Modal is an independent collective building emancipatory software.
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 🌈
A male coworker allegedly bludgeoning Amber Czech to death has nothing to tell us, evidently, about broader trends or influences.
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/
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR...
OpenAI hat sich durch überraschende Verträge mit Samsung und SK Hynix rund 40 Prozent der weltweiten DRAM-Produktion gesichert. Dieser massive Aufkauf führte zu sofortigen Panikkäufen und drastischen Preisanstiegen auf dem globalen Markt, da die Lagerbestände anderer Unternehmen bereits sehr niedrig waren.
Wie OpenAI Weihnachten ruiniert hat:
https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal
There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thoughts. My take: it was mostly baked into ...
Engineering Cairn, UBC (December 3, 2025) I wrote and first shared this piece in December 2014. It’s been lightly edited and updated, including new links for...
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/
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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...
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
Dr. Richardson’s Letter today was stunning, painful …
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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.
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What comes after the AI hype cycle; new community platforms; and more.
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/
Portlanders have repeatedly shown up to City Hall with one message: We refuse to negotiate the terms of our own oppression. People weren’t there for symbolic accountability, or for another round of policy cosplay. They came to demand the obvious: Shut the ICE facility down. Completely and perma...
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/
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