Anil Dash

Twitter just got an entire media cycle out of its product head Nikita Bier saying some bullshit about how he’s going to try to make replies better on the platform. Meanwhile they’re suing their own users who use the BUILT-IN CHILD PORN GENERATING FEATURE. arstechnica.com/tech-…

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. arstechnica.com

www.theverge.com/podcast/9321... "Substack is probably the biggest union-busting development that exists, even though that’s not its intention." LMAO... Jonah, buddy... I have some news for you

Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed | The Verge theverge.com

It’s not inevitable! As I say here, “[T]here can be alternatives … rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” And I think it’s honestly coming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable theguardian.com

"Silicon Valley has become anti-capitalist." I like @timoreilly.bsky.social's framing here, and he makes the case really clearly in a way that I hope will resonate with a lot of the broader audience. www.wired.com/story/tech-v...

Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want wired.com

I will also say, I went in very ready to be annoyed with Ezra on this one, but hearing him raise the (VERY NEEDED) topic of publicly-owned tech infrastructure for things like data centers and AI was *excellent*, and is well worth a listen as well. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

AI and the Public Good with Ezra Klein podcasts.apple.com

Like, when I wrote this? It’s based on a strategy that has worked in half a dozen different school districts. You’ve not had any impact in a single one. The method I talk about there has helped folks get ten different companies off of Twitter. You’ve never done it once. anilda…

Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash anildash.com

Here's a more fully articulated version of the argument I'd make: simply shaming people about their AI slop isn't an effective strategy for stopping Big AI. There needs to be a power-aware theory of change. www.anildash.com/2026/08/21/a...

Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI - Anil Dash anildash.com

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

So, the biggest IPO in the history of the world has the vast majority of its future value being created by an AI platform whose only distinction, thus far, is that it is the only one that's generated sexualized imagery of children? And they're going to force it into our 401ks so we're bag-holders?

I’m already preparing a t-shirt with Timothy McVeigh, Charlie Kirk, and David Koresh smiling affirmatively in front of a bold lightning strike as a bald eagle holding a flag with 7 or 8 AI-generated stripes honors our fallen semiquincentennial patriot martyrs from the Battle of MAGA Mall.

For many years, people asked me, “How come Prince didn’t allow people to upload his music to YouTube?” It used to take a long time to explain it, but now that Big AI platforms are extracting everyone’s content without consent… everybody suddenly gets it. Which is interesting.

There are so many bad trends in tech, but maybe one of the worst is people who write (or used to write, pre-LLMs) code describing themselves "forward-deployed" when they mean that they work at a client site, based on wanting to emulate military jargon so it sounds like they're going to kill people.

There are a bunch of folks trying to dunk on my point yesterday saying that shaming LLM users isn’t effective, as all it does is drive them underground. So, I’ll try to explain the point for those engaging in good faith. It’s understandable to attach stigma to actions with negative externalities…

If you’re a nerd & considering running the Apple beta for iOS, I can say that the developer betas have been the most stable and performant betas in *years* and the new AI features in Siri are very obviously animated by Apple understanding that the stakes could not be higher. It’s pretty good stuff.

If I see one more motherfuckin slide or website where everything is numbered 01 02 03 because Claude’s AI insists on numbering single-digit integers with a leading zero…

@lindley.bsky.social if you’re going to add me to a list of AI slop promoters, you should probably point to where I’ve done so. You may simply be misunderstanding a critique of the ineffectiveness of current efforts to fight Big AI.