Andy
@andyschwab.link
Working on https://sodal.io
Writing at https://blog.andyschwab.link
Building at https://github.com/andyschwab
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Writing at https://blog.andyschwab.link
Building at https://github.com/andyschwab
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
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As usual for Jack Watling, this is a fabulously data & evidence-rich paper on what the Ukrainian battlefield looks like today. A pivotal role for drones & ground robots—but also for tanks, armour & artillery, each coming into its own at different moments in an assault www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
As usual for Jack Watling, this is a fabulously data & evidence-rich paper on what the Ukrainian battlefield looks like today. A pivotal role for drones & ground robots—but also for tanks, armour & artillery, each coming into its own at different moments in an assault www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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"I would like the Commission, the Member Capitals, to leave the nostalgia behind and to start being serious about tech sovereignty." — @marietjeschaake.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"I would like the Commission, the Member Capitals, to leave the nostalgia behind and to start being serious about tech sovereignty." — @marietjeschaake.bsky.social
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I once read an analysis of systems failure that keeps flickering to mind. To paraphrase, it went: as humans, we're usually pretty good at identifying the part of a system that isn't working. Then, having found it, we work aggressively to push it... in the opposite direction it needs to go to.
August 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I once read an analysis of systems failure that keeps flickering to mind. To paraphrase, it went: as humans, we're usually pretty good at identifying the part of a system that isn't working. Then, having found it, we work aggressively to push it... in the opposite direction it needs to go to.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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![Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid4vie3df7ltmh7capumhhqcpbejyr7ya7y762fasdeq46ud3gyva@jpeg)
Testing this out. Took about ~5 minutes to get an account setup and link everything 👍
The internet was meant to be free - your identity shouldn’t be locked behind a login screen.
Introducing bsky.storage 🐔🤝🦋
Now you can back up your Bluesky data hourly + recover your account if Bluesky ever goes dark. Simple, free, & fully in your control.
Learn more:
medium.com/@storacha/in...
Introducing bsky.storage 🐔🤝🦋
Now you can back up your Bluesky data hourly + recover your account if Bluesky ever goes dark. Simple, free, & fully in your control.
Learn more:
medium.com/@storacha/in...
Introducing bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity
Take back control of your online identity. Our new tool, bsky.storage, backs up your Bluesky account hourly — free, secure &…
medium.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Testing this out. Took about ~5 minutes to get an account setup and link everything 👍
This discussion in this thread is a must read.
"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy
*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
June 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This discussion in this thread is a must read.
Spent the past week contemplating ai-2027.com
This is where I landed: blog.andyschwab.link/p/deus-ex-ma...
This is where I landed: blog.andyschwab.link/p/deus-ex-ma...
Deus Ex Machina
On the myth of AGI
blog.andyschwab.link
June 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Spent the past week contemplating ai-2027.com
This is where I landed: blog.andyschwab.link/p/deus-ex-ma...
This is where I landed: blog.andyschwab.link/p/deus-ex-ma...
Mastodon-to-Bsky bridged usernames remind me of old FidoNet-routed email addresses
May 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mastodon-to-Bsky bridged usernames remind me of old FidoNet-routed email addresses
To friends.
1st Lt. Scott Milley - Nov 30, 2010 - Baraki Barak
Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Master Sgt. Edwin Matos-Colon - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Spc. Isaac E. Diaz - Dec 1, 2004 - Sharona
Cpl. Billy Gomez - Oct 27, 2004 - Naka
1st Lt. Scott Milley - Nov 30, 2010 - Baraki Barak
Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Master Sgt. Edwin Matos-Colon - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Spc. Isaac E. Diaz - Dec 1, 2004 - Sharona
Cpl. Billy Gomez - Oct 27, 2004 - Naka
May 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
To friends.
1st Lt. Scott Milley - Nov 30, 2010 - Baraki Barak
Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Master Sgt. Edwin Matos-Colon - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Spc. Isaac E. Diaz - Dec 1, 2004 - Sharona
Cpl. Billy Gomez - Oct 27, 2004 - Naka
1st Lt. Scott Milley - Nov 30, 2010 - Baraki Barak
Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Master Sgt. Edwin Matos-Colon - Apr 6, 2005 - Ghazni
Spc. Isaac E. Diaz - Dec 1, 2004 - Sharona
Cpl. Billy Gomez - Oct 27, 2004 - Naka
FWIW, I'm a big fan of sortition.
May 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
FWIW, I'm a big fan of sortition.
The tech-topia perpetual motion economy: a solid state, solar powered datacenter enabling AI chatbot content consumed by other AI chatbots, monetized with AI-generated ads for AI-provided services, purchased by bots with revenue from AI-delivered work building AI chatbots, ads, and services 🚀
May 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The tech-topia perpetual motion economy: a solid state, solar powered datacenter enabling AI chatbot content consumed by other AI chatbots, monetized with AI-generated ads for AI-provided services, purchased by bots with revenue from AI-delivered work building AI chatbots, ads, and services 🚀
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OK! We now have the short and cute ATProto Wiki domain atproto.wiki -- thanks @baldemo.to (who is admin on the wiki and part of the community docs working group and has the keys to the hosting now too)
Previous links redirect with full paths, you'll just need to login again on the new domain.
Previous links redirect with full paths, you'll just need to login again on the new domain.
April 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
OK! We now have the short and cute ATProto Wiki domain atproto.wiki -- thanks @baldemo.to (who is admin on the wiki and part of the community docs working group and has the keys to the hosting now too)
Previous links redirect with full paths, you'll just need to login again on the new domain.
Previous links redirect with full paths, you'll just need to login again on the new domain.
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In the latest ep of the slow hunch podcast, I spoke w/ @jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app.
Originally conceived as an initiative within Twitter by Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was supposed to transform Twitter from a closed platform to an open protocol-based network.
Originally conceived as an initiative within Twitter by Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was supposed to transform Twitter from a closed platform to an open protocol-based network.
April 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In the latest ep of the slow hunch podcast, I spoke w/ @jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app.
Originally conceived as an initiative within Twitter by Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was supposed to transform Twitter from a closed platform to an open protocol-based network.
Originally conceived as an initiative within Twitter by Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was supposed to transform Twitter from a closed platform to an open protocol-based network.
This resolved or reframed 5 years of questions that had been accumulating in the back of my head.
This is an article that I've wanted to write for over a year, and I finally got the chance to do it!
Atproto Ethos is a deep dive into how we think about protocol design - its influences, the core innovations, and the opinionated takes that we've adopted
Atproto Ethos is a deep dive into how we think about protocol design - its influences, the core innovations, and the opinionated takes that we've adopted
Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol
A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.
atproto.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This resolved or reframed 5 years of questions that had been accumulating in the back of my head.
I started watching one of the @atprotocol.dev videos from #ATmosphereConf, and now I'm watching basically all of them...
March 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I started watching one of the @atprotocol.dev videos from #ATmosphereConf, and now I'm watching basically all of them...
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Where did we come from, where will we go, @pfrazee.com CTO of @bsky.app
Covers history of publishing & distribution, building out to now, and a v1.0 protocol roadmap that includes sync 1.1, OAuth with scopes, lexicon resolution, private data, and e2ee messaging
#ATmosphereConf
Covers history of publishing & distribution, building out to now, and a v1.0 protocol roadmap that includes sync 1.1, OAuth with scopes, lexicon resolution, private data, and e2ee messaging
#ATmosphereConf
Where did we come from where will we go Paul Frazee ATmosphere Seattle 2025
YouTube video by AT Protocol Development
youtu.be
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Where did we come from, where will we go, @pfrazee.com CTO of @bsky.app
Covers history of publishing & distribution, building out to now, and a v1.0 protocol roadmap that includes sync 1.1, OAuth with scopes, lexicon resolution, private data, and e2ee messaging
#ATmosphereConf
Covers history of publishing & distribution, building out to now, and a v1.0 protocol roadmap that includes sync 1.1, OAuth with scopes, lexicon resolution, private data, and e2ee messaging
#ATmosphereConf
However disquieting it may be for my tech friends, the reality is that safe physical spaces is the predicate to any serious effort to preserve & advance human agency.
Europe is entering a critical moment, and @bctallis.bsky.social does a great job capturing the risks and opportunities.
Europe is entering a critical moment, and @bctallis.bsky.social does a great job capturing the risks and opportunities.
Europe must be ready to defeat Russia in 3-5 years.
Big money is coming, but spending it on lots of old platforms (tanks, IFVs), won't get us what we need in time - & will arm for the last war.
Europe needs a tech-based 'Offset' strategy
My new report 👇
www.democratic-strategy.net/s-projects-b...
Big money is coming, but spending it on lots of old platforms (tanks, IFVs), won't get us what we need in time - & will arm for the last war.
Europe needs a tech-based 'Offset' strategy
My new report 👇
www.democratic-strategy.net/s-projects-b...
March 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
However disquieting it may be for my tech friends, the reality is that safe physical spaces is the predicate to any serious effort to preserve & advance human agency.
Europe is entering a critical moment, and @bctallis.bsky.social does a great job capturing the risks and opportunities.
Europe is entering a critical moment, and @bctallis.bsky.social does a great job capturing the risks and opportunities.
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"Caesar (Zuck) or nothing", vs "a world without Caesars".
March 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Caesar (Zuck) or nothing", vs "a world without Caesars".
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Social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. But change is here.
Join us March 21st @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com
Cc @freeourfeeds.com
www.linkedin.com/events/thene...
Join us March 21st @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com
Cc @freeourfeeds.com
www.linkedin.com/events/thene...
The Next Social Wave: Open, Competitive, and User-Controlled | LinkedIn
For years, social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. The dangers have never been clearer.
But a new paradigm is emerging—one wh...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. But change is here.
Join us March 21st @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com
Cc @freeourfeeds.com
www.linkedin.com/events/thene...
Join us March 21st @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com
Cc @freeourfeeds.com
www.linkedin.com/events/thene...
So much to think about here. Highly recommend reading.
Digital sovereignty is almost entirely an infrastructure problem, and it's a tough one. How can we understand the problem and start outlining strategies? Read on to find out!
berjon.com/digital-sove...
berjon.com/digital-sove...
Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts ...
berjon.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So much to think about here. Highly recommend reading.
I'm flabbergasted that Apple Intelligence can expertly employ that latest tech to perfectly summarize the contents of an (already short) text message... yet remain blind to the most obvious & essential inference: it's phishing 😐
These are unfeatures.
These are unfeatures.
March 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm flabbergasted that Apple Intelligence can expertly employ that latest tech to perfectly summarize the contents of an (already short) text message... yet remain blind to the most obvious & essential inference: it's phishing 😐
These are unfeatures.
These are unfeatures.
This captures an idea that desperately need repeating: competition is valuable, but our survival and ultimate success (regardless of what the "reality" TV shows spin) has always been a positive sum endeavor.
I think a lot of people are running with a basic mental model that everything's a zero sum game, too. And that causes a lot of problems. Because if you play by zero-sum rules and try to get your government egged into zero-sum behavior, then... It makes zero-sum outcomes happen: zero growth. Whoops
February 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This captures an idea that desperately need repeating: competition is valuable, but our survival and ultimate success (regardless of what the "reality" TV shows spin) has always been a positive sum endeavor.