Harry Dean Hudson

Another way to look at this: developers can use MCP to define bounded contexts in a Domain Driven Design.

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The take is that we can consider individual users and their data a bounded context that's interacting with AI/agents/etc, and use MCP as the fence.

The argument is for using MCP tools as an opportunity to carefully consider the boundaries.

Use MCP Tools as a Data Fence MCP might not be perfect, but it can help us define data boundaries

The idea here is to use MCP as a data boundary, to help users maintain and manage data exposure. It's an idea that's built into MCP, but it hasn't been the focus–folks seem to have have been more interested in just wrapping existing tools up for agentic use cases.

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One more version of the same story. AI summaries (with no attribution) are killing the sites that they crawled to get the data.

The Enshittification of American Power First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

1/Like Big Tech, US built platform infrastructures for the world. Now, it is squeezing those platforms for power. In short term, dependence is hard to break. In long term, US risks it all. New w/@himself.bsky.social in @wired.com on the enshittification of US power. www.wired.com/story/enshit...

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Un-shittification?

In some ways, these ideas are about how we might "deshittify" or perform a reverse enshittification of the internet.

The Case for Personal Data Ownership Where's your data?

The Case for Personal Data Ownership
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LLMs are to expertise what Velveeta is to cheese

I Built a Programmed Movement Game And it seems decent enough to share

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sometimes you need to treat yo self

Instead of talking about "vibe" or AI-assisted coding, I think we should refer to it as "performing a seance" with our
precursor programmers.

It’s always the magic hour.

The enshitification of chatbots seems extra dangerous for mental health.

I feel like this particular flavor of baffling is becoming more and more common, unfortunately.

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Aspirational self-portrait

doodles

Seance Online Radio An eclectic collage of found and foraged sound mixed with abandoned music. Broadcasting 24/7 from digital liminal spaces.

Today is World Radio Day! www.unesco.org/en/days/worl...

It seems as good a time as any to share my weird, ongoing collaged radio project of found cassettes, field recordings, b-roll, and other strangeness: seanceonline.de

Enjoy!

Thank you! I appreciate that. :)

You can see the apple and the banana a bit better in this gif.

"I am hungry" was the theme of the jam.

Today I did a micro-game jam as a solo dev. And by that, what I really mean is that I spent 4 hours in Aseprite making chicken leg animations, followed by two hours making sprites move around on a tiny tile map.

Those are very different shoes

Art-house, indie, big mobile games, whatever! I'm trying to put together an up-to-date list of examples of pervasive games.

It feels like the most exciting games for the past few years have been indie games targeting PC/Steam?

I'm looking for modern examples of games that use the player RL context in some way for either a mechanic or to influence narrative.

Can you think of any games that I have missed in the past 5 years that blur the in-game and real life experience of players?

streaming with @seances.bsky.social now: www.twitch.tv/seanceonline

You could try to find a cool stick this weekend