Usenet to Blogrolls to subreddits to Bluesky custom algos to Fediverse - we keep discovering 'neighborhoods' - and then discovering how hard it is to keep them small with frictionless mass-posting. We need either limited identities per person (👎) or a posting speed-limit across your identities. (👍)

For those who have ideological or psychological objections to New Year’s Resolutions or rituals in general. whywhatsnext.com/b/KH

The question of 1st Am. rights to 'express' is a hairy one when code is speech and corporations are people (thus corpo AI is people) - The 21st century needs to see a new framework. With pieces of current patent and copyright/license law reconfigured to a new bucket of "compuright."

Some personal projects I've done this year, that only 2 years ago were impossible for me (or at least 10x harder): - WordPress: Getting site to cleanly work with title-less posts (POSSE). - Linux: 2 headless home servers for media, backups, and validator node - Excel: Multi-currency FIFO Lot 1/4

Huh. We've been vibecoding whole societies for thousands of years. Soviets tried implementing enterprise top-down standards but couldn't manage the complexity.

At 37, late to the party, I'm finally participating in public posting. I just remembered: 18 years ago I had a blogspot for 2 months, so to help overcome self-consciousness and mortification, I'll jump into the deep end with this post from a 19-year-old me in 2007: whywhatsnext.com/2025/06/thro...

Untitled Testing my Wordpress->Bluesky/Fediverse pipeline. My main frustration with figuring out how to POSSE has been lack of clear and up-to-date guides. I now greatly appreciate the onboarding UX design of the big platforms. Hoping this works from my own domain without a hitch...😮‍💨 #posse

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🤣 I am SO RELIEVED that we get such a blatant and clownish example of the latent social dangers of bias-engineered LLMs. I was worried that it would first have global impact in a subtle way before the general population could recognize the threat.

Been bouncing around my head lately: Amend copyright law with #compuright law. The right to copy was mostly a stand-in for 'being able to do something with'. But digital copies are free and unlimited. Digital licensing stepped in to fill some gap. But compuright is next. Is there a 'there' there?

Just a few posts, but I feel deeply seen: blueskyroast.com/roast/chris....

Early-mid 2000s internet saw thoughtful blogs about the future of the web as open protocols (e.g. RSS, and Twitter at first). Who can I follow that is thinking/writing about the future of the open internet and post-walled-garden sharing of ideas and content?