hodlbod

hodlbod@coracle.social

Christian Bitcoiner and developer of coracle.social. Learn more at info.coracle.social.

If you can't tell the difference between me and a scammer, use a nostr client with web of trust support.

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by hodlbod

January 28 2026

Slopcraft and the LLM Society

Meditations on slop, why I'm not convinced, and what to do about it.

by hodlbod

January 26 2026

Digital Tools for Conviviality

Digital communication technology has exceeded its optimal scale, establishing a radical monopoly over human interaction. Internet platforms intermediate private relationships, extract value through surveillance capitalism, and reduce people to quantifiable metrics. However, certain digital tools can subvert the architecture of the corporate internet to safeguard individual freedom and human flourishing within digital environments. Two digital tools embody this conviviality in particular: open source software and asymmetric cryptography. Open source software empowers users to understand, modify, and control their tools rather than being controlled by them, while asymmetric cryptography enables private communication over untrusted networks, as well as credible exit through digital signatures. Together, these tools offer a bottom-up approach to incrementally reclaiming control over our digital lives, making small-scale resistance against intermediation and surveillance more feasible within the hostile environment of the modern internet

by hodlbod

December 2 2025

Nostr as Game

All systems can be approached like a game by "probing" for affordances. This can be a lot of fun, and works well in an adversarial environment.

Just as in writing, all aspects of science and math are driven by aesthetics, elegance, and taste; indeed, all high-level intellectual output shares a similar sensitivity to ineffable qualities like t...
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Of course, monsters remain at the heart of the Institutional Gothic, too. The “lifeform” of “The Backrooms” was never the real monster, as was the case with Mary Shelley’s Gothic horror “Frankenstein....
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By the 2010s, the internet had reified liminality into a full-fledged visual “aesthetic”: Think abandoned bowling alleys, vintage airport terminals, and deserted playgrounds at dusk. More often than n...
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