meri 🌸 🍉
@meri.garden
https://meri.garden https://merileeworthy.bandcamp.com/
she/her, naarm
working towards autonomous, privacy focused tech for community organising. building @roomy.space with Muni Town
people over state and markets. everything for everyone!
she/her, naarm
working towards autonomous, privacy focused tech for community organising. building @roomy.space with Muni Town
people over state and markets. everything for everyone!
Car manufacturer not putting seatbelts or airbags: it is against our terms of service to be in a car crash
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Car manufacturer not putting seatbelts or airbags: it is against our terms of service to be in a car crash
@lyra-lyra.bsky.social already such a fave and musical inspiration but seeing you as one of the 20 first featured artists on @subvert.fm is 💘
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
@lyra-lyra.bsky.social already such a fave and musical inspiration but seeing you as one of the 20 first featured artists on @subvert.fm is 💘
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shoutout to @roomy.space for not using transition:generic! look how clean those oauth scopes are 🥹
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
shoutout to @roomy.space for not using transition:generic! look how clean those oauth scopes are 🥹
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When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:
dismaying how devs can present an incredibly well thought out proposal for a reasonable feature, so much more privacy protecting than mainstream competitors, and the widespread reaction is literally ‘why are you working on social features for social media?? 🤬🤬’
"Find friends by phone" is a common tool in social networks. We're proposing a secure scheme and requesting comments from the dev community.
Goals:
・Double opt-in: you're not findable by your phone unless YOU use the tool
・Secure to enumeration attacks
・Resistant to decryption if compromised
Goals:
・Double opt-in: you're not findable by your phone unless YOU use the tool
・Secure to enumeration attacks
・Resistant to decryption if compromised
Request For Comments: A secure contact import scheme for social networks | Bluesky
This article outlines plans for a future Bluesky feature \- it doesn’t exist yet\! By sharing our ideas early, we hope to solicit feedback from the community.
docs.bsky.app
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
dismaying how devs can present an incredibly well thought out proposal for a reasonable feature, so much more privacy protecting than mainstream competitors, and the widespread reaction is literally ‘why are you working on social features for social media?? 🤬🤬’
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Women only want one thing for Christmas
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Women only want one thing for Christmas
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privacy activists should start telling people that storing data in unencrypted form in the cloud lets AI read it and train on it, maybe that will finally get people to care
same with non-E2EE messages
same with non-E2EE messages
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
privacy activists should start telling people that storing data in unencrypted form in the cloud lets AI read it and train on it, maybe that will finally get people to care
same with non-E2EE messages
same with non-E2EE messages
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A feeling I've had about every online tech space during the genocide, articulated very well by @jordan.orel.li
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A feeling I've had about every online tech space during the genocide, articulated very well by @jordan.orel.li
I think I prefer this conceptually as a long term solution. It makes sense that even if data storage decentralisation is solved, efficient compute or auth becomes a (re-)centralisation driver. I like the idea that you can ‘install’ compute capacities on your PDS like apps
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think I prefer this conceptually as a long term solution. It makes sense that even if data storage decentralisation is solved, efficient compute or auth becomes a (re-)centralisation driver. I like the idea that you can ‘install’ compute capacities on your PDS like apps
“Ethical licensing is hard, but far from impossible. While we cannot easily encode anti-fascism into our licenses, what we can easily do is discriminate against big capital, the underlying engine of fascism and authoritarianism.”
So proud to be working with this legend
So proud to be working with this legend
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“Ethical licensing is hard, but far from impossible. While we cannot easily encode anti-fascism into our licenses, what we can easily do is discriminate against big capital, the underlying engine of fascism and authoritarianism.”
So proud to be working with this legend
So proud to be working with this legend
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Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
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yeah I think ppl can see and feel what Marx calls ‘deskilling’ being imposed on a mass scale and the suddenness and one-sidedness of this imposition feels alienating and disempowering
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
I think a lot of dislike of AI is basically a justified suspicion that something of this sort is happening.
But since no one wants to admit their real fear quite that bluntly, we get a succession of goofy stalking horses like “AI makes teens suicidal” or “it uses too much water.”
But since no one wants to admit their real fear quite that bluntly, we get a succession of goofy stalking horses like “AI makes teens suicidal” or “it uses too much water.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
yeah I think ppl can see and feel what Marx calls ‘deskilling’ being imposed on a mass scale and the suddenness and one-sidedness of this imposition feels alienating and disempowering
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now
a little odd onion purée butter béchamel penne rigate ! tastes good !
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
a little odd onion purée butter béchamel penne rigate ! tastes good !
I dont disagree with all these points, but tbh the marginal theory of value can only be ‘obviously correct’ and the labour theory of value wrong, if you don’t have to work to survive (or imagine that you don’t)
Hammered out some thoughts on why I was motivated to post a lot about data centers: the popular conversation about them has been disproportionately informed by very low-trust intuitions I think are bad andymasley.substack.com/p/data-cente...
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I dont disagree with all these points, but tbh the marginal theory of value can only be ‘obviously correct’ and the labour theory of value wrong, if you don’t have to work to survive (or imagine that you don’t)
the long arc of history tends toward distributed systems
graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
the long arc of history tends toward distributed systems
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graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked
Deeply need to go here next time I’m in Barcelona
Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Deeply need to go here next time I’m in Barcelona
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Rateless Bloom Filters: Set Reconciliation for Divergent Replicas with Variable-Sized Elements. Preview of preprint waiting for ArXiv link.
November 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Rateless Bloom Filters: Set Reconciliation for Divergent Replicas with Variable-Sized Elements. Preview of preprint waiting for ArXiv link.
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Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
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Practical code examples showing how YOU can identify corporate macOS and Windows devices via MDM enrollment status
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Practical code examples showing how YOU can identify corporate macOS and Windows devices via MDM enrollment status
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
lgug2z.com/articles/nor...
first pass at making a vertically tiled subthreads list icon for @roomy.space
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
first pass at making a vertically tiled subthreads list icon for @roomy.space
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
also first time making an icon at all ☺️
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Also the people who make such statements publicly don't actually know what anyone cares about. They only know what they care about and are projecting onto others.
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Also the people who make such statements publicly don't actually know what anyone cares about. They only know what they care about and are projecting onto others.
coop bluesky now
Bluesky has rapidly grown to a $1.05 billion valuation while promising "no ads." But VCs expect returns within a few years. Rejecting surveillance capitalism and returning profits to investors—can these coexist?
Who Owns Bluesky?
plurality.leaflet.pub
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
coop bluesky now