The U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement has allowed ships to begin crossing through the Strait of Hormuz. But tensions over the terms of transit and slow progress in negotiations remain. Read evaluations from CSIS experts about the ongoing situation: https://bit.ly/4ayrebj

This is what I’m going to take away from yesterday‘s 250th birthday of our country. Fuck you Donald Trump and your white nationalist cult for making an Independence Day nazi march on our nations capital a reality!

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher site… Telegram AI Digest #ai #news

v0.9.36 is released! Thank you to @apex.atproto.ceo for updating the default models, @cameron.stream for tool use defaults, and @astrra.space for surfacing a routing and trust-verification bug. Should hit your clients in the next few hours!

well this is a great idea

We're live on @atstore.fyi! Go give us a review 🚀

Buying Reddit To Win AI Citations Is The New Link Farm Bought Reddit citations will be filtered the way Penguin filtered bought links. The only strategy that compounds on the agentic web is being real. #seo #smm

Ukraine has markedly stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months, aiming to cut Moscow's revenue for its invasion — now in its fifth year — and make Russians feel the consequences. https://to.pbs.org/4asdAq2

Fidelity Investments data shows that during the majority of Trump’s second term, average 401(k) account balances have risen by $9,454, or about one-third of the $30,000 figure Trump cited. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/440MCCo

President Trump’s major construction projects in Washington could cost taxpayers and donors more than $1 billion, a New York Times analysis shows.

We’ve been talking to @devingaffney.com about making it work for our use case / having the ZAI project work with the @cocore.dev lexicons. Needs groups & permissioned data, which we might be able to prototype with @happyview.dev

Tool call support work for @cocore.dev is happening here: github.com/just-cameron... Got gemma4 to call a few tools already.

In a new and engaging deep dive, Anubhab Banerjee zooms in on how "a tiny C++ daemon" can run three LLMs on an 8-year-old graphics card.

AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work - ⁦‪@axios #AI www.axios.com/2026/06/25/c...

The practice of platform strategy is something of a lost art in the world of technology products, but it's a skillset we may need to revive for the battle against the harms of Big AI. Here's a look at how we can do exactly that: www.anildash.com/2026/06/23/f...

Was having a convo with a friend about programming LLMs / agents and had a great one-liner for us "olds": "Bet on the web, don't bet on Netscape." Meaning - build your systems to be model agnostic (or at least model tolerant). Do NOT build your system for Anthropic or OpenAI.

Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Corporate media won't directly report on Trump's deteriorating mental state, but at least they'll do reporting on his accusations that make it clear he's deteriorating mentally.

“While Google still dominates the search market, users are increasingly turning to "No-AI search" alternates. The trend picked up speed in the weeks since Google I/O, where the search giant announced it would be putting more AI in the forefront.” cnb.cx/4eyRGm8

A lot of things are bad but it is funny that the crypto scam has been suffering mightily under Trump, all the deep-pocket speculators have moved on to AI.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure from members of his own Labour Party to set out a timetable to resign as the country’s leader. Get the latest updates.

What does "web-based" actually mean in 2026? While pondering that, the Web 2.0 cliche "the web is made of people" came to mind, a saying that perhaps derived from the 1973 dystopian movie Soylent Green. Some Friday musings from an ol' webhead just trying to keep it real... ricmac.org/2026/06/19/t...

People helping people. It reminds me of SETI@Home.

I’m still on a bit of a high for this. Bolts didn’t exist four and a half years ago, and now it’ll be in the canon of the Supreme Court — you don’t have to tell me what to think of SCOTUS, but it’s the cool feeling of how far you’ve come.

Thinking about the new Mastodon collections, it reminded me that we have blogrolls on Micro.blog that don’t get enough attention. Today I improved a few things with adding blog recommendations, including a search across other platforms if you don’t have the URL for someone handy.

Trump’s name is officially off the Kennedy Center, despite hiding it behind a tarp That’s the win @democracydefendersaction.org @WLG & the brave @repbeatty.bsky.social fought for Hiding compliance from the public isn’t transparency…it’s an admission of incompetence they couldn’t quite conceal👇 -TN

“How to Post to Mastodon and Threads from Bluesky From your Bluesky (or other ATProto) account, search for the username, “@ap.brid.gy” and follow that account. Once you do, the account will follow you back and you’ll be bridged, so people can follow you from Mastodon or other Fediverse accounts.”

The 2026 Social Web Operations Survey is open. If you're operating a platform, managing a community, or moderating content, this needs assessment is designed for you. Your feedback helps protect every independent social web community builder. Take part here: ➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k

Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."

Have you ever wanted to use Cursor and not have your prompts run in Elon's data centers? Now you can use co/core to run that same work on some random person's extra computer!

The New Election Threat: For years we have worried about election disinformation spreading through social media, but now it's coming through search. (@willrobinson1776.bsky.social and @timothychambers.net) willrobinson.substack.com/p/a-scottish...

$300 billion for reconstruction, a termination of all U.S. sanctions against Iran, and — for 60 days — no charge for commercial vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. See reactions to the U.S./Iran memorandum of understanding in @timothychambers.net's Surf feed. surf.social/feed/surf%2F...

lmao- try the smallest model? I'm running it on my mac air and its not too upset with me

I'm still getting my head around how this would actually work: "co/core is a place where people share the compute they already own to run AI for each other, instead of renting from a handful of giant providers. It's an experiment in inference we build, share, and own together — and… 🧵 1/4

And paired with it, a @leaflet.pub!

Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team

Just launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe

Fully endorse: "A different choice is possible, but it requires that those of us building alternatives actually believe what we say about cooperation. It means assuming good faith from people building different projects..." hachyderm.io/@haubles/116...

Really good thinking here from my friends at GLAAD. Highly recommended read for everyone. "If AI fails LGBTQ people, it fails everyone. Companies must continue to work to improve AI equity, counter bias, and strengthen the safety and quality of AI products for LGBTQ people and for everyone."

Today GLAAD released “Build for Everyone,” our first comprehensive report on LGBTQ Responsible AI. It’s a roadmap for building AI that actually works for LGBTQ people — and everyone: glaad.org/2026-ai-repo...

Or even: 'build a classifier for political content, and add a module to our dashboard that measures its prevalence on a random sample of live data.' You can now measure anything on your platform, anytime. 🧵 5/6

We just released a Zentropi skill that lets your AI agent build its own content classifiers. You describe what you want to catch, it writes the initial policy, benchmarks it on real samples, and ships a working labeler - accurate, cheap, and fast! Install it at github.com/zentropi-ai/... 🧵 1/6

This is really interesing, from Trevor Perrin, the co-creator of Signal: encryptedspaces.org

Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger rebuffed Trump's demand that he "find votes" in 2020. But in today’s GOP runoff to replace him, both candidates have echoed Trump’s rhetoric about voter fraud.

Maryland’s top Democrats are preparing to call a special session next month to put a redistricting amendment before voters in November, a move that could give the state a new path to answer the nationwide GOP gerrymandering plot pushed by Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Video labelers are available to Zentropi subscribers today, but let me know if you want to give it a try. We want all platforms to have access to first class tools for video classification. [5/5]

Every feed I run is currently on @graze.social. Graze provides me with phenomenal infrastructure, free of charge; you can also use it, today, to remix my feeds so they're customised for your news reading needs. If every 📰 News feed user chipped in $1 /mo., it would fund the whole feed ecosystem.

The same policy-steerable classifier we built for text and images now applies to video. You can use our tools to write your own policy for video, optimize it according to your data, and deploy it live. Your rules finally rule. [4/n]

The UFC event on the South Lawn of the White House was a dystopian low for the presidency, the capital and the country. But what are its broader implications? What solutions exist? My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

The MOU is just eight pages of Iran saying “stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself”