Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

@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.

@reflex keeping users of those platforms safe is a bad idea? And you think majorities should get whatever they want?

@reflex there are millions of people who use those tools, so you’ll have to imagine a world where there are people who are different than you

"Mozilla's PR team told me they want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI. " In an article where the plan to win over users is: build a better browser. Well! https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-ajit-varma-mozilla-browser-plan

RE: https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/116449031735670570

Tonight! Come join us! Will be a great conversation.

@allenbrunson Purple Rain was... a movie

@allenbrunson okay. Pretty much everybody I’ve talked to who worked with him or had a relationship with him talks about him in the opposite way, even if they stopped working together on less-than-positive terms

@Meyerweb @mathowie @gknauss 💜

@mathowie yeah, I'm so glad we got to do that.

If you're thinking of Tim Cook's legacy, this piece from last September: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. I close it out with a talk I gave in Minneapolis on Prince’s birthday just after he passed – one of my most personal ever, and one I’m most proud of. I hope you’ll check it out. https://anildash.com/2026/04/20/prince-ten-years/