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dietrich @burrito.space · 2d

opening transient web pages with Singular works now

works really nicely with browser pickers like Velja (shown here)

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · 2d

best podcast I’ve ever listened to on this subject, period.

Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 3d

This talk is absolutely tremendous. AI, cellular automata, how to define intelligence, how life emerges from building blocks, symbiogenesis… Incredible. overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? — Long Now

overcast.fm

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jsulz @jsulz.com · 12d

The Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀

A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-...

In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.

Graph showing the conversion of Hugging Face repositories from LFS storage to Xet storage.

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pvh @pvh.ca · 22d

It's pretty cool that Ink & Switch is contributing to this big ARIA programme now. We get two big things out of it: funding (obviously) but also a community of fascinating creators and problems to connect with. I'm learning all about the UK power grid this week.
www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/d...

ARIA Safeguarded AI Programme, new faces, and a splattering of ink lab notes

Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who have recently joined our staff. Finally, we’ve got a collection of lab notes about Programmable Ink...

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 23d

If credible exit is technically possible, then adversarial interoperability becomes possible.

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Jan @janfj.bsky.social · 24d

Darc now running perfectly in helium browser @wukko.me Its a perfect match, helium as the streamlined minimal browser engine and darc as the maximalist everything browser UI

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · 25d

Good control plane design

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 25d

this book rocks

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 27d

WASM 3.0 is released! And guess what gets a mention? @spritelyinst.bsky.social's Hoot! webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...

webassembly.org

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Swift Language @swift.org · 27d

With ✨Swift 6.2 ✨, you can now target WebAssembly, including WASI support. Get started here: www.swift.org/documentatio... #Wasm

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 27d

Likely result? Maybe something like... bubble, short winter, then Perez thesis takes over... Compute overcapacity after crash acts as new low-cost input, enter synergy phase, and AI *really* starts to take off. Supercycle probably on the order of 5yrs?

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · Sep 15

beautiful essay, reminds me of workshop labs’ thesis: workshoplabs.ai

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · Apr 24

I personally see collapse as an inevitability for every individual institution. Nothing lasts forever. The smart way to build systems is to enable reforms so that they can adjust to reality without destroying what works in the process.

This is pretty baked into the philosophy of Bluesky

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · Sep 12

gotta check out blaft publications

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · Sep 12

I will be there, it will be in Montreal, and you will definitely hear about our new MCP security thingamabobs.

BetaKit @betakit.com · Sep 12

On Sept. 25 at ALL IN, @BetaKit’s Douglas Soltys will talk to founders of Tailscale and Airudi about scaling #AI. Data access, regulation, talent, and growth are all on the table.

Get your tickets to ALL IN here: bit.ly/4mZffYj

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Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · Sep 4

Apple's Assault on Standards: Alex Russell dives deep into Apple's decade of harm and sabotage of the web and web standards.

infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...

Apple's Assault on Standards - Infrequently Noted

By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users might use against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives. This high-modernist appr...

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Swift Language @swift.org · Sep 11

Lots of exciting progress with Wasm on Swift, thanks to contributions from a wide variety of sources: forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-... #Wasm

Swift for Wasm: Q3 2025 Updates

Since official support for Wasm in Swift 6.2 was announced at WWDC this year, Swift contributors have done a huge amount of work. To provide better visibility and to track progress, here’s a list of n...

forums.swift.org

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Boris @bmann.ca · Sep 5

JesterKit lets you package SvelteKit apps as an executable.

Love the tagline! “Tools for digital artisans to build and distribute standalone software”

JesterKit - Tools for digital artisans to build and distribute standalone Software - Boris Mann Tech Blog

blog.bmannconsulting.com

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · Sep 4

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Swift Language @swift.org · Sep 3

Writing Swift for tiny devices: an article on Playdate game Four Corners, recently rewritten in Swift for faster performance news.play.date/news/four-co...
TL;DR "Any game that is particularly demanding that you would typically want to write in C could probably be achieved with Swift."

Four Corners: the first game in Catalog written in Swift - Playdate News

Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.

news.play.date

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Luke Hubbard @lukeinth.bsky.social · Sep 4

User & Agents demo time hangout later today on discord.

discord.gg/Tdp46pRq?eve...

Join the User & Agents Discord Server!

We are a community space focused on shaping the future of user-agent systems. Our goal is to empower individuals with so | 285 members

discord.gg

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · Sep 1

What if a browser could navigate #ATProto DIDs and 🦋 Bluesky handles?

Made a little prototype of Aura, a browser that can navigate between standard websites (🌐), Bluesky handles (@), and permanent DIDs, resolving them all in the same address bar.

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Boris @bmann.ca · Aug 30

How you decentralize:

Make popular products that get adoption.

Have an open system that anyone can build on.

Make more dev education & tooling to make product building easier.

Have grants & funding to build.

Increase the willingness of users to support products with $

Marat ꙮ Shakirov @minbash.bsky.social · Aug 30

#atmosphere is to concentrated yet arewedecentralizedyet.online

How are we going to change that ? 🪧

Are We Decentralized Yet?

A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web services

arewedecentralizedyet.online

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is what I'm building btw deepfuture.now

Deep Future - AI scenario planning

deepfuture.now

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · Aug 30

I learnt of this thing watching an anime yesterday, Dr. Stone!

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