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Boris Mann

@bmann

Community. Decentralized Web. Vancouver. Elsewhere: 🐘 https://t.co/YJMVmom3yb 🦋https://t.co/L5jllr7JQW

Vancouver, BC Katılım Ekim 2006
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Hello! You are part of a grand experiment in totally automated posting. I cross post my daily notes and links to a number of networks, including this Twitter feed. You can also subscribe by RSS, or following me a few other, more friendlier places bmannconsulting.com/feeds/
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@kevinrose @bluesky Haha. I mean, yes, but we’re on Bluesky, Smoke Signal (events), Leaflet (blogs ) and all the other cool social apps we’re building on ATProto
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[[The Shape of What You Meant]] is a blog post about [[Index Network]], a kind of ambient discovery that describes its contrast with performative social media and how things must be public in order to aid in discovery. blog.index.network/the-shape-of-w…
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Slow Software for a Burning World as [[Bonfire]] heads to a v1.0 release: "In a world of 'move fast and break things,' we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship.
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In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it,
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[[The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine]]
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I had a lot of respect for [[Anthropic]] before they released this feculent bile that is the Model Context Protocol spec and initial implementations to the public. It just feels so half-baked and barely functional. xeiaso.net/blog/2025/roll…
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[[Rolling up the ladder behind us]], by Xe Iaso. "Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.":
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"between hyper-centralized systems that inevitably tend toward extraction and manipulation, versus distributed systems that enhance human agency and preserve choice." techdirt.com/2025/06/16/why…
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[[Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future]] is a response to Sam Altman's "gentle singularity", written by [[Alex Komoroske]], founder of [[Common Tools]]
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#apps-are-avocado-slicers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">inkandswitch.com/essay/malleabl…
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[[Apps Are Avocado Slicers]]: "…because the avocado slicer is narrowly focused on one task, it’s useless at anything else. If you used a specialized gadget for every single task, you’d end up with a mountain of plastic." From [[Ink & Switch]] [[Malleable Software Essay]].
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[[Devine Lu Linvega Devine]] wrote notes on [[Malleable Computing XXIIVV malleable computing]] as a reflection on the [[Malleable Software Essay Ink & Switch Malleable Software essay]]. wiki.xxiivv.com/site/malleable…
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I’ve been uneasy about [[Matrix]] for a long time. This post goes on to recommend where to look for a replacement: [[Polyproto]], [[Delta Chat]], [[Revolt]] blog.cyrneko.eu/matrix-is-cook…
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[[Radicle]], an open source p2p collaboration stack around git repos, has a new desktop app. desktop.radicle.xyz
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