Chris James
@chris.whywhatsnext.com
+ indie web presence | - walled gardens
+ creating art to share | - commodified content
+ intentional futureshaping | - being tossed by algos
+ decentralization | - society's eggs in a single basket
+ creating art to share | - commodified content
+ intentional futureshaping | - being tossed by algos
+ decentralization | - society's eggs in a single basket
The question of 1st Am. rights to 'express' is a hairy one when code is speech and corporations are people (thus corpo AI is people) - The 21st century needs to see a new framework. With pieces of current patent and copyright/license law reconfigured to a new bucket of "compuright."
The First Amendment in the 21st Century — from the Your Undivided Attention podcast.
Law professor Larry Lessig on the 18th century laws governing our 21st century tech
In the most recent episode of Your Undivided Attention, Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig and Meetali Jain, director of the Tech Justice Law Project explore the role of courts and judges in steering…
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August 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The question of 1st Am. rights to 'express' is a hairy one when code is speech and corporations are people (thus corpo AI is people) - The 21st century needs to see a new framework. With pieces of current patent and copyright/license law reconfigured to a new bucket of "compuright."
Some personal projects I've done this year, that only 2 years ago were impossible for me (or at least 10x harder):
- WordPress: Getting site to cleanly work with title-less posts (POSSE).
- Linux: 2 headless home servers for media, backups, and validator node
- Excel: Multi-currency FIFO Lot
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- WordPress: Getting site to cleanly work with title-less posts (POSSE).
- Linux: 2 headless home servers for media, backups, and validator node
- Excel: Multi-currency FIFO Lot
1/4
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Some personal projects I've done this year, that only 2 years ago were impossible for me (or at least 10x harder):
- WordPress: Getting site to cleanly work with title-less posts (POSSE).
- Linux: 2 headless home servers for media, backups, and validator node
- Excel: Multi-currency FIFO Lot
1/4
- WordPress: Getting site to cleanly work with title-less posts (POSSE).
- Linux: 2 headless home servers for media, backups, and validator node
- Excel: Multi-currency FIFO Lot
1/4
Huh. We've been vibecoding whole societies for thousands of years. Soviets tried implementing enterprise top-down standards but couldn't manage the complexity.
June 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Huh. We've been vibecoding whole societies for thousands of years. Soviets tried implementing enterprise top-down standards but couldn't manage the complexity.
At 37, late to the party, I'm finally participating in public posting. I just remembered: 18 years ago I had a blogspot for 2 months, so to help overcome self-consciousness and mortification, I'll jump into the deep end with this post from a 19-year-old me in 2007:
whywhatsnext.com/2025/06/thro...
whywhatsnext.com/2025/06/thro...
Throwback: Liberté, egalité, futilité…
Note: This post is a “crosspost” from an old Blogspot blog I had for a couple months when I was 19. Posting online again after an 18-year hiatus – and as a tactic to overcome sel…
whywhatsnext.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
At 37, late to the party, I'm finally participating in public posting. I just remembered: 18 years ago I had a blogspot for 2 months, so to help overcome self-consciousness and mortification, I'll jump into the deep end with this post from a 19-year-old me in 2007:
whywhatsnext.com/2025/06/thro...
whywhatsnext.com/2025/06/thro...
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Testing my Wordpress->Bluesky/Fediverse pipeline. My main frustration with figuring out how to POSSE has been lack of clear and up-to-date guides. I now greatly appreciate the onboarding UX design of the big platforms. Hoping this works from my own domain without a hitch...😮💨 #posse
Testing my Wordpress->Bluesky/Fediverse pipeline. My main frustration with figuring out how to POSSE has been lack of clear and up-to-date guides. I now greatly appreciate the onboarding UX design of the big platforms. Hoping this works from my own domain without a hitch...😮💨 #posse
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Testing my Wordpress->Bluesky/Fediverse pipeline. My main frustration with figuring out how to POSSE has been lack of clear and up-to-date guides. I now greatly appreciate the onboarding UX design of the big platforms. Hoping this works from my own domain without a hitch...😮💨 #posse
whywhatsnext.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Testing my Wordpress->Bluesky/Fediverse pipeline. My main frustration with figuring out how to POSSE has been lack of clear and up-to-date guides. I now greatly appreciate the onboarding UX design of the big platforms. Hoping this works from my own domain without a hitch...😮💨 #posse
Testing my Wordpress->Bluesky/Fediverse pipeline. My main frustration with figuring out how to POSSE has been lack of clear and up-to-date guides. I now greatly appreciate the onboarding UX design of the big platforms. Hoping this works from my own domain without a hitch...😮💨 #posse
Reposted by Chris James
🎙️ Have you heard Future Knowledge?
This new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance explores how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved in the digital age.
Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Two episodes out now:
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm
#internetarchive #podcast
This new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance explores how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved in the digital age.
Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Two episodes out now:
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm
#internetarchive #podcast
June 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🎙️ Have you heard Future Knowledge?
This new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance explores how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved in the digital age.
Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Two episodes out now:
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm
#internetarchive #podcast
This new podcast from the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance explores how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved in the digital age.
Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Two episodes out now:
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm
#internetarchive #podcast
🤣 I am SO RELIEVED that we get such a blatant and clownish example of the latent social dangers of bias-engineered LLMs.
I was worried that it would first have global impact in a subtle way before the general population could recognize the threat.
I was worried that it would first have global impact in a subtle way before the general population could recognize the threat.
apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
May 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🤣 I am SO RELIEVED that we get such a blatant and clownish example of the latent social dangers of bias-engineered LLMs.
I was worried that it would first have global impact in a subtle way before the general population could recognize the threat.
I was worried that it would first have global impact in a subtle way before the general population could recognize the threat.
Been bouncing around my head lately: Amend copyright law with #compuright law.
The right to copy was mostly a stand-in for 'being able to do something with'.
But digital copies are free and unlimited. Digital licensing stepped in to fill some gap. But compuright is next.
Is there a 'there' there?
The right to copy was mostly a stand-in for 'being able to do something with'.
But digital copies are free and unlimited. Digital licensing stepped in to fill some gap. But compuright is next.
Is there a 'there' there?
December 5, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Been bouncing around my head lately: Amend copyright law with #compuright law.
The right to copy was mostly a stand-in for 'being able to do something with'.
But digital copies are free and unlimited. Digital licensing stepped in to fill some gap. But compuright is next.
Is there a 'there' there?
The right to copy was mostly a stand-in for 'being able to do something with'.
But digital copies are free and unlimited. Digital licensing stepped in to fill some gap. But compuright is next.
Is there a 'there' there?
Just a few posts, but I feel deeply seen:
blueskyroast.com/roast/chris....
blueskyroast.com/roast/chris....
blueskyroast.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Just a few posts, but I feel deeply seen:
blueskyroast.com/roast/chris....
blueskyroast.com/roast/chris....
Early-mid 2000s internet saw thoughtful blogs about the future of the web as open protocols (e.g. RSS, and Twitter at first).
Who can I follow that is thinking/writing about the future of the open internet and post-walled-garden sharing of ideas and content?
Who can I follow that is thinking/writing about the future of the open internet and post-walled-garden sharing of ideas and content?
November 15, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Early-mid 2000s internet saw thoughtful blogs about the future of the web as open protocols (e.g. RSS, and Twitter at first).
Who can I follow that is thinking/writing about the future of the open internet and post-walled-garden sharing of ideas and content?
Who can I follow that is thinking/writing about the future of the open internet and post-walled-garden sharing of ideas and content?