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@formerlytomato.bsky.social
Blogger and software dev. I write about the problems facing our world and the problems with the people who claim to have the answers.
BLOG: https://notthesolution.substack.com
BLOG: https://notthesolution.substack.com
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/wh...
Why Privacy Matters - Privacy Guides
In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not.
www.privacyguides.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/wh...
What a cancerous statement.
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
What a cancerous statement.
FULU has just started putting out bounties for hackers to try and revive abandoned smart devices. This seems like a great strategy and use of resources for the repair movement!
bounties.fulu.org/bounties
bounties.fulu.org/bounties
FULU Bounty Platform Bounties
Browse active bounties tackling anti-consumer practices. See live donations, then back the work you want to see done.
bounties.fulu.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
FULU has just started putting out bounties for hackers to try and revive abandoned smart devices. This seems like a great strategy and use of resources for the repair movement!
bounties.fulu.org/bounties
bounties.fulu.org/bounties
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Cutting down the Amazon has devastating impacts on endangered ape species
NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Cutting down the Amazon has devastating impacts on endangered ape species
I found this old draft from July lying around on my hard-drive, went ahead and published it since I doubt I'll be polishing it up further:
notthesolution.substack.com/p/some-notes...
notthesolution.substack.com/p/some-notes...
Nerd Hobbies and Elite Fashions
Some rough notes on how conspicuous consumption has evolved over the years.
notthesolution.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I found this old draft from July lying around on my hard-drive, went ahead and published it since I doubt I'll be polishing it up further:
notthesolution.substack.com/p/some-notes...
notthesolution.substack.com/p/some-notes...
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Infuriated to see how many of these stories end in ghosting. I hire people for $15-$17/hr customer service roles. Everyone who gets an interview gets an email after.
If the local cafè can write back a barista, what’s your excuse?
If the local cafè can write back a barista, what’s your excuse?
Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell:
aftermath.site/video-game-rec...
aftermath.site/video-game-rec...
October 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Infuriated to see how many of these stories end in ghosting. I hire people for $15-$17/hr customer service roles. Everyone who gets an interview gets an email after.
If the local cafè can write back a barista, what’s your excuse?
If the local cafè can write back a barista, what’s your excuse?
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Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...
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If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of
www.eff.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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They keep telling us that progress is inexhorable but why are all the interesting computers in the past
www.inexhibit.com/case-studies...
www.inexhibit.com/case-studies...
December 25, 2023 at 4:29 AM
They keep telling us that progress is inexhorable but why are all the interesting computers in the past
www.inexhibit.com/case-studies...
www.inexhibit.com/case-studies...
Weird analogy but studying political theory is essentially like building a PC. You get obsessive about researching components (i.e. traditions/axioms) and once you've settled on something you'll be surprised at how quickly you stop caring.
Because once you have what you need, why keep shopping?
Because once you have what you need, why keep shopping?
September 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Weird analogy but studying political theory is essentially like building a PC. You get obsessive about researching components (i.e. traditions/axioms) and once you've settled on something you'll be surprised at how quickly you stop caring.
Because once you have what you need, why keep shopping?
Because once you have what you need, why keep shopping?
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If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
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FWIW I agree... I'm co-author of ActivityPub and I wrote about combining ActivityPub and DIDs in 2017 github.com/WebOfTrustIn...
(Also appears in the Bluesky proposal I co-authored with Jay back in the day, amongst other things gitlab.com/-/snippets/2... )
(Also appears in the Bluesky proposal I co-authored with Jay back in the day, amongst other things gitlab.com/-/snippets/2... )
September 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
FWIW I agree... I'm co-author of ActivityPub and I wrote about combining ActivityPub and DIDs in 2017 github.com/WebOfTrustIn...
(Also appears in the Bluesky proposal I co-authored with Jay back in the day, amongst other things gitlab.com/-/snippets/2... )
(Also appears in the Bluesky proposal I co-authored with Jay back in the day, amongst other things gitlab.com/-/snippets/2... )
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Remember the "race to 5G" when it was essential to give telecoms anything they wanted (deregulation, tax cuts, subsides, whatever) to "defeat the dastardly Chinese," then when the U.S. ended up with shittier more expensive 5G suddenly lawmakers just stopped talking about it?
good times
good times
September 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Remember the "race to 5G" when it was essential to give telecoms anything they wanted (deregulation, tax cuts, subsides, whatever) to "defeat the dastardly Chinese," then when the U.S. ended up with shittier more expensive 5G suddenly lawmakers just stopped talking about it?
good times
good times
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The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
September 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
One of the best critiques of the Abundance fad (as @resnikoff.bsky.social points out) is that it's literally just this meme but reversed.
publiccomment.blog/p/the-groups...
publiccomment.blog/p/the-groups...
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One of the best critiques of the Abundance fad (as @resnikoff.bsky.social points out) is that it's literally just this meme but reversed.
publiccomment.blog/p/the-groups...
publiccomment.blog/p/the-groups...
This entire article is just one massive testament to the pathological stupidity of MBAs.
fortune.com/2025/08/17/c...
fortune.com/2025/08/17/c...
This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he'd do it again
“It was extremely difficult,” IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. “But changing minds was harder than adding skills.”
fortune.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This entire article is just one massive testament to the pathological stupidity of MBAs.
fortune.com/2025/08/17/c...
fortune.com/2025/08/17/c...
Just read the newest American Affairs issue and its so slop. Half of this has nothing to do with industrial policy and is just spitting out Substack-tier punditry on the usual rotation of culture-war topics.
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just read the newest American Affairs issue and its so slop. Half of this has nothing to do with industrial policy and is just spitting out Substack-tier punditry on the usual rotation of culture-war topics.
Unless your social media platform is not just theoretically -- but also practically and actually decentralized -- it's not resistant to enshittification, period.
August 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Unless your social media platform is not just theoretically -- but also practically and actually decentralized -- it's not resistant to enshittification, period.
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say what you will about skynet but at least it kept things platonic
So… you’re etched in the heart of the mechahitler bot that has sway in the DOD now. How is this real life
July 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
say what you will about skynet but at least it kept things platonic
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Internet Forums are alive and well, and I have tried to create the most extensive list of active, interesting or useful niche communities I could find. Here is that list, for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/best-active-...
October 8, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Internet Forums are alive and well, and I have tried to create the most extensive list of active, interesting or useful niche communities I could find. Here is that list, for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/best-active-...
@afrocicero.bsky.social On the odd chance you've read this essay ("What Was Wrong with Dred Scott, What's Right About Brown"), I wanted to ask what your thoughts were on it.
From what I've read, it takes a pretty interesting angle.
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
From what I've read, it takes a pretty interesting angle.
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu
July 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@afrocicero.bsky.social On the odd chance you've read this essay ("What Was Wrong with Dred Scott, What's Right About Brown"), I wanted to ask what your thoughts were on it.
From what I've read, it takes a pretty interesting angle.
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
From what I've read, it takes a pretty interesting angle.
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcont...