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Dave Winer reflects on the passing of Om Malik too young, and the work left to do for the open web.

Reuters on Anthropic’s IPO filing:

Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its ​IPO that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same ‌technology.

Yawn. There will be hacks and there will be other big problems, but I’m increasingly of the opinion that the risk to humanity is 0%. We are resilient and won’t be wiped out by robots. I’m so burned out on the extreme rhetoric.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be careful. Of course we should. OpenAI scrapping GPT-6.1 over safety is a good sign.

My OpenClaw server mostly just sits there idle, but one thing I love is it automatically updates Micro.blog’s latest app versions help page. It checks what the current shipped version is and also if there’s an app in review. I still maintain the release notes by hand, for now.

You only have one mortal body. There’s only so much one body can use. After a certain point you either realize this and adjust as best you can, or you make a big mess of everything.

Today is the day we on the web remember Om Malik. September 29 is his birthday. Om died on June 24 at the ridiculous age of 59. I knew Om for many years, he was an early blogger, a user of our software who stayed close, and gave us great advice about where to take it. Lat...

Bummed to hear that Brightline is filing for bankruptcy:

For months, the company has been grappling with an unsustainable $5.5 billion debt load even while the passenger operations have become profitable. Now, a restructuring plan led by a major municipal-bond insurer appears poised to push the Fortress Investment Group-backed rail network into court to reorganize its deeply distressed balance sheet.

Hopefully they can restructure and keep moving forward. We need the Vegas line finished and new rail in Texas.

After a reminder from @danielpunkass, I’m playing with Automattic’s Spacefast again. Honestly don’t love the name, but what they’ve created is fascinating. Agent-first publishing, very complete API too. Clever onboarding that I could learn from.

I didn't follow baseball this year, I couldn't get it up for the Mets while I was trying to process what the Knicks did for NY in June. The Mets did something like that, but they never could unite the city the same way the Knicks did, because the Mets have always been the se...

the age of the story.

nights lost in darkness.

In defense of the girliest programming language.

I was pleasantly surprised to find a blog post of mine quoted in this article.

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I was listening to a cover of Taylor Swift’s Babylon and, almost immediately, something other than the melody stood out: the resonance of the notes. This sounds familiar. The recording reminded me of the sound my grandparents’ piano made when I would play it as a kid. I sat ...

Last month I moved away from using the Ghost CMS to publish pages and posts on my website. I made the move because I realised I was maintaining more than I really needed to make my site work. I had to manage Ghost (and keep it updated) and an intermediary endpoint to which G...

The twenty-first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 21, I chat with Joel, the author of joelchrono.xyz about, among other things, writing about video games, weeknotes, homepage and website design, and more.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

The low clouds glowed with shades of lavender as I opened the window to see the first colours of Day. A field in the distance, yellow from harvest and the drier weather, is coated in a blanket of cool fog; in front of the trees are an almost-but-not-quite transparent haze, m...

Looking south from Crystal Pier this morning. Life and death at the shore. Today in some big surf I made a miscalculation. I was moving to a different spot in the surf lineup–the informal order of surfers in the water–and I accidentally got in the way of a surfer taking off on a wave. We...

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