Posts by anildash@me.dm
(DIR) Post #AuTbiHBEADOuBdnXzk by anildash@me.dm
2025-05-26T03:24:11Z
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What lessons can we learn about the fact that MCP got more adoption as a quasi-open standard in a few months than the entire fediverse stack has in nearly a decade? (Or two, depending on how you count.) Obviously, they’re in different domains, but there are some parallels. How might other open efforts piggyback on hype cycles like AI to bootstrap open efforts we could use to re-open the social web? Who’s integrating MCP interfaces into the ActivityPub stack?
(DIR) Post #AuWxbSpPEt0Wkdd02C by anildash@me.dm
2025-05-27T14:33:26Z
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The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/
(DIR) Post #AuXkcgGZeo8sTMXsf2 by anildash@me.dm
2025-05-28T00:54:07Z
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@nwd okay. You can also just close that and it won’t come back.
(DIR) Post #Aul9bTglQK5z4Sz3Fw by anildash@me.dm
2025-06-03T01:28:37Z
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@jalcine there are things in here that are directionally Not Even Wrong, but it still all falls into the category of “we need better AI criticism”. Everybody is talking past each other and punching straw men. Stupid.
(DIR) Post #Aul9bXPBbcPab6n4Pg by anildash@me.dm
2025-06-03T05:46:46Z
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@kevinriggle @iris_meredith @jalcine yeah I don’t know why this post couldn’t have been “here are some things I am doing with this tool”. Like… Simon Willison does that every damn day, like a normal person. And then he says “and here are the fucked up things about the company that makes that tool”. Like a normal person!
(DIR) Post #Av21cjQgHit03JahH6 by anildash@me.dm
2025-06-11T18:57:20Z
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It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/
(DIR) Post #AvlROjWgarbEMGlCGe by anildash@me.dm
2025-07-02T16:18:43Z
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This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.
(DIR) Post #Ax5NYXVq7BtJ4pQJpw by anildash@me.dm
2025-08-11T19:53:25Z
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There could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.
(DIR) Post #AzY0GTamKbJzagV7fE by anildash@me.dm
2025-10-24T21:56:44Z
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So much of what's wrong with tech started from one simple phenomenon: focusing on the money-movers instead of people who actually *make* shit. Real technology matters. Inventors over investors, every time. Founders over funders. Writing code > writing checks. https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/24/founders-over-funders/
(DIR) Post #B13xneY6kPy60jNdz6 by anildash@me.dm
2025-12-08T22:44:25Z
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Bleh. Just saw a friend who found out they couldn’t be followed by one of their friends because (unbeknownst to both parties) the moderators of their friend’s instance had defederated from their own instance. All of this, for people who barely know what any of these terms mean. What they experience is, “Two people you’ve never met have a beef you’ve never heard about over an issue you don’t know about, so your friend can’t see you. And there’s no fix.” It’s just terrible all around.
(DIR) Post #B1zOr9p2yFrV71fa9Q by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-05T22:28:03Z
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The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech-career-in-2026/
(DIR) Post #B247jduVAiuHjbASau by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-08T04:12:40Z
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I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Portland; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th. Prince spoke several times about a particularly formative memory of growing up: During a march against police violence in 1967, the cops responded brutally, leading to uprisings all over the city…
(DIR) Post #B247jj4byYxrkOw6Xw by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-08T04:12:57Z
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Three straight days of protest that only ended when the National Guard was brought in. That era of unrest would last a long time; smaller uprisings had happened the year before, and similar ones happened again the next year, and the year after that. So neighbors on the north side responded by making a safe place for kids to gather outside of the reach (and the watch) of the cops, coming together to build a community center called The Way.
(DIR) Post #B247joZdWdkio4US6C by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-08T04:13:09Z
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It was at The Way where many of the brilliant musicians who created Minneapolis' signature sound first met, and where they first learned their instruments. I've talked to more than one alum of the scene who said that it was The Way and its community that kept them from getting hassled by the cops, and also where they met lifelong friends who would change the course of their lives.
(DIR) Post #B247jtZSwhaSIzRt1k by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-08T04:13:30Z
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So, my heart hurts for Minneapolis, but I also believe in its people, and I believe in the good neighbors of Powderhorn, and I know that they have a lot more heart than these ICE monsters have hate. We've seen the people of Minneapolis endure and persist or a long, long time. "If there ain't no justice, then there ain't no peace." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLI7LFf84w
(DIR) Post #B247k17krcArjMXrwe by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-08T04:13:51Z
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This is a report from the time. Be sure to hear the difference between the “official” story and what the people from the neighborhood say. https://youtu.be/S5swH1_r9OI
(DIR) Post #B27gXV4eHMtmiwjsrQ by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-09T16:26:50Z
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I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
(DIR) Post #B27gXaSaFo11QcyZMW by anildash@me.dm
2026-01-09T16:38:42Z
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(Yes I _did_ break all the links in the piece by mangling the Markdown, thankyouverymuch lol. Should be fixed momentarily! It turns out it's tricky to have examples of markdown syntax in the same piece where you actually have markdown content.)
(DIR) Post #B37zR2BW9vrlN4C5Vg by anildash@me.dm
2026-02-09T00:18:08Z
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Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-prince-won-the-super-bowl/
(DIR) Post #B3818OLdjTAAW1AP9k by anildash@me.dm
2026-02-09T00:39:25Z
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@wjmaggos @humanhorseshoes sure, on the other hand, over there I don’t have someone who’s been spamming my mentions with a few thousand words of ranting about how I’m an evil journalist (I’m not a journalist?) for the last few months. So every platform has its shortcomings.