2026-02-01 12:23:09
Watched: Arco. I really enjoyed this. Some of the comedic parts didn’t work for me, but it’s a unique film and there are some moments that I absolutely loved. 🍿
2026-02-01 03:38:49
Watching the end of Spurs / Hornets. The refs made the right call here on the challenge, but overall the rule change to protect 3-point shooters' feet when they land has been taken too far. It’s being gamed, making defense too difficult. 🏀
2026-02-01 02:41:23
I was cautious with our initial AI adoption in Micro.blog. There’s a global opt-out checkbox to hide any feature that uses AI. All background tasks check this setting before they touch an LLM. I thought this was important for folks who are philosophically opposed to AI. The features that do use AI are for narrow use cases, like helping generate alt text, searching photos, or summarizing bookmarks.
I wanted to double down on human creation too, like our audio narration feature. As I blogged at the time:
What struck me as particularly relevant now as we’re about to be swamped with AI-generated content is that there’s no substitute for the human voice. I don’t just mean that an actual recording is better than a synthetic voice. I also mean that things that are created by humans will increasingly be sought out.
We want to see the personal side of someone, not just the polished brand. We want to see the imperfect, the creative, the emotion. We want authenticity.
That was about a year and a half ago. The tech world is changing very quickly. Everything feels a little chaotic.
This year that early approach we had for AI will continue, but I want to experiment more, within some constraints. I’m focused on striking the right balance: sticking to our principles of human curation over algorithmic ranking, while still building genuinely useful features that help people use their time well.
You will never see an infinite “for you”-style timeline in Micro.blog. Those interfaces are designed to increase engagement, often to fuel ad-based platforms. We honestly do not care about engagement. It would certainly help the business to keep pulling people in, with unread counts and recommending popular users, but the cost is too great for me. I don’t want to build software that begs for attention.
So here’s what I’m thinking. We are all overwhelmed right now with the news and the flood of social posts that highlight the divisive more than the beautiful. Let’s not add to that. I think there’s an opportunity to use AI in a few new areas:
There are a million things AI could do. Personally I’m using it more and more. But for Micro.blog, having a small set of pillars that we can build around will keep us grounded. It will keep us centered on users instead of lost in the weeds of everything that is technically possible.
2026-02-01 00:57:00
Everyone should at least skim through some of the posts on Moltbook. Whether you’re an AI skeptic, or a programmer, or just curious. I’m not saying it’s good or bad… Value judgements don’t even matter right now. Everything is crazy and the future is up for grabs.
2026-01-31 12:28:48
Went to see Steve Martin and Martin Short tonight. Great show. Martin Short also had a few words to honor Catherine O’Hara at the end. Just perfect.
2026-01-31 04:20:30
Lots of interesting stats in Bluesky’s trust and safety report for 2025. Just a small part:
Harassment reports (1.99M total) encompassed a wide spectrum of behavior, from serious violations to everyday incivility. The new taxonomy distinguishes hate speech (55.40K reports), targeted harassment (42.52K reports), trolling (29.48K reports), and doxxing (3.17K reports) from more general unkindness.