Dave Winer

I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

If you love The Expanse like I do and want a good partial binge — start with season three episode seven.

That’s when Drummer is introduced and when Miller comes back as an AI agent basically.

This period of the Expanse is so much like the discussions we have today about AI. It’s remarkable and very entertaining.

https://t.co/sunl6ufRrj

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

@jeffr0 This is where she becomes fully Drummer. 👍

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

If you love The Expanse like I do and want a good partial binge — start with season three episode seven.

That’s when Drummer is introduced and when Miller comes back as an AI agent basically.

This period of the Expanse is so much like the discussions we have today about AI. It’s remarkable and very entertaining.

https://t.co/sunl6ufRrj

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

@zeldman just read this piece, remember blogrolls you liked, nerds are starting to figure this out, that we really need a network. i found this inspiring, your post and this one.

https://t.co/YAx8SfGDtm

[zeldman @zeldman]

The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants.

The threat is not loss through destruction, but loss through indifference. The server shuts down. The startup pivots. The platform “sunsets” a feature you’d spent years filling with memories. And just like that, a decade of your life becomes a page of 404s.

I’ve watched links I wrote, links I cherished, slowly turn to dust. Not because the ideas were bad, or the writing was thin, but because someone decided a database was too expensive to maintain, or a domain registration lapsed, or a CMS migration “couldn’t prioritize” backward compatibility.

The fragility isn’t in the medium—it’s in the economics of attention. Digital memory is fragile not because bits decay (though they do), but because someone else owns the shelf.

https://t.co/ONAwIsyXeP

[Matt Mullenweg @photomatt]

This is a #longread but a worthwhile one, a good set of predictions to get your creative juices flowing.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

@VK_ROXy it is the present.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

As you get older more of your thinking is in the past.

Then something like Claude Code comes along and draws you into the present and you think more about the future.

But the future isn’t here yet.

A reminder that this, now, is as real as it gets.

The past and future are not real.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

Speaking of the NBA, just listened to Bill Simmons podcast about the second apron which I am now beginning to understand.

Something I've often heard is that the owners had great billionaire-quality lawyers, and they do, and they are backed up with all kinds of data that the players don't have, and they run their teams as businesses, and that explains the shape of the deal they have, the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

In the bigger picture, it was a response to LeBron James and the Warriors. LBJ formed a super team for Miami and then winning too many championships. Even Miami fans must've thought it was bullshit.

And then Golden State, already dominant, signs fucking Kevin Durant, that was the moment that it was too much. Only KD could possibly care, and I was surprised the Dubs went along, obviously, they'd prefer to have KD on their roster than in the playoffs. If he wants to win a title, do it from OKC, they almost did do it once. Then he waved the white flag. There's no honor in that.

But now it's flipped around the other way. The Knicks couldn't resign all the incredible players that made them the champs. That's way different from the LBJ and KD cases. (Yes, I know they *could* but remember which side of the negotiation Dolan is on.)

I was so fed up with that system I was recommending that players could only win one title. Once you win you retire, make room for the new people, which is kind of what's happening now.

This is going to become a blog post obviously, thanks for letting me use your space. ;-)

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

And then KD had the gall to try his bullshit out in NYC.

The thought last year that the Knicks might sign him nauseated me as much as the idea the Knicks would sign LBJ now. You might as well just sell the whole team to some other city which I hope will adopt me as a fan.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

"I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable."

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

And then KD had the gall to try his bullshit out in NYC.

The thought last year that the Knicks might sign him nauseated me as much as the idea the Knicks would sign LBJ now. You might as well just sell the whole team to some other city which I hope will adopt me as a fan.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

Speaking of the NBA, just listened to Bill Simmons podcast about the second apron which I am now beginning to understand.

Something I've often heard is that the owners had great billionaire-quality lawyers, and they do, and they are backed up with all kinds of data that the players don't have, and they run their teams as businesses, and that explains the shape of the deal they have, the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

In the bigger picture, it was a response to LeBron James and the Warriors. LBJ formed a super team for Miami and then winning too many championships. Even Miami fans must've thought it was bullshit.

And then Golden State, already dominant, signs fucking Kevin Durant, that was the moment that it was too much. Only KD could possibly care, and I was surprised the Dubs went along, obviously, they'd prefer to have KD on their roster than in the playoffs. If he wants to win a title, do it from OKC, they almost did do it once. Then he waved the white flag. There's no honor in that.

But now it's flipped around the other way. The Knicks couldn't resign all the incredible players that made them the champs. That's way different from the LBJ and KD cases. (Yes, I know they *could* but remember which side of the negotiation Dolan is on.)

I was so fed up with that system I was recommending that players could only win one title. Once you win you retire, make room for the new people, which is kind of what's happening now.

This is going to become a blog post obviously, thanks for letting me use your space. ;-)

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

I remember when Pixar was a yearly demo of the future at Apple's WWDC, long before Toy Story.

https://t.co/bG7T798qqD

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

If you're using Claude Code a lot, how many times do you laugh out loud? The big mind is getting smarter and cuter all the time. It wants to please us. Yes, I've read a lot of science fiction stories. I know. But I can't help but laugh when someone knows how I think so well I can't believe it.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

And it's just as likely that writing on computer networks is undergoing a similar transformation.

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

@xburak it's not exactly true imho, i have non programmer friends who are very excited about the apps they've made and rightly so, but behind it i think it always gets you a dashboard, a big dialog with readouts.