The old internet is mostly dead and many of us in this community are to blame.

Nerd culture sold out - stock options won out over hacker ethics. What was once an emerging space of digital freedom has become a tightly controlled corporate dystopia, but hey, some of us drive fancy cars now!

> Nerd culture sold out - stock options won out over hacker ethics.

Ad hock ethics is clearly insufficient here. Without sensible defenses nerd culture was molded into a tool without its own agency.

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