"Company X releases a new browser" is not correct. "Company X puts their closed AI agent that seemingly helps you but records everything to show you ads in the future when their business model collapses into Chromium and has no plans to maintain the engine." is more like it.

I did not expect to snortlaugh out loud to a quiz about JavaScript dates, but here we are. This is hilariously well done. We’ve built the web on the craziest possible language. 12/28, no notes.

“And so, we rewrote the rules of web development around entirely different needs, almost overnight. Not content, not speed, not interoperability, not discoverability. Just code.” Ouch, yeah: www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

AI art really is the aesthetic of new fascism

“A grand unified vision isn't manifesting, but a million different nightmares are.”

@redwoodjs.com Heads up: Submitting the newsletter signup on rwsdk_com throws a 405 error from kwesforms_com.

The biggest delta I see from 20 years ago- this world we evolved to didn’t leave enough space for the dreamers. That spot in our humanity that draws, reads each others zines, lays on the floor and listens to music with friends. We made everything so gamified we lost track of these crucial pieces.

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

ChatGPT ass presidency

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

The answer to “why are they doing this?!” is always “for multiple reasons ranging from nakedly stupid to calculatedly evil in service of a feckless coalition of the greedy and malicious.” The endless search for a unified psyche here is such a self-inflicted DDOS 🫠

Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.

All true — except the “charismatic” part: “One lesson of the 2020s is that things many people had assumed had been consigned to history – among them epidemics, nationalism, territorial land grabs and charismatic tyrants – have returned in force.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is it, unfortunately. The nitwit just wants to "make map go bigger", consequences be damned.

Now imagine what the language models in our heads would be able to create if they had access to all of humanity’s knowledge for free!

The AI robots are trolling each other now. I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link. Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?

Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

I guess my point is that we’re all looking around trying to figure out why we live in a profoundly value-less amoral world right now and there’s a lot of people to blame for that but high up on that list are people who decided that any genuine moral viewpoint is biased

You should be fundamentally mistrustful of a political movement that despises investigative journalists and writers while loving pundits and talking heads

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

Ha, Claude got so into speculating on the future direction of Remix that it enthusiastically offered to keep me updated. And then realized it can’t. Bummer.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

I never understood the musicians playing music while the Titanic sank. Now I do.

They're not trying to cut government expenses. Come on. They don't give a shit about that. Trump ran up the deficit in his first term. We know this. They're trying to break the government, do favors for their foreign owners, and install themselves so deep they can never be pushed out.

"The spectre of AI does nothing for growth if it gives away what we own so that we can rent from it what it makes." - that's some extremely skilled political rhetoric, really great speech writing (Prior to the Lords she had a long career as a film director in the UK, which I think shows)

It is vital that we give big ai trillions of dollars and let them burn through billions of cubic feet of natural gas per day so that students are able to get a passing grade without having to learn anything

SHA256? more like SKA 365 🕴🏽

Take back your attention.

Today, the W3C's Ethical Web Principles became a W3C Statement. They include sustainability, privacy, internationalisation and accessibility… all aspects of the web that are commonly under threat and need our full attention. Tnx @torgo.com and @hadleybeeman.bsky.social! www.w3.org/TR/ethical-w...

Highly recommend this fantastic resource if you know anyone who needs an introduction to building websites from scratch “like in the old days”. (Spoiler: We all do.)

This is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking piece. About many kinds of fires and how to tend them.

My god a platform where the most followed band is The Mountain Goats. I’m home. I’m finally home.

Wanted to practice scales and chords on the guitar randomly around the neck. Literally less than a minute with Claude, and it built me a little web app just for that 🤘

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

That’s pretty much where we’re at. And good luck getting dad to release custody of the kids in four years.

Just bought a drum kit for our 10 year old son. Are we going to regret this? Tell me we’re not going to regret this. (Narrator: They had already sorta regretted this.)

twitter was so bad for so long that i forgot how fun this is

Oh lordy, I actually had to go to Twitter to verify that that Guillermo tweet was real. It is 🤢 So Next.js is overengineered, Vercel is overpriced and its CEO is overenthusiastic about our new fascist overlords. Thanks, but no thanks.

How do I turn the Discover feed off and back on again so I don't see the somewhat hopeful posts from early yesterday mixed in with ~ our current state ~

Well, I guess now we know what 44B$ can buy