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Post-Meritocracy A defining characteristic of the industrialized world has been the promise of meritocracy: if you’re smart and work hard, you can improve your position in life. The promise has always... https://wills.co.tt/2149/post-meritocracy

Getting excited for events.ccc.de/congress/2026/

Preparation & Infrastructure One of the more interesting consequences of the current evolution in security is what it does to our notion of best practices. As both discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities speed... https://wills.co.tt/2145/preparation-infrastructure

中秋节快乐

What happens when I upgrade to “OSName 27”?

I think I may be the target audience for the advertising in shibuya

Asparagus quiche!

engineering.fb.com/2019/03/01/s... is a useful primitive for a range of notification cases. looking forward to seeing this integrated into more privacy protocols.

There's something in play I don't fully understand for why AI crawlers aren't contributing back to common crawl. There would be a clear win if we could have a commons - mitigating some of the 'AI bot over-run' concerns. Instead we see fear that coordination is slower than re-building a new silo.

When do we get a Privacy-Preserving CDN? The surveillance-capitalism business model that defines the Internet today is only going to get more imposing. The vast majority of our online requests today are serviced and logged by... https://wills.co.tt/2118/when-do-we-get-a-privacy-preserving-cdn

The cancellation of Rightscon is a huge setback for the organization of human rights given the state of the world today. I hope we can make up for it in the coming months at dwebcamp.org, petsymposium.org, and hopefully others!

#Zambia Deeply concerned by gvt’s "postponement" of @rightscon.org Requiring "disclosure of topics" for an "alignment with national values" is a clear violation of the rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression, and a deliberated attack on civic space. 1/

Yes plz discussing decentralization on discord is like plotting direct action on a Google doc

新年快乐！

Apropos of nothing, I watched 'Listers' last night, and enjoyed it a lot more than I had expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun. luma.com/jj7nths0

I’ve had many conversations in the last months about the future - political and social - that we hope to see in the future. The current global events are a disappointing degradation to non-cooperative greedy optimization, but have led to a more engaged discourse - particularly in young people.

2026 promises to be if nothing else fascinating. Wishing for curiosity and positive outcomes!

Now the days get longer again!

Baking bread is an immensely gratifying persuit

Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...

Thankful for friends and family

I’m surprised how little progress has been made in the last year on p2p network structures. We have economic games, much advanced network simulation tools, and additional cryptographic building blocks, but at a p2p level we seem stuck on DHTs

With Norse discontinuing Berlin flights, and Delta's limited to the summer, we're back to only a single daily united flight connecting Berlin with the United States (and Newark at that)

Has anyone connected up remotestorage.io with a PDS?

friction.observer/digital-huma... is a great synthesis of what digital human rights can mean concretely.

Mushrooms from a morning walk in the woods

中秋节快乐

Last week we assembled a bunch of people to talk about what technical interventions can move the needle on privacy. I’ve written up my take on the projects the group conglomerated around. www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Consider submitting to www.ccc.de/en/updates/2... The need for pro-social tech is only growing, and CCC is one of the best venues to organize around that work.

Great end of summer bike riding out of Berlin today.

A great conclusion to the ride today. After a bit of wading in sand, we got the majority of the day on a not busy service road for the train. After a large steep hill into Nairobi we got a final chaotic ride through traffic on a dual carriageway to complete the loop.

A slog in the morning, though interesting to see kfc and a more built up narok than any city yet on this trip. Then a payoff in the afternoon with a big downhill ride to suswa.

A day of skynet, corn, empty gas stations, and open road

Started the day with a big climb out of kisii. The road quality degraded a bit in the middle of the ride, but never felt too bad. Cooler temperatures and much of the climbing behind us now.

Had a hilly day from the Kenyan border to Kisii 90 km north. Easy to stay distracted from the work by the regularity of villages we got to pass through.

Back on the bike today, and back to Kenya. A long day but full of adventure with a local ferry, 20km of dirt roads, and a lot of curious faces.

Had a great few days exploring the Serengeti and seeing the great GNU migration. Left the park today for lake Victoria.

A break from biking today as we entered the Serengeti. Saw all the charismatic mega-fauna and really impressed by the place.

A transition day today. A short bike ride to the edge of the national park, and then exploration of the area. There was a huge bi-weekly market at the neighboring town.

I’ve had a great first couple days biking in Tanzania. Left Arusha this morning after some great Indian food, for a day on the Savana as we head towards the Serengeti.

"freedom of speech is easy; freedom after speech is the hard part"

Ready for #protocolberg tomorrow

Lovely day in the alps

Sad to be missing the atomosphere conference in seattle this weekend. It looks to be an important milestone for the community beyond the direct bluesky team to shape how to evolve the protocol beyond public posts.

I ❤️ u too, ufos (and retro-futurism murals generally)