Google is destroying search. You won’t be able to tell the difference between paid words and legit content. No links back to the original source. Wow.

@gameengines.bsky.social I would like Custom/In-house Engine please!

I think I finally have a good way to represent signing in with the family of atmosphere handles for my card game site. Thoughts on this?

An excellent article that is an eye opener if you ever looked at the code of an svg and wondered how it actually works. I had that, oh wow this is actually pretty cool moment.

These look interesting. They’re queued up to try tomorrow.

I found this interesting article about building a modern front end testing pipeline. It points out some holes we have both at work, and for personal projects at home, as things that I need to clean up. alexop.dev/posts/modern...

excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it

For those adding “login with “ to your site how are you handling the various atprotocol flavors in how you present this to the user? Are you just using login with Bluesky? A button for each of the flavors? I now that under the hood it’ll work for all.

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

Just so you know what kind of dork I am: I was looking at the Artemis II mission stuff and said to @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social, “The cutaway in those letters in the bottom left corner definitely means something super specific…”

Excellent article. Great data visualizations. It’s sad that this article needed to be written. :-(

Yeah, definitely not a tech bro: amiatechbro.com It would've been 0% but I agreed that tech folks can be better at solving problems than governments, because our governments often suck so bad

NEW: Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor. Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded.

World Cup tickets are expensive, and buying them has been frustrating and confusing. But this is what economics is for: figuring out the best ways to allocate scarce resources. FIFA, steal these ideas. n.pr/47AuktC

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Excellent article with very cool data visualizations. Bird observing took off for us during the pandemic.

@freep.com none of the bit . Ly URLs you’re posting work. At least in the Bluesky app on an iPhone.

some thoughts on how to implement public community spaces in atproto. I think it is important for us to stretch what the protocol can do; and there are some great opportunities for self-hosting, moderation, customization, etc

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

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Routine reminder that there is no treatment for measles. But vaccination is 97% effective at preventing measles infection.

it’s about to get weird

A fascinating article. The creative use of LLMs, fake news sites, fake news aggregators, and intention miss use of words and terms to drive the narrative, has lead to the introduction of bills to change the law. This reminds me of how Cambridge Analytica manipulated Facebook to affect elections.

The FCC is considering changing the current standard format for TV broadcasters from ATSC 1.0 to ATSC 3.0 — but such a sudden transition could leave millions of Americans' TV sets obsolete overnight. Read the latest from @bergmayer.net:

Like many other platforms, "TikTok’s policies center on collecting tons of your sensitive personal data,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @HuffPost.com. “The company continues to reserve the right to transfer your data to its business partners outside the U.S.” www.huffpost.com/entry/tikto...

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and kids.

Got some advice from a designer a while back that’s stuck with me. I asked how I improve my sense of whether things are well-designed or not and he said: design is about making purposeful decisions. If you can find a purpose for something being the way it is, it is likely well-designed.

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

If you’re interested at all in how the protocol behind Bluesky works, this is a great explanation. This protocol really does put the ownership of what you post back in your hands, unlike the other main social media tools. overreacted.io/a-social-fil...

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A very well written master class for working with Claude code. It covers things like commands, skills, subagents, tools, MCP servers, getting the most out of agents.md, etc. www.jovweb.dev/blog/claude-...

This is interesting and food for thought. The boy with the golden thread meets LLMs. roe.dev/blog/the-gol...

“Fediverse advocates regularly point to ActivityPub being a W3C standard as a mark of legitimacy [...] since then, the same organisational structure that allowed the protocol to be created also slowed down necessary further work on ActivityPub” connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

"I only pay for X for the monetisation features, not the CSAM" is the paedophile version of "I only get Playboy for the articles"

What if using American cloud services becomes untenable for Europe due to deteriorating geopolitics? It's hypothetical for now, but no longer unthinkable. By @quentinsf.com: statusq.org/archives/202... Local-first software to the rescue?

where they’re naturally strong, where they reliably drift, and what a user has to supply (constraints, context, oracles, loops) to make the whole thing converge. sunilpai.dev/posts/seven-...

Wow, an excellent article about the data advertisers collect about us and how it can be abused.

Detroit really needs to do this!

Don Was digs into the Blue Note Records vault for a different kind of Christmas playlist, bringing together rare cuts, classics and deep grooves from across the label's history. n.pr/3YAyxso

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You gotta give ‘em hop.

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Lucas intended this to be historical allegories. Trying to “cleanse” space, committing genocide like on Alderaan. People saw this and the mass propaganda the Empire had everywhere and were either scared into believing for survival, or just truly agreed. Just like many global powers do in real life.

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