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new ayn rand just dropped

#argentina #milei #javierMilei #bailout #uspol #aynRand #atlasShrugged #meme #memes #libertarian #libertarians #libertarianism

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I'm finally moving over to Radicle (https://radicle.xyz) instead of switching to another centralized code forge (like GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.). I definitely love the idea behind a #P2P code forge and I'm hopeful for Radicle's future, but I do have some reservations starting off:

1) Despite talking a lot about freedom and privacy in the tutorial, the group building Radicle (https://radworks.org/) is planning to sell hosting and make a profit via an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency (https://www.tally.xyz/gov/radworks) as well as NFTs and smart contracts. Some big Libertarian red flags there.

2) At some point there was a Swiss nonprofit "Radicle Foundation", but this now seems to be a for-profit venture (see https://radicle.xyz/history). I wish it could just be a nonprofit.

3) In the user guide chapter on private repos (https://radicle.xyz/guides/user), it says that I need to use a public DNS address trusted seed node to share the repo. I understand there's no DHT here, but I hope it's not too much of a pain to run this over my local network instead of the internet. (And yeah, I know I can use git locally, I just want to test Radicle locally.)

Overall, I think that if radworks turns out to be evil it will be a way easier transition to fork Radicle than it has been to leave GitHub, but I still wish I didn't have to worry.

#Programming #CodeForge #Radicle #GitHub #GitLab #Codeberg #FOSS #FreeSoftware #VersionControl #crypto #Cryptocurrency #NFT #DAO #SmartContract #Ethereum #Libertarian

When #billionaires buy #newspapers…

Top #editor of The #WashingtonPost #opinion section, Adam O’Neal, resigned Friday, just over a year after #JeffBezos hired him to reorient the section toward a more #libertarian bent.

“While this was not an easy decision, I am leaving proud of how far the opinion section has come & optimistic that its best days lie ahead,” O’Neal wrote in a note to colleagues. He did not say in the note why he was leaving.

#journalism #FourthEstate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/business/media/washington-post-opinion-editor-resigns-after-1-year.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.mVrK.JwXC0anwDdfe&smid=nytcore-ios-share

'ai' is actually the japanese word for love so doesn't being anti-ai sound pretty fucked up now? #llm #libertarian #thursdaythoughts