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How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.
"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."
This cannot continue.
"Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers." Increasingly, incentive structures are asking them to.
A dystopian week, with a glimmer of hope: alternatives are available.
Julien Genestoux thinks the open web needs netizens. I agree – and in 2026, that's indistinguishable from citizenry.
"Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos."
LinkedIn is using invasive techniques to fingerprint your browser. Together with its understanding of your identity and professional history, it has the ingredients for an incredibly detailed profile.
Flipboard's browser for the open social web is out for web users today.
"Four weeks into the war, Iran is plummeting toward total digital isolation with its internet blocked and communications heavily restricted and monitored." And it's part of a bigger trend.
"Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned." The point is to create a chilling effect.
I joined Rabble on the Revolution.Social podcast.
A new white paper about building open communities for news.
Bluesky's new service isn't about AI; it's about accessibility.
By treating source materials as contraband, the DOJ is putting both journalism and democracy at risk.
Want to report your friends and neighbors for extrajudicial kidnapping? The new White House app wants you to get in touch.
Newsrooms have been slow to care about the open social web - but one of their most important support organizations is paying attention.
Progress on the open social web; not so much in the world.
"If you want stronger decisions, make space for every voice." This is a simple technique to do this in your meetings that really works.
The implications of this case could include the effective end of Section 230 protections – and a new wave of attacks on places where people learn, share, and connect online.
John O'Nolan built a CLI for his own product - and found himself using it in an entirely new way. The underlying trend here is really exciting.
"Our home planet is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies." How we react matters.
"The materialist response isn't to reject the new technology. It's to evolve our licenses to encompass it."
"Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't." Open source activism at its finest.
"Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors."
"Democratic backsliding is now happening in well-established democracies. Democracy in the USA is deteriorating at unprecedented speed, and media and journalists are increasingly targeted across the world."
Agentic engineering and burnout.
It's one of the most popular news sites in the country, and it's wildly profitable. It might be the right time for Yahoo to bounce back.
"That guilt was manufactured. It was placed inside you by an industry that profits from your participation and a wellness culture that profits from your shame."
