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We are building the Override. And the Digital Asset Ownership Network is live.
If you are a writer, an artist, or a creator on the internet right now, you aren't paranoid. The extraction is real.
The platforms we used to love have turned into harvesting machines, scraping everything we make to feed algorithmic models that are being used, ultimately, to replace us.
Let me be clear as someone on the front lines: the technology itself isn't the enemy. This is the corporate model. And just like the cryptography that can be used to protect your work, this is a profound misuse of a powerful tool.
I spent 8 years as a lead engineer inside the belly of the Big Tech beast. I watched the roadmap. I saw where this was going. So a few months ago, I walked out. I evacuated the burning building so I could spend my time knitting the water hoses.
Today, Iâm quietly turning the first tool on.
app.daon.network is live.
DAON (the Digital Asset Ownership Network) is a sovereign ledger built specifically to protect independent creators from non-consensual AI ingestion.
Here is how you use it, without the tech jargon:
You sign in with a secure magic link and mandatory 2FA. (No passwords to hack or forgetâjust an email link and a required second factor to establish your identity on the network. I do not compromise on security).
You drop your text or your code into the app. Your content is sent to our server, hashed, and immediately discarded. Only the fingerprint, timestamp, and license are recorded â never the work itself. (And if you're truly paranoid? You can use Restricted Mode, where the fingerprint is generated locally in your browser and the file never leaves your machine at all).
You attach the license. Open-source, all rights reserved â you have the option. Or if youâre like me, you can attach the Liberation License. DAON documents the process to create machine-readable <meta> tags that you can embed directly into your site's HTML, as well as how to embed the license directly into the EXIF data or metadata of your photos and videos.
You mint your proof. DAON records that hash, the timestamp, and your license onto the public-good ledger (hosted on green-energy servers, used strictly for unalterable record-keeping).
Let's talk about what this is and what it isn't. Let's do the isn't first.
This ISN'T cryptocurrency for trading. This ISN'T a speculative market. This ISN'T an NFT auction system and this ISN'T a VC-funded grift. You can't mine this for profit. You can't use this to pay for an overpriced beer at a Knicks game. I despise that ecosystem, because it took the math of a very useful system of authenticity and corrupted it into a meme stock.
What this IS: proof.
We use the underlying math that runs every successful cryptocurrency to prove ownership of a digital work. Text, manuscripts, code, HTMLâall of it. You register your asset and you get a cryptographic token that you attach to that work, and verification will prove when you registered it, who owns it, and how you chose to license it, immutably. That's it. The record attached to that token never changes, and if there's ever any dispute, you get to use that record to settle it.
(A technical note for radical transparency: Because SHA-256 hashing is perfectly deterministic, the verification engine is bulletproof. I am actively building the verification pipelines for binary files like images, video, and audio. I refuse to overpromise until the math is perfect, but you can register anything today and that verification will work seamlessly when it's ready.)
What does this mean for you? To be clear: I cannot build public internet DRM. No one can, not without breaking the open web itself. What DAON actually gives you is three things:
The Record:Â Cryptographic proof that your content existed, was owned by you, and was licensed a specific way at a specific time.
The Signal: Machine-readable <meta> tags a scraper could respect, same as robots.txt.
The Receipts:Â If a scraper ignores the signal and uses the content anyway, you have the undeniable evidence to prove it.
What DAON doesn't give you is enforcement. It can't magically stop a scraper that doesn't want to be stopped. The legal weight comes after the violation, not before it.
It draws a line in concrete. Whether a corporation chooses to step over that line anyway is on them â and now provably on them.
We all know that robots.txt isn't a hard block. But when AI companies actively ignore those signals to train models, it's a choice. And courts are finally starting to care about that choice. DAON makes your boundary legally legible and cryptographically timestamped for exactly that argument, and the servers running this are in Germany, where they don't fuck around with privacy or intellectual property rights.
I am not VC-funded. There are no corporate investors demanding I turn this into a subscription trap. I am an AuDHD engineer and novelist building bare-metal infrastructure and hacking health devices in my living room because my community needs it to survive.
The status quo expects us to just roll over and accept the extraction.
Fuck that. We build our own pyramids now.
Read the Manifesto:Â greenfieldoverride.com/manifesto
Secure your work:Â app.daon.network
Track the Roadmap: daon.network/roadmap
Also, please consider funding the servers, my coffee habit, and a little of my time: ko-fi.com/greenfieldoverride
If yâall have never heard of the Palo Alto suicide clusters, Iâm glad. If Iâm the one you unfortunately learn about this from, Iâm sorry.
The current cluster has been exclusively LGBTQ+ kids, with two of them being trans. Thatâs 3 kids in 10 months that have ended their lives at the same high school.
One of Summerâs last wishes was for this fundraiser to be organized. Iâm sharing because kids like her and her best friend needed more community support and this place has historically been a good community.
I know thereâs a lot going on. Give if you can. Please share if you canât
And make sure you submit those photos to the Internet. Otherwise, your own children will go looking for them one day and tragically, they won't be there.
Something funny about another wave of actors who starred in Harry Potter films coming out against the Supreme Court ruling - and therefore JK Rowling who funded the campaign.
Reminder that this itâs precisely why Rowling has rebooted Potter because all the faces of her old material have spoken out against her anti-Trans hateful shit. New merch, new articles worth new actors who profanely have it IN their contract to shut the fuck up about her TERF shit.
Donât buy into it. Donât buy the merch, donât watch the new bullshit.
there are two competing sects on this website - one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "neurodivergent" and one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "sexual content." i do not like either of them
'Oooh if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life' false. I'm a glassblower. I love glass more than (almost) anything else. And I have worked. Every day. For the past four weeks. And I am just as burnt out and depressed and miserable as when I was killing myself working at the Home Depot. All of that labor is tainted with the knowledge that if I hadn't done it I wouldn't have been able to eat. Or live indoors. Or support my partner. Capitalism is hell, dont let anyone fucking lie to you and imply that if youre fucked up about it you're just doing it wrong.
It's 2004. Google has just announced an exciting new venture: Google Print. With the blessing of five major libraries, Google sets out to digitalize the world's print material. Its search function, which will allow people to read and review print books digitally, is set to revolutionize information forever.
There was only one, teeny tiny problem... they didn't ask permission.
None.
At all.
Authors were gobsmacked. Nothing like this had ever happened before. What right had Google to scan, copy, and save copyrighted books to its databases... and at this scale? Lawsuits mounted. Google backpedaled, then talked of settling. Eventually, Ursula Le Guin spilled the tea. It was a whole thing.
Back then, the point many authors (including Le Guin) were making wasn't directed against the digitization of print books as such (widening access to the world's knowledge? Who doesn't want that?)...
No, authors were concerned with how Google went about it, and the threat it posed for intellectual property. Google's actions tossed aside the custom, long enshrined in law, that writers and publishers should have control over how their material is used and distributedâa tradition that many believe... exists for good reason.
(We'll get to it.)
What Le Guin and others realized is that Google's message of "democratizing the internet" (a platitude often used by techno-libertarians and broligarchs who, it turns out, aren't so keen on the whole "democracy" thing...) masked a sinister intention: to wrangle the world's commons under its own private control.
From where we're standing now (đ„Č), the scandal and ensuing lawsuit have a little too much familiarity: Google learned what they could get away with and how.
Then they kept doing that.
Move fast; break copyright; settle later (if ever).
The point is: the Print drama wasn't your average copyright scandalâit was the world's first ever mass data-harvesting event.
The training of Google Gemini began 22 years ago, on the day Google started claiming the world's knowledge for itself.
To understand our present predicaments, we have to know our history. Google Print was virgin soil. What followedâthe scale of the data theft, the absolute skeeviness/grift of it allâfelt unprecedented at the time.
But apparently, you had to be a writer to see it. đ€·ââïž
