Sam Liebeskind

The pattern is the same: the most sophisticated platforms are treating user behavior as sequences, not snapshots, recognizing that static embeddings miss the temporal dynamics and session context of how people actually use these products.

I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much time he is willing to spend being passively entertained.

If this essay was one sentence, it would be: I befriend people easily because I run around the world believing that we are all more or less the same. Meeting someone new feels like a puzzle of empathy– a game of commonality. I ask myself: if I had their background, their values, their limitations and longings, what would I think? What would I want?... See more

But I don’t think platform companies should—or can—act as the governance layer of our online lives. In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick’s informed belief that global centralized moderation is a dead end. And if centralized moderation isn’t a plausible way forward, then experimentation toward genuinely... See more