arvind
dialecticalmusings@app.wafrn.net
<ul> <li>marxist voice from the imperial periphery</li> <li>biologist by training, jack of many things by vocation</li> <li>dialectical takes on society, science, technology, arts, geopolitics…</li> <li>longform blogs/essays at <a href="https://bahuroopi.bearblog.dev/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bahuroopi.bearblog.dev/</a></li> <li>avatar pic: cross-section of a mushroom</li> </ul>
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I frequently come across fairly aggressive criticisms of ATProto or Bluesky on the Fediverse, but the relative moderation loads of a PDS owner and the owner of a Fedi instance are hardly ever mentioned. Apart from redistribution of relative costs, the ATProto decomposition of the network into PDSs, relays and AppViews also distributes the load of moderation differently to that of the Fediverse. If someone is only running a PDS, and using a relay and an AppView provided by other parties, the...
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The Scariest Thing I've Ever Witnessed: They Know What You Will Do Before You Do It A.I. Pre-Crime Is Rewriting Human Freedom. I witnessed it. And it is the scariest thing I have ever seen. by Bettbeat Media July 1, 2026 https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/the-scariest-thing-ive-ever-witnessed #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #DataCenter #DataCentres #DataCentre #Palantir #Epstein #EpsteinClass
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Carole Cadwalladr's basic framework for today's world is that of liberal capitalism gone wrong. She doesn't think there is anything wrong with capitalism itself, or even with imperialism, as long as it is of the "liberal" variety. (Read her deleted tweet mentioned in this article, as one point of evidence.) Her "expose" of present-day Bilderberg comes from the same perspective. She believes that the Peter Thiel coterie has hijacked the good old West, causing it...
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@ricci@discuss.systems Have you seen this blog post? It confirms, from first-hand experience, most of the points I made in an earlier post and its follow-up. @jdp23@neuromatch.social @innocentzero@social.tchncs.de #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #ATProto #Bluesky