2026-04-14T12:08:38Z https://yabu.me 𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬 https://yabu.me/npub1amys9zqvdapm49nv9a3vehhaxf8c89tt4jyww0nppkn98wk4wn2qs8qnrw https://post.lurk.org/system/accounts/avatars/000/111/482/original/66fac7b8b025d684.jpeg https://post.lurk.org/system/accounts/avatars/000/111/482/original/66fac7b8b025d684.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsga0x4mp887azdv6f0jjtt7u3ulalx7n6axvl36vuypxdamhnpjwgzyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgaal04r hello new followers! <br/>300+ new followers here in less than 8hrs. Crazy! <br/><br/>In less than 24 hours, 10,000 people spent 20+ minutes on the NDC website, reading `Who Will Remember Us When the Servers Go Dark?`<br/><br/>If you want to learn more about the circumstances surrounding this essay, we put a short update out on the New Design Congress mailing list: <a href="https://newdesigncongress.org/email/11d79bbe-72f0-4a55-b2ca-4e219672e35b/">https://newdesigncongress.org/email/11d79bbe-72f0-4a55-b2ca-4e219672e35b/</a><br/><br/>There is an entire pipeline of work coming. Please stay with me as we publish!<br/><br/>You can also keep track of NDC work via-<br/><br/>Signal: <a href="https://signal.group/#CjQKIJ6knE20PSojjfgFcxR4GZCBQ8ptFYclrS2dFXoQ-SWCEhAJ9T26QwIbJTAcxMxa_L_m">https://signal.group/#CjQKIJ6knE20PSojjfgFcxR4GZCBQ8ptFYclrS2dFXoQ-SWCEhAJ9T26QwIbJTAcxMxa_L_m</a><br/><br/>Telegram: <a href="https://t.me/ndcdrops">https://t.me/ndcdrops</a><br/><br/>Newsletter: <a href="https://newdesigncongress.org/en/#/portal/signup/free">https://newdesigncongress.org/en/#/portal/signup/free</a><br/><br/>(also please enjoy this photo of my shibas, Ripley and Kodak)<br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/216/433/109/425/853/original/b5de9dda1d71b500.jpg"> <br/> 2026-03-12T13:28:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswcmlsdk77aua4hypsp0t0xrg4sm7j9c66ygxnqtzwp7f9xj4dw0szyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgw6k0lh In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai&#39;i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims&#39; phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under [@Mer__edith](<a href="https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith">https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith</a> )&#39;s stewardship.<br/><br/>In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow&#39;s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team&#39;s non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?<br/><br/>The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran&#39;s missiles over Amazon&#39;s Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory. <br/><br/>It is also the angriest and most personal text I&#39;ve ever written. I&#39;m furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager. <br/><br/>California has a lot to fucking answer for.<br/><br/><a href="https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/">https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/</a><br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/212/314/089/066/017/original/bd3ac2f879b584cc.jpg"> <br/> 2026-03-11T20:03:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsypr3pftjrjc49lgxlvf8tynft8gq32r4a5cwxqfj3l9kxaq574mczyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgklgu25 <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/895/957/425/204/076/original/799c62a7150a5f4c.jpg"> <br/> 2026-01-14T23:06:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2zfvwsngynepa8zj4xheytle2j46ttlygkevcywkhflmdp4jce0szyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dghw8k6y I got to spend time with someone very close to me at 39C3, who has been instrumental to me staying above water this year. He gave me a fucking Casio CFX-400 scientific calculator watch. I am utterly surrounded by people who know me so well they are willing to help me realise my Gaddafi-tinted aesthetic dream 🥺<br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/802/634/707/746/774/original/b1593c69655ea119.jpg"> <br/> 2025-12-29T11:33:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp6we57fy5wxjl6qgadyumny0g447lfyth9ku435c5kvf3v9ad58szyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgcmzee4 <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/503/641/803/048/730/original/104caf4cf3f2d7b0.png"> <br/> 2025-11-06T16:15:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrxsl98ptwcg5rpeqd3xzxttqa9ck2skwjq7p4764ucfu77v2h99szyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dg8x25g3 So I started a new R&amp;D lab with a couple of friends.<br/>Here&#39;s the logo :eyeless_angel: <br/>More soon<br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/969/809/217/075/989/original/beefd6cb04560219.png"> <br/> 2025-08-04T09:37:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9fzkh8adqstma063m6tpl08dv3dtvn89cm93cxrq5c3zjcrx6m5qzyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgwrsc8z It is deeply hilarious to me that, in some anonymous but overly colourful room deep within the bowels of the YouTube campus, a team of 10× Googler engineers work day and night in an arms race against uBlock Origin so that you can be force fed a sovcit preroll hardcore financial scam as an entree to whatever slop you were about to watch. <br/><br/>To those engineers, I hope you regret this work on your death beds<br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/178/597/480/001/629/original/efc35cc141fea5c6.jpg"> <br/> 2025-03-17T16:00:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfesnuxqgu6ragym44j66f72fxkqsgn84z7d3t3sny0uw6f9yrpnqzyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dg6xswp3 lmao, the guy who founded roblox and oversaw it blossom into world&#39;s largest pedophile nazi groomer gaming platform for kids now expects to govern the real world. Fascinating stuff. Imagine if democratic governments understood these cohort of freaks from this context and responded appropriately.<br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/969/108/999/483/339/original/ca7109a986bde2c8.png"> <br/> 2025-02-08T16:05:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0hlu9nasjyn9vnd8rw7aaqcljnfjtpvpr4r3ymmfzz5x70qnc3rczyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgyw8w08 <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/696/318/517/717/163/original/333d5c30f5ca198e.jpg"> <br/> 2024-12-22T11:50:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgnzta5zgsrzuvgx56x4ak9edu00q8w7w643aucd97h2ugx3a42xqzyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dg8dczg8 <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/515/350/872/606/014/original/f64013edcc7bb94c.png"> <br/> 2024-11-20T12:46:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8hvyw6y4rcgngzxf62g5sqpwf9kmzvecpywlqccynspsh9gl47pgzyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgf8kpzw This AI trend will go down in history as the big credibility destroyer apparently absolutely nobody is immune to this brain damage <a href="https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant">https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant</a> 2024-09-13T19:04:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv5m7udnrfznrel6lulpjp844qtkch7gsupujzwhn2qxju05gjldczyrhvjq5gp3h58w5kdshk9nx7l5eylqu4dwkg3ee7vyx6v5a6646dgx6cg0c The Internet Archive seriously needs a black ops wing. 2024-09-09T19:10:21Z