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Danny O'B

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i talk to everybody and am overly charitable | currently interested in: consolidation without centralization, composable economies, ocaps, incautious optimism […] [bridged from https://mastodon.spesh.com/@danny on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ^G

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

New blog post from me: god shut up about AI, part 32 — open etiquette https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/10/03/god-shut-up-about-ai-part-32-open-etiquette/

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » god shut up about AI, part 32 — open etiquette

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 14d

You, yes you! You could probably apply for, and benefit from, an. #nlnet grant! https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250801-call.html

NLnet; Apply for funding before October 1st 2025

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 26d

every "let's discuss the impact of AI" and "let's share tips on using AI" group chat I eventually descends into a competitiokn to see who can make the most hilariously or inappropriate AI content

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

@mathowie 10^15 minutes late

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

New blog post from me: LLMs for the Old and Infirm https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/08/29/llms-for-the-old-and-infirm/

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » LLMs for the Old and Infirm

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 28

A guide to the abundance of Abundancies: https://www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-varieties/

Varieties of Abundance - Niskanen Center

We will know that abundance has succeeded when there is a proliferation of “abundances,” different governing projects attached to previously existing ideologies, interests, and parties.

www.niskanencenter.org

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 22

Happy birthday, Debian. I still think a lot about what the world can learn from you!

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html

Happy 100000th birthday, Debian

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 22

Oh, this rings true for much of (the small part of the world) I see: "Why can I, a middle-aged person with very firm opinions I will defend with the sort of withering sarcasm I learned during the golden era (and only the golden era) of The Simpsons, not make friends who share my exact opinions […]

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

dammit she just worked out it was a crossing guard, i was hoping to hear more ideas

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

liz just asked me what a lollipop lady is and conjectured it was a person who was in charge of giving children candy at school

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20

weird moments from my life, #272 -- explaining Noisebridge to John Cusack (with @micahflee ), from https://boingboing.net/2013/09/04/john-cusack-in-hacker-land.html

A very bearded danny with John Cusack in an EFF hat and Micah Lee not in any hat, at the Noisebridge hackerspace.

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Bruce Elrick @virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · Aug 5

Pareto-optimal non-market-based agricultural planning using a local and regional hierarchy of combined religious and pragmatic water temples.
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ancient-order-of-bali/

The Ancient Order of Bali

In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Aug 1

One of my favourite new thinkers, Frank Miroslav (@mutual_ayyde ) just dropped an absolutely fantastic barnstormer of an essay: "Technically Radical: On the Unrecognized Potential of Tech Workers and Hackers". I'm going to be quoting bits of this for /years/ […]

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24

God bless the Recurse Center for this very sensible (current) take on LLMs and coding: https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai

Developing our position on AI

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · Jul 3

Would you like to end the constant drumbeat of ill-informed legislative proposals that threaten to destroy end-to-end #encryption in #OpenSource #software? Are you from #europe? Can you demonstrate your expertise? Then why not apply to join the European Commission's Expert Group for a Technology […]

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jul 3

starting any writing work session doing 'apt update; apt upgrade' or 'brew update; brew upgrade', and then silently praying to the gods of procrastination that something will break

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jun 29

Like, without even engaging with the contents, I envisage someone twenty or thirty years in the future exasperatedly saying "ok, well, in order to understand this, you also need to know that by "AI" they meant [long explanation], by "book" they meant [stranger explanation], by "publisher" they […]

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jun 29

i feel like statements like this are going to age ... strangely: https://lithub.com/against-ai-an-open-letter-from-writers-to-publishers/

“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jun 28

proof that @lizzard is not the only one being cute-d at by khaaan! and fizzbin #catsofmastodon

khaan! and fizzbin, two siamese cat sisters, 5 months old and still kittenish, crammed into a basket with feets and front paws sticking out

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jun 28

i distinctly remember fantasising as a teenager that maybe in my lifetime this might happen: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-its-first-direct-image-discovery-of-an-exoplanet-180986886/

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jun 20

the percentage of my life covered by GPT3, GLP1, and GPL3+ is terrifying

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jun 10

New blog post from me: An Expansionary Theory of the Noosphere https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/06/10/an-expansionary-theory-of-the-noosphere/

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » An Expansionary Theory of the Noosphere

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · Jun 3

New blog post from me: we find our own use for things https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/06/02/we-find-our-own-use-for-things/

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » we find our own use for things

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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · May 27

New kitten #1, Fizzbin, has opinions on my latest anarchist manifesto draft: