William Gillis 🏴

rechelon.bsky.social

15 October 2026 10:38

They say the anarchist dream of self-hosting is dead. They say the centralized datacenter form is an unavoidable product of economies of scale. They say the datacenters are too big for activists to sabotage. And yet they increasingly seem like giant red button vulnerabilities in state conflict.

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿

kevincarson1.bsky.social

08 October 2026 15:35

"Efficiency" can only be assessed in terms of goals. Goals cannot be objectively identified from a standpoint of purely technical expertise. They depend on values. Zhao's "benevolent dictator" will "efficiently" pursue his own goals and those of the class that backs him, not those of the majority.

greg macdougall (613)

equitableeducation.ca

07 October 2026 22:30

I'll see if I can put in a "suggestion to purchase" at the local library given that it was published in the past two years there is a decent chance (that is one of their criteria), but they also need the publisher to be on their list of people they buy from, so it will depend on the canadian distro

Thought Slime’s monster

slimemildred.bsky.social

06 October 2026 04:28

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.