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[1] Jim Nielsen’s Blog Verified ($10/year for the domain) [2]Archive [3]About
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More Files Please
2024-02-27
Scott Jenson has a great article called [10]“The future needs files”.
The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary
holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A
range of apps can edit a single file in a single location.
Files as a medium of exchange between applications — I like that. It’s akin to
the usefulness of currency.
The most powerful aspect of files is that they liberate your data. Any app
can see it and do something useful to it.
Files represent a “data first vs app first organization”. If you’re planning a
wedding, you put everything wedding related into a folder. All your data is now
in one place vs. strewn across various apps.
Documents — like a Notion doc — are today’s folders: they contain a list of
links to “files” that will open in bespoke applications.
But there are drawbacks, like interoperability. Do we want to trust our data to
the success or failure of a single company?
Files encapsulate a ‘chunk’ of your work and allow that chunk to be seen,
moved, acted on, and accessed by multiple people and more importantly
external 3rd party processes.
Can you imagine working on a codebase — which is a set of files — but the files
were locked to a particular IDE? Craziness.
Personally, I’m a file guy. I love files. And I wish more products worked in
the currency of exchange of files.
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[1]The New Oil
Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All
February 18, 2024
Last week, encrypted email, cloud, and calendar provider Skiff announced they
will be shutting down in six months after being acquired by Notion. This has
understandably caused a lot of frustration in the privacy community as many
people were initially quite excited about Skiff. Several other privacy outlets
– including [2]Michael Bazzell, [3]Privacy Guides, and even our own [4]
Surveillance Report – have all discussed our own frustrations, lessons learned,
and plans going forward. But really, this is nothing new. Two years ago (nearly
to the month), [5]CTemplar also suddenly shut down, and we saw nearly the same
scenario play out (with different reasons being given by the companies). So
this week, let’s take a moment to reflect back on the second email shutdown The
New Oil has survived and see what lessons we can take away for the next
inevitable disruption.
Reminder: Beware the Little Guys
In the above-linked CTemplar blog post, I wrote that “in the privacy space, we
are very skeptical of new services.” Since then, I’ve seen a shift away from
that. I’m not a fan. On the one hand, I’ve [6]written in the past about how no
service or tool is perfect and how we should always be striving for better
services that improve upon those shortcomings. In the CTemplar post, I also
mentioned the value of supporting the little guy and how every major
organization was once a “little guy.” However, I think that the privacy
community has taken this mentality too far. Not a week goes by that I don’t see
some new forum post, email, or [7]Surveillance Report question about some new
service I’ve never heard of before. It’s great that so many new people are
recognizing the room for improvement and stepping up to the challenge, and that
so many privacy enthusiasts stand ready to support these efforts. But in the
CTemplar post, I also touched on the fact that starting a new service is really
hard and riddled with uncertainty. It could be a Big Tech or government [8]
honeypot. Even if it’s not and the creators are genuine, it’s incredibly easy
to accidentally screw up implementation and allow for bugs and vulnerabilities
(if it happens to the big, well-funded giants on a regular basis, why would the
small, cash-strapped startups be any safer?). And of course, any new company in
any industry must compete, and that’s never a sure thing no matter how much
money you throw at something or else there’d be no such thing as “box-office
bombs” and venture capitalists would have a far higher [9]success rate.
I know that advice is contradictory, but life is complicated, contradictory,
and messy. Still, two things can be real – like how new services should be both
supported but also treated cautiously. It’s okay to donate to a new service you
believe in that you think is doing interesting things, but you probably
shouldn’t immediately move everything over to be your primary service.
Relationships have some pretty consistent rules and characteristics across the
board, whether it’s with a potential romantic partner or a corporation. One
such rule is to go slow. You wouldn’t propose marriage on the first date, so
why on earth would you move all your most sensitive data into a brand new
service you just discovered that’s less than two years old and just launched
their first stable release six months ago and you can’t find any expert reviews
of it? Explore, support, but temper your excitement. Wait to see what the
experts say and if the service really is here to stand the test of time.
Reminder: Control Your Data
This is a topic I clearly need to discuss more: the tech space in general – but
especially the privacy space – is rife with ephemeral projects, whether because
they get sold, abandoned, or forced out of business. The single best way to
defend against this is to control your data, and the best way to do that – I
think – is to think in “standards.” The internet was never Netscape, Explorer,
Firefox, or Chrome (or apps, for that matter). It was always HTTP, TCP/IP, the
OSI model, and other such standards. These have been improved upon over time
(such as HTTPS and DoH/DoT), but the core standards have never changed. And
they're open! Accessing [10]The New Oil today is no different than accessing
Myspace in 2003 or the [11]CERN website in 1991, except it’s probably a lot
faster, easier, and better-looking (no offense, Proton/CERN alumni).
If you don’t know what any of that stuff means, don’t worry about it. Here’s
the point: try to think about how to reduce your data to a standard –
preferably an open one – and then preserve that. For the record, I don’t mean a
literal web standard like the ones above, but I do mean the same ideas and
principles. Bear with me and I’ll come back to that. Since this post was
inspired by Skiff (and built off my CTemplar post), let’s take email for
example. Like it or not, email isn’t going away any time soon. Nearly all
websites require email to sign up for an account, for example, and lately
there's been a big push for services to forgo a password logon entirely and
instead email you a link every time you sign in. (Not a fan.) However, email is
an interoperable standard. Whether you use Proton, Tuta, Mailbox, or Gmail,
that login link is going to get sent to you. So regardless of whether you’re
wanting to check out a new provider or simply improve your own data
sovereignty, the question to ask here is “how can I think of email as a
'standard' to ensure that I retain control of my email no matter what?” The
most extreme option here is to self-host your own email server, but that’s
generally not recommended unless you’re an expert – there’s too many
opportunities for things to go wrong and suddenly your emails will be blocked
(possibly both sending and receiving) and you may not have any idea for a long
while. Instead, the next-best option is to control the email address, because
then you always control where the emails go. You’re not bound to a specific
provider, which means you can migrate for any reason – shutdown, censorship,
better options, etc. The good news is that this is incredibly easy to
accomplish. You simply buy your own domain name from any reputable registrar
for a few bucks a year, and most email providers have instructions on how to
set it up. Then, if you decide you want to use a different provider, you just
look up their instructions instead.
Now, of course, experienced readers will go “email isn’t a standard, Nate.” And
you’re 100% right. As I said, I don’t mean to think in literal standards like
HTTP or TCP/IP. What I do mean is think in terms of “universal” and
“interoperable” – like a standard. As I said earlier, email is universal.
Proton, Tuta, Gmail, Yahoo, every email provider is built on the exact same
standards that make email function, such as SMTP, RFC 5322, and MX DNS records.
Of course, Proton & Tuta offer different protections and technical features
than Gmail and Yahoo (and even each other) but the core product is identical:
an email is an email and will be delivered to or sent from anywhere (not
including restrictions such as company or government censorship). As such, you
can think of an email the same way you think of any standard: how can I ensure
that I always receive my emails, send emails, and have my emails? As I said,
the first two are easily accomplished via custom domains: if you ever have
issues or find a better provider, simply migrate over with a few clicks and
some help from the provider and you’re golden. The last one can be accomplished
by exporting your emails, a feature that going forward I will consider a
non-negotiable requirement to be listed on The New Oil because of situations
exactly like this. Most providers also let you import emails, allowing you to
transfer as if nothing ever happened. Backing up your emails via exporting on a
regular basis and owning a custom domain essentially untethers you from any one
given provider for email, making you independent, resilient, and in control of
your own data.
Practical Application
This thought process can be applied to nearly anything. “How can I save this
file in a format that’s compatible with other word processors or operating
systems?” “How can I save my backups in a format that’s recoverable and usable?
” “What would I do if this messenger shuts down tomorrow?” Not to victim blame,
but perhaps the biggest failing with the Skiff fiasco – and CTemplar before it
– was not asking these kinds of questions in advance and planning ahead. One
should always have an exit strategy and backup plan in place, even with the
most trusted and long-standing services, and one should always look for
opportunities to reduce their dependence on these platforms as much as
possible. (Note: I would like to recognize that some people are truly living
paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to pay for a custom domain or even a
premium email aliasing service. This is valid, and I still encourage you to ask
these questions and come up with solutions that are within your means, even if
they’re less than ideal.)
It is, of course, worth noting that there’s only so much you can do. You can’t
literally own your own domain registrar, and even if you could you couldn’t own
the organization who makes the kinds of decisions that affect your specific
domain. Therefore you can never 100% be certain of your domain name. But even
as an everyday individual, you can rest assured that it would take a lot to get
your domain name revoked or taken away, and for most of us that’s simply not
something to even worry about. Likewise, for a lot of apps, you can export your
data but it may only be readable by that same app. It’s important to be aware
of these limitations and ask if you’re comfortable with them. I am a [12]Qubes
user, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon. My backups from Qubes
can only be read by another Qubes device, and for me that’s okay. The purpose
of these backups is to have them as literal backups – to be able to reload them
on another Qubes device in the event of theft, loss, or damage of my Qubes
laptop. On the other hand, I want my emails to be portable so that I can open
them with another provider (or at very least, another program) so that I don’t
lose all my past correspondence if I ever have to migrate services. These are
two very different use cases that warrant consideration.
Whatever services you’re using today, there’s a near 100% chance you won’t be
using most of them in 10 years. Whether they shut down or whether you simply
migrate to something that better suits your needs, the software you’re using
will almost certainly change in the future. The question is if you’ll be ready
when that happens. Everyone who was depending on Skiff directly must now
scramble to migrate and pray that they didn’t overlook anything when the dust
settles. Don’t be caught in that situation when the service you depend on sheds
this mortal coil and joins the choir invisible. If you’re lucky, you’ll decide
that the time is right to move on to another project and have all the time you
want to make the switch. We can’t always be so lucky. The best time to plant a
tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. I’ll end with what I said
when CTemplar shut down:
Controlling your data is important and powerful. It makes you independent,
it makes you resilient, and it makes your life simpler by being prepared
for when things change – and in tech, things are always changing. Part of
threat modeling is planning for what could go wrong and then putting
systems in place to mitigate it if it happens. Maybe you weren’t affected
by this CTemplar situation. That doesn’t mean you won’t be affected by the
next one. Be sure to review the products and services you use and plan
ahead. There’s always room to improve. Take this time to learn some lessons
and apply the necessary changes to your own posture.
You can find more recommended services and programs at [13]TheNewOil.org, and
you can find our other content across the web [14]here or support our work in a
variety of ways [15]here.
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References:
[1] https://blog.thenewoil.org/
[2] https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2024/02/12/lessons-learned-from-skiffs-shutdown/
[3] https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/02/11/this-week-in-privacy-8/
[4] https://apertatube.net/w/ftu35a7ZFgYguE6emeX9r5?start=10m3s
[5] https://blog.thenewoil.org/ctemplar-is-dead-aka-lessons-about-email-sovereignty
[6] https://blog.thenewoil.org/the-self-destructive-quest-for-perfection
[7] https://surveillancereport.tech/
[8] https://usa.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/what-is-a-honeypot
[9] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me-the-truth-about-vcs/
[10] https://thenewoil.org/
[11] https://www.history.com/news/the-worlds-first-web-site
[12] https://www.qubes-os.org/
[13] https://thenewoil.org/
[14] https://thenewoil.org/en/links/
[15] https://thenewoil.org/en/support/
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[11] 31 January 2024 | [12]braindump
As an electrical and mechanical engineer, my late father-in-law was an expert
in crafting home-grown black boxes that meticulously—and sometimes also
miraculously—executed certain tasks in and around the house, such as
automatically opening and closing the curtains based on the position of the sun
(that included LEGO Technic radar work), routing audio and video from the
doorbell to the TV or smartphone when someone pressed the button, or mediating
the central heating based on too many factors. He also loved building things
that weren’t really needed, just for fun: how about a full-size sixties jukebox
emulated with a couple of Arduino boards, where each mechanical piece was
hand-cut?
When I asked him why he doesn’t take pictures of each project to document and
publish them online, to inspire others, he was never interested. Most of these
projects aren’t well-documented privately either, leaving us now with
unsolvable puzzles when things break. But his ideas, as with all ideas, were
gradually formed by studying ideas and projects of others, so why not come full
circle to again share what you’ve made? I never really got an answer as to why
not.
When I talk to friends about blogging, or more generally “putting stuff out
there”, the vast majority of them don’t care, and that comes across as very
strange to me, since I do. Not everyone has the urge [13]to write in public.
Yet publishing your work comes with so many advantages that I don’t even know
where to begin to list them. I think many people underestimate the value of
sharing what you’ve made.
Austin Kleon wrote a whole book about this [14]called Show Your Work!, which,
as Austin puts it, is a good starting point for people who hate the very idea
of self-promotion. Perhaps I should have given a copy to my father-in-law,
although I doubt that would have changed anything. He was content tinkering in
his cellar without letting the world know what he made. Yet if he did, more
people would have made something based on his work. And that feeling of
contributing is amazing.
It doesn’t take a genius or a huge project to make a bit of an impact. Just
influencing your own “tribe”, as Seth Godin likes to call it, is more than
enough to get a positive feedback loop going. As a silly example, I fooled
around with hacking a [15]Phomemo M02 thermal printer a year ago, and I just
found out that there’s a Node CLI module on GitHub that thanks my article for
pointing them in the right direction. Conventional contributions to existing
open-source projects is of course the obvious other example, but it’s not even
needed to go that far. I sometimes just write about things I tried—and often
failed—to do, and it always puts a smile on my face when I notice someone
picked that up.
I don’t create or publish in the hopes of influencing others. I create things
because I have an urge to create. But it sure is great to help others along the
way, however small my contribution might be. I don’t care about being found
online and I am certainly not actively pushing my stuff down others’ throats
(Kleon’s rule #7: Don’t turn into human spam). I love reading about the
creation process of others. I love sharing my creation process. It’s almost
second nature: it feels like a wasted opportunity to do something good in this
world if I didn’t.
If you made something, great! Why don’t you tell us about it? It’s simple, you
just need to hire a VPS, configure iptables, download and customize a Hugo
theme, write front matter and markdown, have a CI pipeline setup, and install
Nginx. Ah, dang it!
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[16] https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/01/publish-your-work/#related
[17] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/11/on-writing-for-yourself-in-public/
[18] https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/02/phomemo-thermal-printing-on-macos/
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delayed anyway. It will commence Harvey Danger
today, but not without everybody Fuel
knowing which festival REALLY kicked Save Ferris
ass. Geez, I don't think anyone Semisonic
would have cared if someone got Fastball
struck by lightning during GREEN Marcy Playground
DAY's set, you? Barenaked Ladies
Tuscadero
[Tuesday, 5/19/98] There's a little Crystal Method
article on the festival over on Soul Coughing
Rolling Stone. You can check it out Foo Fighters
[13]here. [thanks Eric] Agents of Good
Roots
[Sunday, 5/17/98] Well folks, it's Cherry Poppin'
all over. The HFStival, which took Daddies
place yesterday, was AWESOME. Sure, God Lives
the temperatures were in the 90s Underwater
throughout the day, and nobody left
without a sunburn, but it was okay,
because we could quench our thirst
with $3 Cokes! Yeah, the prices were
a little rediculous, but the music
was great.
The best performer, in my opinion,
was Green Day. While they aren't my
favorite radio band, they really
know how to work the crowd. At one
point, they pulled a guy out of the
audience and let him play a song on
the guitar with the band. They also
burned a drum set, and sang some
Maryln Manson. I really enjoyed the
morning outer stage bands, like
Fuel, Harvey Danger, and Fastball.
Wyclef Jean (say "john", dammit!)
was great, and so was Everclear, who
had the entire place singing along
to a couple of their songs. Scott
Weiland was different, but in a good
way. Foo Fighters were great, and
then, right before Green Day came
on, they showed "The Spirit of
Christmas", the original South Park
cartoon, on those two huge
television screens. Now maybe next
year they can look into putting a
roof onto RFK?
I took some pictures, and I'll try
to have them online in the next
couple of days.
[14]Click here for Past News
[15][bottomtop][bottom]
References:
[1] https://members.tripod.com/hfs99
[2] https://hfs98.tripod.com/~hfs98/
[3] https://hfs98.tripod.com/bands.html
[4] https://hfs98.tripod.com/news.html
[5] mailto:eisinger@worldnet.att.net
[6] http://www.whfs.com/
[7] http://members.aol.com/gregw99058
[8] http://hfstival.home.ml.org/
[11] mailto:eisinger@worldnet.att.net
[12] http://www.mtv.com/news/gallery/h/hfstivalfeature98.html
[13] http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?afl=rsn&NewsID=4356&ArtistID=2458&origin=news
[14] https://hfs98.tripod.com/index2.html
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[1]GO CHECK OUT MY NEW PAGE!! HFS2G, BABY!!
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The Site Thursday, September 30 I think we can sum up the
- [2]News HFStival Fall Edition with one word: ROWDY. From the
- [3]The Bands violence and ticket-tearing that went down before
- [4]Submit the gates even opened, to the early mosh pits (in
News one of which my friend got a nasty black eye), to
- [5]Contact Me Limp Bizkit's hell-raising set, this HFStival was,
in my humble opinion, the craziest EVER. I actually
Links fell down in the mosh pit during Bizkit's set. It
- [6]HFS.com was seriously the scariest thing that's ever
- [7]Official happened to me. No joke.
HFStival
Page It was great to have the festival back at RFK.
PSInet was nice, but taking the metro is sooo
Who was da best convenient, or at least it was in the morning...
act at the Fall Coming back was a different story entirely. There
Edition? were some great acts. A few of my favorites were
[8][ ] Fuel, Long Beach Dub Allstars, surprise guests Run
[9][Submit] DMC, Sev (Fairfax County. Aww yeah.), Jimmie's
Chicken Shack (who had a much better set than in the
[hfs99] spring), and of course Limp Bizkit. Words cannot
fully describe the spectacle that was Limp's set.
Fireballs! Foul language! Exposed breasts! And
100,000 flying plastic bottles! It was AMAZING. I
came home after their set and slept for FOURTEEN
hours.
Another year, another TWO great HFStivals. I'll see
yall in the spring! HFStival 2000, baby!
Friday, August 27 A friend of mind pointed me to a
bit o' HFStival news on the [10]SEV WEBSITE. It
seems that there will be not one, not two, but THREE
stages at the upcoming HFStival. There will be the
traditional inner stage, for the bigger acts, and
the outer stage, for the lesser-known ones, but this
festival will see the addition of a stage for local
acts. You can check out the [11]bands page for my
breakdown of the acts and their respective stages.
Just my guesses, but its the best I can do at this
point. And oh yeah, tickets tomorrow, 10:00am,
Ticketmaster, $25 each, cash only.
Wednesday, August 25 Outer stage! Outer stage! Party
time! Excellent! Just discovered the lineup for the
HFStival Outer Stage, the home of local music at the
festival. Here we go: Good Charlotte, Underfoot,
Laughing Colors, Mary Prankster, Colouring Lesson,
Modern Yesterday, Live Alien Broadcast, and the
Wakeing Hours. Sounds good to me. And in other news,
appearing at the Trancemissions Tent will be:
Thievrey Corporation, DieselBoy, DJ Touche of the
Wiseguys, John Tab, Feelgood, Lovegrove, Scott
Henry, and Lieven.
In other news, tickets for the 1999 HFStival: Fall
Edition go on sale this saturday at 10:00. Be there,
or... don't be at the HFStival.
Tuesday, August 24 I was just checking the official
HFStival page, and it seems that 6 more bands have
been quietly added to the line-up. These new bands
are HFStival veteran Sev, Staind, Jact, Bis,
Splittsville, and Uncle Ho (yeah, you read that
right). That brings our grand total to 16 bands,
with reportedly more on the way. Also, the
Trancemissions tent will be returning to this latest
HFStival, so all you dance fans can have something
to look forward to.
[12]And everybody wish my sister a happy birthday!
Thursday, August 19 I wuz listening to HFS last
night, and I heard about three more bands headed for
the fall festival... Fuel, Filter, and Bush! This
brings our grand total up to 10 bands, with more on
the way. Exciting stuff.
Wednesday, August 18 HFStival '99 -- FALL EDITION,
BABY! That's right, folks, for the first time ever,
the year of 99, the year of HFS, will host not one
but TWO HFStivals! This second HFStival will take
place on Saturday, September 25, at RFK STADIUM,
unlike the earlier HFStival. Tickets go on sale on
Saturday, August 28, at 10:00AM, and are available
through TicketMaster Outlets, TicketMaster
PhoneCharge, and, in an interesting twist, through
[13]TicketMaster Online.
And now on to what's really important, the bands.
HFStival Fall '99 will featured such acts as Limp
Bizkit, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Everclear, the
Chemical Brothers, Buckcherry, 311, and the Long
Beach Dub Allstars (basically Sublime without Brad
Nowell). Sounds awesome, although this list seems
short to me, and there is always a possibility that
other bands will be announced later.
Expect a new look for this page, as well as more
information as it becomes available. Two HFStivals
in one year! Who woulda thought...
Sunday, May 30 80,000 people crammed together like
sardines on a scorchingly hot day, listening to
music that was far too loud and doing things that
are illegal in most states? Yeah, I'd say that
pretty much sums it up. This year's HFStival kicked
ass!
The Chili Peppers were good, playing some classic
songs as well as new material, but I think we all
know who owned this year's festival: The Offspring.
They had the whole stadium going crazy. I'd put
their performance right up there with Green Day as
one of the all-time HFStival best. I didn't get out
to the side stage very much, but I hear Sev was
really good. If you've got any HFStival memories,
please, [14]send em my way.
I think the most exciting thing all day was an
announcement on the Jumbotron screen over the
stage... a second HFStival! The message said
something like, "Only once a century does it happen
twice a year: May 29 and September 25." I was like,
oh my god! More info as I hear it.
Saturday, May 29 Hell yeah, folks. The festival is
here. I hear it's gonna be a scorching 91 degrees
today, and it'll feel more like 130 inside the
stadium. It's gonna be freakin' insane. 70,000 or
more people dancing, yelling, smoking, and having an
all around hell of a good time. It's BS that we
can't bring in water, but there should be enough to
go around. I hear about a booth they are going to
set up that sprays people with cool, soothing,
life-giving mist. That's where you'll find me :) If
you have any last minute questions, send them my
way, and I'll be back with my HFStival wrap-up after
I recover (36 hours of sleep, minimum). I hope you
all have a great time, and I'll be seein' ya'll at
the 1999 HFStival, baby!
Wednesday, May 19 Well, the HFStival is only 10
short days away! Aww man, it's gonna rock your
world.
If I had only one piece of advice to offer you,
fellow HFStivalgoer, sunscreen would be it. Put some
on before you leave. Put some on when you get to the
stadium. Put some on after every band you see. If
you think you have too much sunscreen on, put on
some more. I promise you'll still get a tan, and
this way you might not get burned too bad. Also,
bring enough money for drinks. Water is hard to
find, and a drink'll run about $3. I know it's
expensive, but you won't care after you've been
standing in the heat for five or six hours.
I'll be back with more helpful advice as we get
closer to the festival. Some of my ideas may not be
the greatest, but trust me on the sunscreen :P
Thursday, April 28 Tickets this saturday! They go on
sale this saturday at 9am through MOST TicketMaster
outlets and through TicketMaster PhoneCharge. There
are a few locations that won't be selling HFStival
tickets, and I'd advise you to check [15]here to see
if you're local ticket outlet is one of them.
My advice to all of you is to go to where ever it is
you plan to buy tickets on friday night and see
what's up. Talk to the ticket sellers and mall
security and see what their plan is, and try to get
your name on any list, official or unofficial, that
you can find. Remember: you can only buy tickets
with cash. Tickets are $25 plus a service charge of
less than $5 per ticket. Four tickets per person
limit. Good luck to everyone, and just try to be
civil about it.
Wednesday, April 21 Sorry for the lack of updates.
I've been feeling a little bit under the weather,
and I needed to get my beauty sleep. Anyway, we've
got the complete band list (aside from any surprise
bands) and all the ticket info. Tickets will go on
sale on Saturday, May 1 at 9am, available at
TicketMaster outlets, through TicketMaster
PhoneCharge, and at many other places, including RFK
Stadium (I'd call there first, though) and Mailboxes
Etc. Like last year, tickets will cost $25 with a
$4-5 service charge.
And now, what you've all been waiting for: the
bands! They've got some great acts lined up this
year. Headlining the festival will be the Red Hot
Chili Peppers. Other major bands include the
Offspring, Live, Sugar Ray, Goo Goo Dolls,
Silverchair, Blink 182, and the Mighty Mighty
Bosstones. The other main stage performers will be
Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Orgy, Lit, and Sev, for a
total of 12 bands.
On the outer stage, the more popular bands playing
are 2 Skinee J's, Citizen King, and Fountains of
Wayne. Also, we'll be hearing Buck Cherry, the
Freestylers, the Living End, Ozomatli, and Beth
Orton, the only female performer at this year's
HFStival.
Expect some surprise announcements from HFS, this
being the 10th HFStival and whatnot, and listen to
win tickets. They've already started giving them
away. Good luck, and I think this year's festival is
going to be a blast!
Sunday, April 18 Official HFStival announcements
coming on monday! We'll finally learn about the
bands and when we can finally get tickets. I'll
listen to as much as I can, but I'd appreciate it if
you'd tell me about any of the bands you hear.
Also, we have our first confirmed band: SEV. This
local act won the Big Break dealie and now they get
to open the main stage. Way to go guys.
Thursday, April 15 Just got an email announcing the
new offical HFStival page. Now, it's still under
construction, and some of the links don't work, but
it's a good sign of things to come. You can find it
[16]here. Keep the rumors coming folks!
Monday, April 12 Big update today. It turns out that
the rumors I heard earlier were from a Rolling Stone
article (which can be found [17]here). Now, I've
been told that the author of this article tried the
same stunt (leaking HFStival bands before the
official announcements) last year, and half of his
article turned out to be wrong, so don't have too
much faith in anything you hear from non-HFS
sources.
On a more positive note, I've heard some great
things about Raven Stadium (actually called "PSInet
Stadium"), where the 1999 HFStival will be held. One
reader described it as "nothing less than A FRIGGIN'
PALACE with a football field in the middle." I've
never been to the stadium, being a Redskins fan
myself (hold your laughter until the end of the
presentation). I hear it has great audio and video
systems, as well as 100,000 parking spaces, so
parking won't be a problem. Also, Raven Stadium is
larger, allowing HFS to sell approx. 10,000 more
tickets. There's a light rail system in Baltimore
that stops right outside the stadium that could be
used by festival-goers (is that a word?). Overall, I
feel that the choice to move the HFStival was
probably a good one and won't be a major
inconvenience for fans in Washington.
Still haven't heard much about ticket sales. One
source told me that tickets will go on sale this
saturday, april 17, but that seems a little too soon
to me, considering that they haven't announced
anything yet.
Sunday, April 11 Hey folks! Wasn't sure if I was
gonna do this again this year, but I got an email
with a whole bunch of HFStival info (thanks Dave),
and I felt like I had to post all this stuff. So
here I am, back again this year, bringing you all
the info as I hear it.
The 1999 HFStival will take place on May 29, 1999.
If you hadn't heard yet, the '99 HFStival will NOT
take place at RFK as it has in the past, but rather
at Raven Stadium in Baltimore. This raises some
questions in my mind, but I'll reserve judgement
until I hear more info. I guess I'm not taking metro
this year.
This year, I've got a TON of info about the bands,
unlike last year, when I didn't hear much until they
were officially announced. Here's what we've got so
far:
Keeping in mind that this is all just rumors at this
point, my source tells me that the Red Hot Chili
Peppers and the Offspring could play the festival,
as well as the Goo Goo Dolls, Sugar Ray, the Mighty
Mighty Bosstones, Lit ("My Own Worst Enemy"), Orgy,
Blink 182, and four others. The Chili Peppers and
Blink will preview material from their forthcoming
albums, called "Californication" and "Enema of the
State," respectively. And those are just the main
stage bands.
On the outer stage, slated artists include Fountains
of Wayne, Beth Orton and Zebrahead. Other
possibilities are Citizen King, Marvelous 3, Puya,
and Buckcherry. The winner of the HFS Big Break will
also get a spot. The three finalists are Sev, the
Martians, and Sampson. The finals will be on April
15th at Bohagers in Baltimore.
"In all, twenty bands are expected to play this
year's HFStival -- twelve on the main stage and
eight on the second stage." -Dave (my source)
Like always, I love your input. If you've got some
info or thoughts on improving the site, email me.
Lets hope this year's HFStival turns out to be as
cool as the festivals from years past.
[banner4]
References:
[1] http://hfs2g.tripod.com/
[2] https://hfs99.tripod.com/~hfs99/
[3] javascript:bands()
[4] javascript:submit()
[5] mailto:HFSdavid@hotmail.com
[6] http://www.whfs.com/
[7] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999fall/
[10] http://www.24sev.com/
[11] javascript:bands()
[12] mailto:fishbulb100w@hotmail.com?subject=Happy_Birthday!!
[13] http://www.ticketmaster.com/
[14] mailto:HFSdavid@hotmail.com
[15] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999/festnews.htm
[16] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999/festmain.htm
[17] http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?afl=mnew&NewsID=7551&ArtistID=80origin=news

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What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore?
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You are reading some words on the internet.
Think about all the things you could do with these words.
You could copy and paste this article into ChatGPT and say, “Please rewrite and
paraphrase this blog post in such a way as to keep its main points and
observations, but substantively reconfigure the text to make the original
version undetectable.” And then, just like that, you have content for your own
blog. So easy.
Or you could just copy the contents of this page and paste it into a site like
plagiarism-remover.com so you could, as advertised, “Easily Convert Your
Plagiarism article Into Plagiarism Free article.” Or you could use Spinbot. Or
Jasper. Or QuillBot. Or Paraphraser. And so on.
You can now spin up [1]new, “original” articles faster and easier than even
reading the originals. This is a dizzying and dumbfounding new reality, when
you stop and think about it: automated plagiarism is now more efficient than
reading itself.
All the same, if you want to skip the whole paraphrase/spin step, you could
instead [2]copy and paste this article verbatim into a newsletter served up
behind a paywall. This strategy drastically reduces the odds that it will be
recognized as plagiarism on the open web. And, hey, why not make a few extra
bucks? (Perhaps ironically, turbo-charged content spinning is so pervasive that
[3]evermore sites require user logins just to access content. This seems
vicious: repurposing content engenders the proliferation of walled gardens and
walled gardens, in turn, engenders the proliferation of repurposed content.)
In summary, it feels like the fate of words on the internet is to be
paraphrased. Emerging tools like [4]Perplexity.ai respond to quiries with
fulsome answers that do not require users to even click off the site. In other
words, search itself is becoming the delivery of paraphrase and summary. Waning
are the days of sifting through “search results” to find a specific source.
Henceforth, digital words are little more than raw data to be crunched,
processed, and served up by third-party intermediaries.
The “moral rights” of the author. Copyright. Attribution. We have grown to
assume these concepts as givens, but they are rapidly sliding into practical
irrelevance in the age of AI and paywalls. To put any thoughtful labour into
crafting words online today is to watch them get sucked up, repurposed, and
often monetized by someone else. It feels a bit like a digital wasteland;
overrun with pirates, replete with armies of robots regurgitating everything
into a gooey cocktail of digital sludge.
It is interesting to speculate about the future. It seems like people might
eventually grow skeptical about investing their personal creativity in such a
space, right? Will anyone bother writing on the internet when they know their
words will be pilfered and junkified? What happens to the craft of writing
itself when our de facto global platform for sharing text no longer reinforces
or recognizes the role or rights of authorship?
To ponder this question, we can look back. In some ways, today’s internet
evermore reminds of the world I encountered back in classical studies. There
are bits of papyrus and parchment are flying around everywhere. Some texts
claim attribution, some are anonymous, and a lot are pseudonymous—and you can’t
tease any of this apart with any certainty. There are competing manuscripts,
copies of copies, and significant “versioning issues” everywhere you look.
Ultimately, the credence and authority you give to any specific text typically
reflects the trust your community bestows on it. The only words that survive
are the ones that get copied. This all sounds strangely familiar, yes?
If you were lucky and wealthy enough to write in antiquity, your scribbles went
out into the world to completely unknown ends. Authorship, accompanied by
newfangled attributions of moral and legal entitlements, is not yet a refined
concept. Once you “release” the words, you categorically relinquish control of
them. And you are fully aware that the more clever and helpful your words are
to others, the more likely it is that future readers will attribute your words
to someone else.
Sic semper erat, et sic semper erit. The better your words, the more likely it
is that somebody will poach them. Somebody will probably “paraphrase” your work
beyond detection. Somebody will “republish” it as their “original.” Somebody
else will train their large language model on your text and serve it up without
citations or footnotes. To write on today’s internet and assume universal
respect for your “moral rights of authorship” is an act of grand delusion.
You might as well write anonymous papyrus fragments.
And this is the point.
None of this really matters.
Whether papyrus or the internet, humans doggedly write for influence, status,
wealth, conviction, and pleasure. But the so-called sanctity of “authorship” is
only a very recent idea. These “rights” of authorship are only true if they are
enforced. They are a kind of fiction that only make sense in occasional times,
places, and cultures. For the next chapter of the human experiment, I wonder if
“authorship” will again recede into the background, as it often seems to do in
times of disruptive changes in communication technology.
But the banishment of the author doesn’t mean writing ends. Writers still write
even when “authorship” functionally means nothing. And what they write still
influences their world, with or without the universe dutifully paying homage to
their bylines. In the long arcs of history, what is written typically goes on
to mean much more than who wrote it. The future, like today, is built on ideas,
not on the people who had them, because people die but ideas never stop
evolving.
And the future needs ideas—not auto-generated “summaries” of old ones.
So, what’s the fun of writing on the internet anymore? Well, if your aim is to
be respected as an author, there’s probably not much fun to be had here at all.
Don’t write online for fame and glory. Oblivion, obscurity and exploitation are
all but guaranteed. Write here because ideas matter, not authorship. Write here
because the more robots, pirates, and single-minded trolls swallow up
cyberspace, the more we need independent writing in order to think new thoughts
in the future — even if your words are getting dished up and plated by an
algorithm.
Those who write — those who add ideas instead of paraphrasing and regurgitating
them — inform the lexicology and mental corpus of how we think in the future.
Indeed, the point isn’t “being an author,” but contributing one’s perspective,
even if one’s personal identity is silenced, erased, and anonymized along the
way.
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This post on [5]jamesshelley.com is copyright © 2024 by [6]James Shelley
Released under a [7]Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
Friday, February 16, 2024
References:
[1] https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chat-gpt-openai-jasper-hugging-face-plagiarism-big-technology.html
[2] https://jamesshelley.com/blog/on-being-plagiarized.html
[3] https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/six-months-in-journalist-owned-tech-publication-404-media-is-profitable/
[4] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/google-search-results-ET4ll7tdT6axzwgifCC3Gw?s=c
[5] https://jamesshelley.com/
[6] https://jamesshelley.com/
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[2]About [3]Blog [4]Now [5]Resume [6]Contact
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Nov 1, 2021
Enable Full Text RSS Feeds in Hugo
By default, [18]Hugo summarizes each article when generating the RSS feed. Not
ideal if your the type of person who prefers to read the full content directly
in an RSS reader. This post will show you how to enable full text RSS feeds in
Hugo.
Here’s an example of a long article summarized in [19]Inoreader:
[20]Image of Summarized article from RSS feed in Inoreader
Here’s the same article after enabling full content RSS feeds:
[21]Image of
Configuration Details[22]
Create the following directory structure in the root of your Hugo site:
mkdir layouts/_default
Output Example:
jemurray@phalanges:~/Documents/www-personal/current/jasonmurray.org $ mkdir layouts/_default
Then copy the following file into the layouts/_default directory. It’s is an
updated version of the default [23]RSS template with the appropriate
modifications to generate full text RSS feeds:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xJasonMurray/jasonmurray.org/main/layouts/_default/rss.xml -O layouts/_default/rss.xml
Output Example:
jemurray@phalanges:~/Documents/www-personal/current/jasonmurray.org $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xJasonMurray/jasonmurray.org/main/layouts/_default/rss.xml -O layouts/_default/rss.xml
--2021-11-01 19:23:12-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xJasonMurray/jasonmurray.org/main/layouts/_default/rss.xml
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.110.133, 185.199.108.133, 185.199.109.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.110.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1959 (1.9K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘layouts/_default/rss.xml’
layouts/_default/rss.xml 100%[=========================================================================================================================================>] 1.91K --.-KB/s in 0s
2021-11-01 19:23:12 (8.94 MB/s) - ‘layouts/_default/rss.xml’ saved [1959/1959]
For those curious, here’s the diff between the original and the modified
version of the rss.xml file:
jemurray@phalanges:~ $ diff rss.xml Documents/www-personal/current/jasonmurray.org/layouts/_default/rss.xml
35c35
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The future needs files
For many mobile users, files are like dinosaurs, a holdover from the bygone
desktop era. Sure, they “work” but, they’re mostly there because, you know,
ancient history. I’ve discussed this issue for the last 2 years and I usually
get some version of “get over it grandpa”.
I’m not here to tell you exactly what should happen, but more what you should
want. For me, it’s a travesty that people don’t understand why files are so
powerful and more importantly, how they need to evolve for mobile. I want all
OSs, including mobile ones, to properly support real files as they are amazing,
inspiring, and possibly the future of how we build our digital future.
Note: I’m using iOS as an example throughout this post but Android (and others)
are doing nearly the same thing. Please don’t mistake this as some type of
attack on Apple, this applies to everyone.
I’m not a luddite
I can understand your skepticism. Am I the dinosaur, overly attached to the
past? In my defense, I was on the Apple Newton team in the 90s (even working on
an unreleased “Newton Phone” concept) and also managed Google’s Mobile UX team
from 2005-2009, I was there when all hell broke loose and saw firsthand how
mobile changed everything. Mobile is clearly a juggernaut far bigger than
desktop. But too many assume a market win means a perfect product. It’s never
that simple. Mobile won for a variety of reasons, but throwing away files
wasn’t one of them.
Misconception #1: Mobile already has files!
Whenever I broach this topic on Twitter I always get some smart aleck posting a
screenshot of the Apple Files app. Sigh… Yes, there is a Files app, Bravo… But
it’s so poorly integrated into the experience that it creates confusion and
extra work. Let’s back up a bit.
In 2007, the iPhone was a radical simplification over the desktop. There were
no windows, no menu bar, and there weren’t even visible scroll bars! The iPhone
was primarily a content consumption device. This was a brilliant insight. It
didn’t rule out content creation, it just made it an edge case. The iPhone was
first and foremost focused on browsing and scrolling. In fact, it’s maniacal
focus on scrolling introduced “flicking”, which allowed a super fast scroll to
the bottom of lists. (there’s a whole blog post I could write just on the
difference between the Newton and iPhone scrolling behaviors)
But the iPhone didn’t stop there, it radically simplified other parts of the
UI, the most notable was removing the file system entirely. Remember, this was
a consumption device, so files weren’t strictly necessary. You had file-like
things, but they were locked up inside the apps themselves. The Notes app is a
good example.
• [Notes1]
• [Notes2]
And to be honest, if you have just a few notes, this isn’t bad. The problem is
that if you have lots of notes, or want to do anything interesting with these
notes (e.g. get comments on them, post to blog, or import previous work) you’re
out of luck. My issue with that initial 2007 iPhone was that while it was well
intentioned it took things too far. Instead of hiding files away, it killed
them off entirely.
But things have improved since then right? There is a Files app after all.
Notes can import from Files!
Well, not quite. Let’s just look at the most recent (2021) version of the iOS
Notes app. It’s significantly different from the original 2007 version, with
lots more functionality, but below is a screenshot of me trying to save a note
to Dropbox.
[Notes-2021-Export-700x527]Notes 2021
Notice something? There is no “Save to Files” option! Even more confusing,
Notes has its own parallel folders that don’t show up in the Files app. And if
you feel like being a smarty-pants and say “Scott, look, those are iCloud
folders!” Not so fast there buckeroo. Here’s my iCloud drive:
[YI4kG_di0flii3q8LURZVnypQ2KggBwOQG_IPFqmrn3y22V0VlYfwSdKg]Web iCloud
Those Notes folders are nowhere to be seen. They are ONLY visible in the Notes
app or the iCloud Notes app! A tight little ecosystem you can’t escape from.
To further confuse things, when I took a screenshot of the Notes app and tried
to save this to the Files app, that actually was possible! The Mac prided
itself on “learn once, use everywhere.” That’s clearly not the case for iOS
apps.
[Screenshot-savejpg-700x525]Screenshots support Files app
Side Note: You actually can use Files from Notes but it’s hidden. Instead of
“Save to Files” you have to chose “Send a copy” menu item that will export a
version into Files. So while it’s Notes does indeed support the Files app, it’s
unlike others and clearly only focuses in the Import/Export use case.
This odd-man-out approach for Notes shows an underappreciated challenge for any
paradigm shift. iOS started off without files so when Apple suddenly added a
Files app a decade later, it’s not surprising that most apps didn’t immediately
start to use it uniformly.
Of course, things may improve over time but it’s been years with little change.
I worry things are intellectually calcifying, or in Notes case, bifurcating.
Part of my motivation in writing this post is to get us fired up about the
value of files so it we appreciate this is happening.
Misconception #2: Sharing is all I need
The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary
holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A
range of apps can edit a single file in a single location. On mobile, the
primary way to really use files is to “Share” between apps. This demotes files
from a powerful abstract noun into a lackluster narrow verb.
For example, I can import a text file into the Notes app but it’s really
nothing more than a glorified copy/paste, not an editing of an object in place.
This makes a cloud storage service like DropBox nearly useless as I’m not
editing “the thing” but a copy of the thing. I need to save it back out to
Dropbox if I want anyone else to see my changes. That’s vastly underutilizing
the power of the abstraction that comes from files.
By sharing a file into an app you’re effectively making a copy. If I’d like to
make a few changes to a photo before posting it, each app I use makes an
internal copy of that photo. In order to pass the new photo to another app, I
have to export it out, so I get not only a copy of the photo in each app I use,
but it’s result needs to be copied out yet again to a service like Dropbox so
that I can share it back into the next app.
Of course, people don’t do this type of flow often but that’s because mobile is
mostly about consumption not creation. If we want mobile to expand and grow it
needs to handle the flows “knowledge workers” do routinely. Part of my
frustration in talking about this issue is that people are so trapped within
the present. Just because no one needs something today somehow justifies our
pain forever. If we’re talking about the future, we need to talk about new
tools and new workflows. The current model of files on mobile is drastically
restricting this.
Misconception #3: But I can share with iPhone users!
Yes, you can “Share” notes with other iOS users but that’s a very [10]
Procrustean Bed you’re making. You have to ask “at what cost”? Are you really
willing to bet your creative productivity to a single app from a single
company? Remember, this approach prevents your notes even from being used by
other iOS apps as well!
The most powerful aspect of files is that they liberate your data. Any app can
see it and do something useful to it. DropBox (et. al.) were able to seamlessly
merge with desktop usage as it required zero changes to your workflow. Files
were just magically synced to the cloud, unlocking not only multiple computers
working on the same file but multiple device types.
The current mobile model does indeed sync your data but through the wrapper of
apps which forms a restrictive shield around your data. It’s so much more
powerful to sync your data through files.
Misconception #4: Files are just blobs of data
Files are mistakenly conceived as only content, something holding your notes,
spreadsheet data, or a photo. But files also have metadata, information about
the information. The obvious examples are the file name, creation and
modification date. The only one of these that is really used much on mobile is
modification date as when you use the ‘file picker’ on mobile, it usually
defaults to ‘most recent’ files. This actually does work well, if you’re trying
to include something you’ve just created. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t scale
much beyond that use case.
A more subtle example of metadata is the folder a file is in. This allows you
to group files from different apps, into a single place. If I’m planning a
wedding, it’s very helpful to have all wedding things together. This is data
first vs app first organization. This was extended when the Mac created the
“Desktop”, a temporary holding place for files. People needed folders for
longer term storage but it was also powerful to have a temporary ‘working area’
for recent files. The original Mac even had a [11]“Put away” command that would
return a file from the Desktop back into its original folder location (sadly
removed in OS X). This small bit of history shows how adding a tiny amount of
metadata can have a significant positive impact on a user’s workflow.
[Put-Away-700x525]Mac OS9 Put away command
The same applies to previews or content indexes (e.g. Spotlight on the Mac)
This allows the Finder to display your files in more helpful ways and even
allows you to quickly find things based on their content. This metadata is
hugely powerful and not always available on mobile.
But it’s helpful to remember that this metadata only went so far. Using “just
files” started to break down with apps like iPhoto and iTunes, which tried to
have it both ways. Both used the file system to store the many large files
needed but they also required an app to add additional metadata to group and
sort the content. This created a schism, splitting the metadata between two
different masters. This meant you couldn’t just ‘reach into’ your iTunes
folders with the Finder to rearrange things (or convert the files from WAV to
MP3) without causing serious app confusion. In some cases, if you did this the
music would simply disappear from iTunes.
2002 iTunes 2.0.4 CD on OS9 - Take 2 | AppleToTheCore.me
There were attempts to fix this. BeOS allowed arbitrary data to be added to
files and this was reflected it’s Tracker (file browser) app. This allowed
iPhoto-like ‘apps’ to exist entirely within Tracker. [12]WinFS from Microsoft
carried this even further with a more robust metadata mechanism. Both were
valiant attempts but most people have no idea either existed and have ended up,
like Dvorak keyboards, to be considered a mostly ignored branch of computer
history. This is too bad as we’ve already seen that things like Mac Spotlight
are incredibly helpful. I strongly feel that we should be looking harder at
bringing back metadata systems like WinFS/BeOS. But not for me, for the AI.
Our AI Future
My goal isn’t to talk about “fixing mobile”. Mobile will, eventually, get
there. Too many people think “Mobile is the Future” but we are so far past
that. Mobile is the present. We need to actually be thinking about the future
that is coming and what we are going to need.
Mobile started off as a consumption device. That brilliant simplification
unlocked an explosion of basic consumption tasks. But if we want to move
everyone over to phones and tablets, we clearly have a long ways to go. Yes,
there are small niches of people, like writers that are using their iPad for
creation. But that isn’t a very high bar, [13]extremely simple devices have
existed for this for a long time. Besides, how many companies have successfully
migrated their entire company to tablets? I’m sure a few exist but it’s not
exactly an avalanche is it?
I’m talking about moving from consumption to creation and not just for today’s
tasks, but for the tools we are just starting to use. I’m referring to Machine
Learning systems. These are the type of agents that can run through the data on
my phone making inferences, corrections, and suggestions that make my life
easier and more productive. Things like:
• Cleaning up my contacts (and searching for additional info on them)
• Tagging my photos with text inside them
• Proofreading my writing
• Indexing and linking “statistically significant” words in audio/video files
• Creating semantic links between all of my work
These are just baby, brainstorm-ish ideas. We know this will evolve to be so
much more nuanced and impactful. Relegating these services to the OS is a safer
option, certainly from the security point of view, but that creates an
innovation chokepoint. If we’ve learned anything from our history, we need to
have more open systems to create an opportunity to try out many many different
services. Not just a few more but orders of magnitude more, which is far more
than any OS can provide. If we’re happy with Dropbox, we should have no
problems with 3rd party ML systems scouring our data, especially if we have
folders as a mechanism to gate access.
This isn’t some feeble political statement to liberate my data from a company.
I want files to liberate my data from my own apps and create an ML explosion of
activity! Files are at some level a hack, I get that, there are limits but they
are an extremely useful and flexible hack. Like the QWERTY keyboard, they are
“good enough” for most tasks. Files encapsulate a ‘chunk’ of your work and
allow that chunk to be seen, moved, acted on, and accessed by multiple people
and more importantly external 3rd party processes. It is a fever dream to think
mobile is adequate today. It isn’t adequate and we desperately need the power
of files to unlock the future on mobile.
Special thanks to Gordon Brander whose musings on his new app [14]Subconscious
revived this 2 year old idea into this blog post. If you’re not reading Gordon,
you’re missing out.
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Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Or Mastodon.
Many people are now desperately waiting for their Twitter archives, hoping that
they’ll arrive before all their content is lost for good. For those who were
using Twitter primarily for ephemeral chatter, all this isn’t that tragic. But
for others, all their posts, conversations, and connections on the social
network were a significant part of their online identity. They are about to
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Especially if you are a designer, an artist, a photographer, a writer, a
blogger, a creator of any kind, owning your work is as important as ever.
Social media platforms might be great for distributing your content and
creating a network of like-minded people around you. But they will always be
ephemeral, transient, and impermanent – not the best place to preserve your
thoughts, words, and brushstrokes.
In the search for a permanent home on the web, more and more people are now
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thoughts and publish their work. [11]I’ve written at length before about why
this is such a good idea: Your personal website is a place that provides
immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to write, create, and share
whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission. It is also
the perfect place to explore and try new things, like different types of posts,
different styles, and new web technologies. It is [12]your playground, your
platform, your personal corner on the Web.
That’s why it warms my heart to read articles like [13]Bring back personal
blogging by Monique Judge on a site like The Verge or to add my site to
projects like [14]Bring Back Blogging by Ash Huang and Ryan Putnam, who
encourage us all to get into the habit and publish at least three blog posts
until the end of January. Oh, and if that’s important to you, as Chris Coyier
notes, [15]There Can Be Money in Blogging, too.
So how about we make 2023 the year of the personal website? The year in which
we launch our first site or redesign our old one, publish a little more often,
and add RSS and [16]Webmentions to our websites so that we can write posts back
and forth. The year we make our sites [17]more fussy, more quirky, and [18]more
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help each other getting started. The year we finally create a community of
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[75] https://matthiasott.com/site-notice

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The internet used to be ✨fun✨
I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days
of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another,
better piece that someone else has already written. So for now, here’s a
collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a
personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.”
If you’ve written something that feels like it belongs here—especially if your
voice is one that’s frequently underrepresented—I’d be interested to read it!
Holler at me via email (kwon at fastmail.com), or on Mastodon ([1]
mastodon.social/@rjkwon).
Article Author Date Date added
published ↓
[2]Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs! [3]Gersande La 2023-03-26 2024-03-03
Flèche
[4]Surfing the Old Web [5]Juan Villela 2023-01-11 2024-03-03
[6]Why Personal Blogging Still Rules [7]Mike Grindle 2023-04-12 2024-03-03
[8]L'informatique, c'était mieux avant [9]Richard Dern 2022-01-21 2024-03-03
(Computing was better before)
[10]shite: static sites from shell [11]Aditya Athalye 2022-03-08 2024-03-03
[12]Desktops.zip - Some thoughts on [13]Simone 2023-08-14 2024-03-03
websites that look like desktops Marzulli
[14]Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home [15]Dominik Rabiej 2019-06-30 2024-03-03
Page
[16]Digital Homes and Neighborhoods [17]Jake Weber 2023-05-23 2024-03-03
[18]Game of Content [19]Deep H. Dave 2021-03-09 2024-03-03
[20]The Internet Changed My Life [21]Maxime 2022-01-19 2024-03-03
Chevalier-Boisvert
[22]Social Websites [23]Matt Stein 2024-02-06 2024-03-03
[24]The Web is Fantastic [25]Robb Knight 2023-12-28 2024-03-03
[26]Into the Personal Website-Verse [27]Matthias Ott 2019-05-12 2024-03-03
[28]Splitting the Web [29]Ploum 2023-08-01 2024-03-03
[30]Do You Remember the Internet [31]dear talula 2022-02-19 2024-03-03
Before Social Media?
[32]Blog Bookmark Rot [33]Skelly 2024-02-17 2024-03-03
[34]Let Us Build a New Web [35]Brad Enslen 2018-09-13 2024-03-03
[36]Where have all the websites gone? [37]Jason 2024-01-08 2024-03-03
Velazquez
[38]Ruminating on Walled Gardens [39]Brandon 2024-02-16 2024-03-03
[40]My website is a shifting house [41]Laurel
next to a river of knowledge. What Schwulst 2018-05-21 2024-02-11
could yours be?
[42]Rediscovering the Old Internet [43]Noisy 2023-09-07 2024-02-11
Vibe Deadlines
[44]Click around, find out [45]John Hoare 2024-01-21 2024-02-11
[46]The Bullshit Web [47]Nick Heer 2018-11-30 2024-02-11
[48]The old internet [49]Rebecca Toh 2020-01-16 2024-02-11
[50]Computers: An Invocation for Soft [51]Katherine Yang 2023-09-01 2024-02-11
Tech
[52]i really love the (hipster) [53]Judah 2023-02-02 2024-02-11
internet
[54]Poor man's web [55]Serge Zaitsev 2021-04-27 2024-02-11
[56]The web is yours [57]James G 2024-01-06 2024-02-11
[58]Refuge in blogs and the IndieWeb [59]Robert Kingett 2023-10-17 2024-02-11
[60]I Love the Web [61]fLaMEd 2021-04-06 2024-02-11
[62]a personal manifesto [63]Simone 2023-04-20 2024-01-04
Silvestroni
[64]Everyone Should Blog, And That [65]Alexandra 2023-12-30 2024-01-04
Includes You
[66]My website as a home [67]Nico Chilla 2023-11-13 2024-01-04
[68]The Web Revival [69]Melon 2023-11-10 2024-01-04
[70]Make your own independent website [71]Victoria Drake 2021-01-16 2024-01-04
[72]Why the Indie Web movement is so [73]Dan Gillmor 2014-04-25 2024-01-04
important
[74]It’s Time to Get Personal [75]Laura Kalbag 2019-12-09 2024-01-04
[76]Please for the love of Blarg, [77]Jay Springett 2019-12-14 2024-01-04
Start a Blog
[79]Spencer Chang
[78]Taking an Internet Walk [80]Kristoffer -- 2023-11-12
Tjalve
[81]tiny internets [82]Spencer Chang -- 2023-11-12
[83]You Should Have a Website [84]Mark Murphy -- 2023-11-12
[85]Notes on the small web [86]Felix 2022-09-10 2023-10-24
Pleşoianu
[87]The Quiet Web [88]Brian 2021-02-12 2023-10-24
Koberlein
[89]Rediscovering the Old Internet [90] 2023-09-07 2023-10-24
Vibe noisydeadlines.net
[91]Soft tech [92]Helena -- 2023-10-24
Jaramillo
[93]How to fix the internet [94]Katie 2023-10-17 2023-10-19
Notopoulos
[95]Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over [96]Om Malik 2023-10-15 2023-10-18
It.
[97]Build your own website! [98]Devastatia del 2023-07-09 2023-10-16
Gato
[99]The Importance of Personal [100]Hayden White 2023-08-29 2023-10-16
Websites
[101]why the web? [102]Justin Hall -- 2023-09-30
[103]Exploring the Personal Web [104] 2023-05-06 2023-09-30
foreverliketh.is
[105]Why you should have a blog (and [106]Leticia 2020-06-21 2023-09-30
write in it) Portella
[107]My 20th anniversary of blogging! [108]Tracy Durnell 2023-09-23 2023-09-30
[109]Bix's story of his internet [110]Bix Frankonis 2020-02-24 2023-09-18
[111]About me (localghost) [112]Sophie Koonin -- 2023-09-12
[113]At home on the internet [114]Johnny -- 2023-09-12
Rodgers
[115]How I experience web today [116]Li Guangyi -- 2023-09-12
[117]About this website [118]Zinzy Waleson -- 2023-09-12
Geene
[119]How the Blog Broke the Web [120]Amy Hoy -- 2023-09-12
[121]I miss the internet. [122]Joan 2023-07-07 2023-09-12
Westenberg
[123]Every person on the planet should [124]Amin 2023-07-06 2023-09-12
have their own website Eftegarie
[125]Eight years of blogging [126]Paweł Grzybek 2023-03-11 2023-09-12
[127]Blogging is alive and well [128]Colin Devroe 2023-01-11 2023-09-12
[129]The Year of the Personal Website [130]Matthias Ott 2023-01-06 2023-09-12
[131]Bring back personal blogging [132]Monique Judge 2022-12-31 2023-09-12
[133]Passionless Web [134]Manuel 2022-08-16 2023-09-12
Moreale
[135]Building a Digital Homestead, Bit [136]Tom Critchlow 2022-03-08 2023-09-12
by Brick
[137]Early Web Design Helped a [138]Nika Simovich
Generation Express Themselves Online. Fisher 2022-03-08 2023-09-12
How Do We Capture That Feeling Again?
[139]The Joys and Sorrows of [140]"Cheapskate" 2022-03-06 2023-09-12
Maintaining a Personal Website
[141]On building a home on the web [142]Daniël van 2022-02-25 2023-09-12
der Winden
[143]How Websites Die [144]Wesley 2022-02-21 2023-09-12
Aptekar-Cassels
[145]“Tom had us all doing front-end [146]Kate M.
web development”: a nostalgic (re) Miltner 2021-10-07 2023-09-12
imagining of Myspace [147]Ysabel
Gerrard
[148]Why Personal Websites are [149]Chuck Carroll 2021-03-25 2023-09-12
Important
[150]The Value of a Personal Site [151]Marc 2021-03-15 2023-09-12
[152]The small web is beautiful [153]Ben Hoyt 2021-03-01 2023-09-12
[154]envisioning my homepage as an [155]Winnie Lim 2020-11-22 2023-09-12
online therapeutic space
[156]Hunting the Nearly-Invisible [157]"Cheapskate" 2020-08-27 2023-09-12
Personal Website
[158]What is the Small Web? [159]Aral Balkan 2020-08-07 2023-09-12
[160]Rediscovering the Small Web [161]Parimal 2020-05-25 2023-09-12
Satyal
[162]On attention management & owning [163]Roel van der 2017-06-04 2023-09-12
your content Ven
[164]Stop Crowdsourcing Your [165]Darius Foroux 2016-08-25 2023-09-12
Confidence
[166]Homesteading 2014 [167]Frank Chimero 2013-12-21 2023-09-12
[168]Death to Bullshit [169]Brad Frost 2013-04-08 2023-09-12
[170]A Brief History & Ethos of the [171]Maggie -- 2023-09-12
Digital Garden Appleton
[172]E/N (Everything/Nothing) [173]JR (Sawv) -- 2023-09-12
Line drawing of an old-school desktop computer with various whimsical items
emanating from the screen including an ice cream cone, rainbow, puppy, happy
sheep, and sparkles
I still love the internet (it's still fun)
Made with [174]Hugo and 💕 by [175]Rachel J. Kwon
Updated 03 Mar 2024
References:
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[2] https://gersande.com/blog/blogs-are-dead/
[3] https://gersande.com/
[4] https://cleverlaziness.xyz/posts/surfing-the-old-web/
[5] https://juanvillela.dev/
[6] https://mikegrindle.com/posts/personal-blogging
[7] https://mikegrindle.com/
[8] https://www.richard-dern.fr/blog/2022/01/21/l-informatique-c-etait-mieux-avant/
[9] https://www.richard-dern.fr/
[10] https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shite-the-static-sites-from-shell-part-1/index.html#main
[11] https://www.evalapply.org/
[12] https://system31.simone.computer/blog/desktops-zip
[13] https://simone.computer/
[14] https://dominik.net/reviving-ye-olde-personal-home-page.html
[15] https://dominik.net/
[16] https://polymathematics.blog/2023/05/25/digital-homes-and-neighborhoods/
[17] https://jakeweber.net/
[18] https://deephdave.com/2021/03/09/Game-of-Content.html
[19] https://deephdave.com/
[20] https://pointersgonewild.com/2022/01/19/the-internet-changed-my-life/
[21] https://pointersgonewild.com/
[22] https://garden.mattstein.com/notes/people-content-6-social-websites
[23] https://mattstein.com/
[24] https://rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fantastic/
[25] https://rknight.me/
[26] https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse
[27] https://matthiasott.com/
[28] https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html
[29] https://ploum.net/
[30] https://deartalula.com/do-you-remember-the-internet-before-social-media/
[31] https://deartalula.com/
[32] https://yllekz.github.io/blog/blog-bookmarkrot.html
[33] https://yllekz.github.io/
[34] https://ramblinggit.com/2018/09/13/let-us-build.html
[35] https://ramblinggit.com/
[36] https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/
[37] https://www.fromjason.xyz/
[38] https://brandonsblog.bearblog.dev/ruminating-on-walled-gardens/
[39] https://brandonsblog.bearblog.dev/ruminating-on-walled-gardens/
[40] https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/
[41] https://laurelschwulst.com/
[42] https://noisydeadlines.net/rediscovering-the-old-internet-vibe
[43] https://noisydeadlines.net/
[44] https://www.dirtyfeed.org/2024/01/click-around-find-out/
[45] https://www.dirtyfeed.org/
[46] https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/
[47] https://pxlnv.com/
[48] https://rebeccatoh.co/the-old-internet/
[49] https://rebeccatoh.co/
[50] https://kayserifserif.place/work/manifesto/
[51] https://kayserifserif.place/
[52] https://bewrong.substack.com/p/the-hipster-internet
[53] https://joodaloop.com/
[54] https://zserge.com/posts/small-web/
[55] https://zserge.com/
[56] https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/06/the-web-is-yours/
[57] https://jamesg.blog/
[58] https://robertkingett.com/posts/6158/
[59] https://robertkingett.com/
[60] https://flamedfury.com/posts/i-love-the-web/
[61] https://flamedfury.com/
[62] https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/personal-manifesto/
[63] https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/
[64] https://library.xandra.cc/everyone-should-blog/
[65] https://xandra.cc/
[66] https://nicochilla.com/my-website-as-a-home/
[67] https://nicochilla.com/
[68] https://wiki.melonland.net/web_revival
[69] https://melonland.net/
[70] https://victoria.dev/blog/make-your-own-independent-website/
[71] https://victoria.dev/
[72] https://dangillmor.com/2014/04/25/indie-web-important/
[73] https://dangillmor.com/
[74] https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/
[75] https://laurakalbag.com/
[76] https://www.thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/
[77] https://www.thejaymo.net/
[78] https://syllabusproject.org/syllabus-for-taking-an-internet-walk/
[79] https://www.spencerchang.me/
[80] https://cloudlord.management/
[81] https://tiny-inter.net/
[82] https://www.spencerchang.me/
[83] https://maerk.xyz/blog/you-should-have-a-website/
[84] https://maerk.xyz/
[85] https://felix.plesoianu.ro/web/in-the-small.html
[86] https://felix.plesoianu.ro/
[87] https://briankoberlein.com/tech/quiet-web/
[88] https://briankoberlein.com/
[89] https://noisydeadlines.net/rediscovering-the-old-internet-vibe
[90] https://noisydeadlines.net/
[91] https://helena.mmm.page/soft_tech
[92] https://everywwwhere.net/
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[94] https://katienotopoulos.com/
[95] https://om.co/2023/10/15/social-internet-is-dead-get-used-to-it/
[96] https://om.co/
[97] https://www.devastatia.com/thread-9.html
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[99] https://whitevhs.xyz/articles/2023/08/29/personal-websites
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[101] https://www.links.net/dox/tech/whyweb.html
[102] https://www.links.net/
[103] https://foreverliketh.is/blog/exploring-the-personal-web/
[104] https://foreverliketh.is/
[105] https://leportella.com/why-have-a-blog.html/
[106] https://leportella.com/
[107] https://tracydurnell.com/2023/09/23/my-20th-anniversary-of-blogging/
[108] https://tracydurnell.com/
[109] https://bix.blog/2020/Feb/24/in-some-sense-its-interesting-that-i-had/
[110] https://bix.blog/
[111] https://localghost.dev/about/
[112] https://localghost.dev/
[113] https://johnnyrodgers.is/at-home-on-the-internet
[114] https://johnnyrodgers.is/
[115] https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
[116] https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/
[117] https://www.zinzy.website/site
[118] https://www.zinzy.website/
[119] https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/
[120] https://stackingthebricks.com/
[121] https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/i-miss-the-internet-c7e41544a8b9
[122] https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/
[123] https://eftegarie.com/every-person-on-the-planet-should-have-their-own-website/
[124] https://eftegarie.com/
[125] https://pawelgrzybek.com/eight-years-of-blogging/
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[148] https://chuck.is/web-independent/
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[150] https://atthis.link/blog/2021/personalsite.html
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[152] https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/
[153] https://benhoyt.com/
[154] https://winnielim.org/experiments/website/envisioning-my-homepage-as-an-online-therapeutic-space/
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[156] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/personal-website-hunting.html
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[162] https://roelvanderven.com/blog/attention-management-owning-content
[163] https://roelvanderven.com/
[164] https://dariusforoux.com/stop-crowdsourcing-confidence/
[165] https://dariusforoux.com/
[166] https://archive.ph/2013.12.27-041357/http://frankchimero.com/blog/2013/12/homesteading-2014/
[167] https://frankchimero.com/
[168] https://deathtobullshit.com/
[169] https://bradfrost.com/
[170] https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
[171] https://maggieappleton.com/
[172] http://sawv.org/en.html
[173] http://sawv.org/
[174] https://gohugo.io/
[175] https://kwon.nyc/

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[1]Steph Ango / [2]Writing [3]About [4]Now
File over app
July 1, 2023 · 1 minute read
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that
last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve
and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is
ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
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In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools
you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to
last.
The ancient temples of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone
thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than
the type of chisel that was used to carve them.
The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many
mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and
tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store,
preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is
eyeballs.
Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these
artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases,
gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the
files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible
with older systems and other tools.
Paraphrasing something [5]I wrote recently
If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s
or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the
1960s.
You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but
also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to
something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format
you can’t retrieve.
These days I write using an app I help make called [6]Obsidian, but it’s a
delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become
obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who
knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of
an audience to make it worthwhile.
Linked mentions
[7]
Photoshop for text
In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as
commonplace as filtering images.
[8]
Style is consistent constraint
Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you
focus.
[9]
Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
Quality software is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of
handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced...
[10]
100% user-supported
If you want to build principled software, avoid becoming VCware. Stay
user-supported. It is now possible for tiny teams to build principled...
[11]
Obsidian
A private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think. I am
currently CEO of the company.
[12]
Obsidian Vault Template
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and
organizing things I am interested in.
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• [14]Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate
• [15]Concise explanations accelerate progress
• [16]In good hands
• [17]A bicycle for the senses
• [18]Design is compromise
• [19]40 questions to ask yourself every year
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• [21]Pain is information
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References:
[1] https://stephango.com/
[2] https://stephango.com/
[3] https://stephango.com/about
[4] https://stephango.com/now
[5] https://obsidian.md/blog/new-obsidian-icon/
[6] https://stephango.com/obsidian
[7] https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-text
[8] https://stephango.com/style
[9] https://stephango.com/quality-software
[10] https://stephango.com/vcware
[11] https://stephango.com/obsidian
[12] https://stephango.com/vault
[13] https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-text
[14] https://stephango.com/evergreen-notes
[15] https://stephango.com/concise
[16] https://stephango.com/in-good-hands
[17] https://stephango.com/bicycle-for-the-senses
[18] https://stephango.com/design-is-compromise
[19] https://stephango.com/40-questions
[20] https://stephango.com/vcware
[21] https://stephango.com/pain
[22] https://stephango.com/subscribe
[23] https://stephango.com/feed.xml
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SERVICENAME=$(basename $(pwd))
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[Unit]
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conceptual groundwork for cryptocurrency, and imagined a geoengineered planet.
And nearly three decades before the release of ChatGPT, he presaged the current
AI revolution. A core element of one of his early novels, [66]The Diamond Age:
Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a magical book that acts as a
personal tutor and mentor for a young girl, adapting to her learning style—in
essence, it is a personalized and ultra-advanced chatbot. The titular Primer
speaks aloud in the voice of a live actor, known as a “ractor”—evoking how
today’s generative AI, like many digital technologies, is highly dependent on
humans’ creative labor.
Stephenson’s book, published in 1995, explores a future of seamless, instant
digital communication, in which tiny computers with immense capabilities are
embedded in everyday life. Corporations are dominant, news and ads are
targeted, and screens are omnipresent. It’s a world of stark class and cultural
divisions (the novel follows a powerful aristocratic sect that styles itself as
the “neo-Victorians”), but it’s nevertheless one in which the Primer is
presented as the best of what technology can be.
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[68]The Diamond Age - Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
By Neal Stephenson
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But Stephenson is far more pessimistic about today’s AI than he was about the
Primer. “A chatbot is not an oracle,” he told me over Zoom last Friday. “It’s a
statistics engine that creates sentences that sound accurate.” I spoke with
Stephenson about his uncannily prescient book and the generative-AI revolution
that has seemingly begun.
This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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Matteo Wong: The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is a book that adapts to and
teaches a young girl, which seems to resonate with the vision of AI chatbots
and assistants that many companies have for the near future. Did you set out to
explore the idea of an intelligent machine in imagining the Primer?
Neal Stephenson: The idea came to me after we had a kid and got this mobile
that was designed to suspend over the crib. It had very primitive, simple
shapes on it because, when they’re newborns, their visual systems can’t resolve
fine details. So there would be a square and a triangle and a circle. And then,
after a certain number of days or weeks had gone by, you were supposed to pop
those cards off of the mobile and snap on a different set that had a more
appropriate fit for what their brains were capable of at that age. That just
got me to thinking: What if you extended that idea to every other form of
intellectual growth?
The technology that drives the book wasn’t really AI as we think of it now—I
was talking to people who were working on some of the underlying technologies
that would be needed to communicate on the internet in a secure, anonymous
manner. I guess it’s implicit that there’s an AI in there that’s generating the
story and increasing the degree of sophistication in response to the learning
curve of the child, but I didn’t really go into that very much; I just kind of
assumed it would be there.
Wong: A lot of companies today—OpenAI, Google, Meta, to name a few—have said
they want to build AI assistants that adapt to each user, somewhat like how the
Primer acts as a teacher. Do you see anything in the generative-AI models of
today that resembles or could one day become like the Primer?
Stephenson: About a year ago, I worked with a start-up that makes AI characters
in video games. I found it rewarding and fascinating because of the
hallucinations: I could see how new patterns emerged from the soup of inputs
being fed to it. The same thing that I consider to be a feature is a bug in
most applications. We’ve already seen examples of lawyers who use ChatGPT to
create legal documents, and the AI just fabricated past cases and precedents
that seemed completely plausible. When you think about the idea of trying to
make use of these models in education, this becomes a bug too. What they do is
generate sentences that sound like correct sentences, but there’s no underlying
brain that can actually discern whether those sentences are correct or not.
[70]Read: The end of high-school English
Think about any concept that we might want to teach somebody—for instance, the
Pythagorean theorem. There must be thousands of old and new explanations of the
Pythagorean theorem online. The real thing we need is to understand each
child’s learning style so we can immediately connect them to the one out of
those thousands that is the best fit for how they learn. That to me sounds like
an AI kind of project, but it’s a different kind of AI application from DALL-E
or large language models.
Wong: And yet, today, those language models, which fundamentally predict words
in a sequence, are being applied to many areas where they have no specialized
abilities—GPT-4 for medical diagnosis, Google Bard as a tutor. That reminds me
of a term used in the book instead of artificial intelligence,
pseudo-intelligence, which many critics of the technology might appreciate
today.
Stephenson: I’d forgotten about that. The running gag of that book was applying
Victorian diction and prejudices to high-tech things. What was probably going
through my mind was that Victorians would look askance at the term artificial
intelligence, because they would be offended by the idea that computers could
replace human brains. So they would probably want to bracket the idea as a
simulation, or a “pseudo” intelligence, as opposed to the real thing.
Wong: About a year ago, in an [71]interview with the Financial Times, you
called the outputs of generative AI “hollow and uninteresting.” Why was that,
and has your assessment changed?
Stephenson: I suspect that what I had in mind when I was making those remarks
was the current state of image-generating technology. There were a few things
about that rubbing me the wrong way, the biggest being that they are benefiting
from the uncredited work of thousands of real human artists. I’m going to
exaggerate slightly, but it seems like one of the first applications of any new
technology is making things even shittier for artists. That’s certainly
happened with music. These image-generation systems just seemed like that was
mechanized and weaponized on an inconceivable scale.
[72]Read: These 183,000 books are fueling the biggest fight in publishing and
tech
Another part of it was that a lot of people who got excited about this early on
just generated huge volumes of material and put them out willy-nilly on the
internet. If your only way of making a painting is to actually dab paint
laboriously onto a canvas, then the result might be bad or good, but at least
it’s the result of a whole lot of micro-decisions you made as an artist. You
were exercising editorial judgment with every paint stroke. That is absent in
the output of these programs.
Wong: Even in The Diamond Age, the Primer seems to provide commentary on
artists’ labor and tech, which is very relevant to generative AI today. The
Primer teaches a girl, but a human actor digitally connected to the book has to
voice the text aloud.
Stephenson: If you’re a conventional actor onstage or in film, you stand in
front of a camera, you perform once, and then lots of copies can be made. In
the book, I thought it was a pretty positive vision of the future, where we
have the technology that would enable voice actors to in effect give live
performances on demand, all the time. Even with today’s voice clones, if you
break it down to its simplest element, there’s still a human who sat in front
of a microphone and provided this material. Although I guess a system like the
Primer might not work live; you would probably have some lag—the AI is
generating the text and sending it to the ractor, and then the ractor has to
read it.
Wong: And on the scale that some of today’s AI programs operate on, there just
wouldn’t be enough people to do it.
Stephenson: The scenario I was laying out in The Diamond Age is that the
ractors are a scarce resource, and so the Primer is more of a luxury product.
But eventually, the source code for the book falls into the hands of a man who
wants to manufacture it on a massive scale, and there’s not enough money and
not enough actors in the world to voice all those books, so at that point, he
decides to use automatically generated voices.
Wong: Another theme in the novel is how different socioeconomic classes have
access to education. The Primer is designed for an aristocrat, but your novel
also traces the stories of middle- and working-class girls who interact with
versions of the book. Right now a lot of generative AI is free, but the
technology is also very expensive to run. How do you think access to generative
AI might play out?
Stephenson: There was a bit of early internet utopianism in the book, which was
written during that era in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming online.
There was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes
online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone
access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok. The
Diamond Age reflects the same naivete that I shared with a lot of other people
back in the day about how all of that knowledge was going to affect society.
Wong: Do you think we’re seeing some of that naivete today in people looking at
how generative AI can be used?
Stephenson: For sure. It’s based on an understandable misconception as to what
these things are doing. A chatbot is not an oracle; it’s a statistics engine
that creates sentences that sound accurate. Right now my sense is that it’s
like we’ve just invented transistors. We’ve got a couple of consumer products
that people are starting to adopt, like the transistor radio, but we don’t yet
know how the transistor will transform society. We’re in the transistor-radio
stage of AI. I think a lot of the ferment that’s happening right now in the
industry is venture capitalists putting money into business plans, and teams
that are rapidly evaluating a whole lot of different things that could be done
well. I’m sure that some things are going to emerge that I wouldn’t dare try to
predict, because the results of the creative frenzy of millions of people are
always more interesting than what a single person can think of.
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[73]Matteo Wong is an associate editor at The Atlantic.
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This week, I’ve been playing with the [22]redesigned You.com for AI research,
trying out the [23]Phanpy Mastodon client, getting back into [24]Zombies, Run
after reading Vee Song’s [25]great story about Fantasy Hike, and reading the
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The Drop
• [36]Bose’s Ultra Open Earbuds. For some reason, over the last year or so,
almost all in-ear headphones suddenly leave my ears sore and scratchy. So
I’m very curious to try these — even though at $299 they’re too expensive
for my tastes, [37]the clip-on style seems like it could work.
• [38]Bulletin. The Verge’s Parker Ortolani turned me onto this: a new
(Apple-only) [39]news- and RSS-reading app with a lot of AI features for
summarization and stuff, but also just a really lovely UI for reading news
feeds. You can add premade lists, dump in any site or feed, even save stuff
to read later.
• [40]The Space Race. A really cool documentary about early Black astronauts,
with tons of archival footage and a really wild Cold War subplot. As with
all good space docs, make sure you watch this one on the biggest screen you
can find.
• [41]Mark Zuckerberg’s Vision Pro review. The review itself is, like, fine
— I think Zuck is right about a lot of the things people actually want
headsets for, and about the price-to-quality balance being a tricky one.
But shooting a review of a competitor’s product, with your own product, in
such a casual way, is just fascinating to me.
• [42]The ONE thing keeping this iconic vintage laptop from working…
Recently, for reasons I hope to someday be able to tell you about, I’ve
been deep down the rabbit hole of awesome old gadgets. And the This Does
Not Compute channel has become one of my favorite new resources — the host
is perpetually trying to restore or resurrect some old PC, and even this
random Toshiba laptop left me desperately wanting one. 
• [43]Superlist. This week’s “to-do list app that’s so close to being
everything I wanted and maybe I’ll just spend the whole weekend trying it
out.” It’s a teams-first product, which, meh, but this is the best-looking
productivity app I’ve seen in years.
• [44]Mario vs. Donkey Kong. More updated spins on old-school Mario games for
the Switch! How did we get so lucky! This one’s a platformer with [45]a
really fun puzzle-y twist, which is exactly the kind of game I like to
spend too many hours playing on the couch.
• [46]How AI Tech Can Give Dead People a Voice. This week’s winner of the “Is
this powerful and awesome, or is this horrifying” award is The Shotline,
which is using AI to recreate the voices of kids who were victims of gun
violence. Joanna Stern’s video is great, and [47]The Shotline’s voices will
make you feel… a lot of things.
• [48]DuckDuckGo. DDG just [49]rolled out a cool new tool that lets you [50]
sync passwords and bookmarks across platforms without needing an account;
you just scan a QR code to add a new device. At this point, I’m wary of
saying any company is actually a good privacy option, but DuckDuckGo is
certainly doing the work. 
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Spotlight
A while back, I got really close to moving all my personal docs, email,
calendar, and files into [51]Skiff, which was basically a privacy-focused
Google Drive competitor. Stuff got busy, and moving all that stuff is a big
project, but it’s been on my list for a while. Super glad I didn’t get to it,
though, because Skiff was just acquired by Notion and is now shutting down.
If I’ve learned one thing in my years of covering tech, it’s that nothing is
guaranteed to stick around, no matter how much you love it or how popular it
is. Things change, mistakes happen, stuff disappears. And every time it
happens, I get a little more religious about something that Steph Ango, the CEO
of Obsidian, [52]likes to say: file over app.
The idea of “file over app” is to care a lot more about your data itself than
the app or platform it’s in. Like, the app you’re using now? Probably not going
to be around in 50 years. Text files and JPGs and PDFs? Way more likely to
still be here! So invest in formats that last, not apps that don’t.
What that means for me, personally, is that I try to turn my life into text
files and their equivalents as often as possible.
• I use an iOS and Mac app called [53]NotePlan for daily notes and task
management — the app is built on top of a folder of Markdown files I can
easily use anywhere else. [54]Obsidian and [55]Logseq are both the same way
and are both excellent (if very different) apps.
• I use the bookmarking service [56]Raindrop to store all the links I care
about, for Installer and everything else, and once a week I export all my
links as a CSV file and again as a text file.
• [57]Day One is where I keep my actual journal, and every month or so I
export the whole thing to a PDF.
• Once a year or so, when I’m feeling both bored and ambitious, I’ll back up
my entire camera roll and Google Photos library to an external hard drive.
All the other stuff goes into Google Drive, and onto that same hard drive.
I try to find apps that are made with text files in mind. When I can’t, I try
to find apps with good, durable export systems, and make sure I’m backing
things up often. I’m done getting stuck inside an app I can’t trust to be
around for long.
There’s a lot more for me to do here, and frankly still a lot of stuff in my
life that will disappear if some big-name services delete my account or go
offline altogether. (I’m still trying to figure out whether my email and
calendar are things I should be archiving…) But I now have years of journal
entries, daily tasks, project archives, and more in a format I’m confident I’ll
be able to at least open and look at on my neural face-puter in 2096. And it
makes me feel better, so I figured I’d share.
Oh, and by the way, there are so many great text editors out there. [58]Typora
is probably the best writing app I’ve ever used. If you write code, you already
know [59]BBEdit and [60]VS Code and [61]Sublime Text. [62]Nota, [63]Ulysses,
[64]iA Writer, and a bunch of others all do a good job of helping you both
write and organize. Living in text files doesn’t mean living in Notepad or
TextEdit; you really can have the best of both worlds. Text files forever!
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Screen share
[65]Zoë Schiffer, the managing editor at the excellent [66]Platformer
newsletter (and a Verge alum!), just published one of the best tech books I’ve
read in a while. It’s called [67]Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter
, and trust me, however wild you think the last couple of years have been at X
/ Twitter, the actual truth is much wilder. Zoë’s been reporting on this saga
throughout, and the book’s a total winner.
I asked Zoë to share her homescreen with us on the eve of her book launch,
because one thing I’ve always liked about Zoë is that she is forever deeply
conflicted about technology. She reports on it, understands it deeply, uses it
constantly, but is also perpetually trying to get her Screen Time numbers down.
Since I’m deeply embarrassed by my Screen Time report basically every week, I
wanted to see how she does it.
Here’s Zoë’s homescreen, plus some info on the apps she uses and why:
[yH5BAEAAAA][Zoe_Schiff]
[yH5BAEAAAA][Zoe_Schiff]
The phone: This is an iPhone 14, I believe. The screen is cracked and I use it
exclusively for work. I have an iPhone mini with no apps except Spotify and
Google Maps that I use as my personal phone. The process of having a separate
work phone (with apps) and a personal phone (with almost nothing interesting)
has dropped my screentime to about 2.5 hours a day, not to brag.
The wallpaper: My wallpaper is a photo of my hot a** husband, and my
two-year-old daughter. 
The apps: Apple Calendar, Google Maps, Apple Notes, Signal, Apple Mail,
Threads, ChatGPT, Spotify, Phone, Messages.
My main homescreen has Signal, which I use constantly to communicate with
sources, and Threads, which is my primary Twitter replacement. I also have
ChatGPT, which I love. I ask it about various health symptoms and also to
create recipes for, like, a single chocolate chip cookie.
One screen over I have TikTok, which is my guilty pleasure, and Bluesky, which
I’m trying to use more but feels a little chaotic. I also have a pregnancy
tracker because (duh) I’m pregnant. Right now the baby is the size of a lime,
so that’s nice. 
I also asked Zoë to share a few things she’s into right now. Here’s what she
said:
• Right now, I’m rereading [68]Harry Potter and listening to a lot of [69]
Caroline Shaw.
• Oh you meant on the internet??? Huh. Huuuuuh. I like the fashion newsletter
[70]Blackbird Spyplane. I’m a big fan of the [71]Moderated Content podcast.
• I’ve seen the comedian [72]Jacqueline Novak twice IRL (the first time, I
dragged Casey Newton along, not realizing the entire set is about blow
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private matches with friends via a Nintendo-esque friend code system.” — Matt
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appreciation.” — Sighjinks
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treat as always!” — Noah
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The biggest, weirdest tech story of this weekend is coming from a slightly
surprising place: the floor of the NBA All-Star Game. Have you seen the videos
of the [84]all-LED full-court screen? [85]Here’s an example of what this kind
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Last week,[18] Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model
that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how[19] OpenAI's
DALL-E turns text into images. These videos — which are usually no more than 60
seconds long — can at times seem impressive, until you notice a little detail
that breaks the entire facade, like[20] in this video where a cat wakes up its
owner, but the owner's arm appears to be part of the cushion and the cat's paw
explodes out of its arm like an amoeba. Reactions to Sora's AI generated videos
— and, indeed, the existence of the model itself — have ranged from breathless
hype to outright fear that this will be used to replace video producers, in
that it can created reality-adjacent videos that for a few seconds seem
remarkably real, especially in the case of[21] some of OpenAI's demo videos.
However, even in OpenAI's own hand-picked Sora outputs you'll find weird little
things that shatter the illusion, where[22] a woman's legs awkwardly shuffle
then somehow switch sides as she walks (30 seconds) or[23] blobs of people
merge into each other. These are, on some level, remarkable technological
achievements, until you consider what they are for and what they might do — a
problem that seems to run through the fabric of AI.
We're just over a year into the existence (and proliferation) of ChatGPT,
DALL-E, and other image generators, and despite the obvious (and reasonable)
fear that these products will continue to erode the foundations of the already
unstable economies of the creative arts, we keep running into the problem that
these things are interesting, surprising, but not particularly useful for
anything.
Sora's outputs can mimic real-life objects in a genuinely chilling way, but its
outputs — like DALL-E, like ChatGPT — are marred by the fact that these models
do not actually know anything.[24] They do not know how many arms a monkey has,
as these models do not "know" anything. Sora generates responses based on the
data that it has been trained upon, which results in content that is reality-
adjacent, but not actually realistic. This is why, despite shoveling billions
of dollars and likely petabytes of data into their models, generative AI models
still fail to get the basic details of images right,[25] like fingers or eyes,
or tools.
These models are not saying "I shall now draw a monkey," they are saying "I
have been asked for something called a monkey, I will now draw on my dataset to
generate what is most likely a monkey." These things are not "learning," or
"understanding," or even "intelligent" — they're giant math machines that,
while impressive at first, can never assail the limits of a technology that
doesn't actually know anything.
Despite what fantasists may tell you, these are not "kinks" to work out of
artificial intelligence models — these are the hard limits, the restraints that
come when you try to mimic knowledge with mathematics. You cannot "fix"
hallucinations (the times when a model authoritatively tells you something that
isn't true, or creates a picture of something that isn't right), because these
models are predicting things based off of tags in a dataset, which it might be
able to do well but can never do so flawlessly or reliably.
This is a problem that dramatically limits how much one can rely on generative
AI, and it's one that compounds severely with the complexity of what you're
asking it to do. Words can be copy-pasted and edited, and citations can be
checked. Images, however, are much tougher to edit, and videos are an entirely
different beast, especially if you're generating lifelike humans or animals.
While Sora is interesting and potentially quite scary to filmmakers, it's
important to consider some practical questions, like "how can someone actually
make something useful out of this?" and "how do I get this model to do the same
thing every time without fail?" While an error in a 30-second-long clip might
be something you might miss, once you see one of these strange visual
hallucinations it's impossible to ignore them. The assumption is that audiences
are stupid, and ignorant, and "just won't care," and I firmly disagree — I
think regular people will find this stuff deeply offensive.
I believe artificial intelligence companies deeply underestimate how perfect
the things around us are, and how deeply we base our understanding and
acceptance of the world on knowledge and context. People generally have four
fingers and a thumb on each hand, hammers have a handle made of wood and a head
made of metal, and monkeys have two legs and two arms. The text on the sign of
a store generally has a name and a series of words that describe it, or perhaps
its address and phone number.
These are simple concepts that we learn from the people and places we see as we
grow up, and what's very, very important to remember is that these are not
concepts that artificial intelligence models are aware of. When they see 20,000
pictures with signs in them, they understand that signs look a certain way, and
have some stuff on them, and then generate what's on the sign based on a user's
request and their dataset's tags that match that request. Even when a model is
fed exactly how a sign should be spelled out, it doesn't actually understand
what that information means or how it should be used, because the instructions
you are giving are based on your knowledge of signs and their contents, and the
model has no knowledge of any kind.
[26]AI fanatics are currently fantasizing over a world where they can put a few
sentences into a prompt and create an entire series of TV, unable to realize
that we are rapidly approaching the top of generative AI's[27] S-curve, where
after a period of rapid growth things begin to slow down dramatically. While
Sora and[28] other video generators like Pika may seem like the future (and are
capable of some impressive magic tricks), they are not particularly adept —
much like a lot of generative AI — at performing a particular task. Once you
get past the idea that you can now generate an almost-useful video that lasts
roughly a minute, one must consider the practical applications of this kind of
product. Even Microsoft struggled to find compelling use cases for their $7m AI
Superbowl commercial, and these use cases are even narrower once you realize
that generative video is so much more restrained by its hallucinations. Where
will Sora be useful?
Even if the costs weren't prohibitive, one cannot make a watchable movie, TV
show, or even commercial out of outputs that aren't consistent from clip to
clip, as even the smallest errors are outright repulsive to viewers. And as
I've suggested above, while these models might "improve," the billions of
dollars burned by OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI's models have found few
ways to mitigate the restrictions of an artificial intelligence that doesn't
have an intellect. I am also completely out of patience when it comes to being
told what it "will do" in the future.
Generative AI's greatest threat is that it is capable of creating a certain
kind of bland, generic content very quickly and cheaply. As I discussed in my
last newsletter, media entities are increasingly normalizing their content to
please search engine algorithms, and the jobs that involve pooling affiliate
links and answering where you can watch the Super Bowl are very much at risk.
The normalization of journalism — the consistent point to which many outlets
decide to write about the exact same thing — is a weak point that makes every
outlet "[29]exploring AI" that bit more scary, but the inevitable outcome is
that these models are not reliable enough to actually replace anyone, and those
that have experimented with doing so[30] have found themselves deeply
embarrassed.
Despite the frothy tales and visions of how generative artificial intelligence
will automate our entire existence, there's a distinct lack of practical
outputs that suggest that it is even capable of doing so. ChatGPT can spin up
piles of anodyne business copy, yet its outputs always require enough editing
that it's questionable how much time you've actually saved. Generative image
models are capable of creating cool-looking images that can replace generic
images that you might use in a project, but no matter how many different
prompts you use, they all kind of look the same, and that's even before you
notice how the minute details look off. Is a product that can only
sort-of-kind-of do something[31] really going to create trillions of dollars of
economic value?
I don't argue it will, at least not in such a way that anybody's lives will be
improved.
Shell Games
I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do[32]
and how accurate its outputs can be, and I believe that once reality catches up
with artificial intelligence's marketing, there will be a dramatic knock-on
effect that savages the entire tech industry.[33] A Wall Street Journal article
from mid-February told a worrying tale of OpenAI and Anthropic — the two
largest AI companies — racing to sell their generative AI systems despite the
prevalence of hallucinations, and how few answers they had for applications
that were highly regulated or dealt with highly sensitive data. When pressed on
the issue at a conference, Anthropic's Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan was
only able to come up with one idea — that it would make a model capable of
saying "I don't know" to an answer, which in turn would create a situation
where the AI would err on the side of caution, restricting its willingness to
answer prompts at all.
The Journal seems unalarmed about multi-billion-dollar companies having very
few answers about the critical problem with their core product, but I'd argue
that a generative AI's inability to reliably generate stuff is an existential
threat that should have smothered these companies early in their lives.
And there are so many stories about how unreliable this technology is.[34]
British delivery firm DPD recently had to shut down their generative support
chatbot after a customer convinced it to write an insulting poem about the
company.[35] A Chevy dealership's ChatGPT-powered virtual assistant ended up
offering to sell a user a car for a dollar, and wrote a python script for
another.[36] Fortune reported a researcher's study into Large Language Models'
ability to understand SEC filings and found that many of them were regularly
either unable to answer or hallucinating incorrect information, with Meta's
Llama2 model getting 70% of the study's questions wrong.[37] A deeply foolish
lawyer relied on ChatGPT to cite cases in a motion, only to find that it cited
several non-existent pieces of case law. That lawyer — Steven A. Schwartz — was
fined $5,000 and ordered to i[38]nform each judge incorrectly cited as the
author of a non-existent verdict in the motion. In June of last year, OpenAI
was [39]sued for defamation in Georgia by a radio host who claimed that ChatGPT
generated a false legal complaint that accused him of embezzling money.
Microsoft destroyed MSN.com — a page that gets nearly two billion viewers a
month — by replacing its human staff with an artificial intelligence that[40]
posts made up stories about bigfoot and[41] stealing other outlets' stories and
still getting the details wrong.
It's also fair to question how many organizations are actually using it.[42] A
McKinsey report from August 2023 says that 55% of respondents' organizations
have adopted AI, yet only 23% of said respondents said that more than 5% of
their Earnings Before Interest (EBIT) was attributable to to their use of AI —
a similar number to their 2022 report, one which was published before
generative AI was widely available. In plain English, this means that while
generative AI is being shoved into plenty of places, it doesn't seem to be
generating organizations money.
There are indications that consumers have also lost interest. As [43]pointed
out by Alex Kantrowitz’ Big Technology newsletter, traffic to ChatGPT on both
mobile and web has started to stagnate, if not decline. In January 2024,
ChatGPT had 1.6 billion visits — 11% below the all-time peak of 1.8 billion.
This makes it only modestly more popular than Bing, which had 1.3 billion
unique visits during that period. On the mobile front, ChatGPT has an estimated
6.3 million US users — or 1.7 times less than the total of new Snapchat users
added during Q4 2023.
Tech's largest cash cow since the cloud computing boom of the 2000s is based on
a technology that is impossibly unreliable, a technology with a potent inverted
Midas touch that burns far more money than it makes.[44] According to The
Information, OpenAI made around $1.6 billion in revenue in 2023, and[45]
competitor Anthropic made $100 million, with the expectation they'd make $850
million in 2024. What these stories don't seem to discuss are whether these
companies are making a profit, likely because generative AI is a deeply
unprofitable product, demanding massive amounts of cloud computing power to the
point that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to raise[46] seven trillion dollars
to build chips to bring the costs down — though reports suggest that "the
figure represents the sum total of investments that participants in such a
venture round would need to make," which is basically the same thing. It’s
also, incidentally, a greater sum than the GDPs of France and the United
Kingdom combined.
While it's hard to tell precisely how much it’s losing, The Information[47]
reported in mid-2023 that OpenAI's losses "doubled" in 2022 to $540 million as
it developed ChatGPT, at a time when it wasn’t quite so demanding of cloud
computing resources.[48] Reports suggest that artificial intelligence companies
have worse margins than most software startups due to the vast cost of building
and maintaining their models, with gross margins in the 50-55% range — meaning
the money that it actually makes after incurring direct costs like power and
cloud compute. This figure is way below the 75-90% that modern software
companies have. In practical terms, this means that the raw infrastructure
firms — the companies that allow startups to integrate AI in the first place —
are not particularly healthy businesses, and they're taking home far less of
their money as actual revenue.
Luckily for them, Anthropic and OpenAI aren't really at risk, because they've
taken on an important part of the tech ecosystem — they're the tail of a very
hungry snake.
Turning On The Screw
During the imaginary panic of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI last year,[49]
Semafor reported that Microsoft's $10 billion investment was largely made up of
credits for their Azure cloud computing platform. In essence, Microsoft
"invested" $10 billion in money that OpenAI had to spend on Microsoft's
services, meaning that OpenAI would have to use Microsoft's "Azure" cloud
computing service to run ChatGPT.[50] When Google invested $2 billion in OpenAI
competitor Anthropic, it did so in tranches — $500 million up front and an
additional $1.5 billion over a non-specific period of time. Coincidentally,
this funding round took place only a few months after[51] Anthropic signed a
multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth $3 billion, locking them into Google's
compute platform in the process.[52] Amazon also invested $4 billion in
Anthropic, who agreed to a "long-term commitment" to provide Amazon Web
Services (Amazon's competitor to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) with early
access to their models — and Anthropic access to Amazon's AI-focused chips.
While Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have technically "invested" in these
companies, they've really created guaranteed revenue streams, investing money
to create customers that are effectively obliged to spend their investment
dollars on their own services. As the use of artificial intelligence grows, so
do these revenue streams, forcing almost every single dollar spent on AI into
the hands of a few trillion-dollar tech firms.
It's a contrived process with a fairly simple revenue stream.
In the case of an AI company (or a business that has jumped upon the AI
bandwagon), their website or app is integrated with OpenAI's ChatGPT or
Anthropic's Claude via their APIs. The company pays on a[53] per-token basis
for each input (request they make through their software) and output (thing
that the model does as a result). When these requests are made, ChatGPT,
Claude, or whatever model has to compute the result, which it does using
massive amounts of cloud computing — which is bought from the cloud provider
(say, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud). As a result, every interaction with
ChatGPT or Claude is, on some level, guaranteed revenue for one of the big tech
firms. These were investments in the sense that money changed hands, but while
it did so, big tech put giant handcuffs on the wrists of the AI companies that
every startup has to use.
Admittedly, you could argue that the same situation is true for the
conventional Internet. Most websites are hosted by a third-party cloud
provider. If you visit a site that uses an external company to implement
functionality that would otherwise be too complicated to build themselves (like
auth, or payment processing, or banking integrations), it’s a sure bet those
companies are using Amazon, Microsoft, or Google for hosting. And so, without
even realizing it, our online activity benefits a handful of already-powerful
companies. The key difference is that, for the most part, people aren’t
locked-in and can walk, either to one of the other big players, or to a smaller
vendor like Rackspace or Linode. Moreover, the scale is different, and serving
a webpage will always cost less than processing a request sent to a generative
AI model.
These golden handcuffs have already led to massive swells of revenue for
Microsoft,[54] increasing by 30% in the last quarter alone thanks to the
increased usage of graphics processing units (GPUs) which have become essential
to the power-hungry demands of AI applications. Google's investment in
Anthropic was made in the hopes that it’d see a similar revenue multiplier, and
I'd argue Amazon's was made in the same vein — though it was too late to force
Anthropic to use AWS as their preferred vendor.
Big tech has turned the startup ecosystem into a giant goldmine, one that
guarantees that almost every dollar spent on any AI product is eventually
shared with one of a few multi-trillion dollar tech firms. And on some level,
it's become the savior of an ecosystem that hasn't had a new revenue-driving
industrial boondoggle this exciting since the Software-As-A-Service boom of the
2010s. Some might argue this is a situation where everybody wins — startups get
funded because they're able to do new things, venture capitalists make money
because their startups can actually get acquired or go public, and big tech
makes money because everybody is forced to pay them even more money by proxy.
I, however, have grave concerns.
As it stands, generative AI (and AI in general) may have some use. Yet even
with thousands of headlines, billions of dollars of investment, and trillions
of tokens run through various large language models, there are no essential
artificial intelligence use cases, and no killer apps outside of[55]
non-generative assistants like Alexa that are now having generative AI forced
into them for no apparent reason. I consider myself relatively tuned into the
tech ecosystem, and I read every single tech publication regularly, yet I'm
struggling to point to anything that generative AI has done other than reignite
the flames of venture capital. There are cool little app integrations,[56]
interesting things like live translation in Samsung devices, but these are
features, not applications. And if there are true industry-changing
possibilities waiting for us on the other side, I am yet to hear them outside
of the fan fiction of Silicon Valley hucksters.
This entire hype cycle feels specious, though not quite as specious as the
metaverse or cryptocurrency boom. Public companies are pumping their valuations
and executive salaries off the back of artificial intelligence hype, yet nobody
is saying the blatantly obvious — that this industry is deeply unprofitable and
yet to prove its worth.[57] Artificial intelligence is so demanding of
computing power that it may need as much electricity as an entire country,[58]
Microsoft and[59] Amazon are both investing billions to build even more data
centers to capture demand for an unproven product, and[60] Sam Altman of OpenAI
has said that the future of AI relies on an "energy breakthrough."
This industry is money-hungry, energy-hungry, and compute-hungry, yet it
doesn't seem to be doing anything to sustain these otherworldly financial and
infrastructural demands, other than the fact that people keep saying that
"artificial intelligence is the future." And[61] while some claim that AI can
help fight climate change, it's impossible to argue that "suddenly using more
and more power for a negligible return" is good for the environment.
And if this wasn't already worrying enough, one has to wonder what happens if
we face another economic panic, or if the hype dies down before OpenAI or
Anthropic discover a way to make a profit. As it stands, OpenAI and Anthropic
are heavily dependent on companies believing that they have to integrate AI
into their products, which will require these companies to be able to find ways
to integrate AI that users actually care about. And even if they manage to do
that, will they do so in a way that actually turns a profit?
If AI startups — by which I mean those companies integrating these models into
their apps — begin to falter, so will the only real revenue stream that these
companies have, making them more dependent on big tech to keep them alive. This
situation is only made more problematic by the fact that these models are
unprofitable, and Altman's desperation for a new chip company or energy
breakthrough suggests that they'll only become more unprofitable as they
generate more revenue.
I hope I am wrong. I hope that the bottom doesn't fall out of AI, and that the
startup ecosystem grows, and that this all becomes profitable and that
everything will be fine.
As it stands, I am terrified by how unstable this situation is and astonished
at how brazenly money and energy is being burned in pursuit of an unsustainable
future where big tech exerts more power over fledgling companies, and how
despite multiple industry collapses hinged upon unsustainable and unprofitable
businesses, Silicon Valley seems incapable of learning a single lesson.
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The Early Years
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Becoming a Destination
Growing The Fest
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"I'm Living My Rock and Roll Dream"
RFK Welcomes A Hometown Hero
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Parking Lot Proving Grounds
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Published: 7:29 AM EST February 5, 2024
Updated: 1:09 PM EST February 6, 2024
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The Concert Event of the Year:
Outside, the abandoned Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, Jeff Lund, stared past
the fence, past the boarded-up windows, and into the past.
“I used to buy tickets to the [87]HFStival here,” he smiled. “There was like a
shanty town of teenagers with tents and sleeping bags camped out all night just
to be in line for tickets."
“You had the whole school year to get excited about it,” he said with memories
swimming around him.
It was the concert event of the year in the DMV. A summer show that brought the
world’s biggest music acts to D.C.
“We had the [88]Foo Fighters, we had [89]The Ramones, we had [90]Tony Bennett,”
former WHFS music director and DJ Bob Waugh said.
Waugh is one of the men behind the HFStival. For years, he spearheaded the
logistics of it. He convinced hundreds of artists to make D.C. their summer
music destination.
“In radio you work in a bubble, so the idea of going out and doing something
that was a live event was an opportunity we all savored,” he said.
The Early Years: The Beginning of the Festival
In the early 1990s Bob started work at the popular DMV rock station 99.1 WHFS.
He had followed WHFS program director Robert Benjamin to the station.
When the two arrived, WHFS already had a summer concert that went on in
Northern Virginia.
“It was something we were interested in growing,” Waugh said. “That started
when we moved it to the Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland in 1992.”
Waugh credits Benjamin with coming up with changing the name of the summer
concert to The HFStival. After the success of the 1992 show, both men felt it
was time to try a bigger venue.
Waugh said someone suggested they take the show to RFK Stadium. The problem
would be selling out the sports stadium. Waugh said they knew they needed a
headliner for the show. They got one in INXS.
In 1993, WHFS hosted its first HFStival at RFK Stadium. The list of artists had
grown, but with INXS anchoring the show, it sold out.
Becoming a Destination: Growing The Fest
Waugh said from there, it was off to the races. He and Benjamin built contacts
across the music industry. Those contacts created relationships. Over time they
were able to convince bands to make a yearly stop at RFK.
“It got to a point where bands were planning their summer tours around the
HFStival,” Waugh said. “They knew they wanted to be in D.C. around Memorial
Day.”
“Remember when Green Day set their drum kit on fire?” former WHFS DJ Gina Crash
mused from a Towson recording studio.
I’ve gotten her and another WHFS alumnus, Rob Timm, together for the interview.
Crash and Timm sat together for a few minutes and the stories started to flow.
They picked up like the 1990s had never ended.
“That was the year we put everybody up at the Watergate and Adam Duritz of
Counting Crows was upset that there was a grand piano in the suite that we got
for him,” Timm laughed. He demanded the piano be removed.”
Both had a front-row seat to the madness of the summer concert.
“I just remember doing interviews backstage, like talking to Scott Weiland from
Stone Temple Pilots and trying to prop him up on the couch because he was
falling,” Crash smiled.
"I'm Living My Rock and Roll Dream": RFK Welcomes A Hometown Hero
Every summer the DMV got a days-long taste of the music that shaped the 1990s.
No genre was safe from rock to hip-hop. In fact, for one night in 1995, even
jazz singer Tony Bennett graced the RFK stage.
“In 1996, Courtney Love and Tony Bennett shared a dressing room because we had
run out of space backstage and they were separated by just a curtain,” Waugh
said.
“Courtney Love being Courtney Love, decided it might be fun to open that
curtain and lift her shirt and flash Tony Bennett, which I happened to witness
in real time. Tony Bennett was not impressed. I think he'd seen it all at that
point.”
The HFStival grew through the 90s. The crowds increased every year and
eventually it gave native son, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters, their first
stadium show welcome.
“I’m living my rock and roll dream,” Grohl shouted to the crowd in 1997. “I
grew up in Springfield, Virginia!”
“It was very much a homecoming and I think Dave had the time of his life,” Rob
Timm said. “In fact, I know that he did.”
Parking Lot Proving Grounds: Local Acts Get Their Start
But the festival was more than the inside of the stadium. In the parking lots,
different political and social causes set up shop. Vendors sold the wares of
the decade. The radio station set up smaller stages for lesser known and local
bands.
Those stages turned into proving grounds for future artists.
In the mid-'90s, Annapolis native Jimi Haha and his band Jimmie’s Chicken Shack
tore it up on the local stage. But when Jimi looked back at RFK he said
something he didn’t expect.
“All the ramps in the side of the stadium were packed with people watching us
play, it was intense,” he laughed. “I guess Art Alexakis of Everclear had told
everyone to check us out.
Later that year, the band would sign a major label record deal. The next year,
they played inside RFK as their album took off.
That was the other story of the HFStival, how it propelled local bands into the
national spotlight. The local bands in turn would pull others up behind them.
“We were huge Jimmie’s Chicken Shack fans,” Jeff Lund said. “This is really
nerdy, but they had this record label ‘Fowl Records’ and at the HFStival they
started a Fowl Records stage. That’s where I saw Good Charlotte for the first
time.”
That’s right. Waldorf, Mayland’s own Good Charlotte played on the local stage
Jimi Haha sponsored after he made it big. Small music world. The brothers
behind Good Charlotte, Benji and Joel Madden also had their songs played for
the first time over WHFS airwaves. Within a few years the band was touring the
world and playing on MTV.
But it all started in a parking lot at RFK stadium.
From 1993 to 2004 the HFStivals roared on. Each summer more fans came and more
bands signed on. But in 2005 the radio station underwent a cataclysmic change.
Radio Silence: The End of HFStival
“I had a a lot of concerns about what was happening to the station as I was
leaving,” Bob Waugh said.
In January of 2005, those fears became realized.
“I remember starting my car and it was set to HFS and there was just Latin
music playing,” Jeff Lund said.
“I was like maybe there is something wrong?”
It was a sudden and unannounced format change. In one day, the station went
from alternative rock to Latin music 99.1 El Zol. Not long after- HFStivals
stopped as well.
“They tried, but it was a mere shadow of its former self. A festival in name
only at that point,” Waugh said.
In the 20 years since RFK hosted the last HFStival. The DJs have moved on and
the fans have moved on. Soon RFK will be completely torn down.
Through the fence of the abandoned RFK stadium, Jimi Haha dreams of a new
future.
“Yeah, I get nostalgic, but tearing a building down doesn’t tear down the
memories or the experiences there,” he smiled. “Hopefully they’ll build
something badass.”
Haha broke into a smile and let out his signature chuckle.
“Then we can do more fun things in that venue.”
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