Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

i don’t know about y’all but who takes seriously a Naijaman selling the inevitability of #tech #fascism and #colonialism?

and now i have to wonder: is Dare’s account meant to be an engagement bot onhere?

because it doesn't make any sense at all to say there are no Black people on the #fediverse because it is averse to “engagement bots”. it does make sense though if you are using digital #Blackface like that “soul” singer on Youtube.

which brings me to the phenomenon of #BlackTwitter

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In the first days of December, as it became clear that the ICE invasion was a real thing that was really happening to us, as groups of us gathered swapping rumors about the kidnappings and clearly inadequate tips about phone security, we had no idea what to expect, no idea what would happen, no idea what we were going to do. As much as we’d planned, heard from other cities, tried to be ready, we had no idea.

Only one thing was crystal clear: nobody, absolutely nobody, was coming to save us.

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@MisuseCase @nanook yeah, I mean… I’m rich by any reasonable standard of the word. I can afford to live in New York City! And I put a little bit in savings every month. I’m just not trying to crush every other person and immiserate them, or force them into destitution. I want everyone to have housing and healthcare and secure food and education. It’s not complicated.

Thanks to the extremist agenda of the richest tycoons supporting the authoritarians agenda, American tech companies are going to see a collapse in revenues and growth in these markets. Was it worth it just to support a bunch of child sexual predators? https://techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds

The thing I would most like to see come from the Claude Code leak is not (just) that all the LLM-focused tools incorporate the features that were exposed, but that *bash itself* build in the things that Claude is trying to do with scripting, and make them part of the shell.

@pteryx Not sure! What browser/device? Are you running any extensions?

What is the maximum amount of value destruction that could be wrought on the big centralized commercial AI vendors, and the maximum amount of acceleration of the ecosystem of open source and community-led
alternatives, using the knowledge gained from the leak of the Claude Code source code?

@eff Bonus: Cindy shouts out Mastodon during this interview!

Really happy with this conversation — I got a chance to drop in on The Vergecast, which is one of my favorite tech podcasts because they go deep into the systems that affect how and why we're able to innovate, and what shapes the markets we all operate in. David Pierce let me nerd out about how important it is that technologies like podcasts stay open for everyone to be able to participate without any gatekeepers. I think you're going to like this one! https://youtu.be/JLNShOwOaig?t=2618 (Starts at 43:38.)

@nick @eff exactly! she has such mastery that she can stay with conviction on that point. And she ended up staying another 20+ minutes afterward to talk through it with him, and he came along to see her point.

Yesterday, I got an incredible opportunity to watch Cindy Cohn bring @eff's story to one of its biggest audiences yet, as she did an extraordinary job on the Daily Show, pulling off the unlikely task of making the topic of digital privacy and civil liberties seem fun, engaging and witty. I took the chance to share some reflections — and a couple of behind-the-scenes photos. https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/31/defending-privacy-daily/

@dash @KatS that’s not the _only_ answer, I think we have to have a spectrum of answers, including stronger policy, better alternative platforms, more resilience for our existing institutions, and better education for users. But I understand why that one jumps out.

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

@lzg my issue is, even if you feel that way… what’s the plan? This is the stance that failed with social media, failed with ride sharing apps, failed with crypto. Even if critics were morally right to say “nobody should ever use this”, they didn’t succeed in harm reduction. And that has to matter more than smugly being “right” when the stakes are this high.

Something amazing seeing @reggiehudlin's original 1983 student film version of House Party ("House Party!"), which just popped up on YouTube. There's no Bilal bumping the turntable, or *that* dance scene, but the energy of pre-Run DMC-era hip hop is fierce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huIekzBVD6k

@theory sorry to have missed it!

@Lacey I think it's not uncommon to want to just build stuff in limited free time; I just wish there were options for folks in that scenario that didn't require using tools made by fascist arms dealers, and that encouraged more collaboration with other coders and contributing to the larger coding ecosystem. I'm not concerned with the feelings that gatekeepers have about whether it's "real" coding.

There are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and it’s part of their identity. Today’s LLM tools now enable an individual to essentially be an entire software _factory_, and this is going to impact those 2 kinds of coders very differently — especially in how they respond to *both* of their bosses trying to put them out of work. https://anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai/

@Standard_Phil @_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante I think they’re all real researchers, I’m just a commentator here.

@alicegg for sure that’s part of it