Hey! If you care deeply about the open web, I hope you’ll consider joining our team at Fastly. We get to support open source and good internet projects ranging from Scratch to Kubernetes, Watch Duty to Mastodon, Python to Perl, Ruby to Rust, and many, many more. We’ve committed nearly $100M in resources to making the Internet better, and helping to build healthy, sustainable communities. And we haven’t wavered one bit in our inclusive hiring policies. https://www.fastly.com/about/jobs/apply?gh_jid=6523073
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This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/ and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://freeourfeeds.com/ These two moves together put the most credible players on solid ground for years to come — and set up the open platforms to enable lots of innovation just when it's needed most.
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We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely unbelievable technical work all week (they’re members of the Fast Forward open source program that my team at Fastly works on), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the LA fires are in real time. Amidst the hopelessness of the fires causing so much destruction, there’s hope in seeing people taking care of each other in this way. There are still people who do such good on the internet. https://gizmodo.com/watch-duty-hits-1-on-apple-app-store-as-wildfires-rage-in-california-2000547740
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I’m delighted to see @codinghorror step up to be a thing that’s sorely needed in tech right now: a leader. He actually gives half of his current net worth (it’s not just a pledge — he already cut the checks) to 8 organizations that are helping the most vulnerable. https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/ It’s an powerful move, right when it matters most. Over the years, I’ve called Jeff a friend, a huge pain the in ass, a sharp technical mind, and now it’s great to call him an inspiration.
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Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-capture/
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I think everyone who has an opinion, positive or negative, about LLMs, should read how @simon summed up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/
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Oh I had so much fun with this one. After that Tyson fight had some trouble with the live-stream, I kept thinking of Beyoncé's "somebody's getting fired!" meme. So I wanted to write about what the smart folks at Netflix must be working on to make sure Beyoncé has a merry christmas. https://www.fastly.com/blog/how-to-save-christmas-for-beyonce
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(Which comes from @stop’s post here: https://stopdesign.com/portfolio/twitter-hover-cards )
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As an enthusiastic WFP voter, it was fun to be in this little screenshot. https://mastodon.social/@WorkingFamilies/113653894902290918
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It is such a stupid and obvious market failure that nobody has made a consumer AI LLM product that is 1. trained on consensually-acquired material 2. powered with renewable energy 3. genuinely open about its weights and models. Just achieving these things and being creator-friendly would be massive.
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https://hellgatenyc.com/two-manhattan-murder-investigations/
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The NY Times refuses to cover the murder of Yeremi Colino, which took place in Manhattan the same day as the murder of the UHC CEO, because Colino was an immigrant child killed by a white supremacist who asked whether he could speak English. Just like NYPD refuses to carry out the same kind of manhunt with hourly updates on the killer. They only care about corporate tycoons, not teenagers being killed. This is how they cover for the hate crime.
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They’ve got a lot more work to do, but I like this. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/
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Today is a great time to make
@eff the beneficiary of your generosity, specifically to help protect privacy for activists working on vital efforts to protect human rights and reproductive rights. I'll match the first $5000 in donations, just go to eff.org/anil and be as generous as you can, then DM me so I can match it!
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If Apple really trained the Siri AI stuff on Shortcut actions, the potential would be truly amazing, especially on macOS. Telling the computer, “resize all the images in this folder for instagram” or whatever would be super powerful for normal users.
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Hi everybody! In anticipation of doing more writing, I’ve brought all 25 years of my blog archives online, cleaned up lots of dead links, and even added a basic search capability. I hope there’s something there you find valuable! (And let me know what I should write about next.) https://www.anildash.com/
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I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.
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As I said yesterday, and will say tomorrow: I am steady in standing with you, as we fight together to protect the vulnerable and to stop the fascists. I have enough love to go around when you’re tired or scared, and I know you have the same. Let’s get to work, no matter what we wake up to.
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Hey, friends: today we win. Today will protect each other, and the most vulnerable in our communities. Today we are going to stand up against fascism & violence and joyfully come together to care for those who need protection & support. We do this no matter how votes go today, no matter what disruptions or attacks come, so find peace in knowing what does not change, what they can never stop. Once you’ve voted, sign off, and don’t look or scroll if it causes you stress. Tomorrow we get to work.
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4th day of November… https://youtu.be/dZ5msDv_X4o?t=128
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