“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor” - Desmond Tutu

Buzz channel support coming to Hermes soon:

GitHub

[Feature]: Add messaging support for Buzz · Issue #68871 · NousResearch/hermes-agent

Problem or Use Case Block just open sourced a new local hosted workspace for teams and agents to message. Buzz is a self-hostable workspace where h...

Open weight models are for enemies..

🐐🐐🐐 beware https://www.science.org/content/article/goats-love-bash-heads-it-might-give-them-brain-damage

Let's ban the government from using OpenAI and Anthropic...instead.

"Game recognizes game."

High school kid reading this on the train-hopeful:

Goodreads

How to Be a Dissident

An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy,…

I try never to never to waste my life energy on revenge or payback or gossip or even constructive criticism where it will not be received or used... ...and it has been a weird thing in my life where people sooner or later repeatedly get way way WAY worse than i would have ever thought they deserved… Karma or something always always comes around. I do not make the rules. But there appear to be some.

Would be great if Bitcoin, nostr, and freedomtech projects could also get early access to Claude Mythos before it is released to the wider world...#soon

Yeah I am not going to run Claude Dispatch on my personal computer either … yet

If you do privacy presos or education, good book for some more history, context and nuance (beyond the usual ones of the last 30ish years)..

Goodreads

Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private L…

The fascinating story of how private life was won, and …

This is really about academia/Bluesky (not the left as a whole)… …but the gist of it tracks

The left is missing out on AI

As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

Hurts my soul that most Bitcoiners are sexist AF…

The small hospital/medical center near me beats the much much bigger one by just being better and more human at everything they do…everything.

Good time to read this again:

David Graeber

The Bully’s Pulpit: On the elementary structure of domination

David: “(this one was painful to write, made me depressed for a week, but I feel it’s important)”

Nobody is going to give you likes or follows for your small acts of corporate or government pushback.. Do it anyways ..

Beef and Claude is the modern Bread and Circuses

Am noticing that the portion of vibe coders who are new to ”coding” (not self-taught or formally taught actual code writers)—could really benefit from some structured training to understand tech stacks/architecture and languages/capabilities. Seems to lead to some of the AI/UI redundancy. @Justin Moon

What you and yours consider right may eventually (or now) be considered wrong by mercurial authorities and governments. Privacy is necessary- and a human right.

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