I’ve been developing something called the Human-Made License, a Creative Commons–style way to certify that creative work was made without genAI.

I’m looking for feedback from artists, designers, and writers before the public launch. DM me if you’d like to take a look at the first draft.

After the recent Rubygems drama, I felt anxious, and trapped, frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.

I found myself grieving, and mourning the future I grew up thinking we would have; but also feeling hope, that it’s not too late to stop enabling these people, and start choosing kindness.

I wrote about these feelings. Join me in building a better future:

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

One way to look at "all these projects turn out to be fascist/shitty/AI-infected/etc." is that everything is doomed and now there's nothing that you can use or rely on anymore.

Another way to look at it, is that the masks finally fell off, all the cards are on the table, and now you don't have to deal with all the subtle draining bullshit anymore, it's much easier to organize building of projects that aren't fascist/etc. because everyone is on the same page about the state of things, and you can start building up a collection of actually good and nice things without fighting the endless 'enlightened centrists'.