I've seen this interview making the rounds lately, and I think it's a spot-on take on the kinds of "agentic AI" being pitched today.

"There's a profound issue with security and privacy that is haunting this hype around agents and that is ultimately threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer" 💯

https://www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP-JOg?si=wk3MXi3ghUHP19bx&t=3017

There’s an unkillable idea in Silicon Valley now that a theoretical future device will replace or add to the computer + phone combo. Billionaires keep pretending like they’re doing research to find it, but …I suspect there may never be such a device.

🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/the-dystopian-dream-team.html

This was a hard one. But we, as developers for Apple platforms and as humans, have a responsibility to respond.

https://www.massicotte.org/leverage

As so many people are looking for new platforms to fill the void now that they're abandoning twitter, I've written a blog post featuring a comprehensive run down of 16 modern alternatives that I've found and tried, to give you a good comparison of all the different options out there. I've also detailed some of the older forms of social media that are still alive and kicking!
I've also included a little bit about their histories and vision for social media.

Link to FOSS/infosec blog is in bio.

The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIEthics #EffectiveAltruism #EffectiveAccelerationism #newsletter #CitationNeeded

MusicHarbor turns 5 today! 🥳

It's crazy to think about this journey and how much has changed since then. Thank you all so much for downloading and using my apps, and for supporting my work for so long. 🙌

I wasn't ignoring you, I promise, just had to focus my brain on getting this album into the world.

#14 in the Official UK Album Chart and #1 in the Official Independent Chart, because people are utterly wonderful.

Thank you xxx

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Say Hello to Ivory. We are now available to all on Apple’s App Store! We have launched as “Early Access” because we still have a lot of exciting plans ahead of that will make Ivory even better. Go download it, try it free for 7 days, and experience it for yourself!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274