Could the lasting impact of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show be the return of bell bottoms? A varsity jacket referenced his own career, and a chain inspired some questions. But the cut of his jeans was the biggest surprise of the night, writes our fashion reporter. nyti.ms/4k5sBkX

In #Syria it’s all over but the crying. Will speak with US foreign service people tomorrow morning. Broad feeling seems to be uncertainty. How do you balance the assumptions of Islamic extremism v the self described pragmatism of HST. What’s propaganda? Notably #Russia & #Iran take a massive L.

There have been a number of poorly executed coup attempts recently. Bolivia & Peru both had similarly ineffectual attempts. Typically, a successful #coup by a political leader is born out of a perceived or cultivated crisis that extends beyond electoral politics. #southKorea

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

WATCH: Soldiers arrive at South Korea's parliament after president declares martial law

#SouthKorea president declares #martialLaw to try and keep “pro-NK” elements at bay. The main parties are disavowing the declaration. Korean democracy is so new & so fragile. My mother was in Korea during the student protests for democracy. We can only hope the military refuses this.

There are reports of #Russian diplomats evacuating Damascus. These stories come from #Ukraine and its (propaganda) news outlets. #Syria became a front in their war against the Russians. As the war in Ukraine increasingly looks like it will resolve in an armistice — a UKR-RUS Cold War seems likely.

In #Syria, we are seeing the limits of frozen conflicts. Structurally they encourage over extension of force. #Iran axis was built upon the broad dispersal of frozen conflicts. 10/7 became a trigger for Israel to force an outcome. In turn, Iran’s proxies became overwhelmed. Systemic collapse.

The disaggregating of social media is becoming increasingly apparent. Whereas mod lists and feeds are posed as a technical solution, competition amongst Twitter alts & TikTok Alts shows that platform competition will likely be the future. Particularly after companies fail.

Any good culture feeds? It’d be great to get a film, literature, fashion feed.

How much of blue sky’s culture can remain unique? How much is dictated by the structures of a social network (likes, retweets, etc). The choices that a social network has makes it more or less likely to form consensus. This is a bit of an experiment in how much structure forms a culture vs leaders.

Eat more street meat.

There is a unique joy to drinking wine with a friend while watching the rain.

I think relearning how to take photos has Been one of the most gratifying experience of my life. Strongly believe everyone should have an artistic outlet.

haven't seen discussed: more art-related protocol features we have thought about are attribution and license metadata on post content (eg, creative commons). and alt-text (which is sort-of-there but not in UI yet)

Men don’t want to work, men want to sit in their cement meditation chambers listening to Phillip glass and pondering the evolution of 21st century classical and how to balance appreciate traditional western music without devolving into historicism. Or so I’m told.

Hot take: LLMs are simple enough in their design that economically they will be a race to the bottom. The big winners won’t be the people who build the LLMs but people who leverage it into a definable product with — something that doesn’t seem to have really happened yet.

From my naive perspective LLMs seem conceptually difficult, but simple in implementation. Their main growth in ability derives from parameter increase. It would be interesting to understand what other technologies are just waiting to be unlocked through increased data/computing power.

New to me camera feeling so damn good.

@mathew.graydavies.org shared with me that 99% of Europeans go clubbing high on cocaine vs 22% of Americans. No wonder clubbing is a real culture there.

Being out in NYC on the first 50+ degree night feels like the preseason. You’re not going full stop like you will in a few weeks, but it’s actually somehow more fun

Some examples of what custom feeds you might choose when that all lands

- “Cats” - “Memes” - “Trending in Germany” - “Close friends” - “One post per person I follow” - “Good vibes only” - “Verified news” - “Gaming VODs” Etc

Nothing like finishing a vacation to make you want to plan your next vacation.

Okay there *is* some tech debt but we’re paying it down, we should be fine so long as our users don’t pull out their tech all at once

Has anyone transitioned from generalist SWE to ML within big tech? What was that transition like/how would you go about doing so?

It turns out if you take a good enough vacation you can avoid thinking about work a solid 70% of the time.

The government moved the clock forward an hour this morning in an effort to get us all to Monday sooner, a desperate ploy to reduce panic among SVB depositors

Airports are this incredible view of 20th century futurism. Lots of car access, monorail between terminals and cheap jets to bring the American middle class to the world. In some ways things are worse, but in this we’ve fulfilled the 1950s future vision.

Flying away from all my problems

No more banks, only rivers of wood.

Living in the valley of giants

everyone please vote on this very critical proposal

Get hyped blueberries.

@jay.bsky.social officially petitioning to call your users blueberries.

California winter vibes are unmatched.

@why.bsky.social given that tags can actually be super long, I think it would be worthwhile to think about the possibility of not counting them toward the character limit now than baking in super hard limits into the architecture/code.

Bluesky feels like it’s name. It’s so easy to see how people were naive to the possibility of social networks in their early days. It’s worth remembering that all the hard things will come too. But nice to enjoy the good times now.

Who needs an algo when you have

Custom domain usernames landing

Check the handle 😉

@jay.bsky.social have you considered 0 border on images in the timeline? Lots of real estate is lost when doing landscape oriented pics. Vertical Reply line could go below horizontal red line in first picture. (Instagram pic for reference)

Studies in auto-oriented Infrastructure

Me right now, posting meaningless content to Bluesky.

Bluesky in the big city. Any other east coasters here? Feels quiet in the morning.

I’m loving the energy on here, I can’t wait to go to Buenos Aires and meet you all in person!

@support-team.bsky.social just wanted to let you know, if you try changing 1 photo in your profile it removes the unchanged photo. (update profile pic and it removes banner, and vice versa)

Washington Square Park in motion