Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Giving bluesky another shot due to the circumstances - instead of desperately trying to fit in with millennial tech twitter I'm gonna try to use this explicitly for my silly computer art and IRL friends :)

Be ungovernable, like birds who build their nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. New study (📷s by author Auke-Florian Hiemstra) describes Antwerp magpies' "fuck you" to evil architecture: a nest of 1,500 stolen metal spikes 🧪 https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/organisatie/publicaties/deinsea/deinsea-21/

This is your regular reminder that AI deciding to wipe out humanity is some hand-wavy future bullshit and renters are being harmed by this particular use of AI RIGHT NOW. https://www.levernews.com/artificial-intelligence-is-making-the-housing-crisis-worse/

My friend adeline is hereeeeeee one of the most elite posters I know. Follow her!!!!

WE WILL RELEASE A NEW TWITTER CLONE EVERY HOUR UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET

License plate sighting: mr-sexy

ITS GOT TO STOP

A lot of leaders in tech have never had a real job. They got out of college with the goal of being a founder/CEO, and immediately applied themselves to the "job" of asking for funding. They can code (usually), but only enough to get the site off the ground. They are functionally illiterate.

Goofing off at work scrolling on /r/cigarettes

🚨INVESTIGATION: Corporate landlords are using automated systems to decide who gets housing and who’s left out. A new fight between consumer regulators and Big Data lobbyists could set the tone for how we regulate AI.

Paul creating Bluesky and then becoming corrupted into being a catboy by its community is the newest speedrun to the “inventors killed by their own inventions list.

"still punk as fuck" i whisper to myself as i slowly lower my standing desk to be a lying down desk

If you are looking for #artists (no NFT/AI) to follow, check out: Glendon Mellow’s artist thread https://bsky.app/profile/glendonmellow.com/post/3jwvuwwut2k2e WanderlingWorld’s Artist GDoc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vet9wnfzNDl5z5ZElvJxAFdXxSMVMxAGqIKuWUocdbs/edit?usp=sharing

speaking as a bitter former stepchild...let him cook

How do we persuade the taliban to make it easier to get .af domains, the potential for comedy is unrivalled

logging on to the invite-only decentralized social media platform

Only Posts = poster Only replies = reply guy Doesn’t interact at all = lurker Only reposts = ???? We need a term for this kinda guy

some genuinely big wins for trans rights in the federal courts lately

wat remote workers will look like in 2100

I wrote a thing about all the very, very bad interviews Reddit CEO Steve Huffman did yesterday. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/16/reddit-ceo-triples-down-insults-protesters-whines-about-not-making-enough-money-from-reddit-users/

Wikipedia is so good. There’s maybe 3 good websites left and Wikipedia is one. Can you imagine if they got Wikipedia and midway through learning about the battle of Gettysburg you had to read “gut doctor BEGS people not to eat this” with a picture of wet diapers?

The biblically accurate angel balloon animal!!!

Here's the scoop we are ALL fucked with climate change so stop with your hating and saying you had it worse than people in X, it's coming for us all if it hasn't already

Katie is on Bluesky! We’re a Bluesky couple now 💞💞 @katies.bsky.social

The venture capital model has been a disaster for the creation of of small useful and sustainable tech companies. Just cause an idea can’t 10x an investment in 5 years doesn’t mean it can’t provide a useful service for millions and often these are at odds.

My mouth is literally watering rn for this rhodochrosite

Thanks, I hate it

And so it begins, at least the slow start is helping me gauge whether or not hosting these feeds will be maintainable (for now it definitely is, this is scaling quite well). Good DB structure and indexes and performant code is really satisfying to see scale properly :) Hope y'all enjoy my feeds!

absolutely fucking not with this stuff

If a libertarian ever asks why I got a X as my gender on my license imma just tell them I’m a sovereign citizen

Building one of those massive spike fields that’s supposed to warn of nuclear waste over my amibo collection to Totally Prank future generations.

Why’d they have to stop making biospheres after biosphere 2 failed??? Wtf man, I love biospheres, we could be having so many more biospheres by now.

Am I disappointed that @dril.bsky.social has only posted a nude drawing of Michael Vic? Yes. But as a true Dril fan, I don’t know what I was expecting.

My toxic trait is that I can’t hug people without tenderly resting my head on their shoulder

I’m in a bad place (using Adobe after effects)

Pleased to report that Sensual Alf has entered the historic record.

Are you using a third party app or service for moderation on Bluesky? Are you developing one? I'm writing about the moderation app ecosystem for my New Scientist column and would love to hear from you!

For when air-gapping a machine isn’t enough:

Mac Pierce is on bluesky! Mac is an artist and creative technologist that works with emerging weaponized technologies - he's become known for his camera shy hoodie project https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7awa/this-hacker-hoodie-uses-surveillance-camera-parts-to-blind-surveillance-cameras

Twitter as a file system anyone? I’m sure they aren’t rate limiting anymore after they cut all the micro services

We have some new research out! We took an in-depth look at tools for *personalizing content moderation*, such as those nifty content filtering settings for nudity, etc. here in Bluesky. In one paper, we interviewed social media users about their perceptions of these: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10374