Louis Barclay
Senior fellow @ Mozilla, technologist & writer at https://directingattention.substack.com
- Reposted by Louis Barclay🚨 NEW: The DOJ wants to break up Chrome from Google — the consequences could be catastrophic for the web. 📖 Read our article: Break Google's search monopoly without breaking the web. 👇Link: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g... /1
- If you thought adding Jeffrey Goldberg was bad... attention.direct/bin-laden-si...
- My latest piece for Attention
- Meanwhile on Reddit
- This ad for Mark Wahlberg's new prayer app has a very high rate of celebrity dead eyes per second www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_IO...
- Reposted by Louis BarclayTIL via @werd.io that governments in France and Germany (through their 18F equivalents) made an #opensource alternative to Notion/an offline Google Docs docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/
- Great news from OpenAI Greg's really been needing a helping hand through his darkest hours
- Much-deserved piece of trolling techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/b...
- Brave move by Zuckerberg and Meta. Standing by their principles.
- I designed stickers to help you use your phone less so you don't have to attention.direct/stickers
- Reposted by Louis Barclaytip: if you take an x.com url and change it to xcancel.com - leaving everything after the slash intact - you can read threads logged out.
- 👾 Developing some cutting edge tech over at Attention HQ: An ad that checks you're rich directingattention.substack.com/p/3-the-ad-t...
- 💥 I've just launched a new tech publication, Attention! Think: The Onion meets Wired Here's the first piece: attention.direct/search-ai Follow me as I build Attention here: directingattention.substack.com
- 🛠️ Super simple tool to hide Bluesky feed by default: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nudge... 1. Replaces the feed with a small grey button 2. Click the button to show feed whenever you like Prevents unintended doomscrolling
- Reposted by Louis BarclayWhy don’t we just stick with “tweets”? 1/ It’s as absurd as any of the other suggestions but we’re mostly used to it. 2/ It would piss Elon off.
