Mason Jones

Mason Jones

@masonoise.bsky.social

Startup engineering leader, Infrastructure engineer-type, psych-noise guitarist & experimental musician. https://www.charnel.com/mason (he/him)

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Bloomberg News
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Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo's Chief Economist Torsten Slok. Read more: bloom.bg/3UO2c30 📷: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
@migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

If the hubris that lead to security holes and poor engineering of doge/linux did not dissuade your enthusiastic friend, perhaps not supporting the Nazi ideology behind it will: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-funded-by-1password-vp-who-wrote-honest-security/

flyingpenguin.comDHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security”Jason Meller wrote a security rulebook. I read it. He is in direct violation of it. As CEO of Kolide, Meller published honest.security and reduced it to five tenets on December 8, 2020. The first: “ _The values your organization stands behind should be well-represented in your security program_.” That’s politics at work. The third holds that trust is demonstrated through informed consent and transparency. The fifth holds that people make rational decisions about risk when they are educated and honestly motivated. Then 1Password, whose 2021 round was joined personally by Shopify’s Tobi Lütke and Harley Finkelstein, the executives who platformed Nazi merchandise and seated David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on their board, bought Kolide in February 2024, made Meller VP of Product, and still publishes the document as the guiding principles of its Device Trust product. Houston, we have a problem. DHH published his infamous Nazi screed called “ _As I remember London_ ” on September 15, 2025. The post mourns a London no longer full of “native” British and approves a right-wing Tommy Robinson march promoting white supremacy. Meller answered the criticism of DHH on September 26, 2025 with a photo of a child in a dance costume, back turned to the camera, at the edge of a lifeless/closed private pool. With that he boasted he became a multi-millionaire thanks to Rails, DHH, and the company DHH keeps: “ _Let’s ignore the noise and keep building_.” Source: Twitter He posted that as a director of the Rails Foundation, which DHH chairs. 1Password had taken a board seat in 2024 and Meller filled it with such questionable “values”. Again, this was the guy who wrote a rulebook saying work is political, where trust is earned. Fast forward to July 12, 2026, DHH published “ _The will to power will return_.” He tries to gin up a “loss” narrative to evoke FUD, claiming the West has lost its will, weak men have made hard times, a hero generation will end the managed decline, and the last such Crisis ended in total war, so do not bet against another. That title is Nietzsche’s phrase fraudulently repackaged by his antisemitic sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche: she made a posthumous compilation cut from his notebooks into a racist doctrine of strength over weakness, which was adopted by the Nazis. It has been treated by scholars as hers rather than the philosopher’s since the Colli-Montinari edition. This isn’t obscure history. Hitler ran PR at her Weimar archive in 1934, photographed at the door taking her hands, and photographed inside contemplating the bust of her brother. Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche happily welcomes Hitler at the door of the Nietzsche-Archiv, Weimar, 1934, offering him a warm smile and both hands. Source: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Kunstarchiv, http://www.gnm.de/museum/abteilungen-anlaufstellen/deutsches-kunstarchiv/ Days later DHH published the word _remigration_ , Martin Sellner’s Potsdam term for forced deportation of settled populations, documented here at the time, because it’s Nazi propaganda worth identifying as such. On July 21, 2026, DHH doubled-down on all this Nazism with “ _Wolves, sheep, and gypsies_.” He describes Romani people in Copenhagen parks beside a wolf population and states the remedy for one is shooting and the remedy for the other is deportation. Make no mistake. DHH pushes the dehumanization of an ethnic group in preparation for its removal on force of death. It is the rhetoric that preceded the Porajmos. DHH then complained publicly when Claude refused to translate his Nazi propaganda into Italian. On August 31, 2026, DHH named 1Password a Distinguished Corporate Patron of his Omacom Foundation, $100,000 a year for three years, in a quid pro quo he described the same afternoon as proof open source need not be a “commune.” Source: Twitter “Commune” is the Nazi dog-whistle of being anti-communist, the antisemitic project from the start: it’s how the NSDAP fused Jews and the labor movement into being their “one” enemy of “Jewish Bolshevism”. Rosenberg’s 1936 Nuremberg speech made the equation explicit. Seven weeks after the will-to-power essay, DHH spoke of a commune as his enemy on the day he took 1Password’s money. 1Password is the first corporate patron he does not own, and the independence ends there. Lütke, on 1Password’s cap table since 2021, pledged $1 million on August 21. His portfolio company followed in ten days. The quid was the default install slot 1Password had held since Omakub. DHH thanked Meller by name for leading it. Meller had already explained the bond the evening before: DHH pitched him one-on-one for two hours, and he switched to Mac for Rails and DHH seventeen years ago and is switching platforms again for him now. Source: Twitter Then he called DHH’s past year a masterclass in “force of will”. Nine days before the deportation post, DHH’s own headline had announced the return of the “will to power”, the phrase identified above. Meller’s words echo the DHH Nazi title, seven weeks on. Jason Meller, VP of Product at 1Password, August 30, 2026. “Force of will” repeats the title DHH gave his July 12 essay, nine days before the Romani post. The 1935 film title was Triumph of the Will. On August 31 Meller produced the metric that became the company’s defense: Omarchy is the third largest Linux distribution among active 1Password users and first on weekends. DHH called it crazy. A fan called it his cocaine energy. You know, weekend stuff. Source: Twitter When employees and customers objected, this data point was cited. CEO David Faugno told staff the money goes to a foundation and not a person (e.g. to a NSDAP not to Hitler himself), that 1Password rejects DHH’s exclusionary views without offering proof, and that Omarchy is a top Linux platform for its users. Cofounder Roustem Karimov, in a Slack message obtained by The Verge, accused objecting staff of trying to setup a moral monopoly and ostracizing colleagues by rejecting Nazism. Now back to those tenets. **Tenet one.** Values the organization stands behind, represented in the security program. The CEO says the company rejects DHH’s views, yet show us where. The VP of Product funds them, celebrates them, and sits on a board DHH chairs. One of those is the value the organization stands behind. The money identifies which. **Tenet three.** Trust through informed consent and transparency. The pledge was announced by DHH, on DHH’s platform, with the objections handled afterward in private Slack. Employees learned of the affiliation the way everyone else did. Consent was never sought. Transparency arrived through a leak. **Tenet five.** People make rational decisions when educated and honestly motivated. The employees and customers who objected read the two posts and decided. Meller’s word for that decision in 2025 was noise. Karimov’s word in 2026 was moral monopoly. The doctrine says respect the informed decision. The practice says discredit it. Meller’s method is the same on both dates. He never engages the text. He recodes the objection as noise or as shots taken, then answers with a number: his net worth in 2025, weekend install counts in 2026. Honest Security was written against exactly that move. Its whole argument is that a security team which answers human objections with telemetry has already lost. Every director of the Rails Foundation, every patron of Omacom, and every executive at 1Password now owns Nazi propaganda. But Meller is different from everyone, because that guy owns them twice. He brokered the money and he wrote a standard that says Meller can’t be trusted.

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Richard Hayes
@rmhayes.bsky.social

my audio recording of an exceptionally memorable and gorgeously unsettling concert by Ak'Chamel the Giver of Illness at Acme Records in Milwaukee in June 2023 is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available in both mp3 and lossless file format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/08/akch...

milwaukeetaper.comAk'Chamel the Giver of Illness at Acme Records in Milwaukee on June 8, 2023I've been frightened at a concert twice in my life. The first was in 1987 while contemplating my fragile mortality in a sea of shifting huma...

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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social

Replying to @paleofuture.bsky.social

Darth Vader praises Flock cameras: "This is what the Emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and their hidden base on Hoth."

Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social

Quick day-before reminder for SF folks of this cool noontime show tomorrow. Stop by and treat your ears to some noise and your stomach to some vegan pancakes!

Mason Jones@masonoise.bsky.social

San Francisco area noiseheads! I'm happy to be joining an amazing lineup with John Bischoff, Anti-Ear, Fletcher Pratt, Famous Techno, and Earth Jerks at the next Noise Pancakes, 8/15! Come join us, you know you want to.

Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social

San Francisco area noiseheads! I'm happy to be joining an amazing lineup with John Bischoff, Anti-Ear, Fletcher Pratt, Famous Techno, and Earth Jerks at the next Noise Pancakes, 8/15! Come join us, you know you want to.

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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine
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A rare and deeply revealing conversation with Makoto Kubota about Les Rallizes Dénudés, Takashi Mizutani, the Japanese psychedelic underground and the unfinished fourth album that became ‘Disque 4’. www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/07/les-...

psychedelicbabymag.comLes Rallizes Dénudés and Japan’s Psychedelic Underground: Makoto Kubota on Takashi Mizutani, ‘Disque 4’ and the Lost Years - It's Psychedelic Baby MagazineFor most of their existence, the Japanese band Les Rallizes Dénudés left remarkably little official evidence behind them. Their music circulated through copied tapes, bootlegs and incomplete live reco...
Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social

These people are allowing themselves to be lied to. “It’s just impossible to take time off right now" is only true if you allow it to be. Live your life, don't throw it away chasing illusions.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social

Looks like we need every Democratic member of Congress to go stick their hands in the Reflecting Pool and get arrested, just to make a point about how ridiculous it all is.

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dr. rich traditions, JD
@helldude.bsky.social

the US president, with the explicit support of the US legislature and the US supreme court, is stealing billions of dollars in thousands of ways. meanwhile the NYT is on the case of whether, when mamdani paid a thousand dollars for a knicks ticket out of his own pocket, he got a ticket for VIPs

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Andrew Janjigian
@wordloaf.org

This post from @leahreich.com is excellent, and largely mirrors my own experience making the shift from the walled garden of Substack to Ghost: not without its downsides and much lonelier, but I've no regrets at all. www.leahreich.com/why-did-i-le...

leahreich.comWhy Did I Leave Substack, Anyway?Last week, my friends at Scratch reached out to ask if I'd be interesting in answering questions about why I moved my newsletter off Substack. Of course I would! I've written some about it here, as yo...
Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social

Nobody should be using, subscribing to, or visiting Substack. This is just the latest in a long series of reasons.

kottke.org@kottke.org

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

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kottke.org
@kottke.org

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

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ACLU
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If you're taking to the streets for No Kings protests today, know your rights. Find your nearest event at nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=aclu When using this link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.

Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social

These tech leaders who now require their developers use AI tools and count token usage as "productivity" are the same as yesterday's foolish leaders who thought counting lines of code was a legitimate way of grading developer performance.

Mason Jones
@masonoise.bsky.social

Really sucks to read that the Silver Sprocket store on Valencia is closing on Monday. Hands down my favorite comic shop in town, and while we still have a good selection of stores, it's been a uniquely valuable one. Reminder to go buy comics at your favorite shop while you can!!