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Perpetually 5 to 10 Years Away....
I think “AGI” or Artifical General Intelligence will be like nuclear fusion, perpetually 5 to 10 years away. “Ask someone in AI for their timeline, and they’ll tell you when they expect the arrival of AGI—artificial general intelligence—which is sometimes defined as AI technology that can match the abilities of humans at most tasks. As AI’s sophistication has scaled—thanks to faster computers, better algorithms, and more data—timelines have compressed. The leaders of major AI labs… have recently said they expect AGI within a few years. Continue reading →
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Perpetually 5 to 10 Years Away....
I think “AGI” or Artifical General Intelligence will be like nuclear fusion, perpetually 5 to 10 years away. “Ask someone in AI for their timeline, and they’ll tell you when they expect the arrival of AGI—artificial general intelligence—which is sometimes defined as AI technology that can match the abilities of humans at most tasks. As AI’s sophistication has scaled—thanks to faster computers, better algorithms, and more data—timelines have compressed. The leaders of major AI labs… have recently said they expect AGI within a few years. Continue reading →
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BlueSky, Standard.Site and Cross-Posting
I’m experimenting with this UX: Saw the post that BlueSky is now supporting longer form articles using Standard.site. Which I thinks is only good. But might it become “double plus good” if this same UX could make it so that posts that were say 500 characters, or more authored on one platform, could “POSSE” over to Bluesky in this new Standard.site mode and not just look like a link card, but as as a decent microblog post with the rest of the thread continuing in the full article. Continue reading →
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BlueSky, Standard.Site and Cross-Posting
I’m experimenting with this UX: Saw the post that BlueSky is now supporting longer form articles using Standard.site. Which I thinks is only good. But might it become “double plus good” if this same UX could make it so that posts that were say 500 characters, or more authored on one platform, could “POSSE” over to Bluesky in this new Standard.site mode and not just look like a link card, but as as a decent microblog post with the rest of the thread continuing in the full article. Continue reading →
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BlueSky, Standard.Site and Cross-Posting
I’m experimenting with this UX: Saw the post that BlueSky is now supporting longer form articles using Standard.site. Which I thinks is only good. But might it become “double plus good” if this same UX could make it so that posts that were say 500 characters, or more authored on one platform, could “POSSE” over to Bluesky in this new Standard.site mode and not just look like a link card, but as as a decent microblog post with the rest of the thread continuing in the full article. Continue reading →
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BlueSky, Standard.Site and Cross-Posting
I’m experimenting with this UX: Saw the post that BlueSky is now supporting longer form articles using Standard.site. Which I thinks is only good. But might it become “double plus good” if this same UX could make it so that posts that were say 500 characters, or more authored on one platform, could “POSSE” over to Bluesky in this new Standard.site mode and not just look like a link card, but as as a decent microblog post with the rest of the thread continuing in the full article. Continue reading →
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Indieweb Was Agentic Before It Was Cool
Hhypothesis: Developers who came out of the #indieweb communities are conceptually more comfortable with the #agenticweb ideas, as basically they have been doing it for years. #POSSE, which is the beating heart of all things indieweb, isn’t LIKE agentic social and web publishing - it IS Agentic web and social publishing. https://indieweb.org/POSSE Continue reading →
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"Why The Filibuster Absolutely Has to Go..."
Josh isn’t wrong. The fillibuster was always a bad idea. Even more damaging in times like these. “In today’s moment there’s an additional factor. If you want to reenforce and reform the federal government to make it more resistant to authoritarian assaults you very literally have to get rid of the filibuster. Otherwise, you’re limiting yourself to only the anti-authoritarian measures the authoritarians will buy into. I can’t accept that. And I can’t accept the idea that we simply do nothing. Continue reading →
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A Free Web
Like this Tim Berners-Lee quote in this article. It applies to the web, the social web and now #theagenticweb: “Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments. We see ubiquitous algorithms that are addictive by design and damaging to our teenagers’ mental health. Continue reading →
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Gemini Spark is Now Live (For Some)
This is all all launching faster than I thought. And I tought it was going to be quick. #AgenticWeb Continue reading →
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Solidarity and Subsidarity and the Open Social Web
A keen observation from Laurens, and the #OpenSocialWeb needs both of these: “If you read that statement with the fediverse and the atmosphere in mind, this is almost a diagram of the two ways the project can fail. Subsidiarity without solidarity is fragmentation: a thousand instances each guarding their own place, with no shared obligation or collaboration, with no place to maintain the commons that is the network itself. This is exactly what we see in the fediverse right now: sure there are a lot of servers, but the collaboration between instances on things like moderation is virtually nonexistent. Continue reading →
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Sleep Targets
Of all the health habits I’ve been working on good sleep targets, which you’d think would be the easist, have been the trickiest for me to get right. At least not in consistant ways, long term. And I know it is as important or more than eating well, getting right level of steps and workouts in. Maybe more as it impacts those other habits. And there is this: “New research, published in the journal Nature on May 13, does suggest that there’s a sleep “sweet spot” between 6. Continue reading →
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Google Zero
I had not seen this quote before. Whoa. #GoogleZero “Conde Nast CEO Roger Lynch on TBPN saying they are assuming all search traffic will be zero from now on.” https://www.theverge.com/google/929641/conde-nast-calls-google-zero Continue reading →
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"The Era of a Single Feed For Billions is Over."
Reading over this presentation on “After the Feed: Trust, connection, and the next era of social technology.” Am reading voices who see this #Agenticweb sea change clearly, but who also see the dangers with clear eyes and suggest ways to build now to counter those dangers. Fully agree that “The infrastructure decisions being made in technical working groups today will determine what human-agent public spaces look like for the next quarter-century. Continue reading →
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"Vigilence is Necessary"
He’s not wrong. “Vigilence is necessary.” “The pontiff called on countries to intervene and regulate artificial intelligence to “safeguard humanity,” and urged global leaders to act before the technology outruns political control. Leo condemned a tech development race he described as driven by “a dehumanizing ambition to develop ever more powerful technologies or to secure control over them.” The pontiff said the contest was being fought by ‘opposing imperialisms, powers that wish to preserve their supremacy, and those that aspire to seize that supremacy. Continue reading →
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FitBitAir Vs VivoSmart 5
Checking out the new #FitBitAir ✅ Dig that it is so small and thin ✅ Dig that it has longer battery life ✅ Really like the additional fashion bands, etc. ❌ No Apple HealthKit support ❌❌ No screen to show step count, no screen to show clock Garmin VivoSmart5 still wins on the two places FitBit Air falls down for me. (But do wish Garmin had more third party bands, etc. Continue reading →
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Good to hear: Kagi keeps coming up as the one people stick with. I’m still comparing options but it’s on my short list. Not sure how any of them compare in total index size, think many of them license Bing data but add to it.
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Thanks for this. Was a great collaboration and glad to see it getting traction. The UX conversation in the fediverse has come a long way in six months but there’s still a lot of ground to cover.
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I know that in some quarters of both the Bluesky and Fediverse side of the #OpenSocialWeb there is a justifiably allergic reaction to AI. I get it and share it. But I’m becoming more convinced than ever at this: if we in the open social web space don’t build our own healthy, safe and fair versions of #AgenticWeb interactions here, it will be defined and done for and to us.
The big platforms are already building agentic features: social enabled agents that read your feed, draft your replies, manage your presence. Those are shippping soon. Sooner than you think. And the open social web protocols are well, open by definition to these.
They’ll do it in ways that serve engagement metrics, not people. If the open social web cedes this ground, the definition of what “AI agent + social” means will be written by the same companies we built alternatives to escape.
We have something they don’t: open protocols, user-owned data, and communities that actually debate what’s acceptable. That’s exactly the right foundation for building agentic tools with consent, transparency, and human review at the center. The question isn’t whether agents are coming to social; it’s whether we shape them or they shape us.
That ends my Ted Talk.
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"Close to Nothing."
This, from Josh Marshall, rings true: “White House friendly reporters are putting out the administration’s claim that Iran has made ‘verbal commitments’ to basically shutting down or greatly reining in its nuclear program. In other words, Iran has agreed in advance to be super accommodating about agreeing to shutter its nuclear program in these coming negotiations. But that sounds like happy talk. Either BS from the White House or BS from Iran to the White House then passed on to the US press. Continue reading →
