Webbin' so long. Past: Axios editor, Wired/Backchannel contributor, Grist editor, Salon co-founder. Author of some tech books. Up next: Our Web (https://ourweb.is/).https://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3ml4cjyhqn22kGreat story. This is a perfect ourobouros -- AI-makers desperately need to hoard data for training but their own data centers' needs are crowding out the public resources that preserve the data. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4cjyhqn22khttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mk7g2gwpek2ver this explains a lot [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Apr 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7g2gwpek2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mk6bu6odns22@ftrain.bsky.social on the coming software glut: "It’s easy to build software in 2026, but it’s still hard to support, market, and maintain it." Will software just become an ambient tool like pencils and paper? It's just there and we put it to work? Not yet, but ... soon? https://aboard.com/claude-design-just-wants-you-to-stop-burning-tokens/23 Apr 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6bu6odns22https://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mjrpgxksbk2vI guess next up SCOTUS will say nothing about the substance of what we're learning this weekend but immediately launch a mad crusade to find and punish the leaker(s).18 Apr 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrpgxksbk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mjg5lp7r3c2vFrom what I'm hearing it sounds like Justin Bieber's avant garde production of "Krapp's Last Tape" was controversial?14 Apr 2026 00:43 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjg5lp7r3c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mij7o4dppk2cdid we cross a line where we now say that a company with $ X revenue is "an $ X company"? Or that it's "worth $ X"? Sure, getting to $1.8B in revenue with two people is kinda nuts, but you haven't created $1.8B in value. NYT oughta know this, right? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dollar-company-medvi.html02 Apr 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mij7o4dppk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mih2l422c22cIt kills me that we now have 35+ years of experience designing online interaction and we still screw it up, so when someone like Derek who has been studying and writing about this for nearly that whole time weighs in, I pay close attention. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mih2l422c22chttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3miet3doqrk2cWhen something as utterly weird as skibidi toilet becomes just another hunk of "Valuable IP" https://aftermath.site/skibidi-toilet-creator-alliance-invisible-narratives/31 Mar 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miet3doqrk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mieplbdxls2lVery cool use of internet time. 💯 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mieplbdxls2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mi2nsoic3k2a"Just trying to keep the lights on." New album "The Former Site Of" from the New Pornographers and @acnewman.bsky.social out today... can't wait to hear it all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-U0U4zTj3g27 Mar 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2nsoic3k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mhxy6boz3s2aThis is a phenomenally great podcast that I highly recommend (and I am not even interested in sports!) and very sad that it is so relevant again [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxy6boz3s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mhxs2bdhn22cRIP Tracy Kidder, a great writer who knew how to tell human stories. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html "Soul" was totally my inspiration for "Dreaming in Code." I thought "OK, he did an incredible job with hardware, what about software?"26 Mar 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxs2bdhn22chttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mhswnjz5pc2aThe NYT is writing about Bojangles fried chicken landing in NYC https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/dining/bojangles-popeyes-chick-fil-a-nyc.html but we've been here before, my old friend @billmckibben.bsky.social was covering this exact same story back in 1982! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1982/10/04/bojangles24 Mar 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhswnjz5pc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mhhmn5skxk2kExactly right from @slhamlet.bsky.social: This is so much the heart of it -- willful ignorance about history, previous experience, prior art. It's always year zero in the Valley. Too often, a giant cycle of ignorance. From https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/technology/mark-zuckerbergs-metaverse-vr-horizon-worlds.html20 Mar 2026 03:55 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhhmn5skxk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mgpxubdb5s2tThe Grammarly "famous editor bots" fiasco that @caseynewton.bsky.social wrote about is hilarious, but the thing that gets me is that they filched the names/reps of all these high-profile writers & journalists when most of them would agree that the best editors are largely unknown and work in shadow10 Mar 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpxubdb5s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3mf5flfxs7c2tBig fan here of DeLong's substitution for "artificial superintelligence" of "Anthology superintelligence"--"humanity’s collective mind present and past stored in and as our information technology capital stock." LLMs? A new interface to All That. With real opportunities and big pitfalls. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Feb 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5flfxs7c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/wordyard.com/post/3merbousssk2tThis is a great piece on why and how we keep making culture -- looping the thread of "I want to make this" through the needle of careerism, financial needs, self-doubt and The Times We Live In. https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/what-does-it-mean-to-make-something/13 Feb 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:xsrak7kuyv44veeeu3prc5gm/app.bsky.feed.post/3merbousssk2t