iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Absurdly, I have become a jersey guy 🤣 (not a great photo, but this is from my woodshop) Thanks for the heads-up — I’ll check it out!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16h

lol ya don’t say

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026

Here’s Moore offering a snippet of the song “A Man Called Jesus”, which Prince later gave to Mavis Staples, who made a more toned-down version.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/09/2026

I’ll get one of these every couple of days (which is fine, people should use block lists to manage their experiences online), but I always want to ask them: do you know what local models are? What open source & open weights mean? I often suspect they’re not fluent in these things, and should be.

[person] has added you to the “LLM Use and Spread” moderation list

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026

I just wanted to see something real quick...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026

next i'm gunning for Offerman

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/09/2026

constantly bringing this energy to meetings, endearing myself to no one

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/09/2026

lol this was about… halfway

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, sharing this little except from Prince’s memoir, “The Beauiful Ones”: “…they keep trying to ram […] Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.”

about competition, how can we outsell. Monkeys and primates could sell music. With Clear Channel [a radio and media conglomerate, since rebranded as iHeart-Media] it becomes like Soylent Green-people feeding people to people. We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15/09/2026

“Trump’s DC Makeover” began with this community decorating event

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/09/2026

Okay, you tell me where, on *any* of these homepages, the biggest newspapers in the country have featured the story “the ruling party of the country held a rally where they called for killing members of the opposition party”. I’ve captured the sites for your convenience.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026

It doesn’t presume anything — even if there’s a failure, the driver still did it. If I’m swinging a bowling ball around on a string and the string breaks and it clobbers somebody, it’s still on me! They sometimes get it right.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026

I talked to the head of digital at CNN when he said they “would never have blogs” and took this photo of the first time the word “blog” appeared on their screen a few months later. By the next year, they had a whole blog section of their site. It ate their entire publishing process.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/09/2026

I don’t want to dunk in any one person, as I see this argument a lot, so I’ll post a screenshot rather than quoting it, because this sentiment is common. Peter Thiel has a philosophy degree. Lots of these guys have liberal arts degrees. Credentialism & reverence for institutions won’t save us.

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i'm more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact
WEB CODER: so i met God today, 2/3

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/09/2026

Well, I hear you kids like “Sign of the Times”! Well, you know, back in my day…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026

LOL oh I sent him this 13 years ago

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026

Bonus: the then-editor of the MIT Tech Review, who insisted to me that Milo was A Good Boy, Actually. How did he know this? Well, because he’d gone to one of the good schools in the UK, naturally.

Jason Pontin: “Not for nothing, but Milo is not himself a white nationalist or a fascist.”

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026

I just realized that I had missed the chance to dunk on this piece of shit the other day with his 2012 email to me.

Dear Mr Dash,
I strongly suggest you delete the tweet mentioned above. It is highly defamatory and I intend to pursue an action against you for it from the UK unless you take it down, as it has the potential to baselessly damage my reputation and that of my business. Should you decline to participate in the concomitant suit, you would likely be denied entry to the UK for a period of ten years.
You may be accustomed to bullying those you disagree with on Twitter, but I imagine few of your usual antagonists are venture-funded media businesses. You dismiss me as a troll at your own peril.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Milo

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/09/2026

It would sound like this when you land.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/08/2026

Is it a "grim choice" to support people who sexually abuse children, and enable those who do?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/08/2026

Welp, reset the clock. It has been [0] days since this person has screenshotted my tlmeline in order to obsess about me. I can't imagine how elaborate the altar with my photos on it in their bedroom must be.

an atmosphere user crashes out over my response to someone they have zero affiliation with, as part of a years-long fixation with me that they've been skewing at their followers about nonstop

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/08/2026

Anyway, only Apollonia we recognize

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/08/2026

Uhhh hey let me just check something here really quick

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/08/2026

I haven’t posted about the desk project yet. This is the end result, though! (A little clip I’d made to show it off to my friend.)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19/08/2026

Look what I got on the wall over my desk 🤣

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14/08/2026

Well, there’s this one from 18 years ago, where I said “you can choose either Facebook or freedom”, while trying to get people at SXSW to stop fawning over Zuck’s first public interview.

#sxsw people: the panel I'm on about Designing for Freedom at 2pm is against Zuckerberg. So you can choose freedom or facebook. Just saying.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/08/2026

lol here's me last year on my instagram

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/08/2026

Me jealously guarding my new Bundt masterpiece

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/08/2026

At a great @beta.nyc event this morning where folks from NYC’s new PIT (Public Interest Technology) Crew are talking through how they’ll be making tech that actually serves the people of the city — starting with Click to Cancel, for services that make it too hard to cancel subscriptions.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/08/2026

yeah, it's definitely kind of my happy place being in there.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/08/2026

when a complete stranger is being very normal about you for a few years, their mentions of you might look like this. the bananas part is you're supposed to not mention these things, or react to it, let alone chide them for it, lest you be seen as a bully. But, in my opinion, fuck these psychos.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/08/2026

One of the weirdest things this person has done for the last few years, part a weird obsession with me, is find any of my words, and quote them with the worst bad-faith twisted interpretation of what I'm saying, and then add, "see?! see?!" hoping that people will get upset.

sven on blacksky disagrees with my characterization that tech tycoons are targeting tech workers by saying, "« First they came for the... (check notes) ... privileged elite tech workers »" — an argument against a point that is not one anyone has made

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026

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.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/07/2026

Logging in requires something you know, something you are, or something you have.

In the Avengers trailer, Steve Rogers is trying to grab Thor’s hammer as his second form of authentication

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/07/2026

Oh, I see, you think it’s stolen valor? That I would arrogate as august a credential as the noble title of Microsoft Certified Professional? Then how, pray tell, would I have had the forethought to sport that credential while hanging out with my friend Ronnie James Dio? CHECKMATE.

Ronnie James Dio (pbuh) and Anil Dash, circa 2000, at the release party for Dio’s album “Magica”

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/07/2026

it was pretty easy! took me a few hours. Later, I'll go back and throw some hardware cloth over the denim to accessorize a bit.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/07/2026

As we sip champagne, watching Purple Rain… youtu.be/Mv5f9Q2LJYM

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/07/2026

I hadn’t looked at our pictures in a long time, there’s some good ones in there :) Makes me happy every time I go by the park.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/07/2026

Pictured here, me having a shackburger 5 minutes before my wedding, while trying not to get grease on my shirt.

Anil Dash, with a napkin awkwardly tucked into his collar, a burger in his hand (and in his maw)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/07/2026

Thanks to @dlprager.bsky.social & everyone at @automattic.com for having me out last night for the premiere of Code for the People. @xpangler.bsky.social was a thoughtful host (and @ma.tt, you were missed!) — it felt good to explain, again, why open technologies matter more than ever in this moment.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2026

Don’t make me tap the sign!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/06/2026

Don’t make me tap the sign

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/06/2026

I don’t know how much it landed outside the city, but one of Zohran’s first big breakout campaign moments was when he jumped into the water in a suit at Coney Island for the Polar Bear Plunge back when he was polling at <2%

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/06/2026

Hmmm. "Some of the candidates … do not understand … the cultural differences from district to district." Okay, let’s see what the experienced Democratic campaigns are saying… www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

"Some of the candidates that he has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts, and are relatively new to the body politic," James told CNN.

"And for Darializa Chevalier, who is the candidate running against Adriano, Washington Heights cannot continue to be Dominican," he added. "For them, Washington Heights must follow the same pattern in Brooklyn. That is because since Haitians are converting to Islam in high numbers, they must be moved to the Dominican district."
In another interview, with the YouTube channel "Las Exclusivas de José Peguero," Pimentel cast suspicions on Avila Chevalier's Dominican identity. "She came from Florida, a young woman that identifies as an Afro-Latina, and she says that supposedly she has Dominican parents, and that now says she wants the opportunity to represent this communityạhe said.

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