A scammer was so good at impersonating Apple Support that Matt Mullenweg thanked him for excellent customer service. Then came the phishing link. The attack worked because it felt real. It was real, mostly. That's the bit that should worry you. https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/

Being a worker under capitalism is basically getting yourself all slutty and standing out on a street corner until a VC dude rolls up and goes "do you love solving difficult challenges in a fast-paced environment?" and then you say "I'll love whatever you want for housing and healthcare, baby"

This is so true. I believe the drop in quality we’ll see with the rise in use of AI coding tools will be largely from increased business pressure to produce more faster.

Love this review. Reminds me of RedEdit, cdevs, and piles of MacUser magazines too precious to trash (recycling being a thing we didn’t do at home yet)

8 months later, Digg has called for a time-out. «We underestimated the gravitational pull of existing platforms. Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall.» /surprised-pikachu.jpeg If only there was another way, like some kind of protocol that open social apps could build on together…

Lawyer: I'm saying books because you said books. What books would you have read that would have informed your opinion on which grants to cancel based on DEI? DOGE 🤡: There were no books.

what's a guy gotta do to get a mention of CBOR or DRISL on atproto.com? Like I get what you mean but to me, "It's just JSON" makes atproto sound more architecturally shoddy than the glorious content-addressed CBOR playground that we actually have

IMO the important thing isn't how many agents you have running in parallel, but what they're actually accomplishing. Some tasks are going to take more direct engagement than others. I don't want more than one, _maybe_ two of those going at once. But cleanup, research, refactors, etc? 🚀

I've been absolutely swamped lately, but thanks to the atproto community, @sequoia.pub hasn't slowed down! Here's a quick rundown: A <sequoia-subscribe> web component that lets readers create a site.standard.graph.subscription record for your publication. Huge thanks to @heaths.dev for this!

If someone puts LLM produced text on their website without any clear indication that it was (even to varying degrees) produced by an LLM, is that bad? Or is that just the new norm I need to get used to?

this is so important. there is no reason (other than all the incentives and pressures in the world) that LLM-assisted code should be worse. it should be much better: verified and checked 50 different ways, better factored, better explained, better presented

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

Not religious but god grant me the serenity to get these kids awake and to school after daylight savings amen.

made a little thing login -> vouch -> explore the graph atvouch.dev

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

We have to agree on a definition of consciousness first. That's how words work. We make them all up and come to an agreement about what they mean. Consciousness feels like one of the ones we'll continue to have a hard time with for awhile to come, because our egos are tied up in it.

Effective strategy it seems

"When she asked why they were taking her information, her video captured a masked agent responding, 'Cause we have a nice little database, and now you're considered a domestic terrorist.'"

Seeing Like a State vs Seeing Like a State Machine

The only feature of 1Password that matters is their business dies overnight if they get hacked so they’ve thought harder about security than anyone you know. You can’t vibe code that in two evenings no matter how much you ask Claude to “make it secure”

I want a poster with a progression of the pelican on a bicycle SVGs that @simonwillison.net has been testing LLMs with.

AI driven dev work be like

I really misunderstood the strength of lexicons for decentralizing power in the Atmosphere. Atproto isn't an ecosystem, it's a foundation for creating parallel ecosystems.

"By letting lower court rulings stand, the Court effectively solidified a 'Human Authorship' requirement." "If the code is truly a 'new' work created by a machine, it might technically be in the public domain the moment it’s generated [...]." Kind of wild

True! There are pieces that need more tending and maintenance than others though and that is where buy can still be good. Lower level primitives that you can build your custom use cases on top of, as opposed to heavy all-in-one solutions.

Not quite ready to launch, but if you're a decentralized identity and/or AT proto nerd, you might want to take an early peek at this freeq.at

We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

If your job was to know when to hit the semicolon key on the keyboard, I'm sad to say that's not an employable skill anymore. If you shape ideas into tools and art via code, it's really so much better than ever now, and I don't see that changing soon.

Oh interesting, people who don’t know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute. Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.

Finished There Is No Antimemetics Division! So good, such a wild ride. Feeling like a second read through is warranted just to turn the situations over in my mind a few more times. I need more like this. Open to suggestions! bookhive.buzz/books/bk_60v...

I like how in 2026 a common security paradigm is writing a strongly worded letter to the guy in your computer

In retrospect, this feels like a darkly obvious attractor for a network society. If we're all neurons in a network, then the network will want to condition us to fire reliably when poked. Gambling is a crude conditioning mechanism.

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

We are working on a Discovery page on Margin where you can find new reads on the Atmosphere using @standard.site 😉

Skyreader now supports RSS reading from the command line! npm install -g skyreader then you can do cool things like: skyreader feeds --all --json | jq '.feeds[].items[].title' or claude -p "summarize today's feeds using skyreader" github.com/disnet/skyre...

Was not familiar with MOQT before this but this is really cool. Applying it to atproto is galaxy brain.

my text editor should have a stats bar that tells me how long I've been thinking for and how many tokens I've emitted

13 years later and the story of Aaron Swartz still fills me with anger and sadness

Is it blasphemous that, even though with AI I could build nearly any idea that comes to mind, I still don't want to? Everything has an ownership and maintenance burden, regardless of how much help AI can be. It's still brain space.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

--dangerously skip international law

Worried that LLM usage will dampen your thinking? Take the time to use it to enhance your thinking. Use it to learn, explore ideas, think deeply about the things you care about. There is much personal value to be pulled from these tools. You just have to consciously decide to.

Going for a solid commit graph from random dotfile tweaks alone 🙃

OH: "That's why they're getting rid of all the payphones. They don't want you to be able to escape the matrix!" 😂

code and tests aren't the moat. they never were. no need for agents to copy a project. forking was always an option. the moat of an oss project is its community, its governance, and its ecosystem connections. agents will never be able to replicate that. don't hide. let's build in the open, together

New blogpost about atproto It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical. www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

Easily one of the top charts of all time