thinking today about how if AI takes the easy parts of our jobs then we'll just spend all day doing hard tasks instead! maybe first written about by @fredbenenson.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

iOS autocomplete corrects “bsky” to “bait” 🤔

There's this thing that's been bugging me about Claude Code: besides being addictive, LLM coding agents are incentivized to generate *more* code vs. better code. Unfortunately, this seems like a problem for the economic model as there are perverse incentives at play: medium.com/p/23efbaf75aee

I am thinking about adoptiong kittens again (RIP Catberry & Horatio 🥲), and I am almost certainly going to adopt two rescues in NYC. But I realized I didn't know a lot about cat breeds, so I decided to build a tool using PCA and Threes.js fredbenenson.github.io/cat-c…

No one has been asking for my opinion on it, but this, from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social’s Garbage Day is spot on, imo

I’m fascinated (and admittedly a bit repulsed) by the idea of blocklists enumerating people who follow a certain account. On the one hand, they have the potential to be a kind of decentralized hell banning, but on the other it encourages herding and siloing since it’s blocking innocent users

So how is everyone recovering from Thanksgiving?

Corollary to Godwin's law: when someone calls you a nazi you can turn off replies

This is an extremely important point about what kind of populism liberals need to be considering if we are going to win back huge swaths of the electorate. tl;dr: economic populism isn’t going to be enough

Happy Thanksgiving!

Interesting to find myself on a blocklist on here because I happen to follow a controversial journalist. This means I'm accumulating 1-2 blocks a day from people who I don't know but who block everyone on the list. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Isn’t the problem that their echo chamber is just bigger than ours?

Our film “The Apprentice” is in such a funny place. Trump hates it and doesn't want you to see it. And yet Hollywood is also afraid of it: actors are shunning Sebastian Stan for playing Trump. If you haven't seen it – go make up your mind for yourself! www.thecut.com/article/seba...

Red state voters voting to take away their own stuff to own the libs

Holy shit. I just read that Sebastian Stan won’t be doing the Variety Actors on Actors awards season panel because other actors’ publicists wouldn’t let their clients talk to Sebastian about playing Donald Trump in THE APPRENTICE movie. This is outrageous!

So what do like ... people like to post on here? I can't decide if the delta in engagement I get on here vs. Threads is because I'm accidentally more centrist than the median skeeter or because I'm not getting weird enough or because bsky's algo is more parsimonious or ...

One of the best pieces of post-election analysis I’ve read so far. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

lots of good local (NYC) area reporting from @hellgateny.bsky.social and @thecity.bsky.social

So who is the most non-echo chamber person you follow on here? (Am I doing this right?)

Make stupid choices, win stupid prizes, part 1 out of 36282629 of the next four years. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Apple’s emoji suggestions used to be extremely narrow and only based on an exact text match of the emoji name (e.g. “Smiling” returned only 😁) Over the last couple years they’ve broadened it to be much fuzzier. Now “death” returns 🌵 and 🏜️ among the others. Maybe because of Death Valley?

Hi everyone! Now that things are hopping over here, please help me welcome in my girlfriend and recovering Twitter expat @lmacfadyen.bsky.social 🥰 She’s a senior product designer at Microsoft working on Copilot. Give her a follow when you get the chance!

This is the best bot* on Bluesky *and the only one anyone has pointed out to me

good api @bellcurvebot.bsky.social

One of the only funny things I can remember Andy Borowitz posting

So who is building interesting stuff on top of Bluesky? Where are the good / weird bots? What's the deal with the API?

I had a dumb idea about American politics (i.e., that the binary nature of most divisive topics is the cause of an intractable two party system) and asked Claude to challenge me. It's response was remarkably good.

Hi everyone! So fun to see so many new / old faces. What are you working on today? What is on your mind? Introduce yourself. Especially if we don't know each other already. I'm super excited to get more involved on here.

Potentially offensive idea: Aside from the obvious (X is a hellhole, Threads has finally bored everyone to death), I wonder if Bluesky's resurgence could be tied to a certain type of personality feeling more chaste after the election, which has the effect of turning the temperature down here a bit.

OH in NY: “What kind of lead time do you really need for 5lbs of pastrami??”

I donated to George and am so happy he won!

So far I have @dens.bsky.social @alexrainert.com @baratunde.com @ering.bsky.social @heif.bsky.social @lauriesegall.bsky.social @laurengoode.bsky.social @gruen.us @fredwilson.xyz @fredbenenson.com and a few more. Definitely just a quick start. Who else!?

Oh hi everyone. Haven’t posted on here for a while. Have things gotten less insufferable? *ducks*

remember when Campfire crashed and everyone cut over to Slack and it was kind of their big moment?? I think Bluesky needs to just let invitations rip and make it happen

meanwhile on the other place

What’s the difference, metaphorically speaking, between a roach motel and a rat trap? Wrong answers only.

ah yes, it is the queers we must be afraid of

just saw someone describe their relationship as “mutually exclusive” on Reddit and I can’t stop thinking about it

Do people still post their Wordles? Wordle 694 2/6* 🟨⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (trying to post like I normally would and avoid the meta conversation about this website)

Headed to Just Like Heaven @ The Rose Bowl today courtesy of a friend w/ an extra ticket. It's been ages since I've done a music fest like this! Anyone else going? Line up is geriatric millennial++

Best case scenario: AI generated content becomes the autotune of the net - when it’s bad it’s obvious, but it’s still probably more pervasive than you think Worst case scenario: AI trains continuously on AI generated content acclimating us to a feedback loop of nonsense; there is no bottom

End of an era (at least according to my iPhone just now).

The next couple of days on here are going to be interesting as the big swell of users (including yours truly) who joined two weeks ago get our one (1) invite ration.

do they think we wouldn't notice

So did anyone actually buy the idea that the CNN thing was going to be a disaster for Trump? The dude has made being an asshole on TV his career defining achievement, of course this was going to happen

It's interesting to see so many people arguing so ardently over Bluesky's AT Protocol and whether it's technically a good thing or better than ActivityPub, etc. It's as if they're trying to argue with Bluesky's (early) success on technical grounds. But like, it's not really about the protocol.

I’ve noticed lots of journalists on Bluesky say things like “Is it cool yet to share my own stories here?” Can we get past that? I love the shitposting and fun vibes here too, but we should also be encouraging this to become a place where people can get and share news, like how Twitter USED to be...

Someone needs to make that Gardner hype curve thing but for social networks where it transitions from nascent /unknown to invite-the-cool-kids to hand-wringing-about-content-moderation, etc. Put another way, I wish there was a content setting for meta conversations like there is for NSFW, etc

so, uh, it's been a week and don't want to be that guy, but what did I do wrong, @jay.bsky.team? or did the +1-a-week-invite ration get nixed? i promise my invite tree will only consist of people who I'm willing to pledge my first born to

This has been asked in a million different ways, but what would a social network look like that rewarded nuance? It’s interesting to think what that moderation policy would look like. (Admittedly this is a stated value of HN’s excellent moderators, but the community is a special interest group)