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NEWS! Anil Dash will be keynote speaker at the next FediForum Oct 6-7!
Anil is a technologist, writer and activist advocating for ethical, inclusive tech. He'll talk about lessons learned working on open standards, community and what's to come.
More details & registration:
Anil is a technologist, writer and activist advocating for ethical, inclusive tech. He'll talk about lessons learned working on open standards, community and what's to come.
More details & registration:
FediForum | Next FediForum: 6–7 October 2026. Keynote by Anil Dash!
Registration is open. Propose sessions. Suggest cool demos.
fediforum.org
September 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
NEWS! Anil Dash will be keynote speaker at the next FediForum Oct 6-7!
Anil is a technologist, writer and activist advocating for ethical, inclusive tech. He'll talk about lessons learned working on open standards, community and what's to come.
More details & registration:
Anil is a technologist, writer and activist advocating for ethical, inclusive tech. He'll talk about lessons learned working on open standards, community and what's to come.
More details & registration:
boiling is the worst way to cook food
this includes bagels, shellfish, even hot pot
pasta is only good because you immediately put tasty non-boiled stuff on it before you eat it
I will not be taking questions at this time
this includes bagels, shellfish, even hot pot
pasta is only good because you immediately put tasty non-boiled stuff on it before you eat it
I will not be taking questions at this time
August 31, 2026 at 11:49 PM
boiling is the worst way to cook food
this includes bagels, shellfish, even hot pot
pasta is only good because you immediately put tasty non-boiled stuff on it before you eat it
I will not be taking questions at this time
this includes bagels, shellfish, even hot pot
pasta is only good because you immediately put tasty non-boiled stuff on it before you eat it
I will not be taking questions at this time
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“The Speed of the Earth” has returned to Black Rock City. Originally created in 02024, this art piece by Long Now Board members @kevinkelly.bsky.social and David Rumsey uses a mile-long line of solar-powered LED strobes to create a streak of light that moves at the speed of the Earth's rotation.
August 31, 2026 at 8:42 PM
“The Speed of the Earth” has returned to Black Rock City. Originally created in 02024, this art piece by Long Now Board members @kevinkelly.bsky.social and David Rumsey uses a mile-long line of solar-powered LED strobes to create a streak of light that moves at the speed of the Earth's rotation.
at 44 years of age I am just now realizing that my favorite food is fat
August 29, 2026 at 2:06 AM
at 44 years of age I am just now realizing that my favorite food is fat
High gas (and oil) prices may be hard on working class people, and on supply chains, but they're good for progress on the climate crisis.
I'm optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc. will help both sides of this tradeoff.
I'm optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc. will help both sides of this tradeoff.
August 18, 2026 at 6:48 PM
High gas (and oil) prices may be hard on working class people, and on supply chains, but they're good for progress on the climate crisis.
I'm optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc. will help both sides of this tradeoff.
I'm optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc. will help both sides of this tradeoff.
Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code.
If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own - granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc - it's 51kloc total.
(Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.)
If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own - granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc - it's 51kloc total.
(Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.)
August 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code.
If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own - granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc - it's 51kloc total.
(Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.)
If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own - granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc - it's 51kloc total.
(Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.)
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This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress
ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
August 12, 2026 at 8:57 PM
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress
ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
Surprising but true: in 2025, *all* net new electricity generation added worldwide was clean, ie non greenhouse gas emitting. 99% was renewable! 75% solar, 24% wind.
Global Electricity Review 2026 | Ember
Solar surge halts fossil generation rise as clean power meets all demand growth and renewables overtake coal
ember-energy.org
August 7, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Surprising but true: in 2025, *all* net new electricity generation added worldwide was clean, ie non greenhouse gas emitting. 99% was renewable! 75% solar, 24% wind.
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Periodic reminder: we still don't have a comprehensive threat model for social software. We need one!
Out of everything I want as a social software developer, a real threat model might be at the top of the list. It would help *so much*.
Out of everything I want as a social software developer, a real threat model might be at the top of the list. It would help *so much*.
May 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Periodic reminder: we still don't have a comprehensive threat model for social software. We need one!
Out of everything I want as a social software developer, a real threat model might be at the top of the list. It would help *so much*.
Out of everything I want as a social software developer, a real threat model might be at the top of the list. It would help *so much*.
Much of my career boils down to:
All code is liability. Minimize it.
Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more.
We're bad at predicting the future. Avoid it.
More tests.
Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way.
Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
All code is liability. Minimize it.
Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more.
We're bad at predicting the future. Avoid it.
More tests.
Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way.
Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
August 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Much of my career boils down to:
All code is liability. Minimize it.
Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more.
We're bad at predicting the future. Avoid it.
More tests.
Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way.
Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
All code is liability. Minimize it.
Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more.
We're bad at predicting the future. Avoid it.
More tests.
Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way.
Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
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Star Axis is complete. 50 years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory in New Mexico. An open lens tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's precession.
Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...
Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...
August 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Star Axis is complete. 50 years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory in New Mexico. An open lens tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's precession.
Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...
Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel"
Horace Walpole - Wikiquote
en.wikiquote.org
July 31, 2026 at 6:29 PM
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel"
Huge, and surprising, and important. Dementia is down by almost half over the last 40-50y!
(Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and - news to me - the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)
(Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and - news to me - the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)
“Some of the researchers just couldn’t believe the numbers themselves.” Jonathan Rosenthal tells “The Intelligence” of an astonishing decline in dementia rates
Working memory: the surprising decline of dementia
Also on the daily podcast: why Donald Trump hates Brazil’s Pix payments system and emo music stages a comeback
bit.ly
July 30, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Huge, and surprising, and important. Dementia is down by almost half over the last 40-50y!
(Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and - news to me - the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)
(Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and - news to me - the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)
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Forget Utopian futures, or dystopian ones, and aim for Protopia — a slight betterment. I explain in full: kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
Protopia
For over a decade I have been talking about protopia, but I have never written out my description of it.
kevinkelly.substack.com
July 27, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Forget Utopian futures, or dystopian ones, and aim for Protopia — a slight betterment. I explain in full: kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
every packet is an adventure
July 26, 2026 at 5:41 AM
every packet is an adventure
TIL: "valley-free" routing
Valley-Free Routing « ipSpace.net blog
Reading academic articles about Internet-wide routing challenges you might stumble upon valley-free routing – a pretty important concept with applications in WAN and data center routing design.
If you...
blog.ipspace.net
July 25, 2026 at 7:15 PM
TIL: "valley-free" routing
Of all the themes in The Matrix, one of my favorites is the requirement of a land line to call the operator and exit the Matrix.
Cordless phones, cell radios, wireless networking...none of it can be trusted. When you're doing serious business, you need good old copper.
Cordless phones, cell radios, wireless networking...none of it can be trusted. When you're doing serious business, you need good old copper.
Hardline
A hardline (also spelled hard line or hard-line) refers to the wired telephones that Redpills used in order to jack out of the old Matrix versions prior to The Analyst's version. Because jacking in an...
matrix.fandom.com
July 15, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Of all the themes in The Matrix, one of my favorites is the requirement of a land line to call the operator and exit the Matrix.
Cordless phones, cell radios, wireless networking...none of it can be trusted. When you're doing serious business, you need good old copper.
Cordless phones, cell radios, wireless networking...none of it can be trusted. When you're doing serious business, you need good old copper.
Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies
July 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies
taking a vacation? forgot which day of the week it is? don't worry, hotel elevator's got you
July 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
taking a vacation? forgot which day of the week it is? don't worry, hotel elevator's got you
Real-time animated dashboard of SF water and sewage flow at @mysfpuc.bsky.social headquarters.
June 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Real-time animated dashboard of SF water and sewage flow at @mysfpuc.bsky.social headquarters.
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We do have to come to terms with the fact that the open social web is for everyone not just the people we agree with
June 19, 2026 at 1:07 PM
We do have to come to terms with the fact that the open social web is for everyone not just the people we agree with
no no, you don't understand, it's not a torment nexus
it's just a torment fidget spinner
it's just a torment fidget spinner
June 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
no no, you don't understand, it's not a torment nexus
it's just a torment fidget spinner
it's just a torment fidget spinner