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We wonder often if what is created by AI has any value, and at what cost to artists and creators. These are important considerations. But we need to also wonder what AI is taking from what has already been created.

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Robin takes a fair and balanced look at the ethics of using large language models.

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If only political reporters had the same knowledge of their subject as sports reporters do.

Amazing post from @heyloura about using Micro.blog’s private notes API. Personally I’m using notes more and more, often for posts that could be drafts but where my thoughts aren’t really put together yet.

NPR article on immigrants in Chicago skipping care because of fear of ICE raids. I expect nurses all over the country have heartbreaking stories like this. And it’ll just exacerbate problems in our upside down health care system since everyone is worse off when people who are sick can’t get treated.

[Social Web Foundation] The Social Web Foundation has joined the W3C: "SWF joins CDT as one of the few civil society organizations that comprise the Consortium. SWF’s membership in the W3C underscores our commitment to promoting an open and federated social ...

Cool to see hints that Tumblr is continuing with the WordPress backend transition. TechCrunch:

Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via ActivityPub, just as every WordPress.com user can today.

Ben Werdmueller adds:

Given the long tail of ActivityPub and the simultaneous rise of Bluesky, which is connected to the ActivityPub network via Bridgy Fed, the future of the open social web is very bright.

Now I wonder if Automattic pulling folks from WordPress core has actually made more time for Tumblr.

Wrapped up coding on a couple new fediverse settings that will ship in Micro.blog tomorrow. I’ll have a full blog post about it. There wouldn’t be much point in having our own ActivityPub implementation if we didn’t do things a little differently than Mastodon. See also: IndieWeb monoculture.

I’ve been wanting to score an FP for a long time. Well shipped and in generally functional shape. My first typewriter of 2025 and the first since the Eaton Fire.   

Ich war dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal auf der #FOSDEM, hauptsächlich weil @evan und @andypiper (im Dunstkreis der Social Web Foundation) mehrere Fediverse-(Sub-)Events organisiert haben: Es war überwältigend, so viele Menschen zu treffen, die sich mit dem gleichen Thema beschäftigen. Ich habe nicht oft die Gelegenheit, mit Gleichgesinnten zu fachsimpeln, und habe die kurze Zeit […]

I’ve linked to magician Dani DaOrtiz before and this new video from him is so good too. His style just makes me happy. A master with cards and misdirection.

First, the New Republic is beginning to think like Musk and Trump. But they have to think a bit more and ask how does this all tie together? Remember you have to consider what would normally be unthinkable. And believe that Trump isn't actually president of the United State...

If you depend on not considering the unthinkable in 2025 then you aren't really thinking.

Loved this blog post by Robin Sloan on whether AI is okay. The subject is complicated and deserves longer posts like this. It’s a whole new thing. It’s not definitely good or bad. The part about writing code also resonated with me: I think the case of code is especiall...

From time to time, people ask me if they can use the content of my posts in another venue or another format. To make that possible, today I released all the text of all my posts under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You’ll s...

Great post at Daring Fireball about Fox’s new scorebug, with relevant points for a lot of design:

I say Fox’s new scorebug is better, and raised a ruckus only because it’s so much better that what most viewers noticed is only that it’s so different.

Also covered on today’s episode of Dithering.

[Oneofthelibrarians at LibrarianShipwreck] Some advice about how to survive this era from LibrarianShipwreck, one of my most favorite blogs on the planet: "So, uh, it’s pretty bad out there! You are probably trying to figure out what the hell to do about it....

A note to users of feedland.org and feedland.com. We'll be turning the servers off sometime before the end of March. I haven't chosen the actual date yet. In the meantime, it's very easy to download a copy of your subscription list. You can also run your own FeedLand. I started a thread on the support site if you have questions, remember the comment guidelines. I've learned a lot from the experience of running FeedLand this way, looking forward to trying some other configurations. 😄