In Brief: Two motions regarding
On Betraying Principles
Why Creative Commons must be about more than reducing friction on reuse This week, I had the experience of being told the work we are doing at Creative Commons right now is betraying the founding principles of the organization. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last.
Capitalism, the Commons, and Divine Right - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Barnes defines the commons as "the sum of all we inherit together and must pass on, undiminished and more or less equally, to our heirs." The commons includes watersheds, air, DNA, playgrounds, Main Street, radio waves, political systems, and numerous other natural resources and social innovations. Barnes suggests that the commons should be held in trust for the benefit of current and future generations as a way of countering the power of the market and its search for short-term private profits.
How LLMs Actually Work
A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.
The dead internet theory wasn't wrong, just early. Here's what to do next.
Against False Indulgences in LLM Alignment
Unnecessary moral concern, and the false indulgences that drive it.
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
Wesley's notes
Takeaways from our Exploratory Leaflet <-> Semble Integration Call
The secure way to release an npm package in 2026—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
How to protect your npm package from being stolen in a supply chain attack and improve its position in security ratings
Lessons from Mastodon's False Start: Understanding AT Protocol and Bluesky's Dilemma - Nightflight
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought
An essay on LLMs as a cognitive medium
Habitat's road to release: 03 ReBAC on spaces - building [at] habitat
Fine-grained permissioning on top of spaces.