"The properties that make AT Protocol compelling for social networking are the same properties the research community has been asking for" Exciting vision for the future of science publishing on ATProto @row1.ca @opensci.dev @nokome.bsky.social #ATScience

one of the biggest issues with interface design is the tendency for designers (and capital) to optimize for ease-of-use or conforming to the user’s existing mental model and muscle memory the user’s model, memory, & expectations were fabricated by silicon valley & often need to be disrupted/changed

the solution, in other words, is to accurately explain how things work without silly metaphors, but in a way that is accessible to people so that they can actually build core knowledge without having to get deep into the sauce

A defining aspect of building on a post-app protocol is that we can start shaping rich digital spaces around a community’s needs instead of forcing constant context-switching between apps because “the market” only thinks it’s profitable to hyperscale siloed media experiences through network effects.

yeah. i did a demo of the beta version of my atproto library, jacquard, visualizing Jetstream, all events from atproto, using bevy. and it also doubled as my presentation. it watched a markdown file and displayed them as slides when I tapped a key. tangled.org/nonbinary.co...

At long last, my Next Generation Scenes PR is out for review! This will be a huge step forward for the flexibility and usability of Bevy scenes. Stoked to finally get this in the hands of the people! github.com/bevyengine/b...

Bevy 0.17 is out now! It features Raytracing, Improved Observers / Events, UI Widgets, Rust Hotpatching, Light Textures, DLSS, Tilemap Chunks, Web Assets, Reflect Auto-Registration, UI Gradients, Raymarched Atmosphere, Virtual Geometry BVH Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-17

What are the latest developments in the developer experience of experienced developers developing experiences?

does anyone know the actual name of the genre that only comes into my brain as "pixar jazz"

The bigger issue here is that phones and touchscreen devices in general encourage informational passivity. They invite you to consume, not to do research & creative knowledge work (breaking down informational sources, combining disparate pieces of info from different sources, reconstituting)

New blog post + cargo-semver-checks v0.42 is out ✨ I found some unexspected sharp edges in the `#[target_feature]` attribute. They are getting fixed (teamwork! 🤜🤛), and cargo-semver-checks now also has lints to save you from footguns! predr.ag/blog/unsound...

I would like to formally request that all apps please stop being everything apps and be, instead, only-one-thing apps

Bummer - I'm traveling during the #bevyjam this year :( good luck to all participants!

In April, Coinbase announced changes to its user agreement that added two clauses limiting class action lawsuits and requiring lawsuits to be filed in New York. The changes apply to disputes initiated after May 15. On May 14, Coinbase disclosed a data breach.

every single AI reporter has to watch this youtu.be/fJGNqnq-aCA?...

Said goodbye in a call with my parents and waved at nothing in real life. On a crowded street. 🫠

Bevy 0.16 is out now! It features GPU-Driven Rendering, Procedural Atmospheric Scattering, Decals, Occlusion Culling, Relationships, Better Spawning, Unified Error Handling, `no_std`, Faster Transform Propagation, and more! bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-...

here we gooooo

Atuin just keeps shipping pure gold 🔥📈

I wrote about this recently for Noema! That time was also defined by the fruits of an activist, interventionist and progressive government — one that changes the market, not with tariffs, but with research and guidelines that make life in consumer society better. www.noemamag.com/the-good-soc...

Was looking at the #bevy 0.16 milestone last night. really cool stuff in there. I toyed with the new relationship derive attributes and the new spawn APIs -- such huge convenience boosts

a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you

I still have to confirm this but it looks optically right and yall…this is insane.

this is, this breaks my brain. writing the alt text for this broke my brain. it's broken. #nintendo #switch2

David is completely right here. I think this is also why there's so much distrust & resentment of institutions in general. There is a constant claim that institutions are a bulwark, that they must be saved/preserved/respected and yet many of them either fold to power or can't provide accountability

#fatalfury #cotw is really fun so I'm gonna stream it for a bit today www.twitch.tv/snendev

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Along with all of the other things that this is, it is also the direct & inevitable consequence of the failure to put a lot more senior executive branch officials in jail for a very long time for Watergate, Iran-Contra, torture, & all of the other things in the last 50 years.

dang would be really cool if someone could chase away all the snakes right about now

👇🎯 Once again, everyone got really angry at @tompepinsky.com years ago for pointing this out. If these people are waiting for The Authoritarian Moment, they are going to be very sorry & it will be too late once they wake up & realize that it was January 6, 2021 & these first seven weeks of Trump II

This is a good proposal, and it's weird to see people flaming BlueSky for it as though this is equivalent to them welcoming in AI scraping (rather than trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening)

Their bet is that if rates fall to 1%, mortgages get cheap, businesses borrow cheap , but more importantly for Elon and his boys, it's easy to raise capital. It's easy for PE to find capital to buy their businesses. Stocks go up. Business valuations go up. It's UBI for asset owners.

This is obviously just blatant racebaiting, but I feel honor bound to remind everyone that New York City is one of the safest places in the country.

Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

TC on point as usual! I know a lot of people who get insulted if someone tells them information they already know. It's not an insult! It's okay not to know stuff -- and even if you did already know, it's very useful to establish common understanding.

In this clip, Vance explicitly says that, *more* than being about national security, this is about "who do *we,* as an American public, decide gets to join our national community." Not to be Influence of Soros on this but this is antithetical to an open society www.foxnews.com/video/636998...

For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW from me - Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

Everyone assumed this corruption, and has for a very long time. Really. It has long been a problem for organizers. Folks are so absolutely convinced the system is set up to benefit those that have that they often don't vote, much less protest. It's the weariness Trump exploits to win elections.

For the first time, the Norwegian government has calculated the value to society of the health benefits of increased walking and cycling. 🚲 ~€2.8 for each additional km of cycling 🚶‍♀️ ~€4.2 for each additional km of walking

@propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.

I donated to Signal for the first time recently, as part of an ongoing commitment to try and do better at supporting the orgs that are actually useful for our moment

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

really hard to overstate the degree to which NYC's "disorder" is just a result of the city's cops feeling like they're above actually having to perform their job