I’m not only gonna share my good days. I found side plank leg lifts particularly challenging and only managed two sets all day.

139 reps of lateral raises. Don’t think I’ve got any more reps left in me.

AI won’t make humans obsolete, because not everything can be reduced to a process, and there’s no one right way to do most things.

We’ve handed the keys to our emails, calendars, to-do lists, and private lives to services that know more about us than most people we love.

Every step is tracked. Big Tech analyses the shit out of our data and they can infer an astonishing amount about us: from our favourite shoe brand to the political party we support.

I’m not trying to give a sermon. I’m guilty of it too.

AI holds the key to two very different futures.

One is a dystopian age of surveillance, where every breath is counted, measured, and analysed.

The other is a golden future where we run our own services, host our data on our own infrastructure, and decide who gets access.

Self-hosting used to mean weeks of reading documentation, hitting walls in the terminal because commands were broken or gave completely different output, and wondering whether you needed to hire a networking engineer just to fix your setup.

(It also meant pestering knowledgeable friends with endless questions. Big shoutout to @Gooyban , who has patiently endured a truly unreasonable amount of my pestering. Seriously, thank you!)

Now, a few good prompts can get a self-hosted service running. When you don’t understand something, AI can explain it, troubleshoot it with you, or help build it.

AI is a powerful tool. We can use it to hand even more of ourselves to Big Tech or we can use it to become more independent.

Non-aggression means you should not initiate aggression. It does not mean tolerating abuse.

Too many self-described libertarians miss that distinction and mistake cowardice for non-aggression.

GM

The more you work inside a corporation, the less obvious it becomes that anything should work at all.

Everyone misunderstands each other. Things get lost in translation. Something breaks somewhere every day. The one person who knows how it works is on annual leave.

But somehow, your package still shows up at your door more often than not.

The more you work inside a corporation, the less obvious it becomes that anything should work at all.

Things get lost in translation. People misunderstand each other all the time. Something breaks somewhere every day. People fuck up here and there.

But somehow, your package still shows up at your door more often than not.

Stay tuned! 😎🧡