Author | Lightnews

Paul Philion

@acmerocket.com

190 followers 230 following 1.4K posts

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know? https://github.com/philion https://seattlecommunitynetwork.org/

github.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · Jan 16

The great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
-MLK

2 1 16

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 19h

"The technocapital hyperobject at the end of time."

i.e. The Mobius Grift

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 19h

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Screenshot text from The Atlantic:

For now, money is still pouring into the AI industry. But there’s also something circular about these investments. To wit: OpenAI has agreed to pay $300 billion to Oracle for new computing capacity, Oracle is paying Nvidia tens of billions of dollars for chips to install in one of OpenAI’s data centers, and Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys Nvidia chips. Attempts to illustrate these circular investments have produced a series of byzantine charts that one software engineer referred to on X as “the technocapital hyperobject at the end of time.” The consensus seems to be that although this is legal, it likely cannot go on forever.

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 3d

I’m going to offer that “torment nexus” is based on Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” and is really about misunderstanding dystopian topics and building systems detrimental to humans.

You really should read it before commenting.

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 5d

White entitlement is a hell of a drug.

These “men” grow up with ideas of power and privilege granting them superiority over women and everyone else. They have no expression of connection outside of control.

All they have is fear and insecurity.

Reposted by Paul Philion

SeaGL Conference @seagl.org · 5d

📅 03:00 PM: "Intro to OpenTofu: Open Source IaC Overview" by Ted Matsumura in Room 334 #SeaGL2025 #cloud #kubernetes #database pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/8K...

1 2

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 6d

Because humans are, in general, arrogant, stupid, and greedy. We have no respect for the planet or anything else on it.

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 6d

Now that we’ve got a community network to build on, the next step is “community cloud”: coordinated cluster of community center, small biz and homelab k3s hosts designed for HA.

Reposted by Paul Philion

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

Musk effectively copied over all of Wikipedia and had Grok go over it to give it a far right bias in its framing in articles to turn it into a propaganda tool. It's conservapedia 2.0 backed by the world's richest man.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

www.wired.com

80 580 1.6K

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 7d

That right-of-way still exists from Broad to the Overlook. It looks like it was ripped out south out there, with all the construction on Alaska and the waterfront.

I would love to a trolley corridor thru downtown, connecting Seattle Center to the stadiums and all the city's hotels and attractions.

1 4

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 7d

My solution is to build a research-grade environmental suit inside a giant frog inflatable, and wear it any time I'm outside the house.

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 7d

Solid points thru out.

And: We still have to build some sort of user-focused infrastructure to support a growing population of marginalized people. We can see that in Blacksky and Northsky.

My operating thesis:
- community networks
- community cloud (homelab k8s clusters)
- community apps

Reposted by Paul Philion

Seattle Community Network @seattlecommunitynetwork.org · 7d

Following the #seagl2025 social, join us on Nov 7 at Ada's Bookstore for a Free Concert from Si Tu Savais from 7:30pm to 9:30pm followed by a Silent Fundraiser Auction benefiting the Seattle Community Network! fundraiser.seattlecn.org
Thank you!

1 4

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 8d

A ”guy-er” is a surgeon who performs sex reassignment surgery.

“Jire” is crappy bug tracking software.

“gyre” is a hallucination dreamt by a poorly trained LLM, and has no human pronunciation.

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 9d

Remembering how many of those stories started in Omni magazine. I wonder how much those editors contributed to the overall cyberpunk aesthetic (independently of their works in the genre).

1 2

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 9d

I find it interesting to analyze the projection in that confident ignorance. It's "Trekkie Gate": men own sci-fi, Star Trek is my special playground, women are fakers.

The author spent a lot of words to spell out his defensiveness. And he can't imagine women aspiring to explore or be captains.

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 9d

"IT'S MINE! ALL MINE!" the little man screeched as he ran in panicked circles, "I unlocked the magic, it's all mine!"

Chakotay grinned as the man waved the old data pad at them, as if to drive away spirits.

"What amuses you?" asked Seven.

"He thinks a few episodes of Earth TV are magic."

Reposted by Paul Philion

SeaGL Conference @seagl.org · 9d

📅 09:10 AM: "The Seattle Community Network Stack" by Esther Jang in Room 145 #SeaGL2025 #keynote #networking #FLOSS pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZ...

1 3

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 10d

A lot of countries are moving to open source, to avoid lock-in and security issues (like Oracle scraping private data for AI training).

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 10d

Imagining a future where humans in “service roles” (peons) are forced to wear “AI“ glasses and read the scripts they are prompted with.

The Mechanical Turk turned inside out: The Prompted Fleshbot.

Luigi in a Coal Mine @weareluigi.bsky.social · 11d

The class war rages on as the billionaires keep trying to murder as many of us as possible so they can setup their Ai robot dystopia.

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 10d

Is there any approach for stock holders, who see these donations, and settling easily winnable lawsuits, as bribery and corrupt use of corporate assets?

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 11d

Just got the xbox update. Installed and ready to play.

What's your play schedule look like? I've just blocked out a couple of hours.

1 2

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 12d

I'm waiting for the Xbox update. :(

I'd be happy to team up as soon as it's out!

1 1

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 14d

General strike.

Start stocking food, stop work on Thanksgiving, skip any "holiday spending", and play board games for 5-6 weeks.

Shut it *all* down.

1 1

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 14d

It's only "bias" for wrong-thinkers.

When you right-speak, it's "critical analysis", i.e.:
- critical: of woke mind virus
- analysis: with head completely up ass

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 17d

What's an "app"? A way to display or create atproto records.

Display -> Given a lexicon, render it with a template. Templates could be based on existing SM look&feel.

Create -> Given a lexicon and matching form (another template), generate a compliant atproto record.

App -> Set of templates

Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 19d

2015 was when I finally realized how bigoted many of my family, friends and co-workers were. It shook me.

I sat down with them, thinking I could snap them out of it with logical, fact-based arguments. Every argument ended with bitter words, and I haven't bothered speaking to them since.

1 2