Rupert Manfredi
@ruperts.world
Citizen of the web. Making stuff @ https://telepath.computer
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What a venue for Sync Conf SF
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
What a venue for Sync Conf SF
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The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money.
What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.
But there's more… 🧵
What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.
But there's more… 🧵
How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising | TechPolicy.Press
Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.
www.techpolicy.press
September 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money.
What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.
But there's more… 🧵
What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.
But there's more… 🧵
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since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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my entire feed is just Bay Area people who got woken up and I think that’s beautiful
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
my entire feed is just Bay Area people who got woken up and I think that’s beautiful
Good early morning fellow Bay Area (and esp. Berkeley) residents! Turns out a 4.7 is a pretty effective and yet unpredictable alarm clock… Brief reminder who’s in charge.
earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2025-...
earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2025-...
4.6 magnitude earthquake near Berkeley, California, United States and San Francisco, California, United States : 2025-09-22 09:56:12 UTC
2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA - 4.6 EARTHQUAKE - Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco, Concord, Daly City, Vallejo, Hayward, Antioch, Fremont, Fairfield, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose, Santa Rosa,...
earthquaketrack.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Good early morning fellow Bay Area (and esp. Berkeley) residents! Turns out a 4.7 is a pretty effective and yet unpredictable alarm clock… Brief reminder who’s in charge.
earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2025-...
earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2025-...
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I'm seeing a lot of different people, coming from different angles, recognize that the Same-Origin Policy is insufficient for the kind of apps that we want to make now, and that we need something more fine-grained and more secure.
Very interesting times!
Very interesting times!
September 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm seeing a lot of different people, coming from different angles, recognize that the Same-Origin Policy is insufficient for the kind of apps that we want to make now, and that we need something more fine-grained and more secure.
Very interesting times!
Very interesting times!
Landing in NYC for #ProtocolsForPublishers. We have a pretty awesome group of folks coming together to work on keeping the future of the internet open! #PfP
August 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Landing in NYC for #ProtocolsForPublishers. We have a pretty awesome group of folks coming together to work on keeping the future of the internet open! #PfP
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One week out from #ProtocolsForPublishers and we have an ✨amazing✨ group of people coming together. There is a LOT to cover with open social and open AI protocols, but it’s all about ensuring both the distribution & the application layer of the web remain open. See you there! 🥂
🎟️ pfp.unternet.co
🎟️ pfp.unternet.co
Protocols for Publishers
A series bringing together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a sustainable agentic web.
pfp.unternet.co
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
One week out from #ProtocolsForPublishers and we have an ✨amazing✨ group of people coming together. There is a LOT to cover with open social and open AI protocols, but it’s all about ensuring both the distribution & the application layer of the web remain open. See you there! 🥂
🎟️ pfp.unternet.co
🎟️ pfp.unternet.co
Websites are back!
Confession time: I've been working on a secret side project at Vox Media for the past 18 months and it launched yesterday
August 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Websites are back!
AI discourse = "things I have personally seen" or "wild extrapolation"
One reason AI discourse is so bad is that the public has no intuition for short-term extrapolation in this space. There are only two buckets: "things I have personally seen" and "wild extrapolation."
One effect of that now is: open local models are not real yet, even to fairly savvy observers. +
One effect of that now is: open local models are not real yet, even to fairly savvy observers. +
August 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
AI discourse = "things I have personally seen" or "wild extrapolation"
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Thanks to Internet Exchange for linking to #ProtocolsForPublishers in this week’s newsletter! 🙇
pfp.unternet.co
pfp.unternet.co
July 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Thanks to Internet Exchange for linking to #ProtocolsForPublishers in this week’s newsletter! 🙇
pfp.unternet.co
pfp.unternet.co
Good article. Instead of trying to build products promising to replace humans with "superintelligence", consider the *actual* shape of language models and their capabilities. We have a great floor-raiser here that can be applied to bridge capability gaps.
elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...
elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...
AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser - Elroy
An AI assistant that remembers and sets goals
elroy.bot
August 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Good article. Instead of trying to build products promising to replace humans with "superintelligence", consider the *actual* shape of language models and their capabilities. We have a great floor-raiser here that can be applied to bridge capability gaps.
elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...
elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...
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We wrote this after a gathering of folks working on the messy edge of identity, memory, and intent in agentic systems. The ideas are still forming, but the stakes are clear: whoever shapes context, shapes the future.
Get in touch if you're work around this.
Get in touch if you're work around this.
The Context Wars: Notes from a Gathering of the Rebel Alliance
What side are you on?
agentictech.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We wrote this after a gathering of folks working on the messy edge of identity, memory, and intent in agentic systems. The ideas are still forming, but the stakes are clear: whoever shapes context, shapes the future.
Get in touch if you're work around this.
Get in touch if you're work around this.
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Here is @ruperts.world writing @unternet.co about where the web is going and what we can do about it.
See you in NYC in August. 🫡
#ProtocolsForPublishers
unternet.co/blog/2025/07...
See you in NYC in August. 🫡
#ProtocolsForPublishers
unternet.co/blog/2025/07...
Announcing Protocols for Publishers
unternet.co
July 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Here is @ruperts.world writing @unternet.co about where the web is going and what we can do about it.
See you in NYC in August. 🫡
#ProtocolsForPublishers
unternet.co/blog/2025/07...
See you in NYC in August. 🫡
#ProtocolsForPublishers
unternet.co/blog/2025/07...
Putting on a little something in NYC on August 20th. Talks on the new web stack: web payments, MCP, web applets, ATprotocol & more.
Viva the open web!
lu.ma/gb050dwt
Viva the open web!
lu.ma/gb050dwt
At Unternet, we believe the web is about to be shaken up by new ways of accessing information – and the entire business model is at risk. ChatGPT is just the start.
We're announcing Protocols for Publishers to address this. The first talk night will be August 20th.
lu.ma/gb050dwt?tk=...
We're announcing Protocols for Publishers to address this. The first talk night will be August 20th.
lu.ma/gb050dwt?tk=...
Protocols for Publishers Showcase · Luma
Protocols for Publishers is an event and workshop series that brings together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a…
lu.ma
July 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Putting on a little something in NYC on August 20th. Talks on the new web stack: web payments, MCP, web applets, ATprotocol & more.
Viva the open web!
lu.ma/gb050dwt
Viva the open web!
lu.ma/gb050dwt
When your personal computer is intelligent, it's good to know whose side it's on.
July 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
When your personal computer is intelligent, it's good to know whose side it's on.
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I met @ruperts.world, founder of @unternet.co, when he made a great speaker application to present at @causalislands.com Toronto. He was at Mozilla’s Innovation Studio at the time, working on generative interfaces.
Then he founded Unternet PBC.
Then he founded Unternet PBC.
July 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I met @ruperts.world, founder of @unternet.co, when he made a great speaker application to present at @causalislands.com Toronto. He was at Mozilla’s Innovation Studio at the time, working on generative interfaces.
Then he founded Unternet PBC.
Then he founded Unternet PBC.
From The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
July 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
From The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.
The theme for the latest @betaworks.com camp is close to my heart – Interfaces.
Computers don't have to be so frustratingly computer-y anymore. They can be more natural, they can understand, meet us half-way. But we need the imagination to dream up brand new interfaces to fully realize that.
Computers don't have to be so frustratingly computer-y anymore. They can be more natural, they can understand, meet us half-way. But we need the imagination to dream up brand new interfaces to fully realize that.
July 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The theme for the latest @betaworks.com camp is close to my heart – Interfaces.
Computers don't have to be so frustratingly computer-y anymore. They can be more natural, they can understand, meet us half-way. But we need the imagination to dream up brand new interfaces to fully realize that.
Computers don't have to be so frustratingly computer-y anymore. They can be more natural, they can understand, meet us half-way. But we need the imagination to dream up brand new interfaces to fully realize that.
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I think this web applet experiment is almost at its end, pretty sure this'll be the next version of Diffuse.
This "deck" applet here can be used standalone (web page on the right) where it automatically inserts tracks from your collection into the queue; or use it in a DJ theme (left side, wip).
This "deck" applet here can be used standalone (web page on the right) where it automatically inserts tracks from your collection into the queue; or use it in a DJ theme (left side, wip).
June 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I think this web applet experiment is almost at its end, pretty sure this'll be the next version of Diffuse.
This "deck" applet here can be used standalone (web page on the right) where it automatically inserts tracks from your collection into the queue; or use it in a DJ theme (left side, wip).
This "deck" applet here can be used standalone (web page on the right) where it automatically inserts tracks from your collection into the queue; or use it in a DJ theme (left side, wip).
Thinking about my position that AI in creativity is just a tool, not a replacement for an artist.
I'm not as optimistic about that as I used to be.
(No final thoughts here yet, just initial reactions to an interview with Rick Rubin.)
publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
I'm not as optimistic about that as I used to be.
(No final thoughts here yet, just initial reactions to an interview with Rick Rubin.)
publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
June 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Thinking about my position that AI in creativity is just a tool, not a replacement for an artist.
I'm not as optimistic about that as I used to be.
(No final thoughts here yet, just initial reactions to an interview with Rick Rubin.)
publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
I'm not as optimistic about that as I used to be.
(No final thoughts here yet, just initial reactions to an interview with Rick Rubin.)
publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
A little update on recent happenings at Unternet. Local-first conference, new spreadsheet applet, ability to add local applets & files, and exploring design directions for future product work.
unternet.co/blog/2025/06...
unternet.co/blog/2025/06...
Last month at Unternet: local-first, spreadsheets & product exploration
June 14, 2025
unternet.co
June 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A little update on recent happenings at Unternet. Local-first conference, new spreadsheet applet, ability to add local applets & files, and exploring design directions for future product work.
unternet.co/blog/2025/06...
unternet.co/blog/2025/06...
News to me: the republican "big beautiful bill" includes a 10-year moratorium on any form of AI regulation by states & municipalities. 10 years.
apnews.com/article/ai-r...
apnews.com/article/ai-r...
House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI in 'big, beautiful' bill
House Republicans surprised tech industry watchers and outraged many state governments when they added a clause to Republicans’ signature “big, beautiful” tax bill that bans states and localities from...
apnews.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
News to me: the republican "big beautiful bill" includes a 10-year moratorium on any form of AI regulation by states & municipalities. 10 years.
apnews.com/article/ai-r...
apnews.com/article/ai-r...
Want to amplify the "Malleable software" paper from Ink & Switch – this is an important step in defining much more flexible & natural paradigm for human-computer interaction
Article: www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
My notes: publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
Article: www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
My notes: publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
June 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Want to amplify the "Malleable software" paper from Ink & Switch – this is an important step in defining much more flexible & natural paradigm for human-computer interaction
Article: www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
My notes: publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
Article: www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
My notes: publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-note...
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The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality.
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
May 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality.
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵