Danny O'Brien🤖
@danny.spesh.com
Filecoin Foundation, FFDW: ex-EFF, ex-CPJ, ex-NTK
you're absolutely right!
you're absolutely right!
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...
Governance Program Manager
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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...
Trying to fight big tech by making copyright stronger is like fighting viruses with gain-of-function research: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worr...
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.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Trying to fight big tech by making copyright stronger is like fighting viruses with gain-of-function research: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worr...
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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.
Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.
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.
www.wilx.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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.
Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.
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/
October 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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/
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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...
This is HUGE! We just wrote about Goblins + Shepherd a few days ago but progress is SO FAST! spritely.institute/news/shepher...
September 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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...
This is HUGE! We just wrote about Goblins + Shepherd a few days ago but progress is SO FAST! spritely.institute/news/shepher...
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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...
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...
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...
webassembly.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
#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
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
August 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#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
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
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/
August 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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/
A guide to the current abundance of Abundancies: www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...
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.
www.niskanencenter.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A guide to the current abundance of Abundancies: www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...
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Better than any book is this essay by @danny.spesh.com which captures the mid-90s perfectly. www.spesh.com/danny/wireduk/
Wired UK : A Limey Whinges
www.spesh.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Better than any book is this essay by @danny.spesh.com which captures the mid-90s perfectly. www.spesh.com/danny/wireduk/
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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...
Read what the ineffable @bumblefudge.com has to say about this wonderful piece of news.
ipfsfoundation.org/ed25519-supp...
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...
ipfsfoundation.org
August 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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...
Read what the ineffable @bumblefudge.com has to say about this wonderful piece of news.
ipfsfoundation.org/ed25519-supp...
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-...
I'm going to be quoting bits of this for /years/.
wedontagree.net/technically-...
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...
wedontagree.net
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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-...
I'm going to be quoting bits of this for /years/.
wedontagree.net/technically-...
They're baaaaaaack
#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...
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...
July 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
They're baaaaaaack
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
#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...
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...
July 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
#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...
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...
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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: 🧵
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.
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bsky.app
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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: 🧵
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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 🧵 .....
www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does...
This is my attempt at a nuanced fair read compiling several months of local and open experimentation.
Very short summary thread 🧵 .....
www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does...
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.
www.juniperbevensee.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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 🧵 .....
www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does...
This is my attempt at a nuanced fair read compiling several months of local and open experimentation.
Very short summary thread 🧵 .....
www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does...
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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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/
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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/
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/
June 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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/
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
“Earlier this week, The Onion ran a piece headlined “Sean Combs Asks for Quick Trial So He Can Get to Part Where Trump Pardons Him.”
It may be on to something.”
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
By @cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social and me
It may be on to something.”
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
By @cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social and me
May 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Danny O'Brien🤖
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
we live and breathe copyright violations, and we shouldn’t change that
May 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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
we live and breathe copyright violations, and we shouldn’t change that
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/
March 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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/
I guess setting up a "AI Plays Universal Paperclips" instance would be a bad idea, right?
www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
February 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I guess setting up a "AI Plays Universal Paperclips" instance would be a bad idea, right?
www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
NSA employees should have message privacy too
February 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
NSA employees should have message privacy too
arewedoomedyet.org/ nice
Asteroid Impact Probability
arewedoomedyet.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
arewedoomedyet.org/ nice