Hackers' Pub

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`"` 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`

jonny (good kind) @jonny@neuromatch.social

12/11/2025, 8:26:15 AM

Quiet public

Ai technologies satisfy not a single one of these principles.

We suggest these five principles as a starting place:

Private: In the era of AI, whoever controls the context holds the power. While data often involves multiple stakeholders, people must serve as primary stewards of their own context, determining how it's used.
Dedicated: Software should work exclusively for you, ensuring contextual integrity where data use aligns with your expectations. You must be able to trust there are no hidden agendas or conflicting interests.
Plural: No single entity should control the digital spaces we inhabit. Healthy ecosystems require distributed power, interoperability, and meaningful choice for participants.
Adaptable: Software should be open-ended, able to meet the specific, context-dependent needs of each person who uses it.
Prosocial: Technology should enable connection and coordination, helping us become better neighbors, collaborators, and stewards of shared spaces, both online and off.

jonny (good kind) @jonny@neuromatch.social

12/11/2025, 8:30:57 AM

Public

I'm biased but i did it better.
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#vulgar-linked-data

rather than getting lost in the pure libertarian fantasy of everyone rediscovering and statistically summoning their own personalized hammer, we need to go precisely the opposite direction towards technologies that resist the drive to scale and centralization by making it possible to share resources and care for each other at all scales, from the person to the affinity group on up.

Our infrastructures are social. There is no class distinction between “developer” and “user.” We resist concentrated power in favor of mutual empowerment. We don’t seek to cultivate dependence in councils of elders or create new chokepoints of control. Anything worth making is a potential source of power, so anything worth making is worth distributing governance of. We don’t assume the needs of others, but make tools to empower everyone to meet their own needs. We don’t make platforms, we make protocols with rough consensus based on what works. We are autonomous, but neither isolated nor selfish. Our dream is not one of solipsism, glued to our feed, being stuffed with the pellets of our social reality. We are radically responsible for one another, and by organizing together we can provide services as mutual aid. Mutual empowerment means that we are free to come and go as we please, even if we might be missed. We have no love for venerated institutions and organize fluidly, making systems so we can merge and fork105 code and ourselves freely [223, 224].

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