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Books: https://teapawt.net/t.co/e3wRYgXFZv, @Cluetrain. Blog: https://teapawt.net/t.co/wxYeU3TPID. Involvements: @VRM @CustomerCommons @TWiT (FLOSS) @Reality2cast @ucsbcits @BKCharvard @Ostrom_Workshop

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A can't-miss talk next Tuesday on truly personal (not personalized) AI: doc.searls.com/2026/10/16/th…
The Mentat’s Method of AI

The Mentat’s Method of AI

This is the flyer for the next talk in our speaker series at IU. It’s on Tuesday, and a can’t-miss event. I explain more below. I know a lot of people who know a lot about AI. Or seem t…

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This is getting action on my blog: doc.searls.com/2026/03/31/fr…
From Mainstream to Allstream

From Mainstream to Allstream

Canterbury, New Zealand. Photo by Bernard Spragg via Wikimedia Commons. David Weinberger once said, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people.” It’s the future no…

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Let's make "fecosystem" the collective noun for all the enshittified companies in a category: doc.searls.com/2026/09/27/pe…
Performing a pooplic service

Performing a pooplic service

When a whole business category is fubar, and its members together exemplify enshittification better than each does alone, I suggest we speak of their collectivity as a fecosystem. I’ve been u…

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Today: events.iu.edu/hls/event/2421…

Taking Control in the Age of AI ft. Doc Searls

Join visiting scholar Doc Searls for the “Beyond the Web” salon series, presented by IU’s Ostrom Workshop and Hamilton Lugar School, explorin...

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A suggestion to Europe as it copes with the failure of "consent" through cookie banners: doc.searls.com/2026/09/21/he…
Hey Europe: Make Privacy a Contract

Hey Europe: Make Privacy a Contract

Anu Bradford’s book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2019), hardly exaggerates the EU’s influence. Many EU regulations have global reach, especially…

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Just posted this: doc.searls.com/2026/09/13/ai…
AI as a Teacher of Athletes

AI as a Teacher of Athletes

A violinist entertains Linus Torvalds and Paul Kunz on the Linux Journal Geek Cruise where I shot this photo 23 years ago. Linus and Paul are two athletes whose work has taught the world well. On t…

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Shot some thunderstorms we passed in the sky at sunset: flickr.com/photos/docsearls/…
2026_09_02 Thunderstorms at Sunset

2026_09_02 Thunderstorms at Sunset

Shots of thunderstorm cells at sunset on a flight from Newark to Indianapolis.

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I've been wondering about reality. See here: doc.searls.com/2026/08/23/mo… Tell me what you think. Or, better yet, know.
Moneyday

Moneyday

Turing Testings Like “Goldie Boone,” whom I wrote about here last month, “Luna Azul” (above right) is a fake singer. Pure AI. Her music too, I suppose. I’m sure of it.…

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Just posted this: doc.searls.com/2026/08/17/yo…
You can hear the squeak of sphincters closing

You can hear the squeak of sphincters closing

How Claude marks AI-generated content is the most self-destructive utterance I’ve ever heard coming out of an AI company. Gary Isaac Wolfe (who contributes a comment below): “Anthropic …

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I've tightened up doc.searls.com/2026/06/27/fi… to make it clear what the title means, and how we'll get to it, inevitably:
The First Source of Personal Intent

The First Source of Personal Intent

The largest coming conflict in the new AI world is not the one between AI giants or the one between those giants and governments. It will be the conflict between containment and expansion of person…

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Replying to @BillSimmons
@BillSimmons What if @FCHWPO never wanted to leave, and @BCCoachStevens only did nothing more than listen to offers? With @jaytatum0 back, the team as it stands is a top contender. What cities other than NYC, SA, & OKC wouldn't gladly trade their team for this one?
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Being old and Catholic, I couldn't resist illustrating a joke that came to me: doc.searls.com/2026/05/29/ac…
Active Devotion

Active Devotion

Being old, I get lots of ads for Chair Tai Chi, Chair Yoga, and other positional challenges toward staying alive, limber, and not much closer to dead than you are without them. So this one occurred…

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I just posted this, about writing like, and with, an AI: doc.searls.com/2026/05/22/ge…
Getting Real

Getting Real

This image is clipped from one in the story below, about how people in Sofia mark potholes so the city can debug them. In my Oofday post, I shared a post in Hackernoon titled We Treated Potholes Li…

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My response to a new project for AI agent governance: doc.searls.com/2026/05/10/pe…
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I submit for your consideration— doc.searls.com/2026/04/25/an…
An Airport Question

An Airport Question

Today I flew from IND to DEN— Then from DEN to LAX— —Where I had plenty of time to fantasize about what could or should be done with the iconic but idle Theme Building in the heart of the airport, …

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My latest: doc.searls.com/2026/04/24/th…
The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot

The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot

You can listen on your own time. That’s just one optionality. Near the end of this Pivot podcast, starting at about the 55 minute mark, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway give a great summary of…

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Talk about audacious: projectvrm.org/2026/04/07/sh… Interested? Lemme know.
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My latest, on Pew's latest: doc.searls.com/2026/04/02/to…
Toward a Human Future for AI

Toward a Human Future for AI

Delhi street scene, July 5, 2018. I was invited by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, of the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University, to contribute my thoughts to their latest study, tit…

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Wider than "the media" is high: doc.searls.com/2026/03/31/fr…
From Mainstream to Allstream

From Mainstream to Allstream

Canterbury, New Zealand. Photo by Bernard Spragg via Wikimedia Commons. David Weinberger once said, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people.” It’s the future no…

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On stories and war: doc.searls.com/2026/03/01/wa…
War on Peace

War on Peace

The front page of today’s Los Angeles Times. I can read it, because I subscribe. I also recommend that everyone subscribe to newspapers, because facts still matter to those troubled entities,…

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