Happy to be an early signatory on this!

In addition, I *highly* recommend checking out Betaworks' full playlist for the Interfaces camp for a taste of the near-future. Including but not limited to: synthesizing scent & taste, and reading minds. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Telepath's full Betaworks demo day video just dropped! and with it our vision for the future of computing. I'll have a deep dive blog post soon, but in the meantime this is a good 10 minute watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEm5...

What a venue for Sync Conf SF

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money. What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia. But there's more… 🧵

since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

my entire feed is just Bay Area people who got woken up and I think that’s beautiful

Good early morning fellow Bay Area (and esp. Berkeley) residents! Turns out a 4.7 is a pretty effective and yet unpredictable alarm clock… Brief reminder who’s in charge. earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2025-...

I'm seeing a lot of different people, coming from different angles, recognize that the Same-Origin Policy is insufficient for the kind of apps that we want to make now, and that we need something more fine-grained and more secure. Very interesting times!

Landing in NYC for #ProtocolsForPublishers. We have a pretty awesome group of folks coming together to work on keeping the future of the internet open! #PfP

One week out from #ProtocolsForPublishers and we have an ✨amazing✨ group of people coming together. There is a LOT to cover with open social and open AI protocols, but it’s all about ensuring both the distribution & the application layer of the web remain open. See you there! 🥂 🎟️ pfp.unternet.co

Websites are back!

AI discourse = "things I have personally seen" or "wild extrapolation"

Thanks to Internet Exchange for linking to #ProtocolsForPublishers in this week’s newsletter! 🙇 pfp.unternet.co

Good article. Instead of trying to build products promising to replace humans with "superintelligence", consider the *actual* shape of language models and their capabilities. We have a great floor-raiser here that can be applied to bridge capability gaps. elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...

We wrote this after a gathering of folks working on the messy edge of identity, memory, and intent in agentic systems. The ideas are still forming, but the stakes are clear: whoever shapes context, shapes the future. Get in touch if you're work around this.

Here is @ruperts.world writing @unternet.co about where the web is going and what we can do about it. See you in NYC in August. 🫡 #ProtocolsForPublishers unternet.co/blog/2025/07...

Putting on a little something in NYC on August 20th. Talks on the new web stack: web payments, MCP, web applets, ATprotocol & more. Viva the open web! lu.ma/gb050dwt

When your personal computer is intelligent, it's good to know whose side it's on.

I met @ruperts.world, founder of @unternet.co, when he made a great speaker application to present at @causalislands.com Toronto. He was at Mozilla’s Innovation Studio at the time, working on generative interfaces. Then he founded Unternet PBC.

From The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data. App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.

The theme for the latest @betaworks.com camp is close to my heart – Interfaces. Computers don't have to be so frustratingly computer-y anymore. They can be more natural, they can understand, meet us half-way. But we need the imagination to dream up brand new interfaces to fully realize that.

I think this web applet experiment is almost at its end, pretty sure this'll be the next version of Diffuse. This "deck" applet here can be used standalone (web page on the right) where it automatically inserts tracks from your collection into the queue; or use it in a DJ theme (left side, wip).

Thinking about my position that AI in creativity is just a tool, not a replacement for an artist. I'm not as optimistic about that as I used to be. (No final thoughts here yet, just initial reactions to an interview with Rick Rubin.) publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...

A little update on recent happenings at Unternet. Local-first conference, new spreadsheet applet, ability to add local applets & files, and exploring design directions for future product work. unternet.co/blog/2025/06...

News to me: the republican "big beautiful bill" includes a 10-year moratorium on any form of AI regulation by states & municipalities. 10 years. apnews.com/article/ai-r...

Want to amplify the "Malleable software" paper from Ink & Switch – this is an important step in defining much more flexible & natural paradigm for human-computer interaction Article: www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... My notes: publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...

The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality. It’s the walls around our data. A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵

Hacking on the future of browsers with the rest of the User & Agents crew today in Berlin 🤘🌐

This little web command client can now take actions using Web Applets & the Unternet kernel love how it can reads the map pin data to recommend me a vegetarian spot (can't do that with the DOM or a vision model)

Fun experiment today making a command line for the web, based on Unternet's kernel It's cool that the LLMs know enough about URL structure to hallucinate stuff that works! (It's just guessing based on what it knows about how GitHub's paths work – it's actually kinda handy)

Hallo Deutschland! Looking forward to a week of local first #localfirstconf

Just followed a link to Instagram after not having used the platform for a year or so. damn.... what happened? it's like an ad-bait crack den

Nailed it, @komorama.bsky.social We have a huge opportunity here – there's no reason the future user interface for *all your computing* needs to be tied to OpenAI. We can build a new, uniquely personal computer that you own, without your entire digital life being locked to one company or provider.

Rediscovered desktop neo today (by @lennartziburski.com). In particular, vibing on this home screen desktopneo.com

Cool demo from Kosmik showing this idea of "unbundling the browser/internet" that inspired Unternet's name – a search engine that extracts content directly, instead of giving you a bunch of links

Farcaster's mini-apps seem to be an interesting Web Applets-aligned project. A small, easily-distributed app, coupled with payments & identity miniapps.farcaster.xyz

Our client can now use web applets! This has been a big missing piece since we set out to create this client from scratch in January. You can now add an applet from our directory, with just a URL, and interact with entire apps on the web — all driven by your LLM of choice, locally on your machine

Our open-source cognitive kernel is powering our intelligent workspace for the web — routing user input → action execution → output. Now with local file support: drop in a map image and it reads it & gets a weather forecast.

Naming a product is either the easiest most instant thing in the world, or a dreaded months-long slog through the depths of insanity

I'll be sitting down for a Q&A in a few hours on open-source AI & the future of the web at GLOSAIC 📅 11am PT, Today x.com/i/broadcasts...

what is a browser

working on the guts of our kernel, re-introduced a much more flexible action-calling ability that allows arbitrary protocols (meaning we can expand to MCP, shell commands, local file operations, etc.)

Two quick shares: - Latest update from Unternet below, including a new design language - I’m currently in Seattle at #ATmosphereConf , hit me up if you’re here!

Emanating some new vibes across the www from unternet.co

Slowly building up my knowledge of US flora. So different from Australia. This past weekend, a trip to Muir Woods turned up some interesting new-to-me species...

"more impact to your gestures" I see this every time I have a video call. why apple. why (also the close button doesn't work)

Web Applets on the AI Tools & Integrations market map github.com/auchenberg/a...

We just released Web Applets 0.2! It allows you to make client-side web apps that can be used by any LLM (it's an open protocol). For example this 3D scene generator (made in 20 LOC) unternet.co/blog/2025/03...