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Yes, We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/histomat-foss-llm/PermalinkReading Hong Minhee with my coffee this morning, its again one of these moments where I stumble on something that express exactly (and better) what I had in mind, in a latent space, without being able to express it so beautifully.
I want my code to be used for LLM training. What I don’t want is for that training to produce proprietary models that become the exclusive property of AI corporations. The problem isn’t the technology or even the training process itself. The problem is the enclosure of the commons, the privatization of collective knowledge, the one-way flow of value from the many to the few.
The question isn’t whether to use LLMs or adapt to them—that ship has sailed. The question is: who owns the models? Who benefits from the commons that trained them? If millions of F/OSS developers contributed their code to the public domain, should the resulting models be proprietary? This isn’t just about centralization or market dynamics. It’s about whether the fruits of collective labor remain collective, or become private property.
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Inspirational thinking about the whole AI divide
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/02/acting-materialistically-in-an-imperfect-world/PermalinkThe “for or against AI” framing buries these questions. The reason it looks inconsistent to criticize the major AI vendors while remaining open to LLMs as a technology is that the framing assumes the technology and its capitalist application are the same thing. That assumption is wrong.
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Most conversations about LLMs and coding split people into two camps: those who grieve the loss of the craft, and those who never minded trading the act for the result.
But there’s a third camp that rarely gets named: the people who spent years watching from the outside, unable to cross the skill barrier, with ideas they couldn’t execute and a regret they carried quietly.
For that camp, LLMs didn’t take anything away. They opened a door that had always been closed. Suddenly no idea was too ambitious, no vision too far from reach. Not because the work disappeared, but because the wall between imagination and execution finally came down.
That feeling, of being able to participate, contribute, and build something that’s genuinely yours, is hard to overstate.
For people who spent most of their adult life on the other side of that wall, it isn’t adaptation. It’s empowering.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @panos@catodon.rocks I’m not sure the issue I just filled is related to this but : https://github.com/social-web-foundation/tags.pub/issues/10
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Damn, I can now browse the Fediverse from my own AP instance using either my native Fedify AP reader or I can use the Mastodon API layer built-in my AP implementation to connect to my own site from #fedilab #moshidon #phanpy #elk or indiepass it’s not perfect yet, still have to fix Bookmarks, Boost and there will probably tons of other issues to fix but I’m proud of the current results
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This is a test from #fedilab this post will trigger a #micropub post creation on my blog rmendes.net and then in will syndicate to your timeline if you follow me.
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https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/ice-just-detained-a-7-year-old-canadian?triedRedirect=truePermalink
the banality of the US descent to hell.
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https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/19/prediction-markets-promised-better-information-instead-theyre-creating-powerful-incentives-to-corrupt-information/Permalink
Disinformation as a service really, its like we’re betting against ourselves in every evolutions of technology and then eating popcorn watching the mess enfold in real time impacting flawed democracies, rendered useless without anti bodies to fight against this plague.
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https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/18/the-jehovahs-witnesses-are-back-abusing-copyright-law-to-unmask-their-critics-again/Permalink
the same old tricks used by Scientology & other coercive cults
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Dune III Trailer
Can’t wait for December!
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Damn, its not perfect yet, but I can use #Phanpy with my own AP / Fedify instance this post is created from Phanpy, but before reaching you, it will create a Micropub post, Syndicate to my own AP instance, Distribute this to my followers inboxes
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Swiping the Smallweb from mobile is even better than most “social media experience” we can get in 2026, its interesting, its different, each blog has its own vibe, it has this StumbleUpon randomness feeling from back in the days, its refreshing !
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This is a test from Phanpy -> Micropub -> Indiekit Syndicator -> ActivityPub -> Your timeline if you follow me :)
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