I'm building a web content browser that integrates content editors. The UX has a minimalistic cognitive model that is hopefully just flexible enough and extensible enough to be very useful. The metaphor is stacks of cards. I am going to try to deploy it everywhere the web exists.
Good for open protocols like the web and Matter. Bad for Apple.
If the Bluesky reactionaries who are intolerant of pragmatism believe that they are helping to defeat the party of Trump I would like to know why they think so but they cannot handle criticism.
San Francisco voters turned on DSA politicians and have not looked back. Big lessons learned. They did a lot of damage.
I'd like to get a better understanding of how Bluesky is helping developers to build and test ideas.
I started coding again. It's been a while. I am going to recreate the last codebase I was working on to relearn some stuff and move more incrementally down a different path. At this point I expect to end up near the same place that I was before.
#bb27
I could not find any examples of government run grocery stores in Europe.
In this case I feel strongly that it is more important to debate the message than attack the messenger. If and when Kristol becomes a Republican again that could very well be an indication that we all have won. Our broken two party system is a joke that should not be taken seriously.
They probably believe that endorsing Mamdani will undermine the ability of Dems to take back the House and Senate.
I know who he is. His post made valid and very relevant points. We only have two viable political parties. If we want to defeat the party of Trump I don't know how we can do it when we cannot put past less important grievances aside and work together to find the consensus necessary to defeat them.
You didn't answer my questions.
What are examples of Mamdani not being provided the support he deserves to be getting?
Are there examples of public non-profit grocery stores in food deserts that have been successful and sustainable?
What Dem does not support affordable housing or expanded affordable public transportation? In my opinion the real problem is the incompetence and corruption that undermines these initiatives has been ignored.
Do you believe all moderate Democrats should be pushed outside the tent? What criteria would you use for a purity test?
Which of his ideas do you think the DNC should support?
I would like to see cities adopt a common social software platform to enable citizens and local government to start a conversation on how to make this transformation. AT Protocol and/or ActivityPub could be what enables this bottom up approach to taking back our government and political systems.
Public servants and political parties can have a role in supporting the development of this software but the private sector needs to be providing it. Do we need a federal Chief Design Officer? Maybe someday that will be critical but I don't see the role even being helpful right now.
I am a huge proponent of replacing government bureaucracy and services with software. These websites and services need to be shaped and supervised by the people that will be using it ... we the people.
Who voted for this?
Republicans benefit from proposing simplistic unworkable solutions to real problems because Dems either refuse to admit there are problems or are incompetent at implementing complex solutions. Republicans don't run big cities so won't be held accountable for not succeeding or lacking empathy.
Confession time: I've been working on a secret side project at Vox Media for the past 18 months and it launched yesterday
Voters should petition Congress to come up with a national algorithm to handle political redistricting. Gerrymandering is a problem that is not going to be solved by the courts.
When Trump takes possession of the plane there will also have to be more work done to remove/replace DOD tech.
BIG BROTHER: 25 YEARS OF THE UNEXPECTED #BB27
They could provide support for a web of data communities.
I assume that you know that your domain was taken over by some really bad actors. I'm sure people subscribed to your blog or who visit the site would appreciate a heads up.
What are those Dems saying to justify not requiring that those prohibitions also be applied to the executive branch before voting in favor of this bill?
The scary thing is that there are still huge opportunities to be gained by improving YouTube's convoluted UI.
Today, Mayor Daniel Lurie strengthens @sfgov.sf.gov city services & cements our status as a global #AI leader by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to nearly 30k employees. @sfcitycio.sf.gov Director of Emerging Technologies, @janegong.bsky.social, joins the mayor to explain. #cityoffirsts
The biggest problem Dems have is believing that they have no problems.
We're overdue for a new music revolution. A major explosion could be a good start.
Since it is not going away and it is only going to keep getting less problematic and more useful I don't think boycotting AI is an option.
Put them in a tent and all hell will break loose.
Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.* It’s one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still. (1/2)
This Trump sycophant's tweets should be more than enough to disqualify him from any job.
Those who want to contribute data to a model can do so by first copying a publicly shared model known as the “anchor.” They then train a second model using their own data, combine the result with the anchor model, and contribute the result back to whoever is building the third and final model.
D'oh
How long until Trump gets the DOJ and Congress to investigate X for rigging its algorithm to say mean things about him?
When Elon starts rigging X's algorithm and Grok to promote content that helps his party and hurts Trump all hell is going to break loose.
Without reforming our political system we are going to keep getting the same crappy leaders. The Democrats and Republicans need competition that is willing and able to innovate but the last thing we need is an oligarch using our corrupt system to benefit himself and his business interests.
New details from me on @wired.com re Elon Musk’s America Party: - Major political consultants pouring cold water on the idea, including DeSantis alum Phil Cox - Andrew Yang is keeping his options open (and an interesting quote in here on his ‘let them’ philosophy) www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
NEW: Elon Musk pitches Tesla robotaxis as a huge revenue opportunity for the company. It also brings new liability risks—including for Tesla owners who Airbnb their cars on a company-operated network #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
Just yesterday Karoline Leavitt was blaming God.
Replace Texas with California and Trump would be attacking the state and local government for the identical response.
They also need MAGA media to stop complaining about not getting the Epstein client list.
Wouldn't the tariffs make it too expensive to build and maintain these automated factories here?
I believe they are adding a grace period along with an optional delay before they finalize the plan to consider another pause.
This is more upsetting to hardcore Trump supporters than if the OBBB did not pass.
We can start with experiments and audits that explain how the AI made the decisions it did. There will be complaints but I'm convinced that these issues can be more effectively debated and resolved than those that are complicated by human biases and corruption. I don't believe anyone is nonpartisan.
Trust in AI is based on the data it is trained on and its propensity to hallucinate. In this use case the AI can be restricted to a dataset that can be deemed non-controversial and approved by legislatures and voters. I don't think hallucination would be a problem for this targeted application.
Gerrymandering has contributed so much to the unraveling of our democracy. It's shocking that we let it happen. I think it would be great if we could instruct an AI to draw the boundaries of voting districts based on fairness, equality, and our shared values that undermine toxicity.
All that and ranked choice voting could open the door for more innovative and constructive parties to gain a foothold. It's definitely worth trying imo.
There are some hidden advanced search features. This page summarizes some of those: www.bskyinfo.com/guides/advan...
I was rooting for Lawrence Lessig and his efforts for campaign finance reform. If Musk is serious about redeeming himself one way to do it would be to fund a trusted group of political system reformers without of any imposition of himself or his agendas on the group.
The right person or group with enough resources needs to step up and educate the American people on why we need to change those fundamental things and how we can do it. Those invested in our duopoly are not going to do it and will probably use their resources to resist it.
I think vibe coders would benefit from choosing a well supported standardized client that fits their use case and then focus on integrating services and extending the client with custom plug-ins.
I wouldn't mind a billionaire using their resources to fix the system built to exclude third parties instead of exploiting a third party to gain power and influence for themselves.
It is obvious that Elon wants this country to be governed by an oligarchy. Is that what you want too?
I don't understand how you can believe that Musk won't use this party to gain more power and influence for himself and his business interests.
Covering up climate change and promoting conspiracy theories to account for it seems a little desperate.
His party's platform is going to be as opaque and corrupt as DOGE's mission statement.
When it is debatable whether information is newsworthy I'd rather that information be published.
AIs could become very good at generating tests that validate AI generated code. I don't know if that will reduce the demand for software engineers or turbocharge software development.
Is the information not worthy of being reported or should information from bad actors not be reported?
“Once we have contact with a manufacturer, we’re hopeful it will fall within our planned budget.” $3000 per can Investigate how this happened and fix the culture that allows it.
"The DOD held up a shipment of US weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles. But an analysis by senior military officers found the aid package would not jeopardize the US military’s own ammunition supplies ... it was a unilateral step by Hegseth."
I have only been a lawyer for 25 years, could someone explain this to me
Both major parties suck. I'd like to see third parties willing and able to innovate succeed but the last thing I want is Musk starting a new party "to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws". It's frustrating that we the people cannot fix the obvious systemic problems that exist in politics.
I generally agree with what he says in his post but Altman needs to accept that he is never going to be an effective messenger for political innovation or how to distribute wealth.
If I’m an Apple or Google shareholder I’m looking at this letter from Pam Bondi promising not to enforce the TikTok ban and saying this is nowhere close to good enough given the potential scope of damages. It’s basically a pinky swear based on nothing. www.theverge.com/tiktok/69798...
So we just passed a bill with $25 billion for a "golden dome", but building high-speed rail is a "boondoggle"?
This is super cool, very nice @sri.xyz sri.xyz/projects/atp...
It seems likely that AI agents could generate "persuasive but inaccurate notes," which human raters might rate as helpful since AI is "exceptionally skilled at crafting persuasive, emotionally resonant, and seemingly neutral notes."
Estonian engineers found that 15-year-old #smartphones, when hacked to work together as a single self-organized unit, can handle many such tasks, including image recognition, with unexpected ease. How did they turn a bunch of old phones into a mini #datacenter? spectrum.ieee.org/smartphone-d...
I’m just a tech critic, standing in front of other tech critics, asking them to please stop insisting that the AI hype bubble is totally gonna collapse any minute now. Your confidence is making it harder for the rest of us. It may be what your audience wants to hear, but that doesn’t make it true.
The issue is that our political duopoly encourages and rewards extremists in this social media driven ecosystem.
Democracy is in decline. The political duopoly is non responsive. Extremist bubbles do not tolerate dissention. Seems like a waste of time to keep up or chime in.
X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell you when the person you’re talking to you is feeling socially awkward. www.wired.com/story/these-...
I said technologies like AI. You are doing a great job at validating my point. It's unfortunate that you are not open to ideas that can complement your project to provide solutions that are both effective and can scale to benefit the most amount of people.
Support is a separate issue. People should have the choice of the type of support they want. This can include documentation, video tutorials, remote chat, or various levels of in person assistance. Each of these scenarios incur different costs but could leverage the same application.
It would be much less efficient, more error prone, and cost a lot more.
Why are you convinced that the code that AI would generate for this task could not be validated by a QA engineer just like any other application is?
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 54,204: www.reuters.com/busi...
Weaponizing regulations was an obvious outcome of Trump normalizing hypocrisy within his administration. Dems should not be discouraged from employing technologies like AI to fight back.
The train will never leave the station.
Started out great. Ended badly when Ross went off the rails.
1. BREAKING The White House has confirmed to Nick Schifrin that it has halted weapons that were set to go to Ukraine. The weapons include: PAC3 Patriots, 155mm artillery rounds, GMLRS, Stinger, AIM-7, and Hellfire missiles.
AI’s gonna hunger for more interesting types of data to feed on
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
California’s spent $350 million on taking care of forests that the federal government is responsible for managing themselves. Donald Trump, step up and rake your forests.
Ok, here's my second post on a potential native DOM templating API, diving into exactly what such an API should actually look like and why. justinfagnani.com/2025/06/30/w...
On Tuesday, Cloudflare became the first major internet infrastructure company to block AI scraping by default. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/clou...
NEW: Tucked inside the GOP mega-bill is an excise tax for solar and wind. And Republicans say they have no idea who put this provision in, or why. "I don't know where it came from," Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham, who released the bill, tells NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
The way Discover works is by sampling from multiple different “Candidate Groups (CGs).” This can be things like followed users, liked by followed users, social clusters, and topics you’ve voiced interest in.
Solar cells that turn indoor light into electricity?!?! www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/06/new-...
Bad faith Republican attacks need to be addressed.