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I wrote a draft post about billionaires and the open web a couple months ago, and the couple folks I mentioned it too have told me not to post it. Good advice. So instead I’m working on a long blog post about Sam Altman, a topic which can’t be at all controversial. 🤪

Tickets are available to The Talk Show Live from WWDC. No Apple execs as guests this year. John Gruber:

This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined.

I’m excited about this. It’s good to mix it up and get some different perspectives.

From yesterday, at the Texas State Capitol.

Looked at Threads for the first time in months. I haven’t missed it. I’m glad we have automatic cross-posting to Threads from Micro.blog, but I don’t personally need it and I rarely hear from people who use it. Maybe it works perfectly, or maybe other folks have lost interest in Threads too.

This is the 92nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Sebastián Monía and his blog, site.sebasmonia.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in y...

Steve Klabnik blogs about how AI views online have become extreme and frustrating to read:

What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true.

I’ve been following the news of late, and it is particularly depressing. Professionally, one of the things I hate the most is that philosophy of tearing everything down and then figuring out how to rebuild it, instead of coming up with a thoughtful and well researched plan and then slowly and deliberately implementing it. Not even getting into their views on why or what should replace it, the current US administration seems to want to tear everything down instead of coming up with a plan and then carefully executing.

My interview with Kagi founder Vladimir Prelovac is now up! You can listen on the web or subscribe to Timetable wherever you get your podcasts.

Thursday session

📗 Want to read Not Here, Not Now by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ISBN: 9780262049665

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In many ways I’m a terrible sys admin. For the last couple years I’ve been dealing with ballooning memory usage in Redis, confused, and only now have finally taken some time to understand it. I’ve been running a cleanup script for the last week that has trimmed memory from 45 GB to 16 GB. Whew!

Manu Moreale has some thoughts and skepticism about how AI and web browsers are going to mix: We all yelled and screamed because the web has too many gatekeepers, we all lamented Google search results going to shit, and we all celebrated when new search engines were coming ...

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