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Our first-ever dev/ai/nyc event was one for the books! Here are some of our favorite snaps featuring @ma.tt, @borthwick.com, and NYC’s boldest tinkerers and brightest minds in applied AI. Here’s to the next one! 🎉

About The Other Night... How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

Mark your calendars for dev/ai/nyc, a new monthly AI-focused gathering in the big 🍎.

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, we’re kicking things off with a fireside chat from @ma.tt and @borthwick.com. Plus drinks, light bites, and great conversation.

Congratulations to Ari, Conrad + team. @betaworks.com was fortunate work with them again ~ they are GOAT's at crafting cross OS experiences

As @viticci.macstories.net says this is an experience that "floats" on your desktop helps you think, create and get things done. Have been using and liking!

On Finding: A Conversation with Mark Borthwick & Lola Dement Myers, Revealing 'Out of Date' · Luma Come celebrate 'Out of Date': Pola Pan 1984-1996, Mark Borthwick's first major book release in fifteen years Join us for an evening with Mark Borthwick and…

Monday, a conversation with Mark Borthwick & Lola Dement Myers ​looking back and forward, discussing Mark's new book. Excited for Mark join us at @betaworks.com

Join: luma.com/k7x2nnsq

Book, 'Out of Date' Pola Pan from 1984-1996: www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012 © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Red by Mark Rothko, 1968
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137899

@skylight.social needs feeds? @graze.social has 'em - already. Need an integration on @leaflet.pub to add an RSVP widget? Use @smokesignal.events. Every integration confers squared benefits to the ecosystem, not linear improvements in isolation. The ecosystem moves faster *every day*, together.

If you want to understand why the ATmosphere is going to be the movement to watch, read this thread. Standout line: "Every integration confers squared benefits to the ecosystem"

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

You can just do things

Looking forward to this conversation with Karen, ps: that picture of me ain't real, but what is today?

Assume we will touch on that and other topics

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Metaphors We Web By A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web

LLMs reflect a deep understanding of these metaphors… @maggieappleton.com if you havent should look at skills in Dia -- the team at @diabrowser.com are reframing what a web page is in interesting ways.

HT to Vince Trost for recommending 👋 maggieappleton.com/metaphors-we...

Metaphors We Web By A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web

Enjoyed @maggieappleton.com "Metaphors We Web By". Along side "pages" and "spaces", streams have become a key metaphor for the web. Would add streams to the short list. And since LLMs reflect a deep understanding of those metaphors…

Apply to Betaworks’ Fall AI Camp: Interfaces A call for founders reimagining how humans experience AI

betaworks fall Camp: AI + Interfaces. Wanted, founders reimagining how humans experience AI.

First deadline this friday, two companies already accepted. Details on why, what and how👇

render.betaworks.com/apply-to-bet...

Heard @karenhao.bsky.social on hiddenforces.io -- looking forward to reading the book

A picture of Devin Gaffney presenting a demo of Graze Social.

Today’s demo day for the AI app layer camp @betaworks.com ! We’ve had such a fun and inspiring few weeks here. Grateful for the experience and excited for what’s ahead!

Nice brilliant founders on right now betaworks demo day / focus on ai App layer. Including @graze.social !

Details www.upstartsmedia.com/p/where-9-st...

At @betaworks this weekend we’ve got robot arms, 3D printers, nicole ripka and Kriser shah wrangling hackers and robots.

Thanks to @huggingface.bsky.social @alleycorp.bsky.social @upfrontvc.bsky.social

Details see > robothackathon.com

Dessn - The missing tool for product designers Dessn - The missing tool for product designers

After hundreds of discussions with founders about how Ai changes the way they build this discussion with Gabriella and Nim and @ridd-design.bsky.social
stands out -- tis packed with insights about how to be building for tomorrow & the changing role of designers:

share.snipd.com/episode/2f69...

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism [Wynn-Williams, Sarah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...

Careless People Shocking and darkly funny, this is the explosive inside story of a senior executive at Meta (formerly Facebook).

Finished the book today. Careless People, indeed. Thinking about META, what they value, the data they have and AI and the values of this company. Glad this was recorded before Wynn-Williams was effectively muzzled. Thanks to SWW & Bari Weiss

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s Highest-Ranking Whistleblower Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s Highest-Ranking Whistleblower

This interview w / Sarah Wynn-Williams covers a lot about Facebook ~ it's the China/CCP collaboration that surprised me. Didnt realize 11% of META's revenues last year's came from China -- "operating but not operating in China" remarkable.

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The Real Threat of Chinese AI The United States needs to lead the open-source race.

Good article by Jared Dunnmon on the importance of OS and an open tech stack to drive innovation and continued US leadership in AI. Deepseek V3 was overplayed but the importance of OS and investment in the ecosystem in the west was underplayed

www.foreignaffairs.com/china/real-t...

Building Granola: great discussion w/ Chris Pedregal packed with ideas about how to build a natively AI app experiences.
Reminded me of t4t day @betaworks in 2022 Alice, @thesephist.com and Chris talked about this.

My notes on Episode n clips: share.note.sx/m3q3hsmk#RIr...

PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY DO UNLESS THEY ARE INSANE

THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION IS AN ADOLESCENT FANTASY

Similar to Putin and Dugin's Yalta framework ... reduce the world to 3/4 major powers. And everyone else is a pawn.