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Asides for April 19, 2024
April 19, 2024
Some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week: Backdoors are an everyone problem From the OpenJS Foundation:The recent attempted XZ Utils backdoor...
This week's notable links
April 8, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Making version noir This is completely...
72
April 3, 2024
It’s my mother’s birthday. She would be 72 today.The week we lost her, I wrote this piece, which I re-read today.In it, our friend Anita Hurrell remembered...
This week's notable links
April 1, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, by...
Share Openly
March 27, 2024
You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date.Social media has evolved over...
This week's notable links
March 25, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Threads has entered the fediverse "We’re...
Building engineering
March 23, 2024
I’ve spent most of my career — now well over two decades of it — building things on the web. I’ve worked as a software developer, I’ve founded a couple of my...
This week's notable links
March 18, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! The weird world of altruistic YouTube...
Exploring AI, safely
March 13, 2024
I’ve been thinking about the risks and ethical issues around AI in the following buckets:Source impacts: the ecosystem impact of generative models on the...
This week's notable links
March 11, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! AI gives the news you need I can't share...
Some asides
March 8, 2024
These are some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week. Introducing asides I’ve set up a new post type, “asides”, on my site. I’ve been kind of...
Startup pitch: Social VIP
March 8, 2024
Here’s my pitch for a fediverse product for organizations.Think of it as WordPress VIP for the fediverse: a way for organizations to safely build a presence...
This week's notable links
March 4, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! TinyLetter: looking back on the humblest...
Some personal updates
February 29, 2024
I write a lot about the intersection of technology and society here, and lately a lot about AI, but over the last year I’ve written a little less about what...
Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop.
February 28, 2024
404 Media reports that Automattic is planning to sell its data to Midjourney and OpenAI for training generative models:The exact types of data from each...
This week's notable links
February 26, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s...
ASCAP for AI
February 24, 2024
Hunter Walk writes: The checks being cut to ‘owners’ of training data are creating a huge barrier to entry for challengers. If Google, OpenAI, and other...
Stop what you're doing and watch Breaking the News
February 20, 2024
Breaking the News, the documentary about The 19th, aired on PBS last night and is available to watch for free on YouTube for the next 90 days.It’s both a...
This week's notable links
February 19, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces again...
Social, I love you, but you’re bringing me down
February 19, 2024
This weekend I realized that I’m kind of burned out: agitated, stressed about nothing in particular, and peculiarly sleepless. It took a little introspection...
This week's notable links (really)
February 12, 2024
Earlier today you received a weekly notable links email with exactly one link in it. As it turns out, this was a bug with my newsletter service provider,...
This week's notable links
February 12, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Who makes money when AI reads the...
A creative process
February 11, 2024
Over on Threads, Amanda Zamora asks:I'm plotting away on Agencia Media and some personal writing/reporting this weekend (over a glass of 🍷 and many open...
This week's notable links
February 5, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Zuckerberg's Going to Use Your Instagram...
Three variations on Omelas
February 4, 2024
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K. LeGuin:They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are...
The four phases
February 3, 2024
This post is part of February’s IndieWeb Carnival, in which Manuel Moreale prompts us to think about the various facets of digital relationships.Our...
Stripping the web of its humanity
January 30, 2024
I tried Arc Search, the new mobile app from the Browser Company. Its central insight is that almost every mobile browsing session starts with a web search;...
This week's notable links
January 29, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George...
The indieweb is for everyone
January 27, 2024
Tantek Çelik has posted a lovely encapsulation of the indieweb:The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of...
The right to see who is spying on us
January 26, 2024
CNN reports that the NSA has been buying internet data as a way to track Americans without a warrant:[Oregon Democratic Senator Ron] Wyden, one of Congress’...
This week's notable links
January 22, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! How The Guardian raised a record amount...
This week's notable links
January 15, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Why return-to-office mandates fail "My...
The fediverse for media organizations
January 14, 2024
Given all the talk lately of Threads, Mastodon, and ways that people can publish on their own sites, I thought it might be worth revisiting what the...
Running your own site is painful. Hosting Nazis is worse
January 12, 2024
I’ve spent much of my career telling organizations that they should publish in a space that they control, on their own domain name.My usual argument is that...
This week's notable links
January 8, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's...
45 wishes
January 7, 2024
Previous birthday posts: 44 thoughts about the future, 43 things, 42 / 42 admissions, 41 things.This post is in partial answer to Matt Mullenweg’s birthday...
My favorite books I read in 2023
January 4, 2024
I don’t want to call these the best books I read last year: I read plenty of other well-written, worthy contenders. But these six titles are the ones that...
Notable links: December 31st, 2023
January 1, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! 10 blogs for your newsreader I really...
Looking forward to 2024
December 31, 2023
Let’s get this out of the way first: 2024 is going to be a hard year across the board. Mass layoffs, another hottest year on record, escalating conflicts...
Looking back at 2058
December 30, 2023
2058 was many things: the hottest year in recorded history, a year when civil rights protests made national news in the face of deepening inequality, and...
Notable links: December 26, 2023
December 26, 2023
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. (It's a light week because of the holidays.) Did I miss something? Let me...
Leaving the Nazi bar
December 23, 2023
Newsletter subscribers might be surprised to see a slightly new design. I’ve moved away from Substack and back to Buttondown, an indie mailing list service....
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