Sergio Visinoni

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GitHub - piffio/rushomon: A self-hostable URL shortener built for Cloudflare Workers with Rust (WebAssembly), designed for personal/family use with multi-tenant capability. A self-hostable URL shortener built for Cloudflare Workers with Rust (WebAssembly), designed for personal/family use with multi-tenant capability. - piffio/rushomon

The whole thing is - obviously - open source.

You can find the whole code for Rushomon here: github.com/piffio/rusho...

Oh, and the service is live at rushomon.cc

Building and launching a product in one month. Worth it? How a minor itch led me down the rabbit hole of building and launching a product in an unsexy space. How I turned that into an experiment and my first observations on the results.

I've spent the best part of February doing an experiment.

It all started with a need and ended up building and launching a full product.

I turned it into an experiment to test the "powers" of AI-assisted coding tools.

The whole experience is told here: rush.mn/mqDMNB

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.

But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

Five takeaways from an unhinged AI discourse What's behind the feverish AI discourse? Who thinks "AI is fake"? Is "the left" wrong to dismiss AI? Is that even what's happening? What's really going on with AI in 2026.

The AI discourse has been particularly unhinged lately. Here are five things I think are behind it:

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/five-takea...

Just to clarify, is it OK if I join in during the call even though I'm not technically a journalist but just someone who writes online about technology and its implications?

Technofascism Survival Guide Technofascism is here. From the Black Panthers to Anonymous to Julian Assange, what can we learn and how can we resist?

Yesterday I backed www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...

You are in time to do the same.

Support independent writers, especially when they talk about such a pervasive and devastating topic.

Looking forward to seeing my name on it @stopgenai.com !

Let me be clear, as quick misinterpretations are easy.

I am not blaming the process. I love write-intensive. I do write a lot myself.

The problem is with the expectations I'm setting on myself for going through the process, which inevitably leads to procrastination.

Oxide is at the top of the list of companies I'd like to apply to.

I respect them so much that I want to do the writing-heavy process very carefully.

Which means I'm constantly procrastinating because I never have the time I feel it deserves.

Am I the only one?

Help @bcantrill.bsky.social!

Just Fancy That! Sam Altman on ads in ChatGPT.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Every American needs to watch this:

Great initiatives, and doing good things is more contagious than doing evil.

Keep it up!

With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.

The reverse Napster manoeuvre of Big AI Tech companies and copyright haven't always been friends. But today, the balance of power is significantly different to what it used to be around 1999.

Or maybe this article? :)

makemeacto.substack.com/p/the-revers...

OK, I'll stop here.

Thanks for reacting, and thanks for the work you folks are doing in this space.

Thanks, added to the list.

I'm currently going through Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social , which I find to be a perfect companion for the AI Con.

Does any rigorous book on the "opposite camp" even exist?
I mean something better than "Abundance" or "The future is faster than you think"

More than welcome, and hopefully I can convince a few more people to read it :)

And then who knows, one day I might find a good enough reason to convince you to invite me to your podcast

Does "giving a talk on ethical implications of AI" at my son's school count? :)

They're both amazing in the sens that

1. Everyone should read them
2. They're sadly very accurate.
3. They share a common theme of resistance against the dominant techno-political fascist structures in today's world

I hope that more people will pick them up after reading the review

📚 Books I read in January 2026 Two great books contended for the highlight of the month, but eventually I had to pick one. Besides those, a couple of fiction books worth reading completed the list for January.

I just posted the latest issue of "the books I read last month".

In January I got the pleasure of picking up both The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social, as well as On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Both amazing reads.

open.substack.com/pub/makemeac...

Sure, but revenues can be more easily manipulated through selling at a loss in a race to the bottom against competitors (food delivery, anyone?).

They're a promise you might turn profitable in the future.

Not a guarantee.

See OpenAI, Anthropic, CoreWeave, etc

Ask them to show the 100x, or even 10x, improvements in company results.

Not vanity metrics, but actual cash.

Not valuations, but actual cash.

Not revenues, but actual net profits.

Consider this as a broader offer for a joint article, eventually

would feedback on the draft help getting it beyond the finish line?

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

Best read of the week so far

www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...

Bonus point for linking to some of the same sources as my latest article

Palantir is the Gestapo of modern times, just equipped with fancier gadgets and speaking with a different language.

Two helpful paradoxes, and moving home Exploring a couple of classic paradoxes that come in handy for navigating today's landscape, and some updates on the future of this newsletter

The deshittification / defasctization initiative of 2026 continues.

I just announced to some 9K subscribers that I'll be leaving Substack soon.

If anyone has tips on how not to mess up a migration to Ghost I'm all ears

makemeacto.substack.com/p/two-helpfu...

The reverse Napster manoeuvre of Big AI Tech companies and copyright haven't always been friends. But today, the balance of power is significantly different to what it used to be around 1999.

I just published yesterday a long-form article talking about this fundamental issue

makemeacto.substack.com/p/the-revers...

I was having the exact same reaction yesterday when I heard about this.

We're living in unprecedented times.

Not because of marvelous technological advancements.

Because of the rapid decay of human decency at scale.

The reverse Napster manoeuvre of Big AI Tech companies and copyright haven't always been friends. But today, the balance of power is significantly different to what it used to be around 1999.

The Reverse Napster Manoeuvre of Big AI.

Or how copyright law application has radically changed in 25 years

open.substack.com/pub/makemeac...

That's exactly what led me to leave the crypto industry after spending about 12 months in it.

Zero plans to come back.