Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

@ehler it’s mostly just a static Eleventy blog with Markdown files that I write locally, but I do use Sveltia to edit posts sometimes, and to put stuff live and commit to git https://sveltiacms.app/

@silverwizard @metagrrrl It's just true, and it's obvious in contrast to people who just act *normal*. Plenty of folks have said, "Hey, have you considered this" and shared critical feedback, and I've reflected and agreed with their criticism or changed the way I was moving or thinking about things. But people who lead with fanfic they've made up about me aren't acting in good faith, and are lashing out at an imagined enemy; it's never useful to indulge that, so I don't.

@a @kottke I've been endorsed on LinkedIn for "LinkedIn usage"

@cell911 @imdavidpierce @gruber 🫡

@silverwizard @metagrrrl you seem to be objecting when someone makes an untrue assertion about you. Can you see why maybe you shouldn’t make assertions about others that aren’t true? You could engage me like I’m a person, and have a conversation. But instead, your own insecurity compelled you to engage with me through the lens of your resentment, so you treated me like an object. You wouldn’t talk to an actual person like this. Why the fuck should I indulge you?

@togdon @gruber I don’t think we could have done Aaron justice in that short window of time, but I did cover Aaron in my piece that I linked to.

@fartnuggets @gruber 🫡

And if you haven't had a chance, take a look at my piece from January, a history of how Markdown took over the world: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

My lengthy promotional tour for Markdown continues unabated! The latest stop? Getting to join David Pierce and @gruber for this wonderful look back at markdown's history on The Vergecast. I hope you'll give it a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arjKK7fRtSA

@silverwizard @metagrrrl not gonna be scolded by somebody who comes in full of bullshit and condescension. Don’t pretend you have some positive intent when it’s very obvious your goal is showboating. You could have actually engaged like I’m a person, with an intent of trying to solve a problem, but you think I’m an object for your performance, and you have zero goal of helping anyone.

@707Kat the others haven’t sold it for profit intentionally with the owners’ knowledge

@silverwizard @metagrrrl no I didn’t. But I know why you want to pretend so. I’d say your penchant for dishonesty is probably the thing that opened the Overton window for this sort of thing. Or maybe you had more to do with the normalization of the CSAM parts, who knows.

So, the biggest IPO in the history of the world has the vast majority of its future value being created by an AI platform whose only distinction, thus far, is that it is the only one that's generated sexualized imagery of children? And they're going to force it into our 401ks so we're bag-holders for all the assholes who put stupid money into buying Twitter?

@sbeebe oh weird! Thanks for the bug report, I think it’s the Flickr embed. I’ll troubleshoot shortly.

Check out Hank's timeline app here: http://artemistimeline.com and his video about the project here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZE9VWJjDA

Inspired by Hank Green’s fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? https://anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116482535505420647

Kudos for the incredible parody of Mastodon culture here, well done! Seemed almost plausible on first read.

This has been on my mind for *weeks*. I've been saying for a long time that it's possible to have an AI that only uses consensually-gathered content, is open source + open weights, runs on your own machine, and is designed to empower creators instead of exploit them. Well, we've finally got one. https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/one-good-ai-is-here/

@reflex it’s literally your wording. You just don’t like that you told on yourself. Why won’t you admit that you want them to serve fewer users? You’ll feel better when you make your insane goal clear.

@reflex they said they want to serve users who hate AI, and made an AI off switch. Now you’re insisting they serve *fewer* users. Just admit that you want those users to be less safe. Admit that you think majorities should make others less safe.