Going solar

The 'solar' in solarpunk is both a literal reference to renewable energy and a metaphor for decentralized, locally controlled, but interconnected resilience.

Token retreat

Let's talk when the metaverse can directly feed the hungry, house people, or remove carbon from the atmosphere.

A corrective to the disinfo corrective

Maybe the people who are trying to understand why conspiracies take root online are themselves part of a giant conspiracy to prop up the online advertising economy. Personally, I think the truth might be weirder and a bit less nihilistic.

NSF...

There's only one search result for 'marxist' on PornHub.

4 x 8

About a month ago we switched to a 4-day, 8 hour per day workweek. Here are some reflections from the first few weeks.

GSD

What if your todo list is part of a distributed, unsupervised task management app that's running your company without anyone realizing it?

Don't go to space like this

Primal screaming at the new space race. [warning: profanity]

The struggle is real

Is there a meaningful praxis for socialist-leaning tech workers?

Know how they're paying your bills

A very Friday response to a very bad Medium marketing tweet.

Nopecoin

A blistering takedown of cryptocurrencies leads to an exceptionally dark thought: what if crypto is a self-perpetuating trauma machine?