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Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

What is Modal - Modal Collective https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal/

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

Media Reaction to a Woman Murdered at Work Is ‘Nothing to See Here’ https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

The New York Times apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

https://fair.org/home/media-reaction-to-a-woman-murdered-at-work-is-nothing-to-see-here/

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal: https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169224

How the AI bubble, panic, and unpreparedness stole Christmas.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.com/metafoundry/archive/thirty-six-years-later/

Saw @mmasnick.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and @komorama.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy on-stage yesterday at the @wired.com@bsky.brid.gy #TheBigInterview event talking about their manifesto (resonantcomputing.org) and well... it resonated so I've signed. Here's to a better future, together.

The Resonant Computing Manifes...

@danielmiessler Of potential interest, in case you missed it:

https://resonantcomputing.org/

https://resonantcomputing.org

https://resonantcomputing.org/

Resonant Computing Manifesto

"We suggest these five principles as a starting place:

Private: In the era of AI, whoever controls the context holds the power. While data often involves multiple stakeholders, people must serve as primary stewards of their own context, determining how it's used.
Dedicated: Software should work exclusively for you, ensuring contextual integrity where data use aligns with your expectations. You must be able to trust there are no hidden agendas or conflicting interests.
Plural: No s..."

https://resonantcomputing.org/

#dev #manifestos #resonantsoftware #software #tech

This very much resonates with me.

Includes an unexpected mention of "QWAN"

https://resonantcomputing.org/

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

The Resonant Computing Manifes...

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

The Resonant Computing Manifes...

I've read the Resonant Computing manifesto (https://resonantcomputing.org) but my problem with the tech community is it feels like everyone keeps getting enthralled by the One Ring. We recognize that some bit of technology is dangerous and could be used against us. And *we really should* cast it into the fires of Mt Doom. But... *what if, just maybe*, it could be made to work for us...

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

The Resonant Computing Manifes...

Dr. Richardson’s Letter today was stunning, painful …

————

I agree fully with the statement:

“Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan.”

No wonder the admin(?) waited until Friday night to release the NSS without fanfare. It’s a final abdication. 320 days! 320 days is all it took to destroy our nation from within.

————

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

#HeatherCoxRichardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p11#a251206p11

#Trump #NATO #NationalSecurity #Europe
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

Source: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

This is so grievously hard to watch my own country simultaneously rip out it's brain and then stab and shoot itself all at once.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

If there was any question that the American century ended on January 20, 2025, there is none now.

America is officially ruled by White Supremacists voluntarily giving up our unique position in the world in order to make America a white ethnostate that bullies its smaller neighborhoods into positions of servitude just as the Soviet Union did after World War II and the monarchical empires did before World War I.
We know how well that worked out for everyone...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

Every Friday, I round up the links I've found interesting at the intersection of technology, media, and society, and share some thoughts. Here's today's list - including what happens after the AI hype dies down, why children are flocking to unsafe online spaces, and more. https://werd.io/friday-links-december-5-2025/

Every Friday, I round up the links I've found interesting at the intersection of technology, media, and society, and share some thoughts. Here's today's list - including what happens after the AI hype dies down, why children are flocking to unsafe online spaces, and more. https://werd.io/friday-links-december-5-2025/

Every Friday, I round up the links I've found interesting at the intersection of technology, media, and society, and share some thoughts. Here's today's list - including what happens after the AI hype dies down, why children are flocking to unsafe online spaces, and more. https://werd.io/friday-links-december-5-2025/

Every Friday, I round up the links I've found interesting at the intersection of technology, media, and society, and share some thoughts. Here's today's list - including what happens after the AI hype dies down, why children are flocking to unsafe online spaces, and more. https://werd.io/friday-links-december-5-2025/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/

Hundreds continue to pack City Hall, and the message hasn’t changed: Portland refuses to let liberal smokescreens and nonprofit respectability politics shield the violence ICE is perpetuating against our communities. Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?

I sat down with two anarchists who have been pushing for the revocation of the ICE permit and believe abolition is the only way towards liberation.

Read more here:

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/abolition-not-fines-for-fascism/