Mark Bernstein

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo commends a cautious approach to AI: Make sure new things don’t endanger us before we build them or make them widely available.

Here lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark, broad seas.

My paper for ACM Hypertext 2026: The Reader’s Workbench: Reading With Friends.

“Where are the hypertexts now?”

I just realized that a weblog can have multiple instances of the Tinderbox Reader, each open to a different document, or to a different starting point on the same document.

David Millard, The Stranger’s Notebook Oliver Selfridge, Pandemonium Brad Woods, Digital Garden

Our plan is to provide the Tinderbox Reader under the MIT License.

Matthew Schwartz, The AI Grad Student.

At last year’s ACM Hypertext Conference, Antonini, Lupi, Pisarski and Brooker reported on their efforts to coax Gemini to read a hypertext fiction, Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn On Acid.

Ought one to be polite to Claude Code?

Get the book.

Today’s AI can make you better at doing things you do well.