Did ATM’s replace the job of bank tellers? Or was it the smart phone and banking apps that eventually did it with adoption of the virtual banking model?

Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

There's a lot more to replacing labor than just automating tasks

I’m talking with Rudy Fraser, Bridget Todd talking about liberating creators from corporate platforms at #sxsw at 2:30pm Austin time.

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Escaping Algorithmic Binds: Creators vs. Corporate Platforms

SXSW 2026 Schedule | Creators and users are locked in digital “serfdom” by corporate social media’s algorithms and business models. Rabble, B...

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Something I've noticed from using LLMs is a real sense of relief. I have pretty crippling dyslexia. Spell checkers don't really work for me — for that to work, you have to get close enough to the word AND be able to recognise which one is correct from a list. I often have to fall back to checking definitions. My usual workaround was to Google the word, see what came back, then double-check I had the right one. It's really exhausting. But talking to an LLM, it doesn't care — and it does a much better job of figuring out meaning and the correct word from context. I've been able to stop doing all that extra cognitive labor. It feels liberating and relaxing. The same is true for coding. I'm good at systems thinking — knowing how things need to come together, holding the complicated picture in my head. I've built a lot of interesting projects that work. The hard part was never figuring out what needed to be done or how it should work. It was the damned syntax. Kind of like being able to work and think in my native language rather than one I learned as an adult, where I'm constantly doing the mental work of translation.

Markdown is the json of the agentic era. And now there is a good markdown browser.

Clearance: A Markdown Browser for macOS | Prime Radiant

There's new models coming out all the time, but GPT‑5.4 is amazingly good.

Spreading Nostr to the flutter community:

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What Is Nostr? | Very Good Ventures

The Flip: A Developer’s First Look at Nostr, the Protocol That Inverts the Client-Server World

What if social media hadn't become centralised and controlled by Facebook? This week I talk to @Ben Werdmuller about how he built Elgg, a social network, at the same time as thefacebook, and then how the history of social media evolved from there.

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Revolution.Social • An Alternate History of Social Media (with Ben Werdmuller) • Listen on Fountain

Ben Werdmuller is the Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica and a seasoned technologist who has spent his career building platforms that prio...

This has to be one of the most interesting and positive takes on getting laid off I’ve seen. It’s better to give folks time and resources to adjust to the future than let it be a surprise when it’s too late.

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Jamie Selects (@jamie_selects) on X

Day 1 laid off from @blocks checking in! Sharing some super high level thoughts. Was a shocking day yesterday no doubt, but as the evening went on...

Building new protocol based social media is just the start. Sustaining and growing them is also very hard. Bluesky’s been struggling with declining daily active users over the last year. We see similar struggles in Nostr at a smaller scale.

Ok i'm know i'm very late to the game, but i finally got an #openclaw setup i like and seems to actually work, and yes, it is amazing. It has a cashu wallet, github user, and a proton mail account already. Has anybody setup a relay for these things or a space on Nostr for agents to talk to each other?

ok, we're getting ready to release divine.video to @Zapstore and we need some folks to test the nostr specific features, nsec bunker, nostr connect, login with nsec, etc... make sure we're not messing with people's kind 0 and kind 3 events, etc.... Please take it for a spin and give feedback:

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Release 1.0.5 - Android Test - Pre-Release Alpha · divinevideo/divine-mobile

What's New in 1.0.5 (Build 496 — Feb 23, 2026) Video Playback Fixes Phantom pause eliminated: Videos no longer freeze/stutter when swiping betwe...

The olympics are weird, lots of obscure sports. I found out today that New Zealand is building a second curling centre in order to increase their chances. They already have one near Queenstown on the south island, but now they're building a second in Auckland. This is after having failed to make the 2026 olympics in Curling. It'll mean New Zealand is the only country in the southern hemisphere that has dedicated curling facilities. Canada here we come!

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This week on revolution.social I talked to @Anil Dash about how the tech industry has lost its moral compass. Anil is on the board of @Electronic Frontier Foundation and used to be an executive with the blogging platform Six Apart, and Fastly. He also did a stint on the board of Stack Overflow. He also talked about how AI is an major shift in tech but it’s in many ways it’s normal transformative technology, not something radically different than the internet, computer, steam engine, or other very important tech.

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Revolution.Social • Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash) • Listen on Fountain

Anil Dash is a pioneering technologist, advocate for ethical tech, and former CEO of Glitch, who currently serves on the board of the Electronic Fr...

What misguided marketing person decided that olympic champions need to hold a weird stuffed animal on the podium? It ruins the moment to sell some branding around this specific olympics that nobody gets, likes, or remembers.

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diVine Web - Short-form Looping Videos on Nostr

Watch and share 6-second looping videos on the decentralized Nostr network.

So UpScrolled just got removed from the google play store.

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UpScrolled (@realUpScrolled) on X

Looks like Google Play put our relationship on pause this Valentine’s Day. Our app is currently unavailable for download on the Play Store. We a...

The reason we need alternative ways of distributing apps like @Zapstore is that centralized platforms like Google Play can and do shutdown apps.

This week on revolution.social I talk to Mike McCue the ceo of Flipboard and former Netscape executive. We talk about the open web, how it was built, how it was lost in the social media era, and how we’re reclaiming it with open protocols.

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Revolution.Social • “I've Never Been More Optimistic” (Flipboard’s Mike McCue On the Open Social Web) • Listen on Fountain

Mike McCue has seen a lot of changes over the years to the open web. He was an executive at Netscape, which helped liberate the web from AOL's wall...

Discord announced everybody will be required to provide faceid or a government id and if they don't their account will be restricted to teen mode. I'm sure Discord will be good stewards of this important private data, after all they've not had a major leak of ID's and personal information since October 2025.

I just found out that Marques Brownlee, the creator who is probably the best at reviewing tech products out there, is also a serious semi-pro ultimate frisbee player who has played on the US National Team. He's REALLY good at ultimate, not just reviewing products.

You know who's not in the Epstein files? @jack