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As schools debate the merits of smartphones during school hours, the ABSOLUTELY should be rethinking how they manage the near monopooly of Chromebooks being offered to kids - massively subsidized by Google as an onramp to kid using Google Docs, YouTube, etc ad-infinimtum. Li...

As schools debate the merits of smartphones during school hours, the ABSOLUTELY should be rethinking how they manage the near monopooly of Chromebooks being offered to kids - massively subsidized by Google as an onramp to kid using Google Docs, YouTube, etc ad-infinimtum. Li...

As schools debate the merits of smartphones during school hours, the ABSOLUTELY should be rethinking how they manage the near monopooly of Chromebooks being offered to kids - massively subsidized by Google as an onramp to kid using Google Docs, YouTube, etc ad-infinimtum. Li...

As schools debate the merits of smartphones during school hours, the ABSOLUTELY should be rethinking how they manage the near monopooly of Chromebooks being offered to kids - massively subsidized by Google as an onramp to kid using Google Docs, YouTube, etc ad-infinimtum. Li...

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I think “AGI” or Artifical General Intelligence will be like nuclear fusion, perpetually 5 to 10 years away. “Ask someone in AI for their timeline, and they’ll tell you when they expect the arrival of AGI—artificial general intelligence—which is sometimes defined as AI techn...

I think “AGI” or Artifical General Intelligence will be like nuclear fusion, perpetually 5 to 10 years away. “Ask someone in AI for their timeline, and they’ll tell you when they expect the arrival of AGI—artificial general intelligence—which is sometimes defined as AI techn...

Sunday, May 31, 2026 The purpose of standards is interop. That's it. No other purpose. # Just watched the first episode of Star City, really good. Somewhat like The Americans, but takes place in the USSR. A spinoff of For All Mankind, which started out interesting and the...

I’m experimenting with this UX: Saw the post that BlueSky is now supporting longer form articles using Standard.site. Which I thinks is only good. But might it become “double plus good” if this same UX could make it so that posts that were say 500 characters, or more authored on one platform, could “POSSE” over to Bluesky in this new Standard.site mode and not just look like a link card, but as as a decent microblog post with the rest of the thread continuing in the full article.

Not sure it will work well from a user expectation level, but worth a try.

Here is an article about the new support for longer form articles on Bluesky: https://atproto.com/blog/standard-site-bluesky-timeline

I’m experimenting with this UX: Saw the post that BlueSky is now supporting longer form articles using Standard.site. Which I thinks is only good. But might it become “double plus good” if this same UX could make it so that posts that were say 500 characters, or more authored on one platform, could “POSSE” over to Bluesky in this new Standard.site mode and not just look like a link card, but as as a decent microblog post with the rest of the thread continuing in the full article.

Not sure it will work well from a user expectation level, but worth a try.

Here is an article about the new support for longer form articles on Bluesky: https://atproto.com/blog/standard-site-bluesky-timeline

I’m experimenting with this UX: Saw the post that BlueSky is now supporting longer form articles using Standard.site. Which I thinks is only good. But might it become “double plus good” if this same UX could make it so that posts that were say 500 characters, or more authored on one platform, could “POSSE” over to Bluesky in this new Standard.site mode and not just look like a link card, but as as a decent microblog post with the rest of the thread continuing in the full article.

Not sure it will work well from a user expectation level, but worth a try.

Here is an article about the new support for longer form articles on Bluesky: https://atproto.com/blog/standard-site-bluesky-timeline

After doing a couple of private workshops on how to use #Mastodon, I've decided I could just record a series of tutorials and have everyone benefit from it. Mastodon has a lot of features, and sometimes even long time users aren't aware of all of them! The first episode is about making posts on Mastodon--going over every aspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCQsRNt9pqg

Watched: Marty, Life Is Short. Surprisingly I didn’t really know that much about Martin Short’s early career. Nice the way they mixed in footage from home movies too. 📺

My thanks to exe.dev for sponsoring last week at DF (with a very cool graphic ad — just love the way it looks). exe.dev is a cloud for the agent era — it gives you a pool of VMs with SSH, root, and web auth by default. Secrets injected at the network edge stay out of the LLM’s hands. Persistent servers, internal tools, vibe coding, disposable devboxes, whatever. You can share your web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc, and your VMs share CPU/RAM — you pay for underlying resources, not per VM.

It’s just a computer.

Location: The California Theatre, San Jose
Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm)
Special Guest(s): For sure
Price: $45

The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you should come. You’ll even enjoy the prelude, mingling with fellow DF readers and listeners.

Also: at least one sponsorship slot is still available. If you’ve got a product or service you’d like to see me promote at the start of the show, shoot me an email.

The purpose of standards is interop. That's it. No other purpose.

Just watched the first episode of Star City, really good. Somewhat like The Americans, but takes place in the USSR. A spinoff of For All Mankind, which started out interesting and then became unwatchable, though I did enjoy the sets on Mars. I also liked the character who was inspired by Elon Musk, obviously.

Mark Gurman, on Twitter/X (XCancel link)

Kelsey Peterson, the Apple AI employee who introduced the never-launched Siri revamp in 2024, just started at OpenAI — so we’ll be getting someone new next month for Attempt 2 at WWDC.

Pretty sure we were going to get someone different for the second crack at a next-gen Siri introduction at WWDC no matter what. If they had made a Titanic II, they would have hired someone new to host the christening.

A Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published a book about the way crowds lose their minds. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) catalogued tulip speculation, alchemy, the South Sea Bubble, witch hunts, and the slow-burn lunacy of people who grow so attached to an idea that they

Dell, Microsoft, and others are unveiling new laptops to compete directly with the Neo, but not all are learning the right lessons from Apple.