Which brings to the natural (and unavoidable these days) conclusion: To realize the full potential of thunderbird as a personal agent it will be quite important to develop a versatile plugin ecosystem that can tap locally-run "AI" services. Its character is a stateful window to fediverse (or Web 3), helping to organize the world's subset of information in a way that is intimate to the user. The personal agent/thunderbird super-app is the (largely under-developed) second opportunity for the open source universe. Because you can overload the browser to create (among many others) webmail, but that is not an empowering, user-centric and privacy-first design. Users click and scroll and leave a behavioral footprint on somebody else's server. But its true character is a sandboxed, stateless window. It is invaluable to have a privacy-first window to the Web. 1 Thunderbirds in this tradition may be depicted as a spreadeagled bird (wings horizontal head in profile ), but also quite common with the head facing forward, thus presenting an X-shaped appearance overall 4 (see under Iconography below). It is powerful enough to be called an OS within an OS. The browser/firefox is the obvious first super-app. The question is how the open source and privacy respecting universe will respond to the onslaught of walled-garden super apps. Users prefer fewer and better apps that bundle related functions. It can offer a consistent interface to help users organize locally and privately the torrent of information they exchange with others, whether that is email, rss or anything exchanged via activitypub servers (toots, events, book reviews etc). Thunderbird is the natural client to the emerging fediverse. The new logo sets sky-high expectations :-) View our collection of thunderbird masks, jewelry, carvings & prints. > carrying us forward into the next 20 years Thunderbird symbolizes power & strength in Haida & other Native American cultures. The thunderbird outline (better reflecting the mozilla link) gets to shape with its body (suggesting hugging and protecting) both a mail envelope and a chat bubble! The economy of representation is just amazing. Honestly this is artistic genius at Escheresque level.
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