iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 28/09/2026

We take recordings, so next time I can ask permission to share with you, as an external researcher.

Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 27/09/2026

Ed was telling me other night how he has no idea what’s going on with his programs. Whole working thing. That’s pretty common from our user studies. Have you tried saying “make it work” repeatedly for several days?

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 27/09/2026

If you stay within mean of normal web/mobile app you can absolutely build with 0 knowledge. It’s when you want to do something specific or strange that requires detailed instructions of how because now you are working against the models representation of what’s possible.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 25/09/2026

@neurocy.bsky.social showing off hazel. Fun fact, the IDE we built at my old company Deco had some similar features like inline elements for data types, like sliders, but it was done in such a dumb way that hazel makes me ashamed and embarrassed because it is very impressive.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 25/09/2026

@feelingof.london If you wanna know why it’s so special, they renamed it from future of code to feeling of compute and that’s all you need to know to know!

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 25/09/2026

I will release the lecture we held on digital micropublics as a tonk, but first we must support streaming because the recording is 4GB 😱 it’s in the works!

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 10/09/2026

Beep boop beep boop tonk

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 07/09/2026

My god, what have we done to the computer?

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 05/09/2026

I have a recording of the lecture and discussion with a 50min interlude clip of Guattari interviewing Tetsuo Kagawa. Where to release it?

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 05/09/2026

Kat Macdonald (otherkat.com) is a London-based sound and performance artist exploring collective practice and public space through technology, transmission and alternative pedagogies. She is the founder of the London Community Laptop Orchestra…

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 05/09/2026

What is a digital micro-public? That is the main question of today’s upcoming event. We will broadcast live from the Termite Undermound in London today at 2pm BST. Tune in @ tinyrad.io, going to be very special.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 15/07/2026

Grateful to facilitate the governance workshop at @localfirstconf.com. If this is interesting to you and you would like to be added to the chat group on this topic, please DM.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 14/07/2026

For any designers working on AI UX: “Ambiguous output is the death of the flow state” - @spiralganglion.com

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 14/07/2026

Will be hosting a workshop on Digital Commons Governance at www.inkandswitch.com/events/2026-... at 11am today. Please come with questions.

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Lab Day at Local-First Conf: Berlin, July 12th - July 14th, 2026

Part of the 2026 Local-First Conf in Berlin.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 13/07/2026

Also spoke with @patternist.xyz today about integrating @automerge.org for collaborative text documents and got ✨that feeling of a real open source ecosystem.✨

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Feliz Noche

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 13/07/2026

Kind of mind blowing that this would work and actually be really cool.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 12/07/2026

If you ever need to describe to someone why how we build (and collectively own) the web is critically important: “Internet is the infrastructure of infrastructure” - @robin.berjon.com

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 11/07/2026

Looking forward to seeing you!

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 11/07/2026

Been very inspired by the strong ethos of @getdweb.net !

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 02/07/2026

I've been prototyping a new playing deck in Tonk for @getdweb.net . Here's the browser and edit tab. I make a lot of changes through my agent (it's useful for pulling information), but obviously I need to go in and tweak the copy or correct it in places.

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · 27/06/2026

A small ask from the local-first community. I’m speaking at @localfirstconf.com in Berlin about @tiles.run, but this year the conference isn't able to cover speaker travel. I'm trying to raise $700 through Github Sponsors to cover my flight. Any amount helps. github.com/sponsors/til...

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We believe that privacy adoption at scale must work backwards from preserving utility. We aim to deliver “just works” experiences through best-in-class privacy-focused engineering while offering un...

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 27/06/2026

Bringing me back to childhood where each letter of the alphabet had a character and personality.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 19/06/2026

I read this and it was like seeing color for the first time.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

A 10 trillion dollar economy sits on top of Linux today. We wouldn't have the digital economy we have without it. Tonk's bet is that openness, neutrality and user control will be the strongest long-term position. Come discuss: discord.com/invite/hBPQ9...

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

That's why our core technology is open sourced under MPL 2.0. Why on-premise hosting is easy. Why our services work like dumb pipes that move your encrypted data around on your behalf. We physically can't do anything else.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

Tonk is built on the belief that sovereign architecture will make or break the firm in the age of AI.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

Organizations need a place where agents and people come together around a piece of work. When your business processes can all speak the same language, the knowledge generated by one workflow becomes available to the next.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

The loop becomes the new IP of the firm. Every workflow accumulates tacit knowledge unique to your business and compounds your token capital.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

This is what @tonk.xyz is designed for. A data sponge that absorbs all the decisions, data points, business signals, all that tacit knowledge, and makes it available to the model at point of use.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

Once models become interchangeable, the source of differentiation shifts from the model itself to the knowledge and workflows surrounding it.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

It starts with model replaceability. That's the first golden rule of durable advantage. Treat the model like a contractor you can replace. Treat the knowledge layer like the company veteran you can't.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

In order to achieve sovereignty, companies need an open ecosystem that can give them tools for success. You won't have a business unless you own the systems accumulating the knowledge that powers your AI.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

The fix, according to Satya, is to invest in what he calls token capital. The AI capability your firm builds and owns. Accumulated knowledge, workflows, decisions, context that your AI systems learn by operating inside your business.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

Companies must rapidly adopt AI to survive. Yet that same adoption is setting them up for failure. The more they rely on external models to do the work, the more their advantages and margins disintegrate.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 17/06/2026

There is a twisted irony for companies right now. In Satya's latest article "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable," he warned about a future where "a few models eat everything they see." That phrase captures the bet companies are making right now whether they realise it or not.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 08/06/2026

Like policy makers, working retroactively.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 04/06/2026

If that excites you like it does me, hop into our Discord and let’s have a chat. discord.com/invite/hBPQ9...

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 04/06/2026

You can read it like a document, edit it like a spreadsheet and ask AI to reason over it like a system. Every interaction sends a signal back to the system; where people and machines cultivate a unified context through shared objects in order to achieve a common goal set by you alone.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 04/06/2026

What does it mean to be ergonomic to the human? Imagine working with software as if it were a programmable document.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 04/06/2026

This is what I'm working on at @tonk.xyz . Tonk offers a local-first unified view over your data and makes accessing that unified view ergonomic to both the human and the machine.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 04/06/2026

In order to unlock the full benefits of AI, we need new tools that allow us to bring together a unified view for a team of humans and machines, while keeping that context local-first and owned by the people creating it.

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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 04/06/2026

The tools we use today naturally separate context. They make working with context challenging. They naturally promote fragmentation, because this is how data was best organized for a computer. That’s historically been a blessing and a curse.

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