I’ve known about the Berners-Lee Poster Session for a while, but in case you all don’t, here’s the skinny: as late as December 1991 belief in Tim-Berners Lee’s World Wide We…
Tim Berners-Lee Warns A.I. Could Kill the Web Economy as No One Visits Sites Anymore
As A.I. chatbots replace human readers, Tim Berners-Lee warns the World Wide Web’s ad-driven business model could collapse without reform.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Building AI That Benefits Everyone
In a recent Financial Times op-ed, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses how to ensure a future of AI that benefits and protects all.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
How we got here
Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.
Ben Brown
I am a writer, programmer and artist in Austin, Texas. I have been posting on the web since way back in 1996!
Eron Wolf's Opening Speech for FUTO's Don't Be Evil Conference
The Communist and the Caricature: The Missed Opportunity in August Nimtz and Kyle Edwards' "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution"
Nimtz and Edwards offer caricatures where a fascinating and nuanced reality was available.
Ali Alkhatib: On techno-optimism
I’ve got a longer draft in the works, but I don’t think that’s going to become a blog post, so I figure it might be useful to publish something here and solicit feedback, or just plant a flag in the ground that this was a thing I did. Last week Several weeks ago I gave a talk at Wayne State University titled “the uncanny pessimism of techno-optimism”. In this post I’m going to breeze through some of the stuff I talked about and give a sense of what’ll be coming. Eventually.
David Hawkins-Weeks (@hawkinsweeks.eurosky.social) - Leaflet
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Almost nothing makes my blood boil more than when a large powerful institution unfairly destroys someone’s reputation, and its principal reason for doing so is to minimize bad publicity in an effort to protect its own ‘reputation.’ Sadly, I have seen this occur in many academic…— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 2, 2026
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Attending my first #IC2S2 at Burlington, VT! I’ll be presenting my poster on July 30 (Thursday), 1:15-2:15 pm at Davis Center @uvmvermont.bsky.social If you are attending @ic2s2.bsky.social & interested in bias auditing, please stop by. Thanks @vcsi.bsky.social for sponsoring registration #ic2s22026
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
