Open call for Cypherpunk Camp - who’s coming? To open, secure & free internets!

Book of the summer If you have any interest in how ideas spread (or don’t) online, taboos, cozy web & the deterioration of social networks, check it out @metalabel.bsky.social @nayafia.bsky.social nayafia.substack.com/p/introducin...

Excellent practical talk on content moderation in decentralised systems @kuehlewindt.com @radicle.xyz at @protocol.berlin

Humans can do hard things (esp if their rep as a nation state is at stake) Lightroom immersive doc on walking on the moon in 1969 🚀

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deluged by people telling me they’ve stopped using coaches/therapists & instead use Claude (feel so old fashioned for just telling a friend) and people telling me they’re retraining as coaches quite funny ♾️

My very favourite xkcd in @powen.net talk making the case for more investment in digital public infrastructure 🔥

Tarot; yet another way humans try to make sense of themselves + the future Nice little show @warburginstitute.bsky.social on history + cards through the ages

the feminine urge for no more caesars CHIC

you can just build things (towns) inspired by the popup city movement + building environments for thought - great @patrickoshag.bsky.social pod with @devonzuegel.com open.spotify.com/episode/4Xci...

Just a ~view~

turns out you can just publish things sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/on-my-mind-v...

😍 sdsa.ai/love

Developers Developers Developers I'll be speaking about tldraw.computer at this new London event lu.ma/fydqvtm0 Hosted by @sarahd.bsky.social + @auchenberg.bsky.social + @scalingdevtools.bsky.social come say hi

start ‘em young

Londoners - interested in how value accrues to the data layer & what AI means for culture & copyright? / speaking at this fun event on Friday with @afterlife.bsky.social + others. Come join! t.co/ZOSQUSmD2E

Winter break reads Building virtual worlds, sci-fi, startup excess + women’s takes on the city. Sounds about right

Swooning

Back in the 70s, an artist buried a gold hare & published a kids book full of clues to where he hid it. A longread from imho the golden era of the genre (‘10s) on this gorgeous personal site www.planetslade.com/masquerade.h...

Here’s a holiday treat for the end of 2024: a high-quality transfer of Ricky Jay’s 1996 HBO card magic special, “to date the greatest card magic special ever produced, directed by David Mamet of all people”. [kottke.org]

Festive skeet; Hell is other people (‘s kitchens)

Hey! Longread* lovers. What’s the best thing you’ve read this year? Stocking up for break. * all formats accepted, including tweets, books, podcasts.

If you have any interest in early technology or computer history (50s-90s) you need to go to the Tate’s Electric Dreams show (London)

Finishing raising @commonmagic.bsky.social & wrote up some notes to self on persuading ppl to back something new + weird. Extremely happy rn. sarahdrinkwater.medium.com/raising-comm...

This year I got really into this little moody Irish band open.spotify.com/track/5XOmmO...

Fascinating how little art there is about lockdown - like we collectively decided to just forget it. Bucking the trend - loved this doc. If only they could just stage Hamlet & stop being killed by other players…

Can you think of any examples of this style of retro graphic using a laptop vs PC? (Are laptops too flat to be aesthetically cool?)

You think fur coats are no longer a ~thing~ in these enlightened times but I’m telling you they’re alive & thriving on flights to Zurich 🙃

On what design IS (always + now)🤌 loved this Design as obsession, conviction, orchestration + literacy. Ways of being + seeing "When deeply held opinions drive your work, they shine through ... + are unique to you—in art, design, product, or company" t.co/UWg7zP9JCO

Spotify reaches $100bn market cap the same day lacklustre unwrapped (where’s the personality?) shows impact of layoffs. Reminder markets are their own thing & often uncorrelated to value consumers (let alone creators) derive from a company

Good “the world is global” reminder today chatting to Ignacio, building this awesome company from Chile (soon SF) 🔥

Open source folks - what are the credible cool events for builders (ie license choices, building right dev rel teams)? Planning next year + seeing a lot of same old same old.

wel-come vi-sons of new forms A skeet size endorsement for Mat Dryhurst + Holly Herndon’s Serpentine show - a walk through how AI models are trained through the analogy of Renaissance call & response choirs. Impossible to photo, really, but a bit of a vibe.

looks like graze.social makes it extremely easy to emulate the following feed of any other user on the network — see through someone else's "eyes" instantly! super cool

Getting so much good inspiration outside tech rn. Blown away by Lehman Trilogy & especially Es Devlin’s anxious masculinity set. Director Sam Mendes parameters for her in building this world; thespaces.com/es-devlin-th...

IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST TO FIND A WAY TO BE VERY TENDER

Great interview on Deepseek - culture, moats + true innovation www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...

There’s a time + place for talking your own book but where we’ve got to - the relentless solipsism of most social media - is boring

Probably the most beautiful early company website I’ve ever seen sdsa.ai (can you find the Easter eggs?)

Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]

Getting things framed for @commonmagic.bsky.social ~office~. 2025 is going to be great.

Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...

Fun times quizzing at future of coding London Xmas get together. Honestly such a great community. Props @maggieappleton.com. Proud sponsor with @commonmagic.bsky.social

A new paper, "Let Me Speak Freely" has been spreading rumors that structured generation hurts LLM evaluation performance. Well, we've taken a look and found serious issue in this paper, and shown, once again, that structured generation *improves* evaluation performance!

Thinking about the politics of the moshpit via the late stage capitalist mechanism of a Nirvana Peleton class. Don’t judge me.

Starter packs are such a banging feature

Just two dogs in a trenchcoat controlled by @sarahd.bsky.social

Hi! If you’re here, you probably care about healthy digital social spaces - places to connect, share, learn, shitpost. Me too! I’ve been a proud funder / board member of @newpublic.substack.com for the last 5 (6?) years. The time has come to step down & I’d love to help them find my replacement.

wake up babe, new @sariazout.bsky.social essay just dropped On jailbreaking out of the productivity paradigm + the new currency of originality 😍 every.to/thesis/the-e...

Today a lot of good things happened, including that I wore this excellent + vulgar knit cardigan