Mark Bernstein

Tinderbox 11.6: www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/up...

AI Integration — let your AI take hypertextual notes
Better search
MultiMarkdown (and great styled text)
Better maps

Wondering about future criminal liability for the architect who designed this.

Do you say "please" and "thank you" to Claude Code? *Should* you?

Team #Tinderbox: there's ANOTHER new backstage release with (I hope) some cheerful news!

Team #Tinderbox: Claude and Gemini can now look over your shoulder and see the view you're looking at. Plus more updates. All backstage.

I usually get asked a lot of questions about the situation in the US when I’m in Germany. But it hits different when you have coffee with your in-law grandma, a Holocaust survivor, and she says: “What is your plan? This is not 1933 anymore, it feels more like ‘38. Don’t wait too long.”

A Speech for the History Books. And for the here and now. A memorable discourse on America's place in the world, by the leader of a US neighbor and former friend.

Why @mark-carney.bsky.social 's speech yesterday was so effective and important.

(By me. Main points before paywall; detailed annotation after.)

fallows.substack.com/p/a-speech-f...

Third call today from (allegedly) QuickBooks, trying to get information about our usage. I assume this is a scam, but what is the angle?

I have spent years of my life studying People Magazine and if this happened last year I would be floored — the magazine felt much more like an SEO farm than even a celebrity publication — but this is very much in line with *very* recent messaging

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release is out!

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web Your information architecture is as smooth, clear, and inviting as a lake. Your design rocks. Your code works. But what keeps readers coming back is compelling writing that’s continually fres…

The more things change…

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web, by @eastgate.bsky.social – August 16, 2002

#blogs #blogging #writing #OldGold #AListApart #WritingForTheWeb #LivingWeb #eastgate

Homeland Security tweet: Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

With respect, I disagree. Elementary textbooks don’t always exist; post-PhD, they often don’t. Google is lousy.

Training LLMs is resource-intensive, but using them is not.

Team #Tinderbox: There’s a new backstage release. It’s more rapid than eagles.

WinterFest Winter Festival of Artisanal Software.

Artisanal Intelligence: crafting fine software tools for writers, thinkers, and creators.

www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

Team #Tinderbox: Tinderbox 11.5 is out!

www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

And there's already a new backstage release as well.

WinterFest Winter Festival ofArtisanal Software.

Winter Festival of Artisanal Software! The year of *artisanalk intelligence*

www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

If a new CEO of Mozilla took an oath to restore the web to its former greatness, they would find a lot of business models open to them. Instead, they’re trying to be part of the tech industry which places no value on the web being a place for open development. blog.kingcons.io

Suppose a writer uses an AI to refresh their memory of (say) the second law of thermodynamics while working on a story. After this, they find they understand the subject more clearly.

If the story AI-generated? (John Varley IIRC had a very funny story about his commitment to unprocessed words)

Montclair State is Eliminating All Humanities Departments Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

This is horrifying. Please sign and share.

#academicbluesky #classicsbluesky 🏺

People of Virginia:

Go ahead with the 10-1 Dem-Rep gerrymander of your commonwealth.

It's the only fair thing to do. It's your duty to history.

(My home state of Calif pioneered non-partisan re-districting commissions, but that was then.)

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

Team Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits.

Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash

Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Team #Tinderbox: a new backstage release awaits. Good news for Zotero fans!

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!

The AI doesn't like my writing. That's OK, the article is about how I don't like how the AI writes.

Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!