Anil Dash
Anil Dash — Technology entrepreneur and writer
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.comIf someone said, 'I want to be an executive at Walmart, or maybe at A24,' you would think, 'This person has no idea what the hell they want to be.'
Over two million words since 1999, from one of the most consistently interesting voices in technology and culture. Anil writes about the tech industry with the perspective of someone who's been inside it for decades but never stopped questioning it — from the absurdity of lumping wildly different companies under "tech" to how Markdown quietly took over the world. No ads, no trackers, just sharp thinking about how technology shapes culture.
Written by Anil Dash since 1999.
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A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death
A big tech headline this week is Anthropic (makers of Claude, widely regarded as one of the best LLM platforms) resisting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s calls to modify their platform in order to enable it to support his commission of war crimes. As has become clear this week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has declined to do so. The administration couches the request as an attempt to use the technology for “lawful purposes”, but given that they’ve also described their recent crimes as legal, t...
Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power
TL;DR: Apple is adding support for video podcasts to their podcast app Podcasts are built on an open standard, which is why they aren’t controlled by a bad algorithm and don’t have ads that spy on you Apple’s new system for video podcasts breaks with the old podcast standard, and forces creators to host their video clips with a few selected companies The stakes are even higher because all the indie video infrastructure companies have been bought by private equity, while Trump’s goons go after T...
Talking through the tech reckoning
Many of the topics that we’ve all been discussing about technology these days seem to matter so much more, and the stakes have never been higher. So, I’ve been trying to engage with more conversations out in the world, in hopes of communicating some of the ideas that might not get shared from more traditional voices in technology. These recent conversations have been pretty well received, and I hope you’ll take a minute to give them a listen when you have a moment. Galaxy Brain First, it was nic...
Taking action against AI harms
In my last piece, I talked about the harms that AI is visiting on children through the irresponsible choices made by the platforms creating those products. While we dove a bit into the incentives and institutional pressures that cause those companies to make such wildly irresponsible decisions, what we haven’t yet reckoned with is how we hold these companies accountable. Often, people tell me they feel overwhelmed at the idea of trying to engage with getting laws passed, or fighting a big politi...
How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI?
I have to begin by warning you about the content in this piece; while I won’t be dwelling on any specifics, this will necessarily be a broad discussion about some of the most disturbing topics imaginable. I resent that I have to give you that warning, but I’m forced to because of the choices that the Big AI companies have made that affect children. I don’t say this lightly. But this is the point we must reckon with if we are having an honest conversation about contemporary technology. Let me get...
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