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<p>You can now read “Being a script” in English here (10min read):<br><a href="https://raphaelbastide.com/etre-script/en.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="raphaelbastide.com/etre-script/en.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">raphaelbastide.com/etre-script</span><span class="invisible">/en.html</span></a><br><a href="/tags/sf/" rel="tag">#SF</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/resistingai/" rel="tag">#resistingAI</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a></p>

<p>Hey, the Autumn/Winter 2025 issue of the Good Internet magazine is out?</p><p>Go read/subscribe! </p><p><a href="https://goodinternetmagazine.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>goodinternetmagazine.com</a></p><p><a href="/tags/goodinternet/" rel="tag">#GoodInternet</a> <a href="/tags/goodinternetmagazine/" rel="tag">#GoodInternetMagazine</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a></p>

<p>&quot;As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">henry.codes/writing/economics-</span><span class="invisible">and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://front-end.social/@henry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>henry</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>

<p>Jun 6</p><p>8 min</p><p>Gaming out a society of psychopaths.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2YdrRvrpg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2YdrRvrpg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2Ydr</span><span class="invisible">Rvrpg</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a></p>

<p>&quot;Most often, I tend to locate the web’s significance in something that feels concrete: in pirate libraries, censorship circumvention, collective knowledge projects, and open data. One thing I think the web does very well [...] is to collapse a lot of things — people, times, places, images, writing — into one place, together.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.are.na/editorial/what-can-an-image-do" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.are.na/editorial/what-can-an-image-do"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.are.na/editorial/what-can-</span><span class="invisible">an-image-do</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/images/" rel="tag">#images</a></p>

<p>&quot;But, as Michèle Martin documents in her paper “The Rulers of the Wires”, middle-class women’s “‘delinquent’ telephone activities” took the Telegram Men by surprise. This delinquency included not just social telephone calls in the afternoon, but planned and impromptu meet-ups on party lines where isolated women could dial in and get an update from their community.</p><p>This was damned at the time by the Telegram Men as futile and frivolous, but that didn’t stop it from happening.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/careful-industries/delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="medium.com/careful-industries/delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/careful-industries/</span><span class="invisible">delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

<p>&quot;Sometime in the last twenty years, our possessions came alive.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.terrygodier.com/the-last-q</span><span class="invisible">uiet-thing</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

<p>QUEER NIHILISM</p><p>I have written a new essay (an hour of your time) which discusses &quot;queer nihilism&quot; or an anti-politics (that is, something against the politics of this world) of wild desire.</p><p>It is from a work in progress which is focusing on &quot;the wild&quot; as an alternative to our civilisations of death and oppression, a theorisation of anarchy.</p><p>It will interest those who have an interest in an alternative politics - and an alternative to politics - queer theory, nihilism, anarchism and all anti-civilisationalists.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/qn_20260331/mode/2up" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/qn_20260331/mode/2up"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/qn_2026033</span><span class="invisible">1/mode/2up</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/nihilism/" rel="tag">#nihilism</a> <a href="/tags/queertheory/" rel="tag">#queertheory</a> <a href="/tags/anarchism/" rel="tag">#anarchism</a> <a href="/tags/anarchy/" rel="tag">#anarchy</a> <a href="/tags/wild/" rel="tag">#wild</a> <a href="/tags/desire/" rel="tag">#desire</a> <a href="/tags/feral/" rel="tag">#feral</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/theory/" rel="tag">#theory</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/thought/" rel="tag">#thought</a> <a href="/tags/discussion/" rel="tag">#discussion</a></p>

<p>&quot;In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O&#x27;Reilly&#x27;s Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-global-network-navigator/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1993-global-network-navigator/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1993-globa</span><span class="invisible">l-network-navigator/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a></p>

<p>New post: Can we have a more “social” media?</p><p><a href="https://profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-social-media" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-social-media"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-so</span><span class="invisible">cial-media</span></a></p><p>On advertising, the Fediverse, and what a more human social web could look like.</p><p>Special mentions: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.coop/@smallcircles" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>smallcircles</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fluffytail.org/users/phnt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phnt</span></a></span>, @happy-programming </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a></p>