"Most CEOs defend their existing moats. Zuckerberg systematically abandons them...Facebook's real asset isn't the blue app. Instead, it is the graph of human attention and relationships. Each pivot is about preserving that graph while migrating it to new interfaces."
om.co/2025/07/30/d...

How to how to change your settings so Zuck's hate-filled genocidal panopticon snoops on you less.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

We all live in a...

Damn, I did not realize we had already passed 400 parts-per million (ppm) in atmospheric carbon. We're now at 427 ppm and growing at 2.68 ppm per year.

Did you know that?

We passed 350 ppm in 1988.

Long-term planning and an appetite for taking on big challenges, and the will to transform values that are not longer aligned with sustainability and regeneration: this is what it will take to avoid collapse.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Worthwhile read on how startups and incumbents are using AI to uncover new ways of organizing people at work.

My personal prediction: smaller, more decentralized and creative teams that use AI to enable just-in-time collaborations in and outside the firm.

www.wired.com/story/artifi...

How blockchain systems can help build real-world community development. A great explanation of "quadratic funding" and how it works.

Watch this if you want to understand how blockchain can be a powerful tool for building a better world. It's not just for crypto bros.

www.ted.com/talks/kevin_...

One day, Seattle's Duwamish River will be restored to its pristine condition.

The estimated one billion dollar cleanup of this PCB-laden Superfund site is now in full motion, after decades of serving as “a natural collector for Boeing’s fluid wastes.” 😡

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle-area glass recycling is dead.

The reason: collapsed demand due to the shutdown of a local bottle manufacturer facing pressure from cheap imports.

Local regenerative capacity collapses with global economies of scale.

But we get cheap bottles. 🤔

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"We face a choice: to cower in fear, retreating into contraction, or to lean into the wild, untamed energy of creation and choose expansion."

"Opportunity pluralism" is a good frame for rethinking the US education system.

David Brooks touches on it in The Atlantic while exploring what the election says about the pitfalls of the modern US meritocracy.

Subscription required:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How to connect the Bluesky and Fediverse (Mastodon and soon others) networks?

“Discoverable opt-in,” where users on one side of the bridge must ask to follow accounts on the other side of the bridge. That triggers a one-time pop-up request for all future connections.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/b...

After 5 months of being locked out of my Blue Sky account do to nagging password bugs, I'm back. Going to try again to shift some of my online activity over here.

"A new analysis of tax data by the Economic Innovation Group, shared first with Axios, quantifies the reasons some of America's biggest cities are struggling to rebuild their economies post-pandemic."

Social media:

"What was once a conscious choice transforms into automatic, almost impulsive action."

dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

HT @tarynoneill.bsky.social

I've never seen so many cats.

First steps into a new social media space.

Will we learn from our past mistakes, or will this also follow the path of Facebook, Google+, and Twitter?

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