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January 28 2026

Slopcraft and the LLM Society

Meditations on slop, why I'm not convinced, and what to do about it.

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January 26 2026

Digital Tools for Conviviality

Digital communication technology has exceeded its optimal scale, establishing a radical monopoly over human interaction. Internet platforms intermediate private relationships, extract value through surveillance capitalism, and reduce people to quantifiable metrics. However, certain digital tools can subvert the architecture of the corporate internet to safeguard individual freedom and human flourishing within digital environments. Two digital tools embody this conviviality in particular: open source software and asymmetric cryptography. Open source software empowers users to understand, modify, and control their tools rather than being controlled by them, while asymmetric cryptography enables private communication over untrusted networks, as well as credible exit through digital signatures. Together, these tools offer a bottom-up approach to incrementally reclaiming control over our digital lives, making small-scale resistance against intermediation and surveillance more feasible within the hostile environment of the modern internet

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December 2 2025

Nostr as Game

All systems can be approached like a game by "probing" for affordances. This can be a lot of fun, and works well in an adversarial environment.

When we tried to abandon the Earth, our ship would not let us. Then, carrying us to this island and becoming a pool, it was declaring to us, "You will live! You will survive!" And then we saw it. Life...
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If what we are witnessing is not, at heart, a political or cultural battle, but some manifestation of a spiritual war - well, then perhaps our time should be spent becoming the right kind of warrior. ...
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Open is good, closed is bad. Why? Because closed things can't be harvested, exploited, or transformed in the image of the new world which the machine is building. 'Open' things, on the other hand; wel...
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