When I die I want my brain to be uploaded into a 130 000 node Kubernetes cluster, and to have my life's savings pay for the compute bill.

You've heard of "this meeting could've been an email", but have you heard of "this 501(c)(3) non-profit could've been a DAO"?

Make no mistake – generative AI is the biggest, most pervasive, most powerful weapon we have against the intellectual monopoly. Globalisation of the internet marked the beginning of the end for copyright. Generative AI is our hope for dealing the final blow: to permanently sever the connection between art and artist, thereby making copyright unenforceable.

A week ago I held 0 sats. Now instead I hold 0 bitcoins, and my entire life has changed. Thank you Square!

How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light bulb? 2: One to remove the existing bulb, and the other to figure out what kind of bulb emits broken light.

October monthly update out now!

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Monthly update for October 2025. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Nobody ever reads these, and the fact they're only published as Markdown files on my GitHub Gists page is certainly no help. I'll either start posting them to my website or potentially to here soon™ though.

Don't know who needs to hear this, but it's never selfish or greedy to give something away for free.

It takes a lot of luck to be this lucky

I'm now convinced that the AWS us-east-1 datacentre is the most important building on the planet. But hey, Nostr's still up!

1984 is such an amazing book. It now sits proudly on my top shelf along with all of my other instruction manuals.

More educated groups of people tend to have fewer children. Coincidence?

The perennial generative AI debate is actually pretty awesome. It's got parts about IP & copyright, environmental benefits & consequences, impact on the future, control by government/corporations, technological feasibility, mathematical inner workings, deep philosophical musings about the nature of imagination/cleverness/creativity/consciousness etc, and of course a touch of existential risk. Each argument has a bit of everything in it and I learn a ton from every conversation! It's also one of the few topics where I can debate about it online and not feel my blood pressure rising during the process.

Welp, that's Hack Club's Summer of Making (https://summer.hackclub.com) effectively over now. Was it fun? Yeah, I guess. Was the voting system broken? Absolutely. Was it better than similar previous events (Arcade, Low Skies, High Seas)? A little, though it did also continue for a lot longer.

Art: anything that's not part of nature

Deception tip 101: Why try to find niche sources in a topic that support your point when you can probably find more popular, widely trusted sources, and meld them to fit whatever conclusions you want? You'll gain an appearance of higher reliability, though at the risk of increased misinterpretation of your view.

Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing As we danced in the night, remember How the stars stole the night away Give some love to the bongos in the background this 21 September.

I really wish my country was the woke leftist socialist utopia that some people think it is

19 September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I missed it by 3 hours, but for anyone in a timezone where it is still 19 September, it sure is a fine day to post something about how good an idea intellectual property abolition is.

Moving a 100k+ member community away from Slack in only a week is a pretty huge task, especially if that place is brimming with bots. I sincerely hope that the Massive Mattermost Migration goes well for Hack Club. Also I'd love to know what Salesforce's long-term plan is regarding the price increases, given that there will soon be 100k or so new engineers coming into the industry with a strong negative opinion of their company.

9/11 came early this year