meri 🌸 🍉
@meri.garden
https://meri.garden she/her
interested in privacy, autonomy, distributed governance, tech for community organising. building @roomy.space with Muni Town
people over state and markets. everything for everyone!
interested in privacy, autonomy, distributed governance, tech for community organising. building @roomy.space with Muni Town
people over state and markets. everything for everyone!
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yeah I think ppl can see and feel what Marx calls ‘deskilling’ being imposed on a mass scale and the suddenness and one-sidedness of this imposition feels alienating and disempowering
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
I think a lot of dislike of AI is basically a justified suspicion that something of this sort is happening.
But since no one wants to admit their real fear quite that bluntly, we get a succession of goofy stalking horses like “AI makes teens suicidal” or “it uses too much water.”
But since no one wants to admit their real fear quite that bluntly, we get a succession of goofy stalking horses like “AI makes teens suicidal” or “it uses too much water.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
yeah I think ppl can see and feel what Marx calls ‘deskilling’ being imposed on a mass scale and the suddenness and one-sidedness of this imposition feels alienating and disempowering
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
a little odd onion purée butter béchamel penne rigate ! tastes good !
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
a little odd onion purée butter béchamel penne rigate ! tastes good !
I dont disagree with all these points, but tbh the marginal theory of value can only be ‘obviously correct’ and the labour theory of value wrong, if you don’t have to work to survive (or imagine that you don’t)
Hammered out some thoughts on why I was motivated to post a lot about data centers: the popular conversation about them has been disproportionately informed by very low-trust intuitions I think are bad andymasley.substack.com/p/data-cente...
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I dont disagree with all these points, but tbh the marginal theory of value can only be ‘obviously correct’ and the labour theory of value wrong, if you don’t have to work to survive (or imagine that you don’t)
the long arc of history tends toward distributed systems
graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
the long arc of history tends toward distributed systems
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graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
Deeply need to go here next time I’m in Barcelona
Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Deeply need to go here next time I’m in Barcelona
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Rateless Bloom Filters: Set Reconciliation for Divergent Replicas with Variable-Sized Elements. Preview of preprint waiting for ArXiv link.
November 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Rateless Bloom Filters: Set Reconciliation for Divergent Replicas with Variable-Sized Elements. Preview of preprint waiting for ArXiv link.
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Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
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Practical code examples showing how YOU can identify corporate macOS and Windows devices via MDM enrollment status
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Practical code examples showing how YOU can identify corporate macOS and Windows devices via MDM enrollment status
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
first pass at making a vertically tiled subthreads list icon for @roomy.space
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
first pass at making a vertically tiled subthreads list icon for @roomy.space
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
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Also the people who make such statements publicly don't actually know what anyone cares about. They only know what they care about and are projecting onto others.
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Also the people who make such statements publicly don't actually know what anyone cares about. They only know what they care about and are projecting onto others.
coop bluesky now
Bluesky has rapidly grown to a $1.05 billion valuation while promising "no ads." But VCs expect returns within a few years. Rejecting surveillance capitalism and returning profits to investors—can these coexist?
Who Owns Bluesky?
plurality.leaflet.pub
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
coop bluesky now
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The latest experimental release of Roomy has pages!
Pages are markdown under-the-hood, and have a simple WYSIWYG.
They also track the edit history like a wiki!
Pages are markdown under-the-hood, and have a simple WYSIWYG.
They also track the edit history like a wiki!
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The latest experimental release of Roomy has pages!
Pages are markdown under-the-hood, and have a simple WYSIWYG.
They also track the edit history like a wiki!
Pages are markdown under-the-hood, and have a simple WYSIWYG.
They also track the edit history like a wiki!
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INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED
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The block button exists and you can use it. People are making shared block lists.
How do we explain that calling the manager is the core part of what’s wrong with old systems?
No Kings means No Kings. Have agency, build it with others.
How do we explain that calling the manager is the core part of what’s wrong with old systems?
No Kings means No Kings. Have agency, build it with others.
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The block button exists and you can use it. People are making shared block lists.
How do we explain that calling the manager is the core part of what’s wrong with old systems?
No Kings means No Kings. Have agency, build it with others.
How do we explain that calling the manager is the core part of what’s wrong with old systems?
No Kings means No Kings. Have agency, build it with others.
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got laid off due to restructuring :(
i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions
in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)
i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions
in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
got laid off due to restructuring :(
i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions
in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)
i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions
in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)
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I like this essay. Global namespaces are attractive to software engineers and businesspeople, but not because they are good for users. We need instead to work for the opposite goal: to increase the user’s illegibility.
newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbindin...
newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbindin...
Soulbinding Like a State
Is acceptably non-dystopian digital identity even possible?
newsletter.squishy.computer
October 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I like this essay. Global namespaces are attractive to software engineers and businesspeople, but not because they are good for users. We need instead to work for the opposite goal: to increase the user’s illegibility.
newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbindin...
newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbindin...
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It's really weird to see the Palestinian prisoners being kept by Israel not also being referred to as hostages!
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's really weird to see the Palestinian prisoners being kept by Israel not also being referred to as hostages!
obsessed
Oops those are totally unreadable, here's a comparison of final messages between 4.5 and 4
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
obsessed
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Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.
October 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.
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It's true we are now on @tangled.org, please like and subscribe! By which we mean: *star* and *follow*!
FYI very soon we'll be cleaning up the README, adding better documentation for contributors, and tagging some issues as `good-first-issue` for Tangled's October open source challenge :)
FYI very soon we'll be cleaning up the README, adding better documentation for contributors, and tagging some issues as `good-first-issue` for Tangled's October open source challenge :)
I can't even explain why I like @leaflet.pub so much but I really do, and now it's open source (on an open source open sourcing tool) and man that is cool
@leaflet.pub/leaflet
a tool for shared writing and social publishing
tangled.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's true we are now on @tangled.org, please like and subscribe! By which we mean: *star* and *follow*!
FYI very soon we'll be cleaning up the README, adding better documentation for contributors, and tagging some issues as `good-first-issue` for Tangled's October open source challenge :)
FYI very soon we'll be cleaning up the README, adding better documentation for contributors, and tagging some issues as `good-first-issue` for Tangled's October open source challenge :)
sounding off about ‘AI art’
right, so the conversation should be about the institutionality of aesthetics, who in society reserves ‘aesthetic authority’. But the rise of techno-fascism is such a distinct and interesting context to have those debates
October 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
sounding off about ‘AI art’