dsearls
@dsearls.bsky.social
Journalist, author, blogger, podcaster, photographer, farting-arounder
I think these are the best photos of clouds that I've ever shot. www.flickr.com/photos/docse...
2026_09_02 Thunderstorms at Sunset
Shots of thunderstorm cells at sunset on a flight from Newark to Indianapolis.
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I've been wondering about reality. See here: doc.searls.com/2026/08/23/m... Tell me what you think. Or, better yet, know.
Moneyday
Turing Testings Like “Goldie Boone,” whom I wrote about here last month, “Lana Azul” (above right) is a fake singer. Pure AI. Her music too, I suppose. I’m sure of it.…
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I've tightened up doc.searls.com/2026/06/27/f... to make it clear what the title means, and how we'll get to it, inevitably:
The First Source of Personal Intent
The largest coming conflict in the new AI world is not the one between AI giants or the one between those giants and governments. It will be the conflict between containment and expansion of person…
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Being old and Catholic, I couldn't resist: doc.searls.com/2026/05/29/a...
Active Devotion
Being old, I get lots of ads for Chair Tai Chi, Chair Yoga, and other positional challenges toward staying alive, limber, and not much closer to dead than you are without them. So this one occurred…
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Yo @wordpress.org @duckduckgo.com @mozilla.org @drupalassociation.bsky.social @archive.org You might want to read this: doc.searls.com/2026/05/26/f... Same goes for everyone who cares about the Web enough to save it, and about business enough to make it work better for everyone.
From Losing the Web to Saving Us All
As Q&A with AI chatbots replaces search, the Web is starting to look run-down, and in some ways is being abandoned. If that continues, what happens to the Web’s architects, authors, and i…
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I just wrote this about writing with, and like, an AI: doc.searls.com/2026/05/22/g...
Getting Real
This image is clipped from one in the story below, about how people in Sofia mark potholes so the city can debug them. In my Oofday post, I shared a post in Hackernoon titled We Treated Potholes Li…
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My response to a new project for AI agent governance: doc.searls.com/2026/05/10/p...
Personal Agentry
Google Trends of searches over time. The agentic thing is hot right now. It also needs to be personal and not just corporate. In Know your .agent, Esther Dyson suggests that we need a DNS-like…
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Nobody understands the war between honesty and deception better than @judithmedia.bsky.social, who will be speaking here at Indiana University and live on Zoom tomorrow at 4pm Eastern. Tune in and register (it helps) here: events.iu.edu/bloomington/...
The Alchemy of Confidence
Join us for an exciting talk given by Hardvard faculty fellow Judith Donath as part of the “Beyond the Web” salon series piloted by Ostrom...
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Talk about audacious: projectvrm.org/2026/04/07/s... Interested? Lemme know.
Shooting for the World – ProjectVRM
There is no organisation on Earth with a more audacious purpose than this one: This isn't shooting for the Moon. It's shooting for the whole world of business. What Customer Commons wants to restore isn't just what was lost when the Internet got real. (For example, privacy.) Customer Commons also wants to restore personal agency…
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Interesting hook of thurnderstorms from Chicago to Detroit by way of Northern Illinois and Indiana, with a spur across the Erie top of Ohio: www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?r...
Professional weather forecast
50+ weather layers, weather radar and satellite
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If you think surveillance pricing (prices just for you, based on surveillance) is bad, you need to dig this: doc.searls.com/2026/02/12/b...
Because Pricing is Getting Too Personal
Surveillance pricing already has its own page in Wikipedia. It also has its own authority: Abbey Stemler, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Weimer Faculty Fellow in Business Law &a…
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Big thing going down in London on the 28th. See you there or in a Zoom square: doc.searls.com/2026/01/20/n...
Now the Future Can Start
That’s a screen grab of an email we’re sending out for the MyTerms launch in London. Links: To attend online: To attend in person: Be there in a Zoom square. Or in old-fashioned reality…
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Here is a short video that condenses my hour-long talk on MyTerms at Indiana University: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2B7... Does a pretty good job.
MyTerms Reclaiming Your Digital Self
YouTube video by MyTerms
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Had fun writing this one: doc.searls.com/2025/12/30/o...
On the Scariest Roller Coaster Ever Built
The original Cyclone roller coaster at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, built in 1927. The photo is by my father, Allen H. Searls, who helped build it and turned nineteen that year. I just d…
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We are an hour and a third from a great talk Elettra Bietti will give here at Indiana University and live on Zoom. It'll be great. Please come. More here (with the Zoom link): doc.searls.com/2025/12/05/o...
On extracting yourself from the extractors
Here’s the flyer for the next talk in our salon series here at Indiana University: Elettra is one of the most interesting, smart, accomplished, caring, and effective people I know. She is als…
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I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about a new standard that flips the script on cookie notices, surveillance, and the adtech fecosystem. Its IEEE P7012, better known as #MyTerms. It'll be on Zoom. More at doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/m...
MyTerms are Your Terms
That’s the case I’ll be making next Tuesday in a talk at Indiana University. The subject is big—maybe the biggest in your online life. That’s because MyTerms is the only way you&#…
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Why I'd rather book the Death Star than use Tripadvisor for anything again: doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/l...
Life after SeatGuru
As a devout window-sitter on planes, SeatGuru was a must-have for avoiding misaligned or absent windows on booked flights. But now it’s gone, because its owner, Tripadvisor, failed to keep it…
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