2026-02-28 04:01:26
Last day of early voting in Texas. Looking at my sample ballot and got super confused for a minute reading the propositions… A few of them are strange, then realized I was accidentally looking at the Republican side. 🤪
2026-02-28 01:55:54
I’ve been critical of Instagram forever, and stopped posting on principle 9 years ago, but still it’s good to see Meta’s new work on alerting parents to a teen’s search about self-harm. The way Meta is handling this seems reasonable. Might’ve saved lives if it was in place years ago.
2026-02-28 01:00:00
Open letter from employees of Google and OpenAI in support of Anthropic:
They’re trying to divide each company with fear that the other will give in. That strategy only works if none of us know where the others stand. This letter serves to create shared understanding and solidarity in the face of this pressure from the Department of War.
The leadership of all the AI companies is fascinating to me. Dario Amodei perhaps the most so. I thought his essay Machines of Loving Grace was excellent, but I’ve watched many interviews with him and I sometimes come away kind of depressed about the future.
2026-02-28 00:43:51
Catching up on Paul Frazee’s post comparing AT Proto’s decentralization to ActivityPub’s federation and Nostr’s “magical mesh” approach:
Our near-miss similarity to the two common models of decentralization is at least partially why we catch heat from them. We’re really similar, but we introduced changes that remove the legible markers of each technology: multiple app instances in the case of federation, and an absence of servers in the case of magical meshes.
It’s a good read. Most of the confusion in the fediverse about AT Proto is because people judge it based on Mastodon’s architecture.
2026-02-28 00:16:01
Love that feeling when a new feature sort of actually works. All downhill from here to the release.
2026-02-27 23:35:57
Terry Godier posted on the aftermath of shipping Current:
To not let all of the feedback (both good and bad) alter your ability to think clearly and put one foot in front the other and make a thing that’s true to you again. There’s such a strong pull mentally/emotionally to do more of what people liked, or less of what people didn’t, on the next “thing”
The best products take feedback from everywhere but filter it through the original vision. Otherwise you’ll eventually get a watered down or bloated thing with no uniquely defining purpose.