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The Raspberry Pi Mastodon Instance: Do You Have Your Backups Sorted?

A while ago, I set up my own Mastodon instance on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s why

10 min readJan 5, 2024

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Photograph of a Raspberry Pi computer. It’s in a grey plastic housing and underneath is a SSD drive. Wires are sticking out from it on all sides.

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Maarten Steenhagen

Marching from A to B

This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can find more of my writings and also listen to an audio version. Want to receive more…

6 min readJun 3, 2023

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Photograph of students protesting in Westminster, 10 November 2010. Crowd with placards, seen from the back. In the distance the Houses of Parliament, sun reflecting in a window.

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Maarten Steenhagen

AI Risk and Capitalism

This post first appeared on Indoxicate.me, where you can find more of my writings and also listen to an audio version. Want to receive more…

5 min readJun 2, 2023

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Photograph of a scorched forest, looking gloomy and desolate

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Comrades, stop playing ‘normal’

With a few exceptions, socialist movements do not seem to care a damn about the fact that if they gather in stuffy rooms without face masks…

2 min readMay 25, 2023

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Text: Eugenics requires mass support, don’t give it that support

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Socialisten, stop met ‘normaal’ doen

Enkele uitzonderingen daargelaten, socialistische bewegingen lijken zich tot nog toe geen fluit aan te trekken van het feit dat je…

2 min readMay 24, 2023

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Eugenetica heeft steun van de massa nodig, geef het die steun niet.

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Now the emergency is over…

On the 5th of May 2023 the (WHO) announced that the enduring COVID-19 pandemic is no longer an emergency. Is this a good thing?

7 min readMay 10, 2023

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Maarten Steenhagen

The right to encrypt

It has never been more important to stand up for online privacy and argue that we have a right to encrypt. Join me on a deep dive

11 min readMay 1, 2023

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A person in trench coat standing in front of an ochre wall with huge hieroglyphics in relief

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Maarten Steenhagen

Why am I still on Twitter?

Platforms like Twitter have a stifling effect on political activism. In the current internet economy, politics is more and more reduced…

9 min readApr 19, 2023

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Why am I still on Twitter?

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A consumer phenomenology of the digital

Somewhere in Plato’s work you’ll find an argument against writing. Recently the philosopher Byung-Chul Han has revived this type of…

8 min readApr 13, 2023

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A consumer phenomenology of the digital

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Maarten Steenhagen

Should you join the party?

How can you best contribute to bringing about societal and economic reform? Perhaps joining forces with others as a party is the only way…

8 min readApr 8, 2023

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Should you join the party?

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Maarten Steenhagen

Maarten Steenhagen

Philosopher and writer. Uppsala, formerly Cambridge. Writes about culture, psychology, and the dreadful state of the world. Sometimes writes about tech as well.

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