Change my view: voluntary outlasts coerced every time, all the time.

In the new Cold War, the United States should once again stand for freedom. When china tracks 1.4 billion individuals, the US should let its people live free. Free to think, free to express themselves. Free to spend and save without tracking, be it commercially or legally-motivated. Lead for freedom in allied nations as well. The US should remain a beacon of hope for those who will not accept being indirectly controlled at every turn.

A millionblocks in May 2028?

Can we stop calling it ad tech and start calling it what it is? Spying.

Spotify

Invisible Enemy

August Burns Red · Phantom Anthem · Song · 2017

So epic

I loved reading this article by the rage. They’re doing really good work over there

The Rage

Foucault Would Have Loved Balenciaga

We are entering the era of panopticore: mass surveillance made sexy to hide the violence inherent to being watched. But the pressure to perform is ...

Panopticore :( #TheRage

2026 prediction: Apple wins big in AI. They have the high efficiency chips. It will run locally. They get to flex privacy again.

You’ll know the empire has taken a knee when most of the culture it consumes comes from outside

Arc raiders is the multiplayer fallout that should’ve been

Unexpectedly, prediction markets will fix our loss of truth by enshrining trustworthy oracles.

Tonight in selfhosted land I faced a recalcitrant ghost/orphan container problem while trying to stand my fulcrum server back up. ChatGPT 5 helped me waste about an hour mostly doing the same thing over and over in different ways. Gemini 2.5 Pro nailed it in 10 minutes.

Lyft won’t simply add a calendar event with a simple unobtrusive “calendar add” pop up. Nope. It needs your full calendar access. The privacy-destroying overreach is everywhere. Why be satisfied with offering convenience when you can get all of your mark’s calendar in return instead. These are untrustworthy apps built by devious product people and complacent engineers.

A huge AI bubble pop might be the moment of pause we need to work on proper alignment

Wow, reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is highly depressing. Great ineluctability

WhatsApp preventing app screenshots is such hypocrisy. Privacy theatre. Killing a universal feature to pretend they care about your secrets. Don’t fall for meta’s lies. Educate your friends and family.

With enough open source magic I can see Fisker Oceans becoming some of the best EVs out there View quoted note →

You can buy a standup desk Or you can exercise more. And take a quick standing break from time to time