Matt: Saturday Shares

A few links for you:

• From Kirschblütenboogie to Khruangbin (from Houston!), here’s a Saturday chill Spotify playlist I made for you to have good vibes this weekend. Perfect for sunsets. Hat tip: Daniel Gruneberg who first introduced me to Hermanos Gutiérrez.
• Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship. “Billion-dollar ecosystems cannot stand on foundations built of goodwill and unpaid weekends.”
• Chat-based photo editing is one of the most magical uses of AI right now, and Google Photos just made it available to everybody.
• Did you know Automattic has an anti-glossary?
• It’s cool to see Vitalik Buterin come around to copyleft licenses.
• I’m going to re-link the Grit interview, some people are saying it is their favorite they’ve seen of me in years.
• BCG has an annoyingly-good rundown of The Art of Capital Allocation.
• The Linux Foundation thinks open source contributes $9 Trillion in global value. Really what we’re doing is sharing the technological phylogenetic branches for humanity’s progress.
• A great interview with Petter Törnberg on his paper about how social media might be structually dysfunctional. “Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, these platforms too often create filter bubbles or echo chambers.”
• See Harry Mack meet Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

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