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“I’m afraid I’ll be eating my breakfast one morning and choke and I don’t want to die alone.”

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and then there is this ….

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… she’s talking about Sam Altman

🔗 You can read the whole piece by Molly here, which includes substantial thinking on the challenges of decentralized identity.

The …

🔗 Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers)

An interesting read from Ted Gioia … but later on in the piece he talks about archives, a topic I have been mulling recently.

“I’ve never been indicted and I am not a lawyer, but if you are deleting evidence, it is because you know you are committing a crime and anybody who supports this, anybody who defends this, is complicit in endangering America.”

💬 Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a 2024 presidential candidate

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We all do what we can.

🔗 Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation.

🔗 AOC joins Hollywood picket line in New York: ‘Solidarity is stronger than greed’

Whilst they do what they can …

It’s incredibly damaging for everybody in terms of the big epics

💬 Mark Borkowski

.. because of course, Mark is a PR Agent and I presume his business is suffering, read more in this piece;

🔗 ‘You need the glamour of a big opening’: US actors’ strike starts to bite on red carpet.

🔗 An open voice mail to @manton from @dave - I have no idea if it all makes sense … BUT … some of you all might? 12 minutes and 54 seconds.

You (‘Manton’) do an unbelievable job in supporting APIs

💬 Dave Winer

💬 Oh that’s interesting

In 1936 …

George Orwell published 1984 in 1949

🔗 The microblogging ecosystem post Twitter

There won’t be one Twitter killer. Instead, the platform’s decline has opened up the world of microblogging.

💬 Adam Tinsworth

Nice summary from @adders on the state of whatever it is that the ‘Twitter Wars’ are all about. My take - he’s not wrong. I often reference Timothy Ruff on this …

Protocols Kill Platfroms

.. though he in turn says we should thank Mike Masnick for the wisdom. Either way, what we all should be rooting for includes ‘open’, ‘portable’, ‘transparent’, you know … all the stuff that people should care about - but somehow the vast majority seem not to.

Protocols are the answer. The trick will need the corporations to give way on their walled garden mentality and the engineers building this brave new world to understand that the other 99.999999999% of the world won’t do it if it is ‘too hard’ - and ‘too hard’ means for the average person - not the MIT rocket scientist.

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