Jay Cuthrell Fediverse

My Fediverse Digest for August 2026

A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for August 2026.

Aug 01

08:03 PM

My Fediverse Digest for July 2026

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/fediverse-digest-2026-07/

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08:26 PM

LinkedIn feed cleaner bookmarklet

YMMV

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Aug 02

08:03 PM

What The Fudge for August 2, 2026: AI Expansion, Safety, and Markets

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-021/

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Aug 03

01:04 AM

Harrison Bergeron (1995) Full Movie

Harrison Bergeron (film)

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Aug 07

07:32 PM

Want to run your software in deep space on an asteroid mission?

🧑‍💻🛰️☄️

Read on…

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Aug 08

01:52 AM

🎸🤘 Lincoln Brewster and Mason Marangella take you back to 1978

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Aug 09

11:31 AM

Destroy Everything You Touch

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11:54 AM

Welcome to the Open Tone Era

Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) Architecture 2 (A2) has opened the door to fully unencumbered ownership of tone. 🎸

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12:12 PM

Clever url

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12:21 PM

Offline knowledge, maps, and education, installed on a computer you already own.

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08:03 PM

What The Fudge for August 9, 2026: Infrastructure, Agents, and Realignments

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-022/

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Aug 10

08:58 AM

The lesson I have learned is that podcast feeds from third parties are a hot mess and POSSE solves for 99% of needs.

Apple Podcasts Connect now has my two shows.

One is older music hosted on SoundCloud.

One is What The Fudge podcast hosted on YouTube.

Both required too much work for little benefit.

My next goal is to implement podcast RSS/XML in 11ty and leave both Soundcloud and YouTube as targets for syndication.

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Aug 17

07:43 PM

The moment the rando reply is treated as an implicit basis for non-repudiation or authentic non-bot prose is the moment you are cooked. Once large swaths of our peers cede rights to the agents to act as them on their behalf we are all cooking slow and low.

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08:03 PM

What The Fudge for August 16, 2026: Capabilities, Strategies, and Realities

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-023/

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Aug 18

12:41 AM

Rival Consoles - Untravel

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Aug 19

06:34 PM

Good feedback on my (lack of) loudness. ffmpeg fix is now in place.

What The Fudge on Apple Podcasts

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Aug 21

11:23 AM

Comsat Angels - I’m Falling [1985]

Context: Real Genius [1985] movie predictions of Agentic AI interactions

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Aug 22

11:35 AM

In fact… What The Fudge is much louder but still well within the parameters of overly compressed… but you can’t please Spotify and Apple let alone Pandora audiences if you aim for YouTube, TIDAL, and Deezer leveling standards. Which I did.

Source: https://www.loudnesspenalty.com/

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12:11 PM

Mea culpa. 🧐

I signed up for Collective[i] (Collective Intelligence) a few months ago (based on an invite from a peer) and appear to have inadvertently spammed “invited” 200+ of my contacts somehow. 🤔

I have now disabled “Let Collective[i] send automatic connector requests on your behalf” options [1] and deactivated my intelligence.com account [2]:

[1]: https://intelligence.collectivei.com/settings#section-network-settings 🔚

[2]: https://intelligence.collectivei.com/settings#section-advanced 🔚

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Aug 24

06:45 AM

Jutes - Kill or be Killed (MAPHRA Vocal Cover)

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08:03 PM

What The Fudge for August 23, 2026: AI Infrastructure, Economics, and Tokens

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-024/

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Aug 29

10:04 AM

Extending my #fediverse to the @techfieldday realm over at @JayCuthrell

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Aug 31

06:58 PM

My newsletter is late tonight because I’ll be packaging up all my #Fediverse for the month later tonight. Should be an interested end of month experiment.

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