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Anil Dash

@anildash.com
47 posts
2026-03-09
WordPress' first outside CEO has become Bluesky's first outside CEO.  That's interesting. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
2026-03-09 View on X
Wired

Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO

Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

2026-03-05
Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this “declaration” means nothing.  Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead.  So if you can sign along side him?  At best, you got played.  He's the “humanity in control”. humanstatement.org
2026-03-05 View on X
NBC News

Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration

An eclectic group including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Ralph Nader, Susan Rice and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu signed the letter.

2026-02-27
Thinking of all the friends and colleagues I know who are amongst the folks affected by the gutting at Block/Square today.  And just a heads-up: the COO/CFO who led that effort there is on the board of of Discord and AirBNB.  Make your plans accordingly.
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

Thinking of all the friends and colleagues I know who are amongst the folks affected by the gutting at Block/Square today.  And just a heads-up: the COO/CFO who led that effort there is on the board of of Discord and AirBNB.  Make your plans accordingly.
2026-02-27 View on X
Reuters

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B

Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …

2026-02-10
There's a meta-point here, which is key: Commercial AI tools are built for bosses.  It's very obvious, and very simple.  This manifests in every part of their design and implementation and use, and it's no wonder they cause burnout.  [embedded post]
2026-02-10 View on X
Harvard Business Review

An eight-month 2025 study at a US tech company: AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it; employees worked faster, longer, and did a bigger scope of tasks

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI.  After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work …

2026-02-09
There's a meta-point here, which is key: Commercial AI tools are built for bosses.  It's very obvious, and very simple.  This manifests in every part of their design and implementation and use, and it's no wonder they cause burnout.  [embedded post]
2026-02-09 View on X
Harvard Business Review

An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI.  After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work …

2026-01-27
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: www.anildash.com/2026/01/26/ w...
2026-01-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments after border agents killed Alex Pretti; Rabois said Pretti was committing a “felony”

To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …

I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: www.anildash.com/2026/01/26/ w...
2026-01-27 View on X
Axios

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out

across NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Salesforce, Adobe, PayPal, YouTube, Slack, Meta—we are now hundreds strong.Hemant Taneja /@htaneja:This is not politics as usual. As inves...

I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: www.anildash.com/2026/01/26/ w...
2026-01-27 View on X
Spyglass

Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice

Tim Cook is captured.  There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.

2026-01-26
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: www.anildash.com/2026/01/26/ w...
2026-01-26 View on X
Axios

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out

Some tech workers are pressuring the industry's top leaders to speak out against ICE after federal officers killed Alex Pretti …

2026-01-11
Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things.  This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/ h...
2026-01-11 View on X
Anil Dash

A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber

Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps …

2026-01-08
Fully agree this isn't a good idea.  I also fully understand why people do this.  It's vastly more understandable than most medical jargon, far more accessible than 99% of people's healthcare that they can afford, and very often pretty accurate in broad strokes, especially compared to WebMD or Reddit. …
2026-01-08 View on X
Axios

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, available to a small group via a waitlist

OpenAI is expanding its capabilities by adding a dedicated health tab to ChatGPT, allowing people to bring in electronic medical records …

2025-10-28
This is brutal, and Amazon is making *$86 BILLION* this year — with $20 billion of that in profit.  This may well be the first domino that reveals what so many already know, which is that everyone but the wealthy are already in a recession. www.reuters.com/business/wor...
2025-10-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 across 2022 and 2023; the company had 1.55M employees globally in June

Amazon.com Inc. plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 corporate jobs just months after Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the company's workforce.

2025-10-20
Incredible win for @turbovax.bsky.social to be named as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's tech founder that he'd most like to meet.  And guess what — he ACTUALLY NAMED A NEW YORKER! www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
2025-10-20 View on X
Wired

Q&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Trump, fame, Apple's and Google's “wrong decision” to remove ICEBlock, and more

Mere months ago, New York's mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.”

2025-10-19
This is horrifying, but I'm glad the Wikipedians are safe.  It could have been far worse, given that the MAGA fascists have been trying to incite violence against Wikipedia editors, and trumpists are defenders of pedophiles like the gunman. gothamist.com/news/gunman-...
2025-10-19 View on X
New York Times

Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles

After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

2025-09-23
This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers.  Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin. [embedded post]
2025-09-23 View on X
Wired

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots

it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impu...

2025-07-09
Why hasn't Patrick Healy insisted that this story include a mention that Grok is plagiarizing Jordan Lasker with this white supremacist content?  Seems like he hasn't meddled enough.  How come there's no quote from any Nazis at all?  Why aren't we hearing both sides? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/t...
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

Why hasn't Patrick Healy insisted that this story include a mention that Grok is plagiarizing Jordan Lasker with this white supremacist content?  Seems like he hasn't meddled enough.  How come there's no quote from any Nazis at all?  Why aren't we hearing both sides? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/t...
2025-07-09 View on X
NBC News

After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”

In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.

2025-07-05
Altman is such a fool that he is celebrating America while it abandons its principles and its most vulnerable people — and posting about it on a site run by Musk, a man who has explicitly said he is trying to destroy OpenAI.  Which Altman has no problem with. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/o...  [embedded post]
2025-07-05 View on X
CNBC

Sam Altman says he believes in “techno-capitalism” and is “politically homeless” as Democrats no longer encourage a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats  —  cnbc.com/2025/07/04/o... Sacha Ramtohul / @poticha : Not to anyone's surprise but Altman...

2025-06-03
This stuff is frustrating because there are factual assertions here about the state of AI assistance with coding (it's at an interesting, even useful, state), but it's so wrapped in strawmen and bad-faith dismissal that it's lost. fly.io/blog/youre-a... Again, we need better AI critique.  All around.
2025-06-03 View on X
Fly

A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more

Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption.  That's bad strategy.  But I get where they're coming from.