The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.
Mystified magicians of the mind
My conversation with neuroscientist Paul Cisek
The Divided Brain (2019) | How the Left Brain Hijacked the Modern World
The Brainmade Mark
When you see this logo on any artwork, whether painting, poetry, or prose, you know that it was made by a human just like you.
Will Their Bionic Eyes Be Obsolete and Unsupported Too?
As another retinal implant company goes broke, the tech’s future dims
An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
A technologist proposes slapping a "slop tax" on companies that use or create generative AI content.
Why on earth would you publish data as RDF? – Pieter Colpaert
A rebuttal to a blog post of Anne Schuth, I which I argue that RDF will earn its place in real neurosymbolic systems. Its best argument is eventual interoperability across organizations.
How Artist Corporations became law
The Artist Corporation (A-Corp) is a new legal business form designed specifically for artists and creators. It simplifies shared ownership, protects creative missions and intellectual property, and creates infrastructure for collaboration and future benefits like group healthcare. This piece explains how the A-Corp came to be. For an
MindsEye’s Dev Breaks Silence On Chaos And Mismanagement
Build a Rocket Boy's ex-lead animator, Chris Wilson, had a lot to say about his time at the company, and the two co-CEOs steering its sinking ship
Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people | Letter
Letters: Guardian readers reflect on the ableism rife in the debate about Ray-Ban Meta eyewear, despite the life-changing difference they can make
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who... book by Ashley Shew
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The Grug Brained Developer
this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer
AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps — Boris Mann — FediCon 2025
Boris Mann gave a talk at FediCon 2025: "Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps". Boris Mann posted some notes about his talk here: https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyo...
Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of... - Adam Wood
Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of different tech-related things that sort of overlap. One is the (emerging) shape of the new social web; the other is a pull I’m feeling to try and lessen reliance on American companies. I’ve been interested in / concerned by what became of social media for some time.1 Since the sundering of Twitter in 2022, I’ve kept an eye on the various alternatives, with particular interest in Mastodon and Bluesky. Actually, to be more accurate, my interest has been in the protocols behind those platforms: ActivityPub and AT Protocol respectively. Both have their...
People don't buy who they are. They buy who they want to become.
Why the most successful brands build against a muse, not a demographic
AI Is a Product of Humanity. Humanity Should Own AI.
Big Tech has looted humanity’s creative output to create artificial intelligence. We don’t just deserve a share of AI’s profits — we deserve control over it.
