Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

@adrian this is the hard-hitting journalism I was needing this morning!

Trump sycophant Stephen Miller says the White House is considering suspending Habeas Corpus.

As a human rights lawyer, let me be clear: Due process and habeas corpus is arguably the last line of defense before fascism takes permanent hold. I cannot emphasize enough how serious this situation is for our nation.

Continue to loudly speak up against this fascist regime while we still can.

@calebhailey yeah I broke it lol. Thanks for letting me know, tho. Will fix it tonight.

@carnage4life yup. https://anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

Air raid drills tomorrow throughout India. For my friends over there, here's a classic film from the U.S. government on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOXMIZ7MpY

@foone I was thinking about this the other way, minimal changes to existing popular images to turn them into functional QR codes

@daveshea my people.

@stubbornella yeah, I think the male equivalent of this is having no longer been seen as a threat. I don’t get folks crossing the street or whatever nearly as much. Strange milestones.

This is a piece I've been pondering for a while, so I finally took a moment to write it up: What would a "good" AI product look like? https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/01/what-would-good-ai-look-like/

This is wonderful news for the future of Mastodon, for everything from governance to continued evolution and innovation. Love to see it! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

A minor positive milestone for me: today was (I think?) the first time in the 18 years that Hacker News has existed that the site’s conversation about something I wrote didn’t end up being largely derailed by some dudes’ feelings about me. A wonderful benefit of my fading visibility.

@cpultz glad it was helpful!

@nigelsezyarr I’m trying. Although I’m… not a big tech guy. lol

A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

I think that @theverge is underselling it - the gold here isn’t the chrome browser, it’s chrome’s automatic background update system. It’s root on billions of machines.

https://www.theverge.com/chrome/656613/google-chrome-buyers-openai-yahoo-perplexity

“Who’s ever gonna get a chance to do 1500 pages on revolution again? With this much money, and this much muscle?” Man, Tony Gliroy is as good as it gets. From Michael Clayton to now where he’s going with the full culmination of Andor, he’s truly making some id the best mainstream media that it’s possible to do, and I’m as inspired by him navigating giant infrastructures like Disney to get these outputs as I am by the actual final results.

@stefan 😬

@reflex @ctietze yeah the DNS thing is a big missing piece.

@zefu I think so! Lemme ask.

@reflex @ctietze what capabilities are you looking to replace?