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This is what I really accomplished in the years of work I did on the early web. I created something that could be built into a large successful company with millions of customers, and the web got a writing system, and because the people running it took the responsibility seriously, it has lasting value. As the say, still to this day, the systems I designed so many years ago work exactly as they did then. That's what the web was supposed to do. If my mom was still with us, I'd ask her to put this on the fridge. It's as good a review as I've ever gotten. My guess is that Matt wrote it, btw. He's really the only one in WordPress-land who can say something like this, imho.

58pct of internet households intentionally use AI Are they all awful humans ? Ignorant ? Or ?

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What a wild week in space news! We were all set to discuss Starship Test Flight 12 and NASA's recent press conference updating their lunar base plans, when on Thursday night, Blue Origin lost a New Glenn rocket on the pad during a static test. The explosion appears to have ...

Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO undercarriage and a new little members-only feature for the Rolodex: a simple list of links to the latest posts from Rolodex sites. (Click on “Latest Posts”; like I said, it’s a wee feed reader.)

Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent.

The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.

Pope Releases Encyclical On Perils Of Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Strategy. “I fear for what horrors the fan base might soon endure, but I would be negligent not to give Andor its flowers.”

In 2018, during a sabbatical from work, I quit Facebook after 10 years on the platform. I made a concentrated effort to unplug for the first few weeks of my time off and just never returned to Facebook, which had become pretty toxic, at least my timeline. My usage of Twitter started to fade even […]

Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan. Truly bizarre, and I mean that in a good way. 📚

@dave You don’t have much to say about Mastodon or the Fediverse anymore. Have you given up on them in favor of Bluesky, Wordpress, Twitter and of course the web and RSS?

Soon-to-be-laid-off Meta contractors say they’re being treated differently than Mark Zuckerberg’s full-time employees, who stand to receive more generous severance packages.

Radiohead’s OK Computer reimagined as Nintendo 64 songs, featuring reworked sounds from Mario Kart, Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye 007, and more.

I love AI. I love what it lets me do in software development, in design, in writing. It has opened doors I genuinely never thought I’d walk through. That’s not a talking point — it’s just true, and I’m done softening it to make it more palatable. I know some of you hate it. I […]

Politics doesn’t have to feel like something punching you in the face every time you check the news. We can come together around big, common-sense ideas that most Americans agree on.

Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.

Writers have problems. Writers win prizes. Writers play ping-pong, think other writers are their friends. Writers write baseball novels. Writers write war novels. Writers write about the South. Writers make music. Writers draw. Writers take pictures of their desks. Writers s...

TL;DR: A week that felt like nothing but Star Trek shitposts. Underneath that: two videos about being a nervous introvert, a serious darkwave bender, and an unreasonable craving for a Junji Ito horror-manga cardigan. About on brand, honestly.

Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email 50-50 chance of a newsletter next week. Might be too busy preparing for the Cleveland visit. Still waiting to hear whether Seattle’s Mayor and Washington’s Governor are […]

Andor loves a good monologue. Among the best of them is Nemik’s Manifesto: Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. And Kino Loy’s speech to his fello...