This prediction about potential futures of AI and the world are both fascinating and terrifying. I highly recommend you spend the time to read it.

AI 2027

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

New Zealand gets a lot of rainfall in storms but this past few days it’s been particularly notable. For folks who don’t speak metric, that’s 13 inches in a 24 hour period, and over 16 inches of rainfall in some places over 36 hours. It did cause some flooding! It’s about as much rain in 36 hours as Los Angeles, Denver, Anchorage, Calgary, or Madrid get in a full year.

This car has an awesome license plate.

Live TV is so surreal… anyway, here’s a screencap of my live interview on CNN…. I got Nostr mentioned! Protocols are the future, we just need to build it.

I managed to focus on the protocol future! I got Nostr mentioned! These live interviews are so stressful. View quoted note →

I’ll be back on CNN live at the top of the hour, in 20 minutes, talking about the Breaking the Bird documentary. Twitter should always have been a protocol, and now we have that. We’ll see what i’m able to get in, these things go so fast.

This is what happens when we decide that the legal system and due process shouldn't apply. The government decides they're going to deport spanish speakers with tattoos because some gang members have tattoos and speak spanish. But then because there's not equal protection or due process rights, a guy with a rainbow autism awareness tattoo ends up in a salvadorian prision without any way to pleed his case. How does he get out of that prision? What happens if they don't like your tattoos? Or what some bot pretending to be you posted online? View quoted note →

Looks like they’re running some AI agent to try and match foreign students to social media accounts. If the US State department doesn’t like the politics of the posts the visa is being revoked. The thing is everyone in the US is protected by the constitution, not just citizens. So this is overturning fundamental rights to free speech and due process. There is no way for these students to contest this. Many people don’t put their full name on social media, often people have the same name. So not only will this violate students first and fifth amendment protections, it will likely be applied to students who simply share the same name or are confused with other students who expressed a political view the government doesn’t like. If this program continues it means that no foreign student in the US is safe from arbitrary deportation. All it takes is someone making a bot pretending to be that student making posts the administration doesn’t like. Since there is no process by which the student can even demonstrate the account is fake!

The Times of India

Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism - The Times of India

US News: The US Department of State has asked hundreds of international students, including Indians, to self-deport over alleged campus activism. L...

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/

I believe we need some fundamental rights on any social media platform or protocol we use. The rights are: 1. Privacy & Security 2. Ownership 3. Interoperability 4. Algorithmic Control 5. Self-Governance I’ve created a little website to campaign for these rights at

Declaration of Social Media Rights

Five fundamental rights we need for a free, open, and humane social media ecosystem

Anybody got a good ethical domain name registrar? I’ve been using Gandi.net since it was founded 25 years ago, but it got acquired by your.online in 2023. For a while nothing much changed except for they tried to upsell me to some stuff i didn’t want. But now i’m noticing that they’re getting noticeably less reliable. Updating name and nameserver records isn’t reliable, paying for things fails more often, their web interface has bugs. Basically they’re letting gandi die as they try and upsell people to their crap Total Webhosting Solutions stuff. So, what ethical registrars are there?