Matt Ram

Matt Ram

@mattram.life

Exploring awareness

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it sounds hella cheesy/corny, but we really gotta focus hard on cultivating hope and resisting slipping into hopelessness... it's one of the most vital things we can be doing right now

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i’m a big fan of holding space for multiple things to be true at the same time, highly recommend giving it a go

“The subject is interesting. The interviewer is credentialed. They agree with each other at length. Nothing is at stake. No one is surprised. You finish reading and feel vaguely full but can’t say what you ate….You know people are doing interviews to accumulate symbolic capital, not insight.” @om.co

om.coHow Not to Interview (Interesting People)As a photographer who is primarily a writer, I like reading about photography so I can learn from those who create. I do that by reading photo magazines and listening to podcasts. One such magazine…

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@justinmezzell.bsky.social you tried building a new Digg without the compelling differentiator of being an open social app. Now try building on the AT network! You have to give up control over users' identity+data but you can build a great app and make money at scale: bsky.app/profile/jaco... GL!

Jake Gold@jacob.gold

People can change their opinions, given new information and some time. Doesn't require any kind of generosity either, just a self-interest in making the new Digg actually compelling.

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Someone should be trying to convince Kevin Rose and the people building the new version of Digg to build on AT protocol. Reddit needs to be replaced and nothing would improve the new Digg’s chances like being an open alternative. They’ll have serious funding so will have the best shot by default.

Just as we're learning about the end of DM encryption on Instagram, Moxie announced he's integrating Confer's privacy technology to underpin Meta AI. Full circle—the architect returns to implement encryption at scale on a new platform. Chapter two: exciting to witness, though it feels strange.

confer.toConfer is bringing foundational AI privacy to MetaI started building Confer because I saw how amazing LLMs are, and as a result, how much of our data is flowing through them. Already, AI chat apps have become some of the largest centralized data lake...

@matthewdgreen.bsky.social Curious if you have any thoughts. From my understanding, Meta AI is integrated on Instagram (not sure the extent). I wonder if the encryption/passkey foundation built with Confer would extend to Instagram logins at a base layer. Maybe a path to encrypted DMs down the line?

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@ma.tt don’t let Zuck and Substack take modern publishing, cook their asses bro. You've been on this tip for years. Now your foundation and ecosystem pays off, democratize 2.0. Tumblr, Woo, Pocketcasts, Beeper, Gravatar (DID passport). I repeat, cook them. Open atmosphere, lead the way. Do it again.

If you want to hear more random thoughts from a yoga teacher that is very excited and passionate about humanity, let me know. We’re not all feeling doomed on the internet. I’m online for the good and to amplify the great. From my nook, this looks like a way to open the floodgates and carry the tide.

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Imagine hosting/posting your own music and podcast episodes and appviews surface it by filtering for audio (like flashes). I’m assuming there could be a way for users to dictate, “music” or “episode” and then app views can separate the two in their own way (would this be a lexicon?).

Please feel free to obliterate me if I’m naive, I’m not the most technical and likely not considering the technical hurdles of this. It just sounds gnarly y’all, it makes me hype. Demolish these incumbent distributors, let us be them ourselves. Publish to my own storage and boom, internected… 🪐

I’d love to pay for a simple way to manage my data and hosting from a single entity. Imagine the ability to upload my own photos, videos, music, podcast episodes, and know that it’s all being shared, stored, and backed up through a service I “own” (in the same sense of owning my own website).

This feels like a new frontier for hosting providers and cms companies. They can unleash their user-base that already pays for hosting/domains and get this shipoppin. Paid content, memberships, all the usual “website stuff”, hooked up to the atmosphere. No lack of ecosystem, no lack of social reach.

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I waited 2 years for them to come back to our Eucalyptus. And then BOTH show up at the same time!!!! Just sitting there next to each other 🦉😍 Western Barn Owl AND a Great Horned Owl #birds #wildlife #owls 🦉🪶

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WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.

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Replying to @jaz.sh

if you can't embrace the fact that you suck at a thing and keep being bad at it until you get good enough that you stop being bad at it, you'll never get good at anything

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it's impossible to get good at something new without sucking at it first

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I've done an unusual number of mentoring calls this week, and one thing I'd like to remind everyone is, you are enough, and you can't forget how far you've come. You're most likely in the best position you've ever been in to build on top of everything you've done until this point.

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For the first few moments of sunrise at Shiprock, the long dike cutting vertically across the landscape catches the golden glow of the Sun, casting a miles-long shadow upon the land to its west. The Sleeping Ute sits in the distance.

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I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me. When will we pass privacy regulations