R.U. Sirius rusirius - Bluesky Statics

o.g. cyberculturalist r.u. sirius is taking a lens to the rightward swing of technolibertarianism.

28.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

CYPHERPUNK RISING: WIKILEAKS, ENCRYPTION, AND THE COMING SURVEILLANCE DYSTOPIA From The Vault 2013

Beyond the political and legal powers vested in the US intelligence community and in others around the world, there is the very real fact that [surveillance] technology once only accessible to the world’s superpowers is now commercially available

28.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

28.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

OpenAI Reaches Deal To Deploy AI Models On U.S. Department Of Defense Classified Network "In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome," Altman said in a post on X.

www.huffpost.com/entry/openai...

28.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pentagon to Anthropic: If you won't let us use your AI for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, expect punishment The Pentagon wants Anthropic to remove limits on AI use for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, raising civil liberties concerns.

28.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Bottle of salt from before the dinosaurs has an expiration date of 2019 A container of Himalayan pink salt says it formed 250 million years ago. It also says it expired in 2019.

28.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant dead at 70 Rob Grant, co-creator of cult science-fiction comedy series Red Dwarf, died Wednesday at 70. His family announced his death at the fan site Ganymede & Titan. With much sadness, we…

28.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

seen on fbook this morning

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CYPHERPUNK RISING: WIKILEAKS, ENCRYPTION, AND THE COMING SURVEILLANCE DYSTOPIA From The Vault 2013

would you buy a used movement from this man?

I AM ANNOYED

THIS IS BEGINNING TO SOUND VERY MUCH LIKE A DYSTOPIAN FANTASY

Flashback: 1995. Julian Assange’s first words on the cypherpunk email list: “I am annoyed.”

27.02.2026 17:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Experience: my record company replaced me with an ‘impostor’ Kendrick Lamar has sampled my track. I’d love to ask him if he knows my story

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27.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Kansas revokes driver’s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights Law demanding IDs match ‘sex at birth’ also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings

27.02.2026 17:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

California fast food workers, still reeling from ICE raids, demand employers step up Union-backed pledge urges fast food employers to protect workers’ rights as immigration raids fuel fear and walkouts

27.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Anger at Detroit police U-turn over officers’ call to border agents Police chief accused of caving to Republican demands by reversing decision to fire implicated duo

27.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Your Individual Boycotts Aren’t Helping Boycotts against corporations can be powerful tools. But they have to be waged as part of larger collective struggles with real plans to win — not simply as acts for frustrated individuals to take on ...

27.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump Is Threatening to Cut Transit Left and Right Donald Trump’s new transportation proposal will hurt transit funding in every single American state, undermining affordability across the board. From red states to blue states, and from drivers to non...

27.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Sprites on the Web • Josh W. Comeau In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this...

27.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

27.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Can you reverse engineer our neural network? A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your jobis to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating ou...

27.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

== SOME VERSION OF PEOPLE-POWER ==

“Riding right alongside the countercultural idealization of autonomous zones was a more politically powerful radical capitalist version of decentralization.”

R.U. examines Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism

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seen on fbook this morning

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‘This Is Buzz:’ Mark Pellington’s Experimental Slamdance Title Inspired By The Cult MTV Show Lands North American Distribution Deal Starboard will launch the film with a theatrical release in June.

MTV had this very future forward hip cyberpunkish show that of course they canceled. One segment was filmed at the Mondo house. This movie is worthy

27.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

posted this morning on fbook by @richardkadrey.bsky.social probably for no particular reason and now shared by myself for the same reason

27.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

it can be asked

27.02.2026 01:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

CYPHERPUNK RISING: WIKILEAKS, ENCRYPTION, AND THE COMING SURVEILLANCE DYSTOPIA From The Vault 2013

John Gilmore set off a firestorm by sharing classified documents on cryptography that a friend of his had found in public libraries (they had previously been declassified). The NSA threatened Gilmore with a charge of violating the Espionage Act, but after he responded with publicity and...

26.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

What’s the point of weightlifting when you can get a machine to lift the weights for you?

26.02.2026 19:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Cricut’s most popular cutting machine now takes up less space in your crafting room The new Cricut Explore 5 is 30 percent smaller than last year’s model.

Cricut’s most popular cutting machine now takes up less space in your crafting room www.theverge.com/tech/883743/...

26.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The rise and fall of robots.txt As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

The text file that runs the internet www.theverge.com/24067997/rob...

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Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger. Latest data hints that benefits seen so far could be underestimates.

26.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

== A DIFFERENT SET OF INTENTIONS ==

“It was the intention of counterculture warriors in the US...to blow up the vague consensus around the warfare state and let the pieces fall wherever they might. I mean, HOW could things get worse? .”

R.U. on the rise of Authoritarian Anarchism

26.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a 20-year-old game Stories and lessons learned from an impossibly large community modding project.

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