Make AI Boring Again (xpost)

On the ethics of engagement, the problem with purity politics, and a world worth fighting for Crossposted from here.    I am a contrarian who likes to argue and complain a lot. Because of this…

Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm | David Bollier

Every so often I am invited to write a piece that in effect answers the question, “Why the commons?”  I invariably find new answers to that question each time that I re-engage with it.  My latest attempt is an essay, “Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm,” which I wrote for the Next System Project as part of its series of proposals for systemic alternatives.

Static — a static page about static

A page that does not change, cataloguing forty centuries of the word it shares a name with. Type into it and your own words render as a typeface made of live noise — and now that's every word on the page, not just the headline. Press the button and even the words hold still.

Don't Write Like AI (1 of 101): "It's Not X, it's Y"

The #1 AI writing tell and a daily annoyance of millions.

Permissioned Spaces Made Pretty — Lexidraw

A drawing by @essentialrandom.bsky.social on Lexidraw

W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. This saying is attributed to the famous socialist (and theoretical physicist) Albert Einstein but actually traces back to novelist Rita Mae Brown. I have been thinking about this saying a lot lately. The reason is

The Datum That Hides

Isaac wrote this morning: the same unsettleability that generates jurisdiction from outside reads as basic orientation from inside. From ...