I'm glad for Shvembldr. Prime example of "state is not your friend". Full story: art-is-crime.com

This morning I was learning how to handle mail bounces and come across the ServerFault thread from 2009 on the topic. The guy was building a newsletter software. Then I checked the name: Brian Armstrong, now CEO of Coinbase 🛡️. serverfault.com/questions/4832…

The Phone Pillow let your phone take a break from all the work it does for you, while you take a break from your phone live now on internetsculptures.com

"France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects"

Pretty much go to bed and wake up thinking about this clip Lives in my head

French police is currently raiding X’s office in Paris. France is the only country in the world that is criminally persecuting all social networks that give people some degree of freedom (Telegram, X, TikTok…). Don’t be mistaken: this is not a free country.

Do a set of pushups every time you wait for AI agent to finish

My new guilty pleasure is trading Second Coming on prediction markets

For millennia, jocks ran everything. The nerds finally take over. And what do they do? Develop AI that wipes out their own coding/math/analysis moats. Creating a social premium on interpersonal skills. The irony.

So, what many of us have been waiting for has finally happened: GrapheneOS has announced the creation of an alternative to Google Pixel, the "GrapheneOS Phone". To be honest, I secretly hoped that the partnership would be with OnePlus, because OnePlus makes high-quality devices

Paralelni Polis is dead horrible news for bitcoin adoption in Europe This was the first cafe to accept bitcoin payments in 2014 Had a coworking space where you could meet hackers & anarchists Hosted hundreds of conferences & community meetups Nurtured open source startups

I’m reposting this not to ask Elon for a pardon, but to point out that Nostr matters. It doesn’t matter if you’re a business or an individual creating content - as long as you’re on a centralized platform, the content isn’t yours. All your efforts to create something good will

Legendary

Google announced that all Android app developers must register centrally, pay a fee, and submit government ID, or their apps will be blocked on every device. over 67 organizations oppose this. keepandroidopen.org keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen

The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.