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If There's a Nazi at Your Bar, It's a Nazi Bar
Summary: I found out Substack isn't just tolerating extremism—it's literally hosting Nazi newsletters. So I'm out. Here's why you should care.
"If there are nine people sitting at a table and a Nazi sits down, and nobody gets up, there are ten Nazis at the table." – Unknown
When people first started saying Substack had a Nazi problem, I did what most of us do. I rationalized it. I assumed they were using "Nazi" the way the internet uses it—loosely, carelessly, as a blunt rhetorical weapon. Maybe it was white supremacist adjacent content hiding behind edgy language. Maybe it was dubious newsletters with dogwhistles that linked to actual extremist groups but maintained plausible deniability.
What I did not expect was to find actual, mask-off, unambiguous Nazi content. Full-blown antisemitism. Newsletters celebrating and promoting National Socialism. Not buried in some dark corner—hosted openly, on a platform where I was also publishing my work.
If you don't believe me, go look at what was at
natsoctoday1.substack.com. Or read the reporting. It's all there:- The Atlantic: Substack Has a Nazi Problem
- The Guardian: How Substack Makes Money From Nazi Newsletters
- Engadget: Substack Accidentally Sent Push Alerts Promoting a Nazi Publication
That last one is almost darkly funny. Accidentally promoted a Nazi newsletter through push notifications. An algorithm so indifferent to the content it amplifies that it just... pushed Nazism to people's phones. Like a coupon for hate.
This reminds me of something I learned early in my career. When you build software, the defaults matter. The things a platform chooses to allow, the content it monetizes, the guardrails it refuses to install—those aren't neutral decisions. They're architectural choices. A platform that takes a cut from Nazi content isn't a free speech champion. It's a business partner.
I've thought about this the way I think about any system design problem. There's always a tradeoff. Substack made theirs: growth and "openness" over basic human decency. And look, I'm no stranger to messy tradeoffs in tech. But there's a line. And if your platform is literally making revenue from people who celebrate genocide, you've blown past that line at full speed.
So I'm out. I've backed up everything to my blog, where it always should have lived anyway. You can find me on Hachyderm.
The bar metaphor is overused, but it's overused because it's true. If a Nazi sits down at your bar and you serve them, you've made a choice. If you profit from serving them, you've made an even louder one. And I don't want to drink at that bar.
Peace.
Also readable in: https://maho.dev/2026/02/if-theres-a-nazi-at-your-bar-its-a-nazi-bar/ by @mapache:
#Ethics #Tech Culture #Substack #Free Speech #Platform Responsibility #Hate Speech #Internet Culture
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Opti-Morons and the Death of Critical Thought
I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep or a weekend off the grid can fix. It’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion—the fatigue of living in a culture of relentless, performative positivity. In the tech world, we’re told to “crush it,” to “move fast,” and to embrace every new “game-changer” with uncritical enthusiasm. If you’re not a believer, you’re a “naysayer” or, worse, a “blocker” of progress.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-13-the-tyranny-of-positivity/
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Opti-Morons and the Death of Critical Thought
I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep or a weekend off the grid can fix. It’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion—the fatigue of living in a culture of relentless, performative positivity. In the tech world, we’re told to “crush it,” to “move fast,” and to embrace every new “game-changer” with uncritical enthusiasm. If you’re not a believer, you’re a “naysayer” or, worse, a “blocker” of progress.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-13-the-tyranny-of-positivity/
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Opti-Morons and the Death of Critical Thought
I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep or a weekend off the grid can fix. It’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion—the fatigue of living in a culture of relentless, performative positivity. In the tech world, we’re told to “crush it,” to “move fast,” and to embrace every new “game-changer” with uncritical enthusiasm. If you’re not a believer, you’re a “naysayer” or, worse, a “blocker” of progress.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-13-the-tyranny-of-positivity/
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Opti-Morons and the Death of Critical Thought
I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep or a weekend off the grid can fix. It’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion—the fatigue of living in a culture of relentless, performative positivity. In the tech world, we’re told to “crush it,” to “move fast,” and to embrace every new “game-changer” with uncritical enthusiasm. If you’re not a believer, you’re a “naysayer” or, worse, a “blocker” of progress.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-13-the-tyranny-of-positivity/
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Opti-Morons and the Death of Critical Thought
I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep or a weekend off the grid can fix. It’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion—the fatigue of living in a culture of relentless, performative positivity. In the tech world, we’re told to “crush it,” to “move fast,” and to embrace every new “game-changer” with uncritical enthusiasm. If you’re not a believer, you’re a “naysayer” or, worse, a “blocker” of progress.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-13-the-tyranny-of-positivity/
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When the Company Outgrows the Tribe
Sometimes the hardest realisation isn’t that a company changed. It’s that we’re no longer the customer it’s optimising for.https://islandinthenet.com/when-the-company-outgrows-the-tribe/
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When the Company Outgrows the Tribe
Sometimes the hardest realisation isn’t that a company changed. It’s that we’re no longer the customer it’s optimising for.https://islandinthenet.com/when-the-company-outgrows-the-tribe/
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When the Company Outgrows the Tribe
Sometimes the hardest realisation isn’t that a company changed. It’s that we’re no longer the customer it’s optimising for.https://islandinthenet.com/when-the-company-outgrows-the-tribe/
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If There's a Nazi at Your Bar, It's a Nazi Bar
Summary: I found out Substack isn't just tolerating extremism—it's literally hosting Nazi newsletters. So I'm out. Here's why you should care.
"If there are nine people sitting at a table and a Nazi sits down, and nobody gets up, there are ten Nazis at the table." – Unknown
When people first started saying Substack had a Nazi problem, I did what most of us do. I rationalized it. I assumed they were using "Nazi" the way the internet uses it—loosely, carelessly, as a blunt rhetorical weapon. Maybe it was white supremacist adjacent content hiding behind edgy language. Maybe it was dubious newsletters with dogwhistles that linked to actual extremist groups but maintained plausible deniability.
What I did not expect was to find actual, mask-off, unambiguous Nazi content. Full-blown antisemitism. Newsletters celebrating and promoting National Socialism. Not buried in some dark corner—hosted openly, on a platform where I was also publishing my work.
If you don't believe me, go look at what was at
natsoctoday1.substack.com. Or read the reporting. It's all there:- The Atlantic: Substack Has a Nazi Problem
- The Guardian: How Substack Makes Money From Nazi Newsletters
- Engadget: Substack Accidentally Sent Push Alerts Promoting a Nazi Publication
That last one is almost darkly funny. Accidentally promoted a Nazi newsletter through push notifications. An algorithm so indifferent to the content it amplifies that it just... pushed Nazism to people's phones. Like a coupon for hate.
This reminds me of something I learned early in my career. When you build software, the defaults matter. The things a platform chooses to allow, the content it monetizes, the guardrails it refuses to install—those aren't neutral decisions. They're architectural choices. A platform that takes a cut from Nazi content isn't a free speech champion. It's a business partner.
I've thought about this the way I think about any system design problem. There's always a tradeoff. Substack made theirs: growth and "openness" over basic human decency. And look, I'm no stranger to messy tradeoffs in tech. But there's a line. And if your platform is literally making revenue from people who celebrate genocide, you've blown past that line at full speed.
So I'm out. I've backed up everything to my blog, where it always should have lived anyway. You can find me on Hachyderm.
The bar metaphor is overused, but it's overused because it's true. If a Nazi sits down at your bar and you serve them, you've made a choice. If you profit from serving them, you've made an even louder one. And I don't want to drink at that bar.
Peace.
Also readable in: https://maho.dev/2026/02/if-theres-a-nazi-at-your-bar-its-a-nazi-bar/ by @mapache:
#Ethics #Tech Culture #Substack #Free Speech #Platform Responsibility #Hate Speech #Internet Culture
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🎯Die Human‑Review‑Lücke im AI Act – Transparenzpflichten erklärt 🔗https://pwa.ist/human-review-lucke-eu-ai-act #ai #aiacttransparenz #aiact #euaiact #transparenz
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Europa zahlt 148 Milliarden Euro jährlich für digitale Infrastruktur, die nicht europäischem Recht unterliegt.
96% der deutschen Bundesbehörden. Ein Anbieter. Kein Backup-Plan — bis März 2026.
Der IT-Planungsrat hat entschieden: Deutschland-Stack ist jetzt verbindlich. Frankreich sperrt Teams und Zoom für 2,5 Millionen Beamte.
Dossier:🔗 1lr.de/stack
#DeutschlandStack #DigitaleSouveränität #openDesk #EuroStack #Fediverse #OpenSource #Verwaltung #FreieSoftware #Europas
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Frontier Tech Report #01 — April 2026.
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 — MCP & A2A nativ, produktionsreif.
Claude Opus 4.7 — SWE-Bench 72,4%, Coding-Agents mit echter Autonomie.
Gemma 4 unter Apache 2.0 — On-Premise, kein Lizenz-Overhead.
Quanten-Preprint — Qubit-Bedarf von 1 Mio. auf 10.000 gesenkt.
NIST PQC — $15 Mrd. Pflichtmigration, jede HTTPS-App betroffen.Vollständiger Report:
1lr.de/report
#AgenticAI #PostQuantum #OpenSource #Quantencomputing #TechReport
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Wir haben es getan: »Techno Radio Next Gen« #techno #radio #technoradio
https://technostreams.de/wie-technostreams-das-techno-radio-neu-erfindet/ -
#KI frisst Jobs. #OpenAI will #Roboter besteuern.
13 Seiten #Manifest. Alle Forderungen an den Staat.
Keine einzige bindet OpenAI selbst.#Deutschland: bis zu 31 Mrd. € Fiskallücke durch KI-Jobverdrängung.
Schleichende #Enteignung passiert nicht durch eine #Steuer – sie passiert, wenn Produktivitätsgewinne oben ankommen und die Folgekosten unten bezahlt werden.
#KI #Robotersteuer #OpenAI #Wirtschaftspolitik #Superintelligenz
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Die EU verbietet KI-Apps, die Frauen ohne Einwilligung virtuell ausziehen. Ab Dez. 2026. Keine Übergangsfrist, kein Aufschub. Gleichzeitig bekommen Hochrisiko-KI-Systeme — Biometrie, Strafverfolgung, Grenzmanagement — 16 Monate mehr Zeit. Der Unterschied: Nudification-Betreiber haben keine Lobby. Die anderen schon.
Vollständiges Dossier: 1lr.de/nackt
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Dark Eagle fliegt. Project Maverick soll abfangen. Swarm Forge kauft KI-Schwärme. Drei Programme, die im Mai 2026 die operative Logik des Gefechtsfelds neu schreiben. Die institutionelle Reaktionszeit demokratischer Verteidigungssysteme ist strukturell langsamer als die Innovationsgeschwindigkeit autonomer Waffensysteme. Das ist kein Managementproblem.
Vollständiges Dossier: 1lr.de/miltech
#Hyperschall #AutonomeWaffen #DrohnenKrieg #NATO #KünstlicheIntelligenz
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Ich öffne meine #Web- und #Apps #Tools Schatzkiste und herauskommt eine unglaublich nützliche #Toolbox für die tägliche Arbeit bei der #Entwicklung von Web- und #App #Projekten. Die Toolbox ist einzeln als #PWA auf jedem System installierbar_
https://pwa.ist/die-ultimative-toolbox-fuer-web-und-app-entwicklung/ -
🎭✨ Live Cyberformance Event – Online – This Saturday, International Women's Day! ✨🎭
Join artists from Sweden, Austria, Germany, and New Zealand 🌍
🔹The grand finale of the 4-year UpStage Mobilise/Demobilise project CCT hosted. 🚀🔥
🔹 Cyberformance – real-time digital collaboration! 💻🎨
🔹 Plus: The project book launch! 📚
Check it out here: https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/and-now-the-book/
Be part of it this Saturday, March 9! 🎉
👉 Event details
https://upstage.org.nz/?event=and-now
#Cyberformance #LivePerformance #DigitalArt #BookLaunch -
Tim O’Reilly versprach die agile Verwaltung. Die Realität ist eine feindliche Übernahme. Wenn Hessens Polizei die Software Gotham von Palantir nutzt, mietet sie keine IT. Sie übergibt die Exekutive an kalifornische Monopole. Deutsche Kommunen sind Vasallen von Microsoft Office 365. Wer die API kontrolliert, diktiert den Staatsprozess. Das ist kein Zufall. Es ist Architektur.
Vollständiges Dossier: 1lr.de/feudal
#TechnoFeudalismus #DigitaleSouveraenitaet #Palantir #GovTech
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Open-Source-Software ist ein zentraler Pfeiler digitaler Souveränität — getragen von tausenden Freiwilligen, aber nach wie vor ohne klare rechtliche Anerkennung. Eine neue Petition adressiert diese Lücke und fordert verlässliche Rahmenbedingungen. Eine breite Unterstützung ist entscheidend, um politische Wirkung zu entfalten.. 🖥️📚
#TagDesEhrenamts
https://www.heise.de/news/Petition-Open-Source-Arbeit-soll-als-Ehrenamt-gelten-11094436.html -
🎯#BigTech entmachten? Dezentrale #Netzwerke als modernes Äquivalent zur Aneignung der #Produktionsmittel 🔗https://pwa.ist/big-tech-entmachten-dezentrale-netzwerke-produktionsmittel
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Vom #Kampfpiloten zur #Schmerztherapie: Wie #DARPAs #Licht-Drogen die zivile Medizin revolutionieren werden
https://pwa.ist/darpas-licht-drogen/ -
Frontier Tech Report #01 — April 2026.
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 — MCP & A2A nativ, produktionsreif.
Claude Opus 4.7 — SWE-Bench 72,4%, Coding-Agents mit echter Autonomie.
Gemma 4 unter Apache 2.0 — On-Premise, kein Lizenz-Overhead.
Quanten-Preprint — Qubit-Bedarf von 1 Mio. auf 10.000 gesenkt.
NIST PQC — $15 Mrd. Pflichtmigration, jede HTTPS-App betroffen.Vollständiger Report:
1lr.de/report
#AgenticAI #PostQuantum #OpenSource #Quantencomputing #TechReport
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Frontier Tech Report #01 — April 2026.
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 — MCP & A2A nativ, produktionsreif.
Claude Opus 4.7 — SWE-Bench 72,4%, Coding-Agents mit echter Autonomie.
Gemma 4 unter Apache 2.0 — On-Premise, kein Lizenz-Overhead.
Quanten-Preprint — Qubit-Bedarf von 1 Mio. auf 10.000 gesenkt.
NIST PQC — $15 Mrd. Pflichtmigration, jede HTTPS-App betroffen.Vollständiger Report:
1lr.de/report
#AgenticAI #PostQuantum #OpenSource #Quantencomputing #TechReport
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Frontier Tech Report #01 — April 2026.
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 — MCP & A2A nativ, produktionsreif.
Claude Opus 4.7 — SWE-Bench 72,4%, Coding-Agents mit echter Autonomie.
Gemma 4 unter Apache 2.0 — On-Premise, kein Lizenz-Overhead.
Quanten-Preprint — Qubit-Bedarf von 1 Mio. auf 10.000 gesenkt.
NIST PQC — $15 Mrd. Pflichtmigration, jede HTTPS-App betroffen.Vollständiger Report:
#AgenticAI #PostQuantum #OpenSource #Quantencomputing #TechReport
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🎭✨ Live Cyberformance Event – Online – This Saturday, International Women's Day! ✨🎭
Join artists from Sweden, Austria, Germany, and New Zealand 🌍
🔹The grand finale of the 4-year UpStage Mobilise/Demobilise project CCT hosted. 🚀🔥
🔹 Cyberformance – real-time digital collaboration! 💻🎨
🔹 Plus: The project book launch! 📚
Check it out here: https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/and-now-the-book/
Be part of it this Saturday, March 9! 🎉
👉 Event details
https://upstage.org.nz/?event=and-now
#Cyberformance #LivePerformance #DigitalArt #BookLaunch -
🎭✨ Live Cyberformance Event – Online – This Saturday, International Women's Day! ✨🎭
Join artists from Sweden, Austria, Germany, and New Zealand 🌍
🔹The grand finale of the 4-year UpStage Mobilise/Demobilise project CCT hosted. 🚀🔥
🔹 Cyberformance – real-time digital collaboration! 💻🎨
🔹 Plus: The project book launch! 📚
Check it out here: https://mobilise-demobilise.eu/and-now-the-book/
Be part of it this Saturday, March 9! 🎉
👉 Event details
https://upstage.org.nz/?event=and-now
#Cyberformance #LivePerformance #DigitalArt #BookLaunch -
Das Ende des #Kapitalismus? Warum das #KIGrundeinkommen das Scheitern unseres #Wirtschaftssystems beweist
https://pwa.ist/ki-grundeinkommen-ende-kapitalismus/