Before power became a palace, a crown, or a government, it was something much simpler and far more durable:
a body held as collateral. #pledge #captive
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/04/30/post-2-the-hostage-logic-power-before-the-throne-2/
#Safety is #conditional, and the only way to avoid being the hostage is to #pledge someone else.

How 70 Logical Fallacies + Relational Distortions Sustain a Self‑Maintaining Control Structure Safety is conditional, and the only way to avoid being the hostage is to pledge someone else. The Host…

Summary Nix daemon is vulnerable to arbitrary file overwrites as the daemon user (root on NixOS and in multi-user installations). The issue is identified as GHSA-g3g9-5vj6-r3gj with CVE assignment pending. All users allowed to submit builds to the Nix daemon (allowed-users, everyone by default) can achieve arbitrary file writes as root and subsequent privilege escalation. Am I affected? All Nix versions since 2.21 and patch releases >=2.18.2,>=2.19.4,>=2.20.5 prior to 2.34.5, 2.33.4, 2.32.7, 2...