@joncamfield

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Thinking about tomorrow's threats against human rights and the open Internet. Frustrated Optimist, open source nerd, gardener, salsa dancer, cook, husband, dad, embarrassed Texan. Opinions here are my own. he/they
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Oh hey, I wrote a thing! It mainly tells you to go read a thing that @aiefel wrote (https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/04/on-sovereignty-and-freedom-and.html) , on how internet sovereignty is a dangerous replacement for Internet Freedom: https://www.joncamfield.com/blog/2026.03/internet-freedom-sovereignty.html
On sovereignty and freedom and the internet

I was getting ready to hit “publish” on this post at the …

heard "be the elephant you want to see in the room" earlier and gosh if that hasn't stuck with me

"Stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free."

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437833541851410433/

@evacide honestly I’d have fun making a review bot for myself; but pretty sure some janky regex and js would be enough for most of it. But this is… copyright theft?
@willowbl00 I cannot turn off my “it depends…” brain, so I embrace it by allowing it to run free with the complexities in a first draft, a notes doc, or in huge spreadsheets where there are lots of data points to balance. i then use those to start making small decisions to reduce the complexity. From there I try to summarize don to only a few sentences to go “outside” with. Knowing I’ve documented the complexity and have comfort in speaking to how I reduced down goes me a lot of comfort.
While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”
https://propub.li/4r2Wqof

https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772663580&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads
Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

ProPublica
@krusynth I switched to masto.host for instance management to keep my personal instance with less cost and less headache - I’ve been very happy with the entire process and management since
We have lost Jesse Jackson. I briefly knew him. This is about him spending his time with me, when I was a child. It's personal, adorable, and most of all, humane. I have adored him ever since that day. https://emptywheel.net/morality-is-a-long-game/