The Dent in Echo chamber? You’re damn right!

When I’m chilling in a coffee shop, writing a blog post about echo chambers, I don’t move to the table next to me to listen closer to the muppets there talking about how children shouldn’t be immunised against deadly viruses because Bob down the pub told them about mind controlling nano bots.

A perfect analogy. People act like I have to see all this toxic crap online. Or imply I’m weak because I might get ‘triggered’.

But I just want a nice place to hang out and that shouldn’t be an issue.

Nick Heer in Adam Mosseri Says Threads Will Now Show You More of the Stuff You Have Said You Are Interested in Seeing

These are the people who see social media as a place for furthering their brand. They are not interesting. The only way they are able to grow their audience is by treating a recommendations algorithm as a problem to be solved.

These are people that completely miss the point of social media. These are people that have ruined it for the rest of us. These are people that I don’t want to see in my feed.

🔗 Mark Gurman: “NEW: Apple is racing to develo…” - Mastodon

The company plans to introduce the revamped LLM Siri next year and launch it by spring 2026

Companies talk so much about products that don’t exist. Apple say “coming later this year” more than I ever expected. And don’t even get me started on Orion

manuelmoreale.com in An appreciation of the “mark all as read” button

I only open my RSS reader when I want to read something and I have some time to spend reading … just like that, I’m done with my timeline. Isn’t that amazing?

This is why they pretend RSS is dead, because it’s a trick they don’t want you to know.

M.G. Siegler in I’ve Been Here for Years

A lot of what I have written over the two decades – thousands of posts – remains online, but a lot also doesn’t.

I have a lot of words out there from a decade of writing. Some places have closed down, but some are still up but have changed the name next to the words I wrote. Which is inexcusable to be honest.

🔗 It has been one year since The Blip. - The Verge

On this day, one year ago, Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI — an event known internally as “The Blip.”

Wait. That was A YEAR ago!!

Matt Birchler in I’ll eat an AirPod if I get this prediction wrong

I would challenge anyone who thinks Apple’s LLM features will be more “mainstream” then ChatGPT “before the end of the year”

I also don’t think people realise how mainstream use of ChatGPT is.

Garbage Day in Bluesky’s the new Twitter probably

a moment at some point in the future where enough people who grew up on a text-based web have died off and taken with them any memory of enjoying reading and writing posts online.

A little over dramatic, sure, but I don’t think it’s far fetched to expect a future where reading is ‘boring’ and therefore bothering to write online becomes less and less popular.

Cory Dransfeldt loving the fact that Social media’s broken:

Find your space and don’t feel obligated to participate in any of it.

Like Cory, I have my website (I check in on the social bits of micro.blog sometimes although I wish I could turn it off) I have too many books to read, and I have a nice place to sit and read them.

In spite of of all the really great people I have met online I just can’t be bothered with the discourse any more. There is very little point in me spreading my words anywhere outside my own website (and activitypub things attached) so I don’t bother.

I cant thank the ‘world’s dullest edge lord’ enough for breaking Twitter. For infecting the world with his horribleness in the pursuit of his self indulgent version of free speech. I am forever put off being online because social media is broken, and it’s the best thing for us all.

I have no BlueSky, No Threads, and I’ll have none of whatever else is cool these days. Just me. At Greg Morris do co dot UK, and that, my friends is awesome.

Paul in Khoi Vinh on How His Blog Amplified His Work and Career

Content and writing are not the same thing, at least the way that we’ve come to define them in contemporary society. Content is inherently transactional; its goal is to drive towards some kind of conversion, some kind of exchange of value.

There is a stark difference in writing to engage and writing to influence.