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The Happiness Trap

Russ Harris

To be clear, I’m a fan of the Bluesky leadership and engineering team. With the VC money as fuel, I expect their next 12 months or so to be golden, with lots of groovy features and mind-blowing growth. But that’s not what I’ll be watching. I’ll be looking for ecosystem growth in directions that enable survival independent of the company. In the way that email is independent of any technology provider or network operator. Just like Mastodon and the Fediverse already are.

Why Not Bluesky

Tim Bray

The Copilot designers also concluded that they needed to encourage users to essentially become hackers—to devise tricks and workarounds to overcome A.I.’s limitations and even unlock some uncanny capacities.

The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker

Charles Duhigg

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