You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

Not here because it's a left-leaning site, here because I see this as a renewed vision of the internet.

What an incredible time at #DWebCampCascadia this year with @dwebyvr.org!

On a regular basis, I go through my email, and remember #SteveAlbini.

I’m so bad at trying to social media. How will I feed my family without clout?!

Ah, the technical tirade. 'Tis a good one, this one: wren.wtf/shower-thoug...

Love Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: “The reason we’re alive is to express ourselves in the world. And creating art may be the most effective and beautiful method of doing so. Art goes beyond language, beyond lives. It’s a universal way to send messages between each other and through time.”

A+++ Tirade. Fast shipping. Would read again. “What are you going to do, stop eating ice cream just because it punishes speaking out against genocide? Stop drinking coffee because of union busting? Give up two-day shipping because of human rights violations?”

Rogue@rogue.site · 4w ago

Unpopular decisions make stock prices go up. Successful art leads to firings. AI is in everything and data centers are going up everywhere. Welcome to the Because Fuck You, That's Why economy. www.rogue.site/editorials/f...

It doesn't matter what kind of conference you've signed up to go to, it's actually going to be a conference about AI.

Behold my cavalcade of creatures, covering a wide spectrum of leggedness.

Another goodie from this newsletter. I'd love to know who's sending this out. rokosbas.beehiiv.com/p/june-17-2026

Intelligence Becomes Contraband

Plus: Meta's cross-platform AI, AI-driven cybercrime, and Alibaba's robot push.

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"Whether open-source models eventually close the performance gap and provide a genuine ownership alternative is the question that will determine what kind of infrastructure AI actually becomes [...] the fence is up, the cameras are running, and the lease is long" rokosbas.beehiiv.com/p/june-15-2026

AI's Landlord Era

Plus: Bezos's artificial engineer, Apple's Siri line, Pokémon Go's military afterlife.

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Voodoo Sweeney-nomics

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2mo ago

"Acquiring one grape costs Alex $2 billion. Alex offers to sell Mike one grape a month for the next 12 months for $1 billion per grape. Alex asks for the full $12 billion up front and provides Mike with one grape for the first month..."

I love how meta working on this thing gets. Markdown diagram in my markdown app showing some architecture plans for my markdown app.

How or why does every podcast have that music?

Trying an idea I'm stealing from @doctorow.pluralistic.net, wherein I summarize this blog post in long-ass thread form! ---- Wherein I mourn the death of the #openweb, and muse about what comes next. angelmarino.com/the-poverty-...

The Poverty of Digital Life

Wherein I mourn the death of the open web, and muse about what comes next.

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I love everything this guy touches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67z...

I Gave ChatGPT a Body

YouTube video by Art of the Problem

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The best thing about it this article, it begs the question, what does government look like if it were to grow and evolve to meet society and technology where it’s going. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

American Democracy Wasn’t Designed for This

Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?

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Big day out for a little snake! Love how pretty her eyes look in the sun.

Fully endorse the Obsession + Backrooms double feature, especially if you’re a sucker for horror and go into them cold.

I knew this was going to happen. I published two blog posts, and now I have like five of them, but just 90% written.

My favorite part about building a markdown editor: I can't stop writing inside of it, while I'm building it. github.com/solo-ist/prose

GitHub - solo-ist/prose: Markdown editor for the agentic era

Markdown editor for the agentic era. Contribute to solo-ist/prose development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Holy crap Meetup got bad. Love these SPAs that are *so* SPA you can’t even CMD + click a new tab.

Focusing on doing one thing at a time? Imagine that! A little pricey for what you're getting, but I love Monocle! I hope this dev isn't offended if/when I make a FOSS version. #monotasking www.heyiam.dk/monocle

Monocle for macOS • Noise-cancelling for your screen

Blur everything but your active window — just wiggle your cursor.

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I've been toying with this idea of "mutable, immutable apps." Like each user gets their own little container sandbox. Security doesn't come from code signing, it comes from getting an immutable image, which means you don't need a central signing authority, just a hash.

It's kind of disgusting how good #warp is. An open source, multi-harness, multi-agent, meta-harness is the way to go. I wish they had a "bring your own OZ" option though...

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

I’m really looking forward to this becoming popular, then showing up on short form vertical video feeds.

💡 Watch the recording of the latest DWeb Virtual Meetup, where we welcomed @lxcast.bsky.social of @folktech.bsky.social, @b-cavello.bsky.social of @aspendigital.bsky.social, and @lizbarry.bsky.social of @metagov.bsky.social! Join us at DWeb Camp on 8–12 Jul to talk about these ideas and more 🌻

What does your token burn *actually* cost? Can't say I agree with AI having *no* ROI, but these guys have definitely clocked the economics around the current token panic. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ngk...

Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky

Better Offline · Episode

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