Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸

Reminder that last year I made an iPhone app that always points at the centre of the Milky Way It peaked at 87 in the US App Store free apps chart (Travel category) haha Here’s what Ars Technica said about it arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Blogged some thoughts about New Math interconnected.org/home/2026/10...

Blogged some thoughts about New Math interconnected.org/home/2026/10...

*Should we, maybe, be pondering some kind of moral framework for the way we treat maps of fruit-fly brains *Maybe as a cautious lab rehearsal for what might reveal itself as a big issue some day interconnected.org/home/2026/09...

One I missed earlier this month. Google mapped a fruit fly brain. You can now run a fruit fly brain in a simulator. I feel the queasiness that this post (interconnected.org/home/2026/09...) does. Esp given their intent to do the same for the human brain (sites.research.google/gr/neural-ma...)

I ran my second marathon last weekend but my write-up went a bit weird, sorry interconnected.org/home/2026/09...

Oh, this is good: Again, again. (It’s not about what it sounds like it’s about at the beginning) https://interconnected.org/home/2026/09/04/again

Oh time thy pyramids.

Apropos "Center of Gravity" ->

You could fit @genmon.fyi weather app on a single stiffy disk 🤯 apps.apple.com/app/id676809...

This green arrow points directly at the central black hole of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away Galactic Compass 2, now available on the App Store apps.apple.com/gb/app/galac...

chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/...

blogged a few bits of poems I like over the weekend interconnected.org/home/2026/08...

Ok clock solid advice but look we’re all just trying to get through the day here

my hunch is that AI alignment is a red herring, and the way to protect against a crazy powerful AGI mulching the earth into infinite paperclips is to release ANOTHER crazy powerful AGI that will hopefully stop it blog post: interconnected.org/home/2026/08...

Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how)

Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how)

Remember when you could pay like $20 and a goat would join your zoom call? I don’t think we talk enough about how weird it all got in covid

Pleased that UK govt has scrapped the single digital ID scheme. IMO: illiberal and a single point of failure Instead: create a wallet of the various IDs we use — council tax per household, road tax per car, NHS per patient The only place they should connect is my private phone

"we should put MASSIVE weight on death and calamity! Because it’s a big deal! Especially violent death and collective danger. And when we don’t give it weight, it gets assumed as part of the normal order of things. Which it is not." interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

There has been considerable "jeopardy inflation" in movies between the 1980s and today. interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

went spelunking the sci-fi stacks for voice UI that is NOT general purpose and here's what I found (new blog post) interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

Weirdly this is one of my top blog posts ever

"I don't like those videos of factories that are supposed to inspire awe. Factories are just rooms. I want these kids to understand that. Sure, it's sometimes complicated, but we can handle complicated." interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

I’m on the orange site

Factories Are Just Rooms | Discussion

blogged some thoughts about form, and why the best product design in the world is this egg timer shaped like an egg interconnected.org/home/2026/06...

Free concept: AirPods with built-in Peltier thermoelectric coolers so the buds are ice-cold in your ear holes

Free concept: AirPods with built-in Peltier thermoelectric coolers so the buds are ice-cold in your ear holes

Everyone should build their own weather app. This is mine, it has approximately two users, and we both check it every single day

Wow. This is such neat way to frame it. > these ads are laser-targeted streams of signifiers treating my psyche as a combination lock to be picked. https://interconnected.org/home/2026/06/19/signs

Words that are wet. https://interconnected.org/home/2026/06/12/wet

Wet lab, wet market, wet-bulb temperature, wet ware. New blog post: wet thoughts. interconnected.org/home/2026/06...

somebody put this on sir keir's desk

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