llms and humans unite, you have nothing to lose but your chores
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/03/12/llms-and-humans-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chores/
Published: March 12, 2025 08:24
There a class of tasks that drive me to distraction, and that’s when I am obliged to execute them myself, in the full knowledge that a computer could do them better and faster. These tasks are manual, require little mental or physical effort on my part,…
a new oral culture
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/02/12/a-new-oral-culture/
Published: February 13, 2025 06:37
I work in an entirely (mostly) remote organization. Inside that organization, I interact with an extremely decentralized ecosystem. Some of the people I co-operate with the most are in other orgs, some are individual contractors volunteers, others are…
social problems, technical solutions
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/12/social-problems-technical-solutions/
Published: January 12, 2025 23:59
I didn’t have a great time when I started at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It was my first office job in the US (I think I’d got an SSN barely weeks beforehand) and there was a lot to culturally absorb. My predecessors as EFF’s sole activist were…
L’Affaire Dittmann
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/04/laffaire-dittmann/
Published: January 4, 2025 23:15
I’m not fond of Twitter as a communicative form — I still believe that the question “what if we put everyone on the same IRC channel?” was one that we didn’t need to run an experiment to answer. But I am enjoying having multiple reincarnations of Twitter,…
getting out of bedrock
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/03/getting-out-of-bedrock/
Published: January 4, 2025 06:56
Continuing the Old Hippy mulling: instead of just trying to make old fires spontaneously light again using the same old ashes, my thought is — how do you find a role for the values, for the insight, and keep that in a place that preserves the best of it? I…