Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

@elithebearded he didn’t have a current will at the time he died, because I don’t think he expected his prescription medicine to ne poisoned with fentanyl.

@carnage4life the idea that we’re going to return to the pre-Trustworthy Computing era, but with *intentional* remote code execution built into the system is unfathomable. I get why young devs who grew up in A16Z’s bubble don’t know better, but Omar is getting lost in hype here — if he wanted a pluggable natural language platform with “Sonos API” on one side and “iMessage” as an interface on the other, the additional risks of openclaw would be an unacceptable set of tradeoffs to get that.

@carnage4life so I’ve been playing with doing this stuff without OpenClaw because I don’t trust its trust model (and building from smaller building blocks is appealing at this stage, even if you lose network effects of reusing others’ work). A huge thing that folks have missed is how much functionality *should* be happening with deterministic code, even if that’s speaking to an MCP endpoint. Something like n8n + MCP with a thin final layer of very-locked-down LLM would be so much safer).

@wjmaggos at some point I’d like to upgrade my blog to be activitypub-enabled, but it’s a bit of a project

@divya I'm so sorry for your loss.

@sayrer yyyyep

@sayrer he very seldom missed, for sure.

In his 1998 interview with Guitar World, Prince spoke directly about one of the reasons why he was seeking ownership of his work: to have artistic control so there couldn't be unauthorized digital manipulation of his work after his death. https://sites.google.com/site/prninterviews/home/guitar-world-october-1998

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.

At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid ... I realize now that Prince wasn’t paranoid, he was prescient."

https://time.com/7338205/rage-against-ai-generated-music/

@humanhorseshoes @wjmaggos 🫡

@wjmaggos @humanhorseshoes sure, on the other hand, over there I don’t have someone who’s been spamming my mentions with a few thousand words of ranting about how I’m an evil journalist (I’m not a journalist?) for the last few months. So every platform has its shortcomings.

@humanhorseshoes lol copy & paste error, sorry. Should be fixed now!

For example, you may know that Prince covered the Foo Fighters’ “Best of You”; you may not know that the Foos had just covered his song “Darling Nikki” and gotten a radio hit out of it — even though the same song had gotten Prince persecuted by Congress in the 80s, leading to the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker. “Is someone getting the best of you?”

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-prince-won-the-super-bowl/

@keith 💜

@elight @rasterweb it’s not going to be broadly available to the poorest around the world, but there is a middle class that can change things, especially outside of the U.S. Than can be enough to catalyze things, and to subsidize creating tech for the developing world. Much of open source has functioned this way.

I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/

@pauleveritt I think we have to find a way to navigate it, otherwise the only people controlling the narrative about coding assistance tools of this sort will be the same people who think it’s good to shoot innocent people in the head.

@alyx_woodward I’m not the batshit creep who has been fixating on a stranger for weeks

@alyx_woodward @whophd that person should be fired, what does that have to do with you being an asshole in *my* mentions for weeks on end? That person is being an asshole because of you.