Sad inditement of my Britishness: my American spouse leaves for a week and my treat is to boil some vegetables
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Danny O'B
@danny@mastodon.spesh.com
mastodon 4.7.2i talk to everybody and am overly charitable | currently interested in: consolidation without centralization, composable economies, ocaps, incautious optimism, almanacs. ex-NTK, ex-EFF, now with Filecoin Foundation (for the Decentralised Web)
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@lizzard@mastodon.social dared me to reveal on mastodon that I go to sleep listening to an audiobook of Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France", but I have explained that I still have some dignity left
realising that old people get old people things just by inheriting them from the last batch of old people
Harry Hill pass responsibility for the Internet to Stewart Lee and Stew blames me https://youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?si=aMqZOxTLLn7XswMV&t=799 (not really)
i don't talk about AI here because i don't want to be run out of cybertown, but in the secret chats you mustn't know about, it's 50% how to organize your CLAUDE.md and 50% how to brush the hair of your smol language tulpa so that xe looks xer best at the next digital fae wedding
RE: @metabrainz@mastodon.social
This is such a great loss. Robert worked all his life for open data, and turned that project into a stable, persistent institution. Best wishes to everyone who knew him, and to the board for working to continue that vision.
This is a really nice piece, in the middle of i hope a productive discussion about inequality: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-all-just-envy/
I like liberal currents!
I have a hunch we are about to enter an Ornamental Age and this reminded me of that: https://xcancel.com/instance_11/status/2034694139066077325?s=46
New blog post from me: AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2026/01/07/ai-psychosis-ai-apotheosis/
Trying to fight big tech by making copyright stronger is like fighting viruses with gain-of-function research: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worried-about-ai-monopoly--embrace-copyright-s-limits
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 or decentralized organizing, I think you might think so too: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/filecoinfoundation/jobs/4615095006
As ever, if you're not sure whether this is the right role for you and you're reading this, reach out to me in DM! I'm friendly, and we can talk it through!
@emma@orbital.horse @lizzard@mastodon.social it's not even right for australia!! That's why I look sad in this photo lol
trying out another terminal emuulator, which is *fast* but I'm like ohh but it feels kind of ... soft? Turns out it is fast at rendering but isn't as good at input latency, and ... I think maybe I felt that?
i must be very special and sensitive. or just dislike change
Gamifying Wikipedia: https://wikigacha.com
@gruber@mastodon.social re: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/14/calhoun-lemay -- success (or even just "shipped features") has many parents, but @lisamelton@mastodon.social thinks she and Steve Jobs simultaneously came up with the progress bar in the location field trick, not Steve Lemay https://lisamelton.net/2023/10/05/memories-of-steve/#:~:text=In%20the%20page-,address%20field,-!%E2%80%9D