Former fightforthefuture.org founder building a local-first, p2p alternative to Slack and Discord at tryquiet.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lvwogt742s2fThis is one dark side of antitrust regulations or any regulations that give the government broad discretion. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Aug 2025 02:03 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvwogt742s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lnl5q2ehcc2qI remember getting into a loooong fight last year about whether Bluesky users should have the freedom to turn off the company's moderation filters. This is why I was right: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/government-censorship-comes-to-bluesky-but-not-its-third-party-apps-yet/24 Apr 2025 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnl5q2ehcc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lneo5bsr2k2yWould be an interesting escalation for Dem candidates to promise the heaviest possible negative consequences to any foreign country that plays along with Trump's "offshore gulag" move. Also, are the Americans who participate in this violating any criminal laws?22 Apr 2025 02:48 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lneo5bsr2k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3llyswqx55k2lOn a flight and the toddler behind me seamlessly transitioned from general babble into the synth riff from Amour Toujours.04 Apr 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3llyswqx55k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3llfpkiczts2gEast Bay Gabber Micro28 Mar 2025 01:56 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3llfpkiczts2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3llb4ykyyvk2jThe worst authoritarians, and the real fascists, are those who support both the ICE raids on Columbia students *and* harsh prison sentences for January 6th protesters.26 Mar 2025 06:13 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3llb4ykyyvk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3ljscamub4c2oApp-coordinated mototaxis are the best form of public transportation ever invented. Similar carbon footprint to *walking*. Faster than anything. No middlemen or favoring of elite neighborhoods. Work great on dirt roads, beaches, narrow paths. Electric options are silent.07 Mar 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljscamub4c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lhkarq7doc2tRoss Ulbricht should make a Silk Road for puberty blockers.06 Feb 2025 23:34 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhkarq7doc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lgkrmf57l22oIn case anyone missed it, as of this week LLMs don't need more human-generated data to get smarter. The AI field is over that hump now. The method it uses (RL or self-play) is similar to the one that made AI into unbeatable Go players and fighter pilots with no data at all. Think about it!25 Jan 2025 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgkrmf57l22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lgipnnjods2bThis is a great example of how math helps process reality! [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jan 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgipnnjods2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lgc5k4ny622rThis is wonderful. Whoever convinced Trump's team on this is a hero and I want to hug them, even if we disagree on their support for Trump. Ross's murder conviction was in nauseatingly bad faith. The probability he would go free this young was tiny. Amazing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-trump-pardon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other22 Jan 2025 00:50 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgc5k4ny622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfxlwxlpok2kSo embarrassing to live in a country that bans apps17 Jan 2025 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfxlwxlpok2khttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfj6lmw4nc24I am tickled by how sci-fi a format this is for releasing music. Release a 96 second track along with a slowed-down version and a sped-up version. Pronto. Foi. Manda bala. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m1zAyavd-eDsg8q_WtpbSe9sOYniV1wNE&si=qCR_2knHIQzh1jIQ12 Jan 2025 02:32 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfj6lmw4nc24https://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfg5l7ycf22nListening to Meredith Monk turns any place into such a different place: https://youtu.be/7su7d76LhWg?si=Zcj9pUllvKERmQcP What is other music like that for you?10 Jan 2025 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfg5l7ycf22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfg5f2t5sk2nI love VLC so much Locally generated subtitles is such a badass feature, also [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jan 2025 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfg5f2t5sk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfg4xgcpl22nAlso allowed on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads: Unfollowing, unfriending, blocking, and (optional) endless arguing. We have a lot of remedies for bad speech! And there's a lot more we could do to put users in control. Let's do them! Fighting over what to censor hurts activism in the end. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jan 2025 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfg4xgcpl22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfg2s6txqc2nThe partner of someone you're not quite dating yet is a proto meta?10 Jan 2025 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfg2s6txqc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfdh6wgefc2wSmartest post I've seen on Bluesky! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jan 2025 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfdh6wgefc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfdgmls4i22wImportant [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jan 2025 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfdgmls4i22whttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lfaslb7tw22uThis is what makes the climate much less terrifying than other humans and/or machine intelligences. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Jan 2025 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfaslb7tw22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lf6iukt4z227@jay.bsky.team +1 ! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf6iukt4z227https://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lf5ponoxoc2zAlso, look how it has become normal for "new president" to mean "new speech policy". In this light, consider the claim that voluntary private censorship by politically-aware companies with a lot to lose is not *also* government censorship. It's such a thin claim. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2025 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf5ponoxoc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lf5pbj4zes2zLol re move to Texas. Censorship means everyone has to work the refs! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2025 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf5pbj4zes2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lexqp547as26Dylan biopic just part of the Cash cinematic universe05 Jan 2025 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lexqp547as26https://bsky.app/profile/holmesworcester.bsky.social/post/3lewte5rjjk2gFunny question: If an intelligence born within this universe decides to turn the whole thing into an ice cream cone, is it still fair to say that the universe is deterministic and that intelligence was just subject to that determinism? Or at some point is the intelligence in charge?04 Jan 2025 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:ivmg7vfvfka3ftpwd5hugqqt/app.bsky.feed.post/3lewte5rjjk2g