Boris A
@borisanthony.net
Too many side projects.
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My ebook library
https://libra.re/ → https://libra.re/library/
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https://github.com/BorisAnthony
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My ebook library
https://libra.re/ → https://libra.re/library/
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https://github.com/BorisAnthony
About libra.re
an exploration of what it means to live with ebooks
libra.re
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New:
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The AI Race to Reboot Feudalism
Let's be honest about why they gamble everything
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
After 5 years with zero incidents, I manage to Microplane the same spot on the top of my thumb TWICE in a week.
"fml" 😅🩸
"fml" 😅🩸
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
After 5 years with zero incidents, I manage to Microplane the same spot on the top of my thumb TWICE in a week.
"fml" 😅🩸
"fml" 😅🩸
Ok, I *really* need to start poking at this.
Been procrastinating too long.
( @renderg.host hello fellow Berliner 👋🏼 )
Been procrastinating too long.
( @renderg.host hello fellow Berliner 👋🏼 )
Breakthrough 🤯 You're seeing
- ALL my @leaflet.pub articles 📄
- from ALL my Leaflet publications 📚
on my 🚧 new site (in dev) 🙀 that's
- version-controlled w/ @tangled.org 😳
- (soon) hosted w/ @nekomimi.pet's wisp.place 😱
EVERY PART is stored in my #PDS 🫠
#ATproto is the future!!! WTF 💙
- ALL my @leaflet.pub articles 📄
- from ALL my Leaflet publications 📚
on my 🚧 new site (in dev) 🙀 that's
- version-controlled w/ @tangled.org 😳
- (soon) hosted w/ @nekomimi.pet's wisp.place 😱
EVERY PART is stored in my #PDS 🫠
#ATproto is the future!!! WTF 💙
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ok, I *really* need to start poking at this.
Been procrastinating too long.
( @renderg.host hello fellow Berliner 👋🏼 )
Been procrastinating too long.
( @renderg.host hello fellow Berliner 👋🏼 )
Been slowly reading David Harvey's "A Companion to Marx's 'Grundrisse'."
"Grundriss" is German for "floorplan" or "blueprint" or "architecture."
The original is notoriously difficult (Marx laying out and stress-testing all the theory & concepts of capital), and this companion is no easy read either…
"Grundriss" is German for "floorplan" or "blueprint" or "architecture."
The original is notoriously difficult (Marx laying out and stress-testing all the theory & concepts of capital), and this companion is no easy read either…
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Been slowly reading David Harvey's "A Companion to Marx's 'Grundrisse'."
"Grundriss" is German for "floorplan" or "blueprint" or "architecture."
The original is notoriously difficult (Marx laying out and stress-testing all the theory & concepts of capital), and this companion is no easy read either…
"Grundriss" is German for "floorplan" or "blueprint" or "architecture."
The original is notoriously difficult (Marx laying out and stress-testing all the theory & concepts of capital), and this companion is no easy read either…
Reposted by Boris A
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Reposted by Boris A
What we know, 12:10am
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
What we know, 12:10am
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
Reposted by Boris A
AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear
Reposted by Boris A
“Turn the volume up!”
#BeLoudForAmerica
#BeLoudForAmerica
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
“Turn the volume up!”
#BeLoudForAmerica
#BeLoudForAmerica
Reposted by Boris A
Reposted by Boris A
Social scientists often talk abt the contact hypothesis theory for which interpersonal interaction under certain circumstances can significantly improve intergroup relations. We don‘t know if public transit systematically creates these circumstances, but we do know that cars systematically do *not*.
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Social scientists often talk abt the contact hypothesis theory for which interpersonal interaction under certain circumstances can significantly improve intergroup relations. We don‘t know if public transit systematically creates these circumstances, but we do know that cars systematically do *not*.
Reposted by Boris A
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
"Plus ça change…"
(this is wild)
(this is wild)
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"Plus ça change…"
(this is wild)
(this is wild)
"You're one of my kind."
Absolutely gorgeous cover of an 80s classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSja...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSja...
Need You Tonight - Beck
YouTube video by beckmangroup
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"You're one of my kind."
The only defense against tyranny & authoritarianism is shared knowledge and wisdom (education, journalism, culture).
The only offense, once it takes hold, is solidarity in resistance and overthrow, by whatever means necessary.
The only offense, once it takes hold, is solidarity in resistance and overthrow, by whatever means necessary.
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The only defense against tyranny & authoritarianism is shared knowledge and wisdom (education, journalism, culture).
The only offense, once it takes hold, is solidarity in resistance and overthrow, by whatever means necessary.
The only offense, once it takes hold, is solidarity in resistance and overthrow, by whatever means necessary.
Thank you for point that out!
Picard: *spooots* That's not Earl Grey, that's Darjeeling!
Computer: You're absolutely right!
Computer: You're absolutely right!
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Thank you for point that out!
34! Just a kid still!
Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!
On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
#WebDesignHistory
On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
#WebDesignHistory
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
34! Just a kid still!
The 5 Fs:
- Who the Fuck
- What the Fuck
- When the Fuck
- Where the Fuck
- Why the Fuck
Thanks to Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in "Slow Horses"
- Who the Fuck
- What the Fuck
- When the Fuck
- Where the Fuck
- Why the Fuck
Thanks to Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in "Slow Horses"
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The 5 Fs:
- Who the Fuck
- What the Fuck
- When the Fuck
- Where the Fuck
- Why the Fuck
Thanks to Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in "Slow Horses"
- Who the Fuck
- What the Fuck
- When the Fuck
- Where the Fuck
- Why the Fuck
Thanks to Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in "Slow Horses"
Reposted by Boris A
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
T. Bangalter (Daft Punk) shows up on stage at a huge concert at Pompidou, proceeds to play
1. "The Revolution Will Be Televised" (G.S.Heron),
2. "Galvanize" (Chem.Bros.) and
3. excerpt of soundtrack from "One Battle After Another" (J.Greenwood)…
Pretty strong message. 🔥 🔱 ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
1. "The Revolution Will Be Televised" (G.S.Heron),
2. "Galvanize" (Chem.Bros.) and
3. excerpt of soundtrack from "One Battle After Another" (J.Greenwood)…
Pretty strong message. 🔥 🔱 ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
T. Bangalter (Daft Punk) shows up on stage at a huge concert at Pompidou, proceeds to play
1. "The Revolution Will Be Televised" (G.S.Heron),
2. "Galvanize" (Chem.Bros.) and
3. excerpt of soundtrack from "One Battle After Another" (J.Greenwood)…
Pretty strong message. 🔥 🔱 ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
1. "The Revolution Will Be Televised" (G.S.Heron),
2. "Galvanize" (Chem.Bros.) and
3. excerpt of soundtrack from "One Battle After Another" (J.Greenwood)…
Pretty strong message. 🔥 🔱 ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Correct.
#vectorialism
#vectorialism
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Correct.
#vectorialism
#vectorialism
That feeling when you fork a small repo, give the codebase 3x more features, tests and documentation, submit a pull request… and it gets merged without a word.
De nada, buddy. Hard forking now. 😅
De nada, buddy. Hard forking now. 😅
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
That feeling when you fork a small repo, give the codebase 3x more features, tests and documentation, submit a pull request… and it gets merged without a word.
De nada, buddy. Hard forking now. 😅
De nada, buddy. Hard forking now. 😅