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Community. Decentralized Web. Vancouver. Elsewhere: 🐘 https://t.co/YJMVmom3yb 🦋https://t.co/L5jllr7JQW

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Boris Mann
2 years
Hello! You are part of a grand experiment in totally automated posting. I cross post my daily notes and links to a number of networks, including this Twitter feed. You can also subscribe by RSS, or following me a few other, more friendlier places
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bmannconsulting.com
Journals are most active, with micro-blog sized updates referencing Note updates or interesting links and articles bmannconsulting.com/journal.xml Cross-pos...
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Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI
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blog.bmannconsulting.com
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3 months
[[The Shape of What You Meant]] is a blog post about [[Index Network]], a kind of ambient discovery that describes its contrast with performative social media and how things must be public in order to aid in discovery.
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blog.index.network
You’ve probably been there, looking for someone, not just anyone, but someone who gets it. Maybe you’re building something new and don’t want to do it alone. Maybe your idea doesn’t even have a name...
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3 months
Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale."
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3 months
Slow Software for a Burning World as [[Bonfire]] heads to a v1.0 release: "In a world of 'move fast and break things,' we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship.
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3 months
In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it,
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3 months
[[The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine]]
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3 months
I had a lot of respect for [[Anthropic]] before they released this feculent bile that is the Model Context Protocol spec and initial implementations to the public. It just feels so half-baked and barely functional.
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xeiaso.net
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
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Boris Mann
3 months
[[Rolling up the ladder behind us]], by Xe Iaso. "Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.":
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4 months
"between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice."
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techdirt.com
Sam Altman’s vision of a “gentle singularity” where AI gradually transforms society presents an alluring future of abundance and human flourishing. His optimism about AI’s p…
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Boris Mann
4 months
[[Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future]] is a response to Sam Altman's "gentle singularity", written by [[Alex Komoroske]], founder of [[Common Tools]]
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Boris Mann
4 months
[[Apps Are Avocado Slicers]]: "…because the avocado slicer is narrowly focused on one task, it’s useless at anything else. If you used a specialized gadget for every single task, you’d end up with a mountain of plastic." From [[Ink & Switch]] [[Malleable Software Essay]].
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4 months
[[Devine Lu Linvega Devine]] wrote notes on [[Malleable Computing XXIIVV malleable computing]] as a reflection on the [[Malleable Software Essay Ink & Switch Malleable Software essay]].
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By Devine Lu Linvega
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4 months
I’ve been uneasy about [[Matrix]] for a long time. This post goes on to recommend where to look for a replacement: [[Polyproto]], [[Delta Chat]], [[Revolt]]
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4 months
[[Radicle]], an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app.
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desktop.radicle.xyz
Local-first code collaboration on a peer-to-peer network
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