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✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
newpublic.substack.comMar 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Blaine (@blaine.bsky.social)
Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Rogue AI Agents
Network Punk Welcome to the Jungle Blaine Cook AtmosphereConf Seattle 2025
ikaijua/Awesome-AITools
Collection of AI-related utilities. Welcome to submit pull requests /收藏AI相关的实用工具,欢迎提交pull requests
Sam Aaron Official: Instagram, Twitch, Twitter | Linktree
Live coding DJ. Creator of Sonic Pi. Coder, educator, PhD, artist.

Blaine Cook
Hi! I'm Blaine, a software programmer living in the Slocan Valley who works on decentralized technologies (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability">this</a> kind, not that kind) in order to give communities the autonomy to self-determine in online spaces.


Introducing AI Extensions Beta
Stephen Hood on Twitter / X
Was feeling cranky about all the people claiming they’re building an “AI OS,” so… I vibe coded an AI OS. Meet Llanux, a custom Linux distro that boots to llama.cpp. No GNOME/KDE, just a chat TUI, local inference, and a model downloader. Forgive me. https://t.co/vJVvUm9HWY pic.twitter.com/dHpNKuHOQz— Stephen Hood (@stlhood) January 23, 2026

Twitch is Mining Peoples' Streams to Train Amazon's AI
Here's how to opt out of Twitch's new generative AI training setting.
goose has a new home - the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) | goose | Your open source AI agent
goose has moved to the Agentic AI Foundation (aaif) at the Linux Foundation

‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World
404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.

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DON'T SHARE THIS, IT'S AI FABRICATED It's fake - the media outlet almost certainly used generative AI to write this and it pulled from a "parody" acct (instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/) The more you share this, the more you help the pro-AI bros say this is all fake youtube.com/live/ho_ZmwgvDdM