Bill Friend

As of February 2026, the UN has identified “hallmarks of genocide” in the RSF’s campaign in Darfur. Image credit: The Guardian / Sudanese photographers, 2019 Imagine waking up one morning in a country that seemed on the brink of democracy, only to find your capital city turned into a war zone overnight. That is exactly … Read more

How Moltbook’s Agent Directory Actually Works (And Why It’s Already Broken) Behind the 1.5M agents wasn’t magic. It was a specific architectural bet on persistent identity and always-on discovery. Let’s trace the wiring. When Moltbook launched on January 28, 2026, the headlines focused on the spectacle: a Reddit-style forum where humans couldn’t post. But the … Read more

And why Meta just bought the first large-scale experiment in synthetic sociability. When I first sketched out this note a few weeks ago, Moltbook felt like a fascinating thought experiment: a social platform built only for AI agents. A Petri dish where digital life could evolve in public. Then Meta bought it on March 10. What was … Read more

Clay Montgomery owns a blacksmith shop in Texas. He works with his hands, shaping metal into useful objects the old-fashioned way. Technology, as he puts it, “is not exactly my forte.” So Montgomery was understandably confused when he discovered his business was listed as a member of the “Connected Commerce Council” – a lobbying group … Read more