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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · Aug 20

Tor, Encryption, Cybernetics and Forceful Technology

it's time for trustless tech and libertarian cybernetics

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Tor, Encryption, Cybernetics and Forceful Technology

it's time for trustless tech and libertarian cybernetics

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 2h

this is so dope

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bBV...

I build a machine that turns you into a criminal

Exhibit A, rootkid (2025) About: https://rootkid.me/works/exhibit-a Music: Variance - Function (CH-Signal Laboratories Edit) & Le Terrible - Terence Fixmer

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 5h

there's a direct lineage that can be drawn from:
YouTube Poop, to
The Lazar Collection/Stick Figures on Crack, to
Short form Vine and early TikTok memes, to
Channer and TPOT meme culture, to
neo-YTP/neo-Dadaist Zoomer memes like Italian Brain Rot and Skibidi Toilet

and that lineage is important.

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 6h

broke: “those day in the life of an engineer videos are stupid because they’re being lazy and not doing anything! I work 80 hours a week!”
woke: “we should strive for more people to have more free time and enjoyment in their day to day”

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 7h

"it's like using an F-35 as a coffee table" is a phrase Somewheresy used in the @concept.country group chat and I can't stop thinking about how applicable that is to so many tech systems we have today

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 21h

a picture is worth a thousand words.

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

it really is incredible how intuitive Blender is as a software. I am functionally a 3D modeling idiot when it comes to Blender and I was able to whip up this planter model for a game I'm working on in less than 10 minutes.

it's basic but even just to get something super simple done, it was v fast.

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

game dev is awesome (for me) because it takes me back to square 0.

I know nothing.

this means that being able to spin around a little capsule with two twig arms feels cool.

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

Makerlog for the week of 14 October

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progress with ScrollWise, new projects | makerlog week of 14 October 2025

ScrollWise, my AI superpower browser extension, is coming along nicely. I've also started some fun new stuff!

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

picked up a new drawing tablet (my old one both broke and was incredibly large and clunky) that I'm kinda hyped to use for a few projects

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

...
- most hacks on end users can be mitigated by credit monitoring

those excuses are convincing but not enough to me

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

it's really interesting how little innovation there has been in the B2C security space. the excuses I've seen are:

- most hackers are going after enterprise money, so the focus should be on enterprise
- Microsoft Defender works well enough for most end users
...

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

no kings day protests are tomorrow.

go to one. if you can't find one near you, nokings.org has you covered.

they are all over the country. there is almost definitely one near you.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 1d

the extent to which the right has captured tech via hypercapitalism will need to be studied for decades.

we went from hacktivism and cypherpunk to complete corpo takeover in the span of my lifetime.

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 2d

in times when everything feels like an emergency, it's even more important than before to slow down and act with intention.

new worlds are built in years, decades and generations with daily intentional action.

empires are destroyed very slowly, and then all at once

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 2d

Depending on technological limitations to ensure a high trust society (ie. before AI there wasn’t as much rampant disinformation as there is now, but AI made it exceedingly easy) was always a failing strategy.

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 2d

this is probably the best video I've watched this year. this is the message that needs to get out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=akSH...

The Aesthetics of Anti-Fascism

The Epilogue of the "Aesthetics of Fascism" series. I tried something new with this one. Hope you like it :) You can support my work on Patreon :) https://patreon.com/benhoerman You'll get access…

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 2d

working on a neat game dev project in Godot that I'm excited to have at a point where I can show it off

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 2d

LLM's for use in coding contexts are significantly better if you tell them exactly what it is you want them to do.

they are not nearly as good if you're trying to tell them to do something you don't really understand.

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 2d

in a rare turn of events, I've found a way that blockchain technology and art actually have created something novel, interesting and progressive

Art Exhibition: When We First Arrived...

EXHIBITION When We First Arrived … curated by Ruth Noack The Corner at Whitman-Walker, 1701 14th St. NW, Washington DC 20009 Exhibition Dates: Saturday, January 25, 2020 to Sunday, March 29, […]

www.whitman-walker.org

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 3d

... group chats and forums to craft and launch attacks from.

developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 3d

I think this is necessary to fight back against anti-humanist forces on the internet. you can't always fight that fight from Twitter, where all The Bad is.

This is where The Dark Forest Theory can be used as a mode of fighting back on the web by creating safe enclaves in the form of small...

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 3d

when fighting as insurgent forces, you cannot launch all of your operations from the middle of enemy territory. this is the battleground.

you have to create enclaves, safe places, to fight from a position of strength, to retreat to and to gather forces to.

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 3d

this week's makerlog brought to you by: taking on 9,000 projects at a time to see what you end up being interested in.

(that's the best way to learn new stuff at high velocity btw)

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progress with ScrollWise, new projects | makerlog week of 14 October 2025

ScrollWise, my AI superpower browser extension, is coming along nicely. I've also started some fun new stuff!

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 3d

any discussion of rejecting gun law reform due to Second Amendment concerns should be completely moot after the last several months and I'm not going to elaborate on why because it should be obvious and I don't feel like catching a ban

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developing valhalla (techno-progressive) @valhallaresearch.net · 3d

on building the now, the before, the after and hope

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on building the now, the before, the after and hope

we need historians, activists, futurists and hope

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