HUMOR IS A RELEASE

Our first-ever dev/ai/nyc event was one for the books! Here are some of our favorite snaps featuring @ma.tt, @borthwick.com, and NYC’s boldest tinkerers and brightest minds in applied AI. Here’s to the next one! 🎉

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

Mark your calendars for dev/ai/nyc, a new monthly AI-focused gathering in the big 🍎. On Wednesday, Nov. 5, we’re kicking things off with a fireside chat from @ma.tt and @borthwick.com. Plus drinks, light bites, and great conversation.

Congratulations to Ari, Conrad + team. @betaworks.com was fortunate work with them again ~ they are GOAT's at crafting cross OS experiences As @viticci.macstories.net says this is an experience that "floats" on your desktop helps you think, create and get things done. Have been using and liking!

Monday, a conversation with Mark Borthwick & Lola Dement Myers ​looking back and forward, discussing Mark's new book. Excited for Mark join us at @betaworks.com Join: luma.com/k7x2nnsq Book, 'Out of Date' Pola Pan from 1984-1996: www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...

Red by Mark Rothko, 1968 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137899

@skylight.social needs feeds? @graze.social has 'em - already. Need an integration on @leaflet.pub to add an RSVP widget? Use @smokesignal.events. Every integration confers squared benefits to the ecosystem, not linear improvements in isolation. The ecosystem moves faster *every day*, together.

If you want to understand why the ATmosphere is going to be the movement to watch, read this thread. Standout line: "Every integration confers squared benefits to the ecosystem"

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

You can just do things

Looking forward to this conversation with Karen, ps: that picture of me ain't real, but what is today? Assume we will touch on that and other topics

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Enjoyed @maggieappleton.com "Metaphors We Web By". Along side "pages" and "spaces", streams have become a key metaphor for the web. Would add streams to the short list. And since LLMs reflect a deep understanding of those metaphors…

betaworks fall Camp: AI + Interfaces. Wanted, founders reimagining how humans experience AI. First deadline this friday, two companies already accepted. Details on why, what and how👇 render.betaworks.com/apply-to-bet...

Heard @karenhao.bsky.social on hiddenforces.io -- looking forward to reading the book

Today’s demo day for the AI app layer camp @betaworks.com ! We’ve had such a fun and inspiring few weeks here. Grateful for the experience and excited for what’s ahead!

Nice brilliant founders on right now betaworks demo day / focus on ai App layer. Including @graze.social ! Details www.upstartsmedia.com/p/where-9-st...

At @betaworks this weekend we’ve got robot arms, 3D printers, nicole ripka and Kriser shah wrangling hackers and robots. Thanks to @huggingface.bsky.social @alleycorp.bsky.social @upfrontvc.bsky.social Details see > robothackathon.com

After hundreds of discussions with founders about how Ai changes the way they build this discussion with Gabriella and Nim and @ridd-design.bsky.social stands out -- tis packed with insights about how to be building for tomorrow & the changing role of designers: share.snipd.com/episode/2f69...

Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...

This interview w / Sarah Wynn-Williams covers a lot about Facebook ~ it's the China/CCP collaboration that surprised me. Didnt realize 11% of META's revenues last year's came from China -- "operating but not operating in China" remarkable. share.snipd.com/episode/28db...

Good article by Jared Dunnmon on the importance of OS and an open tech stack to drive innovation and continued US leadership in AI. Deepseek V3 was overplayed but the importance of OS and investment in the ecosystem in the west was underplayed www.foreignaffairs.com/china/real-t...

Building Granola: great discussion w/ Chris Pedregal packed with ideas about how to build a natively AI app experiences. Reminded me of t4t day @betaworks in 2022 Alice, @thesephist.com and Chris talked about this. My notes on Episode n clips: share.note.sx/m3q3hsmk#RIr...

PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY DO UNLESS THEY ARE INSANE

THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION IS AN ADOLESCENT FANTASY

Musk at CPAC ... "freedom is priceless" 5 mins later talking about Ukraine says "what are they dying for, what exactly are they dying for?" Do words not matter to him? I think not. I think what he is saying is that in his world order freedom isn't worth it for Ukraine

This past week opened an opportunity for Europe to reshape itself. Discussions between Russia and the US wont end in a peace agreement -- rather a ceasefire. It will take a while and will get signed by Putin and Trump in Riyadh, with maximum theater and minimal commitments --May 8th, is my bet

Trying Granola iOS beta. Used it at a large dinner this week and then at an event with 20 or so people. Summaries useful but what was killer was the ability to ask questions.. ABG: Always be Granola'ing.

Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401

Discussion at @betaworks.com about how Ai is transforming hardware with @minafahmi.bsky.social @vishalkumar-london.bsky.social Drew Winget and David Easnaghi. Discussion started on hardware and human machine interfaces and end with Michael Levin and digital life

Dick Parsons, was a giant of a man. First person I met with a true photographic memory -- always believed there is a way to get people to talk to one another & figure things out. Asked him why was he the right person to run Time Warner said "cause, Im tall". RIP. readwise.io/reader/share...

Going to adopt this as my new strategy.

Lol -- Wish I could write like Josh: "Trump has sewn himself into a sack ... a cat and a snake ... tossed into the Tiber. That's the story" Was wondering where JD was?

Drones. Isn't it possible drones swarming around NJ and the east coast are experiments in weather modification + cloud seeding?

Thanks, that was easy Just changed my 🦋 handle to a custom domain

Remarkable automaton. I rarely write by hand any longer, this has "40 rotating cams that essentially work like a Read-only (ROM) data storage" fascinating craft work: www.messynessychic.com/2018/02/21/t...

Opening of Luna Luna -- the Amusement Park designed by Artists back in 1987, lost and shelved for almost 40 years just opened in New York. Haring, Basquiat, Lichtenstein .. Hockney. At the Shed. It's fun, worth the visit

I am a believer in dangers. - Jean-Michel Basquiat