I think this is true. I don't really have a background in the free software world, but it does seem to have failed. These days, I'm in a funny position where somehow it seems that LLMs might make e.g. personal websites and Linux on the desktop a thing by reducing activation energy.

My worry is that your stated paradox makes people confuse commoditized movements with mass movements.The latter is what shifts currents in the world, and becoming mass requires dealing with scale. A mass movement must implicate and interpellate ordinary people. It can't be a niche ideology.

This is mostly an issue with capitalization leading to loss of ownership. You raise money and lose authority to direct the movement.

I watched one a long time ago and have been winging it since!

Here’s a ghosted version of flipping through the pages.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

Edmund Leach’s introduction to Levi-Strauss is very lucid and didactic.

the thing is, Runway wants you pay $14.99 to not pay $14.99...

The writing kit: Muji pouch, earbuds, two small notebooks, Kindle, three hand-bound books, an assortment of printouts, two pens (black and red) and two crayons (green and blue)

It is imperative that the government have an open online archive of every book in existence and readily accessible, high-quality printers distributed throughout every metropolitan area at the density of roughly one printer per acre.

Added local model support by building on top of `simonw/llm` instead of directly calling the Antropic API. Seems like the right design decision: all API key management, model management, etc, is handled by that tool. Keeps the plugin simple.