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LLMs Democratize Extraction and Scale Malice

September 20, 2026 · 1 comment · #personal essay #Social Commentary #AI #generative AI #IndieWeb #Digital Culture #data sovereignty #activism #privacy

Responding to Coyote's essay on data ownership, I look at how genAI has democratized the kind of extraction that once required corporate infrastructure—iLands spam agents, scrapers, and agent swarms—why my apathy-and-ignorance approach to AI crawlers is no longer enough, the two competing realities of AI 2027, and the tools and organizing we actually have: ai.robots.txt, Glaze and Nightshade, tech-worker unions, and the CARE and OCAP principles of Indigenous data governance.

I Want to be Unremarkable

September 2, 2026 · #personal essay #Social Commentary #philosophy #ethics #privacy #writing #mortality

A meditation on the contradiction of writing publicly while wanting to remain unremarkable, drawing on Daoist uselessness, Epicurean lathe biōsas, state legibility, and Deleuzian imperceptibility—and why the only peaceful path is to keep writing and surrender to shared oblivion.

Aerial photo of a triangular street mural spelling FREEDOM in navy blue letters, painted on a road or court marked with white lines and scattered with fallen autumn leaves. The letters hang like marionettes from strings held by pale puppeteer hands at the top, while a dark-skinned hand holds scissors poised to cut the strings. Faded background text reads words like HATE, FEAR, LIES, DOUBT, MURDER, DECEPTION, and PRIDE. Rows of raised human hands in varied skin tones reach up from the bottom of the triangle toward the letters. The mural is signed 'G. Johnson' in the bottom right corner.

A Full Guide to Properly Delete Corporate Social Media Accounts

July 12, 2026 · #technical #IndieWeb #privacy #social media #tutorial

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, X, Reddit, Discord. Eight platforms, eight different deletion policies. A full technical walkthrough of what 'delete' actually means on each one, the prep work nobody tells you to do first, and the human-side work the documentation doesn't mention.

Extreme close-up crop of a colour photograph of Richard Simmons' face, showing his voluminous dark curly hair, forehead, nose, and mouth in warm, slightly grainy tones with a dark background. A colourful blurred flag is faintly visible in the upper left corner. Two black text bars overlay the image: one across the eyes reading 'missing richard simmons,' and one near the bottom reading 'a review by brennan kenneth brown,' both in bold white sans-serif type.

REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'

July 10, 2026 · #personal essay #review #Media Criticism #Social Commentary #privacy #ethics

Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.

A dramatic mountain landscape painted in glowing, atmospheric colors. A dark, steep peak rises in the center-right, its slopes washed with deep blues, purples, and warm reddish-orange light. Thick clouds swirl overhead, illuminated by a brilliant golden-yellow glow near the horizon, creating the impression of a storm breaking at sunrise or sunset. In the foreground, jagged rocks and patches of colorful vegetation surround a small pool of water, while mist and shadow soften the distant mountains. The scene is impressionistic, with an almost dreamlike quality, emphasizing light, weather, and mood over fine detail.

Choosing Friction and Clear Skies: I’m No Longer Using Cloudflare

June 18, 2026 · 3 comments · #IndieWeb #self-hosting #infrastructure #ethics #privacy #technical #homelab #Docker

I'm pausing my folk.zone project to completely replace Cloudflare in my stack with more ethical choices after a conversation with Adam Newbold of omg.lol, the site that inspired the project in the first place. For in practice, there is no such thing as neutrality, and convenience is not a virtue.

Oil painting depicting the interior of a giant cylindrical O'Neill 'Model 3' space colony habitat, viewed from within. The curved interior wraps around the viewer in a panoramic arc, with rust-orange and amber cumulus clouds massing near the central rotation axis overhead. A dark, star-scattered corridor runs through the middle of the composition, framing a brilliant solar eclipse where the colony has entered Earth's shadow at the L5 Lagrangian point. The entire scene is drenched in deep ruddy amber and burnt sienna tones, evoking the simultaneous light of every sunrise and sunset on Earth.

The Internet's Landlord Problem

April 3, 2026 · 1 comment · #Technology #Digital Culture #Privacy #politics #Digital Security #Social Commentary

A quarter of the entire Internet uses Cloudflare. This is an existential threat to the Internet's ideals. I realized I need DDoS protection, but I could not use Cloudflare in good conscience. And so, I'm beyond excited to announce that I'm now using Deflect.ca for my website.

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