Specifically, to mention When did you join the IndieWeb? by Neil Mather. The present post is a supposed to be a reply to the same. Hope everything works as intended.

I’d prefer not to live in a meritocratic order, because meritocratic ends in -cratic; I don’t really need any other reason. Certainly I consider meritocracy a lesser evil than nepotism. In practice, though, systems said to be designed as meritocratic as often as not amount to nepotism-washing. I’m very cynical about the prospects for meritocracy…

I’ve stated on the record many times that I’d ditch anagorism in favor of agorism if it could be shown that the market mechanism (with or without some “tweaking”) would be able to perform the astoundingly efficient calculation of optimal allocation of resources if the criteria of efficiency were person weighted rather than dollar weighted.…

A Redditor by the name of /u/Unfilter41 posted this comment about this video: The Hated One is one of the few non-far-right alt tech people on YouTube. Un-feeding Google is a good idea. DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I’m still scratching my head about how the left managed to get so computer illiterate.…

goal: lose amateur status (in my case, in software development) what’s holding me back: I suspect, my belief/attitude that all strategies for monetizing software or data products are deeply cynical and ethically questionable. the other thing holding me back: the fact that the field I’m interested in has systematically and intentionally eliminated the very concept…

They need to be disassembled, in the assembly language sense. The root of the problem is commercializing the Internet in the first place. I don’t know what if anything can be done at this stage. Maybe create a whole new internet from scratch, and hopefully leapfrog some key mistakes that went into the development of…

To me, the ultimate luxury is the luxury of not being in it (whatever ‘it’ is) for the money. I don’t think there’s anything in socialism that rejects (material) luxury, but there are many flavors of socialism. Environmentalism might have something to say about it. My personal ism (aside from anagorism) is negative utilitarianism, so…

I’m absolutely sick of lines of argument (either way) constructed within the “socialism equals public sector” framework. It erases the authentic socialist movement (for better or for worse) from the history of ideas, and supplies fuel to those who would redbait anything that deviates from the most ruthlessly darwinian conception of “laissez-faire” capitalism.

I tend to place blame for most of the predatory practices of Silicon Valley not on computing itself, but on proprietary computing itself, or on monetization, if you will. The problem is not so much surveillance as information asymmetry, or unfair informational advantage. This is a direct consequence of the fact that the technologies are…

If by democracy we mean majority rule, then I can’t entirely say I believe in it. Even there, my objection to majority rule is to the rule part, not the majority part. If by democracy we mean “control from the bottom up” (and I think that is a correct understanding of democracy) then yes, I’m…