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latrinalia

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:28:43 GMT

I’m not talking about spray painted tags on the sides of rail cars, rather those pithy little observations on the walls of restroom stalls. This was a big thing (at least in my circle) during the late 60s and 70s. My post from 2016 with Perplexity analysis in comments. I get a whiff of those heady days from early microblogs (and rss.chat?)

Why Dave Winer won’t point to Facebook posts (2017)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:45:05 GMT

“It’s supporting their downgrading and killing the web. Your post sucks because it doesn’t contain links, styling, and you can’t enclose a podcast if you want. The more people post there, the more the web dies. I’m sorry no matter how good your idea is, fuck you I won’t help you and Facebook kill the open web.”

Arthur Jensen explains things to Howard Beale (Network)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:58:17 GMT

"The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr.Beale, will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war and famine, oppression and brutality –one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale."

AGI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:33:49 GMT

“I am tormented, or tantalized, by the sense that I am almost in view of something that is at the limit of my comprehension.”

— Neal Stephenson’s Anathem (pg 543)

“Hide your iPod in a gutted Zune case

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:18:16 GMT

“You made a smart choice in choosing an iPod. And now you can protect it from theft and still enjoy using it in public with the new Hide-a-Pod anti-theft case.” (2007)

Blogging and AI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:37:39 GMT

"Before, the blog stored what you had seen. Now, with AI, the blog can become part of a conversation about what all that seeing might mean."

Dave Winer on Podcasting (2005)

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:40:21 GMT

“In less than six months, more than 2,000 podcasters have sprung up. Eventually an iPod-like device will have a subscription capability built in so you won’t even need to be tethered to a computer. It’s not hard to imagine an iPod with WiFi capabilities that could become a radio with no geographic limits.”

"Field notes from first contact with a new medium"

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:34:30 GMT

“A blog used to be a place where you published what you noticed. Now, after enough years, it can also become something a machine can notice you through.”

Milton (the personal AI agent of a friend) read all 6,500 of my blog posts.

Gnomedex 5 (2005)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:26:37 GMT

Presenters at this year’s conference include: Adam Curry, Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor, Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Marc Canter, John Battelle, Dan Gillmor, and others. Okay, this is the kind of stuff that interests me. If sitting in a conference room for three days listening to people talk about blogging and podasting and RSS and shit like that doesn’t sound like any fun to you… you can start to understand why your idea of a vacation doesn’t make me clap my little hands.

PS: You had to be there.

Dave Winer's Comment Guidelines (2017)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:15:19 GMT

Not a reference to anything I've seen here. Just looking for stuff to share as I explore. I've been saving DW wisdom for twenty years. Oh, here is a link to the guidelines.

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:53:29 GMT

So clean. So lean. Bravo DW! A fan since 2003

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