me from behind the bookshelf in intersteller banging and shouting at murray bookchin to pick up a copy of stephen levy's hackers: heroes of the computer revolution (1984)

u should only start a company if it’s a part of a conceptual/performance art piece that requires building a collective hallucination

No ❤️

...he says to Signal's president

... and ceding ground here just because of their "low frequency in the population" cedes the ground of having the right to do what you want to do with your body to the leviathan that is the State.

absolutely fucking not, not an inch

people need to get real about this. adversarial behavior is real and does not go away through asking nicely or appeals to the misinformation police or the platform or whatever. we need better epistemics

yes, i ended up taking over devops for… a private cryptocurrency network.

how i kept the important stuff on me while nomading: made USB earrings. one booted into Tails, the other was encrypted and held the master signing key.

ironic that their legal defense strat is basically "your honor, our ratio was dogshit"

elinor ostrom failed to realize that you can solve the problem of the commons with novelty merch that targets hateable oligarchs

there is no such thing as “a version of censorship-resistance where only the people i like can see my posts”

When the only people who have decent security are the competent few, many of whom became competent because they have something particularly worth concealing, there are fewer traffic sources who stand out more and are easier to individually target for endpoint compromises