Current Affairs has enshrined tough restrictions on publishing using generative AI into its union contract. It's bet is that it will publish better journalism that way. #AI https://werd.io/current-affairs-says-its-banning-ai/
Too often, 1:1s can be reactive, unstructured spaces - or simple status reports that don't give the relationship time to breathe. This advice changes that dynamic. #Business https://werd.io/treat-your-1-1-relationships-with-intention/
I guess I’ve trained Threads to think I like posts about people who have just lost beloved family, because my algorithm is at least 50% that. I’m 5+ years out from my own loss but grief is clearly driving some of my behaviors. Creepy that the algorithm notices.
"For six months of her pregnancy, Maria was held in an immigrant camp in Texas, where conditions made it impossible for her to care for herself or her baby." https://19thnews.org/2026/10/pregnant-woman-ice-detention-camp-nightmare/
46% of Argentine adults avoid the news. These 23 year olds vibe coded a solution that's turned into the most popular news app in the country. #Media https://werd.io/argentinas-top-news-app-was-made-by-two-23-year-olds-using-ai/
Honestly? Seems ace. Can't wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZgB5D74ivc
If you haven't been paying attention to this story, it's truly wild - a supposed European alternative to big tech social media that lured in politicians and made waves but is incredibly poorly thought-out and is effectively doxxing its users. @_elena has been on it from the beginning. https://blog.elenarossini.com/public-by-design-how-w-social-makes-their-verified-users-personal-details-visible-on-the-open-web/
This is the kind of dystopian artifact that will be in the history books as soon as we've made our way out of this godforsaken era.
The AP is not wrong; it's a real issue, and I think it's right to publish this. But what a hall of mirrors hellworld we've found ourselves in.
I've been blogging since 1998 - and a while back, I was very privileged to be interviewed about my journey writing on the web for 28 years. It went up today: https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/23
48% of young people who use AI trust it more than the humans in their lives. #AI https://werd.io/young-people-trust-ai-more-than-the-people-in-their-lives/
Last week's #FediForum started with an amazing and very thought provoking keynote by @anildash on the state of affairs on the open web, how we got here and how we might proceed.
If you missed it, go to our PeerTube channel to check it out: https://spectra.video/w/p/6P87exJeckBwbGtAijeKJ1?playlistPosition=1
"I want to go back to the network run for the benefit of the man directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, minimum, because that's where the good AI posts are," say nation's oblivious bloggers
We rise together or we fall together. Every human. All of us.
Making open clones of closed services is not a mass market strategy.
You can’t convince people to move to a new network for ideological reasons. A few will; most won’t. The only driver is giving them something new that they want and can’t get anywhere else.
Misinformation: false information spread without intent to harm.
Disinformation: false information intentionally spread to manipulate truth and facts to bring about a particular outcome.
Bisinformation: information about 1990s Scottish indie rock band Bis.
Imagine what it does to a person to see a human being put to death. Imagine what it does to a country to allow this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/hegseth-fort-hood-shooter-public-execution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Grants for creators to build new publications on the #fediverse are a great idea. Find a new audience, get funded with up to $20,000. Win win. https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/10/07/call-for-proposals-fediverse-multimedia-grants/
"Every federal and gubernatorial race, by name and by state, read from what people are actually saying" - all powered by the open social web. #Technology https://werd.io/grazes-election-night-dashboard-demonstrates-the-power-of-open-algorithms/
"The people who can see journalism most clearly are the people who have the least time and space to solve its problems." To build more innovative organizations, we need to give everyone the space to breathe, reflect, prototype, and design. https://werd.io/the-space-to-breathe/