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Sara Dietschy’s latest video about AI voice and video clones is really good. Both the technical side and also finding the right balance: using AI sparingly where it fits, recognizing that most content should be created the old-fashioned way. People want to feel a connection with a real human.

Revisiting my tweet import code (see this post) to see what can be optimized. I really hope Twitter / X doesn’t change their export file format anytime soon. May not be worth updating my code again for major changes.

Why are all the people who hate AI so pissy about it.

In the future I will be able to type a post into my blog and people who are following me will see it in their timeline.

Peeve: TV shows or movies that show text messages that are impossible to read even if you stop the video and zoom in.

I plan to ignore Trump for most of the next few years, and I’m not even ready to read the special counsel report yet. But John Gruber’s post rings true to me. We needed a trial to educate voters, to cut through the disinformation. It was a major failure that they didn’t happen. 🇺🇸

[Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge] I think this is the wrong kind of protectionism: "The Biden administration finalized a new rule that would effectively ban all Chinese vehicles from the US under the auspices of blocking the “sale or import” of connected vehi...

Back in 2019 I had the amazing experience of going to CERN and being part of a team building an emulator of the first ever browser. Remy was on the team too. He did the heavy lifting of actually making the thing work—quite an achievement in just five days! Coming into t...

Dave Winer in a longer post collecting thoughts on Matt Mullenweg and other things:

I don’t like that people have called him things like the Mad King. People used to say stuff like that about me. It’s a substitute for trying to understand where someone is coming from.

I’ve adopted the “mad king” phrasing in recent posts about Matt and about Automattic. I just find it amusing, a way to poke fun at the whole drama. I don’t actually think he’s crazy.

Starting up a new TestFlight beta for Micro.blog for iOS. This release will include support for photo collections. You can tap a photo to add it to a collection, or create a new collection in the app.

Do I brag too much or not enough? It occurred to me that Micro.blog might be on the only platform of its kind that has built-in support for exporting content in several different file formats. And multiple APIs to get your data out? JSON, XML-RPC, Micropub. Our commitment to portability is absolute.

I used to use Twitter for middle of the night ideas. These days I use one of Twitter's successors. No telling where my middle of the night missives will appear! 😄 Here's one. "We should be able to tweet from within any application that has the ability to create and edit tex...

🎉 Eight years ago today, the #IndieWeb Webmention protocol was published as a W3C REC https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/ As a social web building block, #Webmention was designed to work with various other building blocks. Small pieces, loosely joined. Every year developers find new ways to work with Webmention, and new subtleties when combined with other building blocks. The primary uses of Webmention, peer-to-peer comments, likes, and other responses across web sites, have long ...

From an article at NPR about what might happen to TikTok when the law goes into effect:

It’s also possible that users will be able to access the app but it may be buggy, operate slowly or crash often, the TikTok official said.

Buggy and crash? I guess it’s possible that if some backend services were shut down it could cause problems for the app. Sounds more like made up nonsense, though, as TikTok scrambles to figure out what to do because they only had literal years notice this might happen.

📍 Checked in at First Unitarian Congregational Society Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY.

Free Our Feeds looks like a sincere effort but it’s a little vague. $30 million is a lot of money to raise via donations. I’d love to see this team communicate in more detail what they want to do.

At the thee-ah-tor!

I posted this to both Bluesky and Mastodon just now.

I see people betting on the idea of federation in Bluesky.

At the same time, we should bet on simplifying Mastodon at scale.

Approach the problem from both directions.

We may need and not have federation in Bluesky at some point.

It couldn't hurt to have a better lifeboat.

This podcast goes into more depth of this idea.

There is a transcript.

I posted this to both Bluesky and Mastodon just now.

I see people betting on the idea of federation in bluesky.

At the same time, we should bet on simplifying Mastodon at scale.

Approach the problem from both directions.

We may need and not have federation in bluesky at some point.

It couldn't hurt to have a better lifeboat.