I've been trying to find a name or descriptor for people who I think are looking at "AI" broadly and soberly, with a genuinely objective perspective and information that's not captured by the big tech companies but also fluent in the technology behind it. ( @npub1gv26...tlwl would be the exemplar here.) What would you call this cohort? Because I think it's sort of a community without a name, which limits its impact.

I guess I actually was pretty mad about that stupid golden paperweight

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Today's my birthday! I've got five simple requests, based on what I've learned over the last... 50 years. I hope you'll take a moment to give them a look. And thanks to everybody who's taken a moment read my writing over the years.

Five for 50 - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying. They’ve simply stopped pointing out that there are any standards at are, or that there used to be a bar of any sort. And now an entire generation doesn’t know this concept at all.

There could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.

This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.

It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service.

It's Time for Something New - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

There was somebody fussing in my replies to my last link to my blog post about Medium (I don’t see them now; they probably blocked me, but their specific words don’t really matter), and the gist of their message was that they didn’t like that site. On the modern internet, if you have an issue with content written by humans, with no surveillance ads, that doesn’t allow AI scraping or AI slop content, with a business model that makes money… I don’t know how to help you. Honestly.

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/