck? — Juniper Bevensee
Experiments in radical, decolonial and queer AI ethics Whether you love or loath AI, this piece will give you something to sink your teeth into.
https://www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does-ai-suck
4
25
12
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Electronic Frontier Foundation
11 months ago
Become a Sustaining Donor today and: 🤑 Become a member for just $5 a month 🪙 Receive our new EFF35 challenge coin 👕 Grab one of our new Cityscape t-shirts ❤️ Support the leading nonprofit protecting your rights online!
loading . . .
35 Years for Privacy, Free Speech, and a Brighter Future
Through July 10, new monthly or annual Sustaining Donors get an EFF35 Challenge Coin! With your help, EFF is here to stay.
https://eff.org/35ra
3
81
23
New blog post from me: An Expansionary Theory of the Noosphere
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/06/10/an-expansionary-theory-of-the-noosphere/
11 months ago
1
2
0
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/
11 months ago
0
2
0
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Avram Grumer
12 months ago
Life imitates old NTK "Life imitates Onion" gag: (attn:
@danny.spesh.com
)
add a skeleton here at some point
0
3
1
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
dame
12 months ago
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
3
68
16
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/
about 1 year ago
0
4
0
I guess setting up a "AI Plays Universal Paperclips" instance would be a bad idea, right?
www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
about 1 year ago
3
8
0
NSA employees should have message privacy too
about 1 year ago
0
6
0
arewedoomedyet.org/
nice
loading . . .
Asteroid Impact Probability
https://arewedoomedyet.org/
about 1 year ago
0
8
1
I made a thing:
arewedoomedyet.org
loading . . .
Asteroid Impact Probability
https://arewedoomedyet.org/
about 1 year ago
1
7
2
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
GOAT
about 1 year ago
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
loading . . .
Love Your Ride – wheelchair maintenance and repair workshop – GOAT
https://www.openassistivetech.org/love-your-ride-wheelchair-maintenance-and-repair-workshop/
0
0
1
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Keith Stack
over 1 year ago
Not good. Every employee of the SCP Foundation just received a “buyout” offer email.
21
734
156
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
kottke.org
over 1 year ago
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]
loading . . .
Stream the Eno documentary worldwide — Oh You Pretty Things
A global streaming event showing multiple unique versions of “Eno”, the groundbreaking generative documentary about musician and artist Brian Eno. A film about creativity that’s never the same twice.
https://www.ohyouprettythings.com/new-products/eno24
2
50
25
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Storacha Network
over 1 year ago
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! 👉
loading . . .
The Only Constant in Life is Mutability…
… that’s how the saying goes, right? 🤪
https://buff.ly/4gcKpaD
0
3
2
Here we go!
add a skeleton here at some point
over 1 year ago
0
3
0
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/)
loading . . .
Spritely Institute
https://spritely.institute/
over 1 year ago
1
5
0
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/
over 1 year ago
1
4
0
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...
loading . . .
Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » spam, activism and mechabillionaires
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/12/social-problems-technical-solutions/
over 1 year ago
1
8
0
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...
loading . . .
Get your website back, reclaim your history
Open Call: Resilience grant for NGOs, non-profits, and individuals. Recover a website you’ve lost and make it more resilient with the DWeb—100% free. Apply now!
https://distributed.press/2025/01/06/get-your-website-back-reclaim-your-history/
over 1 year ago
0
3
1
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!)
loading . . .
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/551/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html
over 1 year ago
2
4
0
omg this is such a good post Boris i am writing a fan letter
add a skeleton here at some point
over 1 year ago
0
3
0
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
qdot
over 1 year ago
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. đź§µ follows
add a skeleton here at some point
3
63
22
reposted by
Danny O'Brien🤖
Michael Nielsen
over 1 year ago
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"
add a skeleton here at some point
0
12
2
Is Dittmann Musk? I don't *think* so?
www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/0...
loading . . .
Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » L’Affaire Dittmann
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/04/laffaire-dittmann/
over 1 year ago
1
4
0
Load more
feeds!
log in