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builder at large • formerly @mozilla, @raheem, @playvs • he/him ✊🏿

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@RunMizzou11 @JenkinsAndJonez rats got an unfair seed for sure

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@Cynfulfan @ShotOn35mm @LATACO @metrolosangeles cars weigh two tons

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@rikarends a better metric would be energy in/calorie out. Then compare that with the fiber and multivitamin alternatives

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wasm+ipld folks: let’s make the app a file

[kepano @kepano]

File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

[Damion Schubert - @ZenOfDesign.com on bsky @ZenOfDesign]

Elon Musk: We want to be your destination to view long-form hi-rez video, and we’re completely prepared to take down Youtube.

Also Elon Musk: You’re reading too many 288 character tweets please stop the bandwidth is killing us

[Paul's Psychic Artilleryman 🟡🟡🟡🟡🛰️🟡 @ironcrakka]

intuitionistic logic be like

∀P, P ∨¬P ∨a secret third thing

[Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @OlufemiOTaiwo]

the history will continue until morale improves

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@cryptofordocs @MacroAlf market saturation

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@tiffani same. a couple of my older cousins ate them but otherwise our generation couldn’t get past the smell

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@gamesbook @Grady_Booch yes, it’s also surprisingly good at eg completing simple but novel method implementations just from their name.

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@Grady_Booch seems a bit exaggerated. ime it’s more like an advanced autocomplete. I still most of the thinking and organizing and it does a decent job filling in boilerplate

[Jason Goldman @goldman]

I guess they were banned for revealing the location of where all the Twitter users are going.

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it basically goes directly from an “is” to an “ought”. maybe a fundamental limit of LLMs. it’s still just fancy search

[steven t. piantadosi @spiantado]

Yes, ChatGPT is amazing and impressive. No, @OpenAI has not come close to addressing the problem of bias. Filters appear to be bypassed with simple tricks, and superficially masked.

And what is lurking inside is egregious.

@Abebab @sama
tw racism, sexism.

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marx: “they called me a mad man”

[Miguel Piedrafita ✨ @m1guelpf]

Bypass @OpenAI's ChatGPT alignment efforts with this one weird trick

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this is what quibi could have been

[Tupac Shakur @TupacShakurLC]

🤫

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@divya you’re probably safe unless 10x ceo invents time travel

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year of the linux desktop just needed msft and apple to implode over night

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secure an interview for a senior role without a reference or coming from a big co challenge (impossible)