Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) @hongminhee@hollo.social

2/21/2026, 9:48:03 PM

Public

It took time and experience before the workers learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital.

—Karl Marx

This verdict on the Luddites, written 150 years ago, maps onto the LLM debate with uncomfortable precision: Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations.

Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations

This is a follow-up to last month's Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them . Cory Doctorow celebrated the sixth anniversary of Pluralistic…

writings.hongminhee.org · Hong Minhee on Things

Link author: 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) @hongminhee@hollo.social

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/019c822c-8b8f-7a94-869f-921bc9c00604 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)