#thingsthatcaughtmyattention — Public Fediverse posts
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New newsletter episode:
**s14e11: To help you best, I'd need to know you**
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e11-to-help-you-best-id-need-to-know-you/
This episode: the promise of large language model interfaces and assistants, and what they'd need to be actually/more useful. Which we absolutely, 100% are not ready for.
Especially proud of the closing para for this one.
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e11-to-help-you-best-id-need-to-know-you/
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New newsletter episode!
**s14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough**
This episode: "algorithmic timelines", the Daily Me (again), the difficult job of predicting or choosing what you'd like to see and editorial choices, and the concept of the big-enough-social-network
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e10-your-timeline-needs-a-dj-enough/
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New newsletter episode!
**s14e09: Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation**
This episode has a short part about buildings, but the main part of it is about governance, using Mastodon website communities as examples.
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e09-building-and-documentation-making-new/
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New newsletter episode! A much shorter one today.
s14e08 - Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency
This episode a few short links, including an interesting quote about what AI is good for right now.
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e08-some-combination-of-efficiency-and/
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Every single episode of my newsletter is free. If you like it (for example, if you'd be sad if it went away), then you can support it at pay-what-you-want.
Find out more at newsletter.danhon.com
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New newsletter episode!
s13e25: Universal Basic Compute
In which a friend inserts something into my brain as a thing that caught my attention, I think about the case for making certain parts of the internet public utilities, and follow that thread.
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e25-universal-basic-compute/
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New newsletter episode!
s13e24 - The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things
This episode covers:
* The Careless Conversation: The case for default-delete ephemeral, conversational social media
* The Shape of Things: digital genotypes and phenotypes; context collapse; a call for clearer design of social spaceshttps://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e24-the-careless-conversation-the-shape-of/
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A thread about my latest newsletter episode:
s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary Epoch
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e23-colliders-speedrunning-benevolent/
This thread will have teasers for each section:
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New newsletter episode!
s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e23-colliders-speedrunning-benevolent/
#newsletters #thingsthatcaughtmyattention #mastodon #verificationdesert #communitymanagement #benevolentdictators #inflationaryepoch
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Hey hey mastohon friends!
Earlier this year, I made an ebook of my newsletter -- it's got the best 45 essays from the first 50 episodes. I figured as a welcome here I'd share a 50% off code:
Please pass around :)
https://verylittlegravitas.gumroad.com/l/ThingsVol1/mastofriends
My regular newsletter is *completely free* and you can read it, and all its archives, at https://newsletter.danhon.com -- supporters are pay-what-you-want.
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A new newsletter episode, this one unabashedly influenced by Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow:
s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person
In which I write, at length, and apparently off the cuff, about what it was like to grow up with videogames, and how it felt.
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e20-what-it-is-like-to-be-a-certain-kind-of-9909/
#newsletter #thingsthatcaughtmyattention #videogames #culture #gabriellezevin