Working with AI in open source requires that we grapple with its downsides. We need to acknowledge the ethical problems and minimize negative impacts; ensure quality and security despite fundamental limitations of AI technology; and resist the centralizing power dynamic inherent in the current AI trajectory.
Posts
2026
What we currently call “AI” is not intelligent, and won’t be. The current AI boom will end in a financial crash. The AI industry causes terrible ecological and social damage.
2025
Nothing better illustrates the utter mindboggling craziness of neoclassical economics, than its Nobel laureate in environmental economics.
The mess we’re in was not only foreseeable; it was foreseen. In 1972 a landmark paper was published: The Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972), hereafter simply called Limits. It’s been called “the most influential science paper of the last 50 years”.
Is it possible to maintain digital autonomy and still work with AI? To find out, I experimented with a privacy-preserving open source AI solution for working with your personal files. The results were underwhelming.
Welcome back to Dark Edge, my future-oriented blog, tracking the unfolding of the polycrisis. I write about systems resilience in the face of collapse, and digital autonomy as a way to take back control over the technology that surrounds us.
I love to fly. But it burns the planet. With a conference in Finland coming up, I’m facing tough choices. Either I fly and am an asshole again; or I’ll spend three days and a boatload of money to get to Jyväskylä, and another three days to get back home.
A summary of the links shared in a fascinating Mastodon thread about the current AI hype cycle and the bubble that’s about to pop.
2020
Alone without food in the wild: I never felt more alive.
World collapse invites spiritual transformation (part two).
World collapse invites spiritual transformation (part one).
Turns out, we are in less danger of an Arctic climate tipping point, than I thought we are.
2008
The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 makes clear that in a networked world, we need new, networked ways of thinking about the world.
