Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Yup. I'm all in on local models. Haven't totally stopped using cloud models, but massively reduced my reliance on them...

Progressivism focused on hating corporations over actually understanding the technology and more importantly why people feel compelled and are being compelled to hurt people . Leads to this. The populism always ends up boiling down to being our hero over enabling our agency

News: The Onion is launching the new Infowars July 2. After years of legal wrangling and months of maneuvering by Alex Jones's lawyers to block its takeover, the Sandy Hook families are finally getting their first check... from The Onion. www.ms.now/news/onion-s...

What if AI's data economy was built on consent instead of extraction? Mozilla Data Collective is creating a marketplace where communities control how their data is used, shared, and monetized. Trust may become one of AI's most valuable resources. siliconangle.com/2026/06/13/m...

til w social client became closed source; a lil concerning since some high level eu officials moved to w instead of eurosky, might be the start of a "big tech but eu" trend from W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty by @elenarossini.com

I’ve been musing since, and if the gov were serious about this ban (LOL), they could’ve partnered with, say, Wix, and given every young person 3 domain names and some kind of media hosting plan so they could make their own networks of stuff. Call it Great British Geocities if they must. But no.

SCOOP: In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...

dead funny but also painfully accurate

EXACTLY what everyone wants to hear right now thenextweb.com/news/carney-...

Always brilliant @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

News tends to treat technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid. To better navigate the future, we need to imagine what might come next.

don't forget that there are droves of folks that care and are building towards a better future for everyone, but our comms tools are constantly bombarding us with the worse of humanity instead of celebrating them

Honored that the legendary @agreenberg.bsky.social wrote about our project for @wired.com. Read his story and then go to www.encryptedspaces.org to learn even more. 😎

and hey *not a substack*

Project site to go deeper: encryptedspaces.org

🚨Open Social Web people - you should know about new project released today - Encrypted Spaces. The privacy and security of @signal.org , but for collaboration and community. Congrats to everyone involved. @wired.com coverage:

Developers from Signal (including its protocol's co-creator) along with Microsoft and Harvard unveil Encrypted Spaces, an open-source codebase for a new generation of private collaboration apps. Think Slack, Discord, Google Docs, all end-to-end encrypted. www.wired.com/story/signal...

If you are wondering about all the (open, free) tech that is needed to build something like Sifa... ... there's a page for that: sifa.id/credits

Chrome extension now available! Now that they're both published I can actually spend time developing more features for them lol chromewebstore.google.com/detail/switc...

“You didn’t cite my paper”

everyone wants to talk about re-wilding the internet until the cyber chullachaquis return — easy to be stoked about the digital dark forest before the spirits lead you so far into it you can't find your way back out

Are you a privacy lawyer who wants to work with me? www.mozilla.org/en-US/career...

legitimately super excited about this

I think for the open social web, especially the Atmosphere, separating creation and consumption apps that interop are a really good thing. No app has to be a jack of all trades. Blogging apps can focus on writing and distribution tools, reading apps can focus on aggregation and read later etc. 1/

Stay Dangerous.

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I agree that the alarmism is actually boosterism in disguise. It is also a way of siphoning philanthropy dollars into the most useless research imaginable

I specifically requested no more metaphors

The AI industry’s primary super PAC has been secretly running an X account pretending to be an anti AI doomer that posted about killing AI executives and destroying data centers.

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

Social platforms have started to automatically apply labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators. But you know what would be better? Letting us filter out the AI slop. Read more from @zombiewretch.bsky.social: buff.ly/9OMUCdc

Social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that detail for the first time these tactics to hook young users. nyti.ms/4e7CpbS

So: grid is inadequate, renewable energy is increasing too slowly, datacentres use gas turbines instead which means fines paid by 🇮🇪 as we miss emissions targets. Unclear what the benefit is to the Irish economy: Big Tech is cutting jobs here not increasing them.

I also heard from my chosen family in north Minneapolis that their next door neighbors were taken: an entire household of people snatched and now the house is vacant. Eyes and whistles up.

GOP: we will cut all college programs that do not support our theology DEMS: we will cut the same programs, but because they don’t support the business school or the new AI venture

The Congressional hearing on the SECURE Data Act was a series of odes to small business. Big Tech loves to invoke small business whenever they want to fend off regulation, but the biggest enemy of small business is Big Tech. It's like wolves expressing worry about sheep.

hmmmm why would the regime stop a **swiss** soccer player from entering ..... oh i see

Major pet peeve: stuff like “until the science of ecology came along people/scientists didn’t understand XYZ”, when plenty of Indigenous, Black AND white ppl did, but it wasn’t recognized by the canon as determined by the powers that be. It’s centering a type of knowledge and discounting all others.

lol Scott Pelley and the old guard at 60 Minutes eat people like this alive for breakfast.

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

I have not observed any developer I've interviewed replacing their collaboration. They're definitely changing their collaboration, which is messy currently, but the need for collaboration is rapid and obvious. Biggest concern raised by every team I've talked to.

a lot of collaboration surfaces are very broken w/AI I find because they’re either half-duplex and long-horizon (jira, gdocs, whatever) or they’re very immediate (zoom, pairing, meetings)

“fleeing to argentina” u say?

As a scholar of science, technology, and power, reading Theo Baker's How To Rule the World feels like reading a horror novel. Slush funds, fraud, insider trading, tax evasion--and that's just the prologue. I'm almost afraid to turn the page to see how higher ed turns out. But I think we know.