Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

@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/

@jef we'll get him :)

Next week is 10 years since we lost Prince. Since then, the community of Prince scholars has come together regularly for academic symposia on his legacy and works; you can watch for free this weekend if you'd like to join us online or in person at NYU. This year's focus is Prince & the Revolution's 1986 album "Parade" & the movie it accompanied, Under the Cherry Moon. Register for free, and come join us! https://iwonderu.polishedsolid.com

@jef I got a correction from a reader! Didn’t get it right the first time.

I got on that treadmill thoughtfully. I knew I was signing up for a big chunk of work, every week. In the beginning, that letter was how I spent my Sunday afternoons, mailed it out before dinner. When we got big enough to have a competent HR team, one of them pointed out to me that I was implicitly telling folks that Sunday afternoons were designated work time.

That was right. Afterwards, I still wrote 'em on Sunday, but waited until Monday morning to mail them. Don't blab that around!

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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.