Tech
Attie
I just signed up for access to Attie, a new AI-based app from Bluesky, which allows you to shape your feed on the social network using plain language. To be honest, I wasn’t that excited about the app when it was first announced. It can be hard these days
A Change In The Atmosphere
With the announcement on the A New Social blog that Bridgy Fed, was bringing longform to the Atmosphere, I found myself wanting to play with some of the current blogging tools running on AT Proto.1 Bridgy Fed has been helpful in syndicating my Fediverse posts from Ghost to Bluesky
Moondrop Displacement
If you live in a first-world country with a sizable knowledge work sector, you might find it hard to escape the subject of AI. That’s probably an understatement. We are saturated with talk of artificial intelligence and, in particular, large language models. The economist Edgar R. Fiedler is quoted
A Cutting Egress
About a week ago, many bloggers were writing about the nightmare scenario of getting locked out of your iCloud account. Indeed, what could terrify a geek more? There was sense of panic at the realization this could occur. Nick Heer writes at Pixel Envy: What I am stunned by is
Free The Bluebird
Cyrus Farivar writes for Ars Technica about a startup company that wants to reclaim the Twitter brand from the clutches of Elon Musk. Called Operation Bluebird, the company has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office on the premise that X Corporation has abandoned it. Elon
The Demise of a Newsletter
Another Substack writer jettisons the platform.
Cleaning Out My Closet
I was inspired by this post from Adam Wood to go through my Roon library and remove albums that didn’t necessarily belong as part of my collection. These were albums that were taken in as a result of curiosity and didn’t sustain my interest past an initial listen
Shareholder Value
People are expecting too much from corporations.
Locked Down Media
It's getting harder in the U.S. to obtain art from overseas.
Omarchy
37Signals tries its hand at making an operating system for devs.
