Paul Veugen

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE YouTube video by WION

“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and are not interested in survival of our democracies.”

Macron
m.youtube.com/live/MggNSjf...

Couldn’t agree more.
That’s why we’re building Subwave.

Browsers are for consuming.

Chat is a consumer interface.

𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙛 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 — 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩.

Completely re-built. Local first data. Live in Beta today.

Now switched to Fastmail.

Australian company with strong customer focus and history. Neat UI. Excellent migration guides and IMAP/SMTP support. Setting up domain by switching nameserver is smart. A+ experience so far.

Gmail Alternatives:

I moved my personal email from Google Apps to Proton 2 months ago. Love their privacy and security focus. But end-to-end encryption also means you're locked into their apps (except for desktop with limited email clients). Really missed my unified inbox and support for Spark.

Lack of morals. So sad and disappointing.

Can the New York Times Turn Its Writers Into Video Stars? Wesley Morris is only the latest of the newspaper’s scribes to get put in front of a camera.

"Video is rising really quickly as the dominant language of the internet" – www.vulture.com/article/new-...

A better place to share stories Video is the defining medium of the decade. It shapes how we learn, decide, opine, vote, and empathize.

We started Detail to help everyone share their best story with video. While building the easiest editor for podcasts, interviews and talking video, we became increasingly frustrated and worried about the platforms we publish on.

That's why we're building Subwave.
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I think a lot of the damage is already done. They have enough critical mass in content to answer a large percentage of questions that are not news related. If they’re the gateway, they hold a lot of the bargaining power.

Not to get me wrong, I love the initiative here from Cloudflare. And they do have amazing scale to have a shot at saving the web. But I fear that it won't be enough for the growing powers of dominant AI players.

And although it eats away from Google marketshare, we trade that for 2-3 powerful information gatekeepers who will take an increasingly larger share of attention. Exercising control over what we learn, and acting as a filter or interpreter of information – with little transparency or oversight.

I'm not sure if I share the optimism here. We're replacing Google with large language models that aggregate and rehash sources, with relatively little attribution or incentive to read the original.

Shopify doesn't ban using AI tools in their coding interviews: they actually encourage them. From Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar in a live The Pragmatic Engineer podcast recording:

Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3I...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2Bho9xC...

So it begins…
Time to dive into Android.

De openingsalinea was een diskwalificatie. Een utopische treinrit zonder dopamine data machines, maar met Duolingo, video bellen met verre familie en ontluikende liefde op een dating app.

It's the days, weeks and months where AI is currently making the biggest impact for our team: Exploration, ideation, validation.

From concept to validation, or early production.

Most of your work while building a product gets replaced by new work in days, weeks, months or years.

Days for ideation and exploration. Weeks for prototyping and early validation. Months for validation and iteration. And years for core product experiences.

The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion Amazon.com: The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion eBook : Gershberg, Zac, Illing, Sean: Kindle Store

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The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion Amazon.com: The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion eBook : Gershberg, Zac, Illing, Sean: Kindle Store

"Every modern media innovation has been focused on dissemination through space at the expense of time. Effectively tackling the subject of climate change would require the introduction of either a new medium geared toward time or a new social movement to orient people to time."

Papyrus, paper, print, radio, film, television and now social media, accelerated the speed of communication, shifting attention away from nuance and complexity to soundbites, spectacle and reaction.

In short: Whenever one communications medium dominates, it produces a monopoly of knowledge that eventually destabilizes society until a rival medium restores balance.

This 75 year old lecture by Harold Innis, a Canadian professor in political economy, reads like a very timely call-to-action to rethink media, if we care about the future of democracy:
gutenberg.ca/ebooks/innis...

Record, done.

We just launched Detail 5, introducing AI Auto Edit for talking video and podcasts. Turn a recorded video into ready-to-share content, instantly.

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We raised a $10M Series A led by Lux Capital and Definition

GPT is loud and doesn’t follow instruction, acts as it knows it all.

Claude just gets to work. Takes the assignment. Gets the job done.

Gemini is underestimated, skilled, fast and has all the context.

Llama is throwing some good punches. Quite smart. Trying very hard to be just as cool.

After building with recent LLM models, this sums up my current evaluation.

April 21 👀

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.

We've just updated the @wired.com guide for how to better protect your privacy when you cross the US border: www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

Looking forward to the BlueSky swag store to buy your t-shirt 👏 🔥

Detail turns your iPad into a portable video studio.

Record with your iPhone camera. Auto Edit with AI. Generate backgrounds with Image Playground. Draw on videos with Apple Pencil, and fly through your timeline with shortcuts.

Everyone can create video like a pro.

YouTube video by Dailytekk 2025 iPad Air - Too Good for It's Own Good?!

Exciting to see the reviews of the new iPads dropping today. That purple icon on the home screen of reviewers looks very familiar 🔥….

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za7...