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: On Election Day, Harris will take office and Trump will be arrested according to election conspiracy …

: VCs pledge not to take money from Russia or China: More than 20 VC firms, many of which invest in …

: I must decline. For secret reasons. Edit: He’s a Fed (song; h/t @jdp23)

: The Internet is posting Luigi Mangione’s perpwalk photos next to famous renaissance paintings, …

: Okay, But…Who Exactly Was Luigi Mangione Terrorizing? | The Fucking News: Treating the CEO …

: Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI meetings with Biden administration | …

: PornHub Is Blocking Access in Florida from January 1 2025: Aylo, the company that owns PornHub, …

: Cops save Christmas for the billionaires From @alexnpress: from what I can tell, the NYPD just …

: Re: Chris Hayes expresses his distaste for a Christmas song without mentioning Trump (and …

: The website guy responded. It went well. Lol. He definitely saw it the second I posted but okay. So …

: I grew up on Curry Ford Road in downtown Orlando. Free market capitalism didn’t help my mother …

: Could it be? Is it so? That maybe this free speech crusade was all a front so that big tech …

: It’s been interesting to see big techno-libertarian voices dodge the looming Tiktok ban by …

: Michael Jackson is so unhelpful in Smooth Criminal like yeah, I’ll be fine could you maybe …

: Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress?: Standing in a bathroom at Automattic’s San Francisco …

: It’s at least a little funny knowing that it was the cops' egos that demanded the spectacle …

: When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays: We are at a moment …

: Hey Bluesky, from my micro blog.

: All this political theater is making Luigi Mangione look cool as hell, I fear. (The optics …

: [From the drafts] Starved for hope, a trolling Harris feeds us Here’s an incomplete draft of …

: The new Superman trailer shows Krypto in the movie! James Gunn is my favorite thing about superhero …

: Helping my mom clear her storage and I notice she has 4GB worth of NOTES? As non-technical as she …

: A CEO-only Newsletter: Welcome to Semafor Business. Our new CEO Signal, for and about the …

: Me when a Zoom call runs five minutes long.

: What percentage of content on the Internet—memes, videos, blogs, etc.—are published with the …

: Update on the dork who stole my website. He paid someone on Upwork $50 to “clone” my …

: Who are your favorite link bloggers and curators? I very much enjoy curating things for my link …

: I found a folder with some of my old memes and image macros from 2018-2022. Enjoy.

: Peter Wang vowed to me he’ll “kill Bluesky PBC” if things “really go to …

: Remember in The Hunger Games when Plutarch laid out his plan to President Snow: They think …

: Whenever I read an explanation on how large language models work— not knowing the answer just …

: Flipboard’s Surf app is a feed reader for the fediverse - The Verge: McCue’s best explanation of …

: 2025: Curation & Consolidation In my effort to consolidate all my writing projects and blogs (lol adhd), I’m merging Web 3.0 …

: Behind The Bastards released their P. Diddy episode.

: 18 million weird old books are waiting for you in this free online archive - Boing Boing: …

: There’s nothing I can really do about this asshole who stole my website and writing. So …

: Really cool analysis of the architecture in the movie Dune: (Youtube)The Hidden Secrets of …

: fauxpen source: A description of software that claims to be open source, but lacks the full …

: All words written by me What type of author would participate in naked theft of someone …

: Someone straight jacked my whole website and made a worse version of it.

: &udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code: Ever use a de-Googled Android phone? Here’s a …

: If the government were worried about civil unrest to the point they thought uprisings could happen, …

: New Crisis Hotline for CEOs? - Ken Klippenstein New York state is considering creating a special …

: Pet peeves around word pronunciation always feels vaguely classist because it’s never about …

: God, I needed a new Phantogram album (AM). Their first single It Wasn’t Meant to Be is so …

: I miss the old web. Bring back pop-up ads. Forward me an email with an ancient curse. I want my …

: Every Meta product

: 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made …

: I don’t like writing so much as I like having written. You get what I mean? It’s like …

: Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators - by Ana Andjelic: Curation gives even mundane objects …

: I’ll concede that killing a CEO on the street is bad but we should at least be allowed …

: Babe, just delete your Instagram already - by katie morley: And it was at this very moment, on that …

: I’m finishing a write-up on how Bluesky is a libertarian ecosystem based on libertarian …

: Florida Woman Charged With Terrorism: Class warfare against working people is when billion dollar …

: I miss the mountains so bad. I’ve been lucky enough to travel parts of the world but nothing …

: UnitedHealth’s New “I Feel Your Pain” PR Blitz: The idea that Witty, who earned …

: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn’t ruling out advertising | TechCrunch: “I think the ways we would …

: Suchir Balaji on When does generative AI qualify for fair use?: Model developers like OpenAI and …

: Biden granted clemency to the ‘kids-for-cash’ judge. The White House didn’t consider the case …

: OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment: Balaji’s death comes …

: Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization – Dustycloud Brainstorms: Perhaps Bluesky matches this …

: Here’s an old HTML tutorial from 2006 published on the Stanford website. HTML really is a …

: More Perfect Union via Bluesky: BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before …

: Me vibing to GNX for the thousandth time instead of working.

: Watching: The Shawshank Redemption The first time I saw The Shawshank Redemption I was home sick …

: 2024 Is the Year Creators Took Over | The New Yorker: In each case, creators exerted their newly …

: OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats - Ars Technica: The …

: Petition · Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally - Canada · Change.org: Now is a …

: Drake is suing everyone BUT Kendrick (YouTube): “I’m a firm believer that, no matter what …

: ‘Like a miracle’: N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years They …

: The Web We’ve (Never) Lost: I do like web. Not just like a development platform, but as a …

: Last February, AI.com forwarded to a Marques Brownlee video about Open AI’s new video …

: Luigi, insurance tech, China, AI, plus some more sci-fi and music recommendations: Casey Newton …

: Why I Published the Shooter Manifesto - Ken Klippenstein: I think a lot of this talk about copycat …

: Good interview with Ed Zitron. They end the interview with “What happens when consumers reject …

: WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction: “I’m sick and disgusted to …

: UnitedHealthcare’s Leaked Talking Points: The guidance makes specific mention of …

: Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2412.b – The Fediverse Report: During an interview earlier this year …

: I know a bad guy when I see one.

: On any given day we’ll get a headline like “Cops caught planting crack on children to …

: The phony comforts of useful idiots - by Edward Ongweso Jr: OpenAI (and other genAI firms) will …

: It’s at least a little funny that Mike Masnick has a famous essay and two games about the …

: I’m starting to think we either need to burn the internet to the ground or figure out a way to …

: Having any type of following online is like dating a thousand people who get mad at you for stuff …

: 2012—FUCK THE FOUNDING FATHERS! | Tumblr: At this point, I think we need to be asking ourselves …

: We’ll never scold people into being polite. It’ll only reaffirm the notion that minding …

: Taylor Lorenz has exposed the dark side of BlueSky: It’s a curious reasoning: that to be “against …

: Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff’s Office: …

: Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff’s Office: …

: It’s unfortunate how the phrase “be kind to others” has become a war cry for the status quo. …

: Education Is Key to Fighting Disinformation on Social Media - The New York Times: These groups can …

: One day I’ll slip this into a client’s color palette and my life’s work will be …

: Screenshots Maybe I start doing “photo dumps” but with screenshots from around the web and …

: Your AI clone could target your family, but there’s a simple defense - Ars Technica: For example, …

: Who did this? Lol

: The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State: This killing raises the possibility …

: Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (2008): Over the past few years I’ve had an …

: CEOs seek protection after UnitedHealthcare executive shooting: Kroll: “An executive is the face of …

: TikTok (CW): Spotify Wrapped AI podcast casually drops a racial slur

: A fairly comprehensive robots.txt disallow list of known AI crawlers that you can use for your …

: Video: How the Professional Managerial Class Stand in the Way of Progress

: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield halts plan to put time limits on insurance coverage for anesthesia …

: Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime - CBS News: “If I’m guilty of …

: From Anthony Fantano on his YouTube channel: Union-busting, plus racist and sexist …

: Corporate America politics are fucking terrible. It’s hard enough just doing your job, but …

: CEO Tried to Navigate Hate Incident By Telling Staff His Mentor Was a KKK Member: More than 150 …

: The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats - POLITICO Magazine (2014): And so I have a message …

: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in midtown Manhattan, official says | CNN: The …

: Microsoft launches an Apple Mini-like thin client beholden to its cloud services. Another step …

: What We Saw on Our Platforms During 2024’s Global Elections | Meta We allow people to ask questions …

: In a subreddit dedicated to “Trump stole the election" conspiracies, members play chicken with …

: How Democrats Can Regain the Working Class - The American Prospect: The next time Democratic …

: You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of …

: ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla: Mozilla’s latest edition of …

: Small scale is the best scale – Manu: Human connections can only happen at a small scale and low …

: What does this button do?: Of course it being my car, I want to know what all buttons do, so I read …

: 404 Media dropped a report earlier today revealing that people use Bluesky posts to train AI. …

: Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy - Ars Technica: In …

: Google’s New Modular Phone May Be the Last You’ll Need to Buy | WIRED: it’s an attempt …

: Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry: Elaina St James, an adult content creator who …

: How is BlueSky, today, more resilient to being purchased by a billionaire? In what ways are AT …

: How cloud computing became a global monopoly - Investors' Chronicle

: Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute

: AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web

: The Internet and Engaged Citizenship | American Academy of Arts and Sciences Great read on the …

: Liberals declaring Defund the Police as “political poison,” do so as if they aren’t the ones who got …

: Democrats' ‘Fund the Police’ Plan Backfired, Gave Trump Power The belief persists …

: Democrats' election abortion strategy falls flat: Abortion-rights advocates did receive some wins …

: Judge To Zuckerman: Release Your App First, Then We’ll Talk Section 230 | Techdirt: This part of …

: Donald Trump expected to try to halt TikTok ban, allies say - The Washington Post: ByteDance …

: Where is the lib Joe Rogan?: But less than 15 years ago we had TV hosts like Jon Stewart and bands …

: Stephen Miller Expected to Be Named a Trump Deputy Chief of Staff - The New York Times: The plans …

: Spent most of my day on Threads pushing back against disinfo and election fraud conspiracies. 🙃 The …

: Not only is Threads not suppressing political content all of a sudden, it’s actively promoting …

: ‘Libbing out’ is the latest irony-fueled coping mechanism “Libbing out" is an …

: The Misery Index of Little Treats: The more miserable the situation gets out there, the more …

: Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics: The …

: The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway - POLITICO: He will try to ensure …

: “Three-year-old young lady.“ is diabolical. x.com/AlanRMacL…

: Convinced that the average editor has no idea what the reader experience is like on their own …

: The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved webpages are back online - Ars Technica: Last week, …

: Shocking revelations about teens in redacted TikTok documents : NPR: Officials at TikTok discovered …

: (8) Updates LIVE: Deadly fire rips through tents after Israeli attack on Gaza hospital: Footage …

: TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show : NPR TikTok determined the …

: Tesla’s Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled By A Human The Whole Time: Robert Scoble, …

: The Project 2025 Refugee Who Slid Into Your Socials | The New Republic: Carmack’s arrival at Meta …

: Kamala Harris Keeps Cozying Up to Big Business | The New Republic: Two finance executives who spoke …

: Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report: A 15 minute delay is a long time in …

: We’re at War With Iran - Ken Klippenstein: One can stand on the parapet with binoculars …

: Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers | TechCrunch: Mosseri noted …

: Introducing User Magazine - by Taylor Lorenz - User Mag: User Mag is founded on the belief that the …

: Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? | The New Yorker: Haugen, who also released …

: Mark Zuckerberg: “Ship the app” - Internal Tech Emails: If Instagram continues to kick …

: Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute: “It enables dominant firms to extract rents …

: Hyperscalers tying up the world in submarine cables • The Register: Over the past decade, the …

: The Bitter Lesson: We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have …

: The Californian Ideology (1995): Individual freedom is no longer to be achieved by rebelling …

: Drama at OpenWeb, as a new CEO is announced – and the founding CEO says he’s staying | TechCrunch: …

: Israeli podcasters are laughing about genocide.: If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every …

: Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will …

: The Pro-Israel Techies Who Got TikTok Banned: In the aftermath, a group of influential pro-Israel …

: ‘Conquer with love’: Springfield community shows support for Haitian neighbors The …

: ‘It just exploded’: Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about …

: The King - Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter Harris cannot control who endorses her. But her warm …

: Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-year mistake In important ways, Facebook — now Meta — escaped any real …

: I Wish I Didn’t Miss the ’90s-00s Internet | rohan ganapavarapu I wish I was around …

: Plane crashes in to the word trade center. | MetaFilter: A sobering forum from September 11, 2001 …

: Daring Fireball I have so much respect for Cheney. Her father too, but he’s retired… And …

: Trump rally shooting upends Democrats' crisis over Biden candidacy But the second senior House …

: Interesting read: Barack Obama’s social media strategy for his first presidential campaign. …

: Obama’s social networking was the real revolution NYT (2008): More profoundly, while many …

: Reading the news from twenty or thirty years ago, reveals a shocking consistency of exploitation, …

: 65 Cents an Hour – A special report.; Week in Sweatshop Reveals Grim Conspiracy of the Poor - …

: Product Roadmap - Bluesky: We’re currently working on a DM service that will integrate into the …

: France imposes state of emergency, bans TikTok in riot-hit New Caledonia: The unrest flared after …

: Why Twitter Will Endure - NYT (2008): “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been …

: Pluralistic: AI is a WMD (09 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: Fun fact: …

: Meta employees speak out against bias, censoring, and reckless policy at their workplace. Metamates …

: Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally | TechCrunch: Meta confirmed to TechCrunch …

: Why I’m Resigning From The Intercept - Ken Klippenstein: The reason so much of the news media …

: Did you know that we can win? - by Margaret Killjoy: Because there is one thing I can promise every …

: Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network | …

: Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device - MacRumors: Apple today released several …

: My Dinner With Andreessen - The American Prospect I had long kept in the back of my mind as an …

: How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge: “If the Chinese government wants data on …

: 96% Of Hospitals Share Sensitive Visitor Data With Meta, Google, and Data Brokers | Techdirt: …

: This Totally Sucks - by Dave Pell - NextDraft: The internet has long operated according to an …

: Why single vendor is the new proprietary - OpenSource.net Single vendor isn’t a reasonable way to …

: Why single vendor is the new proprietary - OpenSource.net: The second misconception is that …

: When Web and Chaos Theory Meet, The Future Could be Weird (1996: EFF webmaster Tachibana takes it a …

: These protest signs against New Coca-Cola is taking me out.

: No Tech For Genocide Day of Action - April 16: Google workers do not want their labor to power …

: Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (Jan 2024): The honest answer is we have no idea. We have never made any …

: Thought— The concepts of federation and decentralization can be complimentary, but are not …

: Threads no longer available in Turkey following a decision by the Turkish Competition Authority: …

: (Automattic Aquires) Beeper This is a big bet. Automattic is doubling down on chat after their …

: Facebook Knows You Better Than Anyone Else - The New York Times (2015): Given enough data, the …

: Jay Graber: Building Bluesky and a Decentralized Social Media Protocol | Protocol Labs If …

: What is Decentralization? · Field Notes In it’s simplest definition, decentralization is the degree …

: Report from the front: Tonight’s launch of Open Social (2007): Freedom wins, and openness …

: The Boondocks Unaired TV Pilot (2003) - YouTube: “Radio DJ: “You just heard R. …

: Mark Zuckerberg just told Congress to upend the internet - The Verge (2020): If Facebook starts …

: How Cambridge Analytica Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions | NYT 2018: In 2014, you …

: Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch: …

: Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis (25 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily …

: Big Tech Can’t Stop Telling On Itself – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Memos show that …

: Reddit says it is being investigated by the FTC over its AI data licensing programs - Neowin Reddit …

: This is my ADHD playlist. Over the past six months, I’ve carefully curated a collection of …

: Don’t Eat Before Reading This - Anthony Bourdain for The New Yorker (1999): I love the sheer …

: The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s thriving digital music market: Despite that success, and the …

: Threads API to become available to developers in June: The Threads API will let third-party apps …

: Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools: Tumblr employee announced in a Tumblr …

: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - The New York Times (2010): He goes to sleep with a …

: Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads | TechCrunch: The …

: AI.com now forwards to a Youtube video by tech journalist Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). The video is …

: Meta warns it may shut Facebook in Europe but EU leaders say life would be ‘very good’ …

: Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO - Bloomberg: The San Francisco-based …

: Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from …

: Rebuilding corporate reputations | McKinsey (2009): Leveraging existing grassroots support—through …

: Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024) – Cory Doctorow But every pirate …

: Reality TV Is Frugality TV - CBS News (2009) So in this downturn, as Americans are clipping …

: Why Sephora’s attempt to recognize employees fell short: Some research has shown that recognizing …

: Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 – The Public Domain Review The most accurate …

: Full subway breaks out singing Dancing on my own by Robyn Even if I were pre-coffee and grumpy that …

: Re: Elon Musk Had Twins With His Top Neuralink Executive, But They Never Dated — She Explains …

: FAANG (Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google) is an outdated paradigm for how we quantify ownership …

: Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups - The Verge: Even with ActivityPub taking off, …

: What share of all chips are high-end data center AI chips? In 2021, the semiconductor industry …

: Hate to be that guy (i love it) but, The Verge’s attempt to appeal to a younger audience by …

: There’s a growing curiosity and invigorated appreciation for physical buttons. Apple, with its …

: Make A Tiny Raspberry Pi Based Cyberdeck - The DIY Life: cute!

: What Meta’s Fediverse Plans Mean for Threads Users | WIRED: “It really does feel like we’re …

: Netflix Architecture: How Much Does Netflix’s AWS Cost?: Netflix uses AWS for almost …

: Man Is Charged With Killing His Father After Posting Grisly YouTube Video - The New York Times: …

: Propaganda Model According to the theory media operates as a business which sells its products …

: The most beneficial writing habit I’ve acquired is to remember to just write first. When I …

: Critical vulnerability in Mastodon sparks patching frenzy • The Register Using specially crafted …

: Critical vulnerability in Mastodon sparks patching frenzy • The Register “This is one of the …

: The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic Silicon Valley, under the sway of its worst …

: The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic: They tend to hold eccentric beliefs: that …

: Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses - The New York Times I …

: The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic: Recall, too, the company’s secret …

: Is it too late for a Tracy Chapman Fast Car discourse entry? No? Great. The song Fast Car is an …

: Rise of techno-optimism: Silicon Valley backed new political force in America This group — mostly …

: Re: Lindsey Graham Promises To Try To Repeal Section 230 Every Week | Techdirt Color me suspicious …

: What song describes you in the morning? Me:

: Re: A crypto mistake via We keep making the same mistakes with spreadsheets, despite bad …

: There’s a lot of tweets to consider when we think of the all-time greats. But none match the …

: News blogs: why is everyone using ad blockers? 😭 Also news blogs: 🥴

: I would love to see the term Digerati make a comeback to describe the corporate social media …

: In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox @ tonsky.me: You see, people on the Web think conventions are …

: About iMessage Contact Key Verification - Apple Support: iMessage Contact Key Verification …

: I have a question for the #smallweb Rereading The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral – Hapgood …

: Part of my day job is information architecture. I’ve been working towards making it most of …

: Microsoft CEO: AI needs ‘guardrails’ after fake explicit images of Taylor Swift go viral | The Hill: …

: It’s wild looking back at file share with hindsight. In the 80s and 90s, record labels poured …

: Looking to kill a couple hours? Enjoy: List of Internet phenomena - Wikipedia

: Artist trained rats to take selfies to make a point about social media | CBC Radio After the rats …

: Now, AOL Everywhere - The New York Times (1999) on the emergence of broadband internet: Ultimately, …

: Patterns — Gordon Brander: This is my bag of tricks — patterns, rules-of-thumb, tools, cheatsheets, …

: A directory of tumblelogs Stumbled on this beautiful relic. A directory of tumblelogs from 2007. No idea of any of the links …

: Meta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence: External research has pegged Meta’s …

: For my last five or so essays, I’ve settled into this writing process where each morning …

: OpenAI opens the door for military uses but maintains AI weapons ban: On Tuesday, ChatGPT developer …

: A quick rant on that 2023 “leaked” Google memo “We Have No Moat And neither does …

: Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies: On average, each participant in the …

: live laugh blog | 2024: another year of blog on the desktop: there are only 2 good things about …

: What do Threads, Mastodon, and hospital records have in common? | Ars Technica It’s taken a while, …

: The invisible problem – Scott Jenson Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than …

: The History of the Web - The best stories from the web’s history: I have thought a lot about …

: RTÉ’s Dave Fanning initiates defamation case after his photo appeared in article about sexual …

: Re: Here’s a look at what Keynote looks like on Apple Vision Pro. The thing is, this looks fine. …

: Remember NEWT TWITTER? It was born from this tweet: What if we all just migrate over to the same …

: Anything that makes the web feel smaller is good for business. A Social Web browser would be a …

: Threads now lets you transfer your data to Google Drive, except it didn’t work, and now Meta …

: TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund is shutting down - The Verge The creator fund was originally …

: Parker Molloy on Threads screen recorded a Twitter search that appears to show dozens of bots …

: Coca-Cola boycott launched after killings at Colombian plants (2003): The unions claim Coca-Cola …

: Protocols, Not Platforms (2019): The benefits of building a service as a platform are fairly …

: Tim Cook wants Facebook dead and his strategies are working (2020) Vegas casinos famously design …

: Characteristics and prevalence of fake social media profiles with AI-generated faces: We present a …

: Where have all the websites gone?: That’s the question one Twitter user asked this …

: Regarding: Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs I find it odd, borderline infuriating even, how many …

: iCloud+ is lowkey an incredible service. iCloud Drive, Mail, Keychain, Multi-device sync for all my …

: Blogging platforms I’m listing some blog platform recommendations for a friend, so figured I should just make …

: There’s some interesting parallels between the Technocracy movement of the 1930s and 40s, and …

: Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged | The Guardian Nov 2023: The …

: FYI: Will Blocking remain legal for all in the USA? Supreme Court to rule on issue. from Bob Wyman …

: The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia: California Forever aligns …

: Jon Bakos live posting winners of Words of the Year from the American Dialect Society. Here are a …

: From techemails: Holds up spork!

: Thinking about a #Meta pivot to infrastructure, and the subtle physiological effects it would have …

: Let’s grow online greenspace for healthy sociality & mutual aid: tl;dr Now that so many …

: Effective Altruism is fun because billionaires get to claim they’re charitable toward a broken …

: I’m telling ya, buttons are back. People want to feel something. Even if that something is …

: I adore Jeff Goldblum. ADORE. But, whoever thought that a Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalist-type …

: Perhaps I’m biased, but this photo is worthy of an award. This is my grandmother, Juanita, …

: The first and last Time Magazine covers for 1999.

: Do you ever wonder if we’re entering a golden age of blogging? And if so, that maybe …

: EveryoneShouldBlog.txt | the library of alexandra: someone recently commented that their life was …

: ‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter (2021): Amazon has previously used this …

: Bloktoberfest— Some anticlimactic thoughts on blocking: I wrote some drivel on the rising trend of …

: Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit In 2022, privacy researcher …

: New years 2023 It’s funny. One of my favorite pieces this year is called It’s All Bullshit by JS Tan, and it …

: My latest post is currently number one on Hacker News. Mods changed my title, but hey, that’s …

: New Year’s Message: Moving Fast And Breaking Things Is The Opposite Of Tech Optimism | Techdirt You …

: Sometimes I revisit an old bookmarked post to find that the domain now points to an ad farm site, or …

: What do we do with our “please” and “thank you’s”? I find myself thanking ChatGPT when …

: Any typeface weirdos out there? Thinking I might use Public Sans for a new text-heavy website …

: One of my favorite short stories is a press release by the USDA called Custer Wolf is Dead (1921). …

: BlogMix 2023 Wrap-up Vol. 1 For the new year, I’m sharing my favorite bookmarks of 2023 to my …

: Next week, I was planning a big end-of-year links list of my favorite bookmarks. But, that sounds …

: The Cheap Web is one of my favorite things I read all year.

: The Death of Decentralized Email The next major development in email deliverability included the …

: The Medium is The Message is part one of a series (probably). In it, I argue that #Threads is not …

: Mastodon.social links behave differently than other links on Threads: All links posted to Threads …

: Okay, I tried #Ivory for a week, and Mammoth for a day, and I already like #Mammoth better. Shout …

: From Gruber’s App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum: Regular people do …

: Some late snark on Gruber’s Not That Kind of Open The whole point of ActivityPub as an open …

: A few studies conducted by #facebook / #meta I’ve bookmarked over the years: Private traits …

: I have a big gripe with #Mastodon CEO’s letter to anxious minds about #Threads: It’s not …

: Instagram’s #Threads steps into the #Fediverse eighteen days after these two stories dropped: …

: The vibes I get from this are worse than when Kendal got in the car with that waiter from …

: The most popular site on Facebook right now is a… blog? I mean, it’s a Catholic …

: From Sam Altman’s Weird Eyeball Scanning Crypto Tech Comes to Minecraft: If you haven’t heard of …

: Beeper Mini users in iMessage

: I wrote Why is gifting subscriptions so hard? a couple weeks ago. I had an idea to ask my family for …

: He killed something beautiful— This short Twitter in-memoriam happened to be the first thing I …

: From: As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause On Friday, an X …

: From Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec …

: From The Verge, Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app Reached for …

: iAノートブック, the Notebook for Writers: In the iA Notebook, every element is crafted to minimize …

: I’m working on a “boutique search engine” write-up, so I got a little sources …

: From Vice: Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications: …

: Encinitas, California 2021

: Regarding ad blockers: The web wasn’t always for-profit. In fact, it was decidedly free and …

: From the Financial Times: Generative Al is already taking white-collar jobs and wages in the online …

: Anonymous Shopify employee explains how the company is laying off employees in favor of AI tools …

: Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan …

: The hypertext wolf or, a clumsy observation of our social media feeds The shift away from the preverbal “for you”— finite, human-curated— and to towards the …

: PayOnceApps: Curated directory of applications for one time price If they add an iOS section, this …

: From PlayStation’s Legal Department: As of 31 December 2023, due to our content licensing …

: iA Writer 7 keeps you honest iA Writer 7, my favorite writing app, integrates ChatGPT (sort of): The only person that can safely …

: CARI— Frutiger Aero: Term coined by Sofi Lee to describe the corporate tech aesthetic popular from …

: Behind The Bastards six part series on Henry Kissinger is worth the listen. Here’s part one …

: Anthony Bourdain on Henry Kissinger: Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to …

: My wildly embarrassing Apple Music Replay 23'

: Reddit’s new brand identity by Pentagram: Pentagram saw an opportunity to turn Snoo into a …

: It’s All Bullshit by Servizi Multimediali for The Baffjer: Unlike the industrial firms that Marx …

: Reverse-engineering GPTs..: Most GPTs will require a single message to dump all the requested …

: Another “Neo-Braun” design. Mechanical keyboard by Lofree

: Regarding the WSJ Instagram report: r/instagram is full of users expressing concern over …

: Zuckerberg can kiss ‘Hot Zuck Summer’ goodbye by Katie Notopoulos for BI: In the …

: ECHO Dumb Phone Concept by Mike Skuza: Buttons, man. We all just want to feel something again. Even …

: Derek Chauvin stabbed in prison on Black Friday. From AP: Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis …

: From In 2020, Two Thirds of Google Searches Ended Without a Click: From January to December, 2020, …

: I’m using defined tags to filter my public bookmarks. Posts with lots of ads will be tagged as …

: I wanted my micro.blog bookmarks public and filtered, so I did some digging: @sod has a great public …

: November 2023— No Feature by Information Architects: Writing is thinking. iA Writer is designed to …

: Motherfucking website: You. Are. Over-designing. Look at this shit. It’s a motherfucking …

: December 2004— Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times: The rows of …

: Let’s talk about the Dieter Rams-inspired retro tech movement and why this cassete player …

: Just posted a rough draft of my digital content initiative to GitHub. When I say “rough …

: iPhone users: autocorrect and predictive text are horrible iOS 17: what if I interrupt your writing …

: Increasingly fascinated by boutique search engines like Marginalia. Because when was the last at …

: Apple working on 5G MacBooks Well, cellular-powered Macs. 5G is assumed. Unless they use some other technology.. 👀 From …

: A search engine that prioritizes websites with little to no Adsense 😍

: Thinking of ways my micro blog can complement my main site. One idea I like is to use my micro blog …

: My favorite photo. A true moment in time. I miss Atlanta.

: This is an experiment. Frmjsn is a way to enjoy the abilities of dynamic content while keeping my …

: Oh hey. This is my first post on my new frmjsn micro blog located on my site’s subdomain …