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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 13/12/2025
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
HUMOR IS A RELEASE
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Automattic @automattic.com · 07/11/2025
Our first-ever dev/ai/nyc event was one for the books! Here are some of our favorite snaps featuring @ma.tt, @borthwick.com, and NYC’s boldest tinkerers and brightest minds in applied AI. Here’s to the next one! 🎉
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Graze Social @graze.social · 06/11/2025
On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!
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About The Other Night...
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
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Automattic @automattic.com · 30/10/2025
Mark your calendars for dev/ai/nyc, a new monthly AI-focused gathering in the big 🍎. On Wednesday, Nov. 5, we’re kicking things off with a fireside chat from @ma.tt and @borthwick.com. Plus drinks, light bites, and great conversation.
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 24/10/2025
Congratulations to Ari, Conrad + team. @betaworks.com was fortunate work with them again ~ they are GOAT's at crafting cross OS experiences As @viticci.macstories.net says this is an experience that "floats" on your desktop helps you think, create and get things done. Have been using and liking!
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 18/10/2025
Monday, a conversation with Mark Borthwick & Lola Dement Myers ​looking back and forward, discussing Mark's new book. Excited for Mark join us at @betaworks.com Join: luma.com/k7x2nnsq Book, 'Out of Date' Pola Pan from 1984-1996: www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...
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On Finding: A Conversation with Mark Borthwick & Lola Dement Myers, Revealing 'Out of Date' · Luma
Come celebrate 'Out of Date': Pola Pan 1984-1996, Mark Borthwick's first major book release in fifteen years Join us for an evening with Mark Borthwick and…
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Red by Mark Rothko, 1968 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 
Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com · 01/10/2025
@skylight.social needs feeds? @graze.social has 'em - already. Need an integration on @leaflet.pub to add an RSVP widget? Use @smokesignal.events. Every integration confers squared benefits to the ecosystem, not linear improvements in isolation. The ecosystem moves faster *every day*, together.
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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2025
If you want to understand why the ATmosphere is going to be the movement to watch, read this thread. Standout line: "Every integration confers squared benefits to the ecosystem"
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/09/2025
You can just do things
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 27/09/2025
Looking forward to this conversation with Karen, ps: that picture of me ain't real, but what is today? Assume we will touch on that and other topics
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 14/08/2025
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 03/07/2025
LLMs reflect a deep understanding of these metaphors… @maggieappleton.com if you havent should look at skills in Dia -- the team at @diabrowser.com are reframing what a web page is in interesting ways. HT to Vince Trost for recommending 👋 maggieappleton.com/metaphors-we...
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Metaphors We Web By
A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 03/07/2025
Enjoyed @maggieappleton.com "Metaphors We Web By". Along side "pages" and "spaces", streams have become a key metaphor for the web. Would add streams to the short list. And since LLMs reflect a deep understanding of those metaphors…
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Metaphors We Web By
A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 25/06/2025
betaworks fall Camp: AI + Interfaces. Wanted, founders reimagining how humans experience AI. First deadline this friday, two companies already accepted. Details on why, what and how👇 render.betaworks.com/apply-to-bet...
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Apply to Betaworks’ Fall AI Camp: Interfaces
A call for founders reimagining how humans experience AI
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 30/05/2025
Heard @karenhao.bsky.social on hiddenforces.io -- looking forward to reading the book
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Hidden Forces With Demetri Kofinas
Get the edge with Hidden Forces where Demetri Kofinas gives you access to the people and ideas that matter, so you can build financial security and always stay ahead of the curve.
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Graze Social @graze.social · 13/05/2025
Today’s demo day for the AI app layer camp @betaworks.com ! We’ve had such a fun and inspiring few weeks here. Grateful for the experience and excited for what’s ahead!
A picture of Devin Gaffney presenting a demo of Graze Social.
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 13/05/2025
Nice brilliant founders on right now betaworks demo day / focus on ai App layer. Including @graze.social ! Details www.upstartsmedia.com/p/where-9-st...
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 20/04/2025
At @betaworks this weekend we’ve got robot arms, 3D printers, nicole ripka and Kriser shah wrangling hackers and robots. Thanks to @huggingface.bsky.social @alleycorp.bsky.social @upfrontvc.bsky.social Details see > robothackathon.com
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 03/04/2025
After hundreds of discussions with founders about how Ai changes the way they build this discussion with Gabriella and Nim and @ridd-design.bsky.social stands out -- tis packed with insights about how to be building for tomorrow & the changing role of designers: share.snipd.com/episode/2f69...
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Dessn - The missing tool for product designers
Dessn - The missing tool for product designers
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism [Wynn-Williams, Sarah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 16/03/2025
Finished the book today. Careless People, indeed. Thinking about META, what they value, the data they have and AI and the values of this company. Glad this was recorded before Wynn-Williams was effectively muzzled. Thanks to SWW & Bari Weiss blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Careless People
Shocking and darkly funny, this is the explosive inside story of a senior executive at Meta (formerly Facebook).
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 16/03/2025
This interview w / Sarah Wynn-Williams covers a lot about Facebook ~ it's the China/CCP collaboration that surprised me. Didnt realize 11% of META's revenues last year's came from China -- "operating but not operating in China" remarkable. share.snipd.com/episode/28db...
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Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s Highest-Ranking Whistleblower
Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s Highest-Ranking Whistleblower
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 12/03/2025
Good article by Jared Dunnmon on the importance of OS and an open tech stack to drive innovation and continued US leadership in AI. Deepseek V3 was overplayed but the importance of OS and investment in the ecosystem in the west was underplayed www.foreignaffairs.com/china/real-t...
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The Real Threat of Chinese AI
The United States needs to lead the open-source race.
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 08/03/2025
Building Granola: great discussion w/ Chris Pedregal packed with ideas about how to build a natively AI app experiences. Reminded me of t4t day @betaworks in 2022 Alice, @thesephist.com and Chris talked about this. My notes on Episode n clips: share.note.sx/m3q3hsmk#RIr...
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY DO UNLESS THEY ARE INSANE
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION IS AN ADOLESCENT FANTASY
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 23/02/2025
Similar to Putin and Dugin's Yalta framework ... reduce the world to 3/4 major powers. And everyone else is a pawn.
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 23/02/2025
Musk at CPAC ... "freedom is priceless" 5 mins later talking about Ukraine says "what are they dying for, what exactly are they dying for?" Do words not matter to him? I think not. I think what he is saying is that in his world order freedom isn't worth it for Ukraine
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 19/02/2025
With a ceasefire in place and everything else up in the air Europe should prepare to rebuild Ukraine, bring it into the market. Put troops on the new border. And take control of its destiny. Alternatively it can let the oligarchs carve it up. And wait for Putin to resume the war.
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 19/02/2025
This past week opened an opportunity for Europe to reshape itself. Discussions between Russia and the US wont end in a peace agreement -- rather a ceasefire. It will take a while and will get signed by Putin and Trump in Riyadh, with maximum theater and minimal commitments --May 8th, is my bet
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19/02/2025
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 09/02/2025
Trying Granola iOS beta. Used it at a large dinner this week and then at an event with 20 or so people. Summaries useful but what was killer was the ability to ask questions.. ABG: Always be Granola'ing.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 24/01/2025
And Video of Daylight computer ai
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 24/01/2025
Discussion at @betaworks.com about how Ai is transforming hardware with @minafahmi.bsky.social @vishalkumar-london.bsky.social Drew Winget and David Easnaghi. Discussion started on hardware and human machine interfaces and end with Michael Levin and digital life
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 27/12/2024
Dick Parsons, was a giant of a man. First person I met with a true photographic memory -- always believed there is a way to get people to talk to one another & figure things out. Asked him why was he the right person to run Time Warner said "cause, Im tall". RIP. readwise.io/reader/share...
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Richard Parsons, Serial Fixer of Media and Finance Giants, Dies at 76 | annotated by John
Mr. Parsons’s lengthy résumé is a catalog of corporate emergencies at Time Warner, Citigroup and the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Going to adopt this as my new strategy.
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 19/12/2024
Lol -- Wish I could write like Josh: "Trump has sewn himself into a sack ... a cat and a snake ... tossed into the Tiber. That's the story" Was wondering where JD was?
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 15/12/2024
Drones. Isn't it possible drones swarming around NJ and the east coast are experiments in weather modification + cloud seeding?
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 24/11/2024
Thanks, that was easy Just changed my 🦋 handle to a custom domain
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 24/11/2024
Remarkable automaton. I rarely write by hand any longer, this has "40 rotating cams that essentially work like a Read-only (ROM) data storage" fascinating craft work: www.messynessychic.com/2018/02/21/t...
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The Boy Robot of 1774
It's hard to imagine that before the United States of America even became a country, a Swiss watchmaker had already created a machine with the capabilities of a modern programmable computer– in the fo...
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John Borthwick @borthwick.com · 24/11/2024
Opening of Luna Luna -- the Amusement Park designed by Artists back in 1987, lost and shelved for almost 40 years just opened in New York. Haring, Basquiat, Lichtenstein .. Hockney. At the Shed. It's fun, worth the visit
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Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I am a believer in dangers. - Jean-Michel Basquiat
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