Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

🚨 Breaking news: KFC is asking their customers to stop eating chicken at their fast-food restaurants

A recruiter messaged me about a sr eng leadership role that he's struggling to fill. Here's part of the role. Do you see the problem? They ask for a bazillion requirements (already a red flag). The company is considered a "lower-tier" company. And there's no comp listed!!

I nerd-sniped myself into an alife project, riffing on the ideas from Steve Grand’s unfinished Simergy. First time vibe-coding the bulk of a project from a description, since it’s greenfield and has no real stability/security concerns to babysit. LLMs can be a custom toy factory. #atdev

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Improvements are coming to #LibreOffice's tabbed user interface, in our next major update, due in August! Big thanks to our Design community for working on them. (Of course, the menu+toolbar interface option isn't going away 😉) #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Lecun is back. tl;dr huge risk of bubble bursting soon !

Wikipedia’s look has evolved thoughtfully over 25 years. Early versions were dense and text‑heavy. Today, the site is designed for how people actually read online. And there's a Wikipedia app crafted for mobile users!

It’s a little annoying that every website I open makes me click through between 1 and 4 popups about privacy settings, browser notifications, creating or signing into an account, and using a code for a 10% discount, but I know that’s just how they show me they care.

way too many people saying the tadc finale is mid cause they cared more about the brain scanning meta plot over the actual text of the series being about the human condition and relationships can we not be theory brained for two secs? i thought this mindset was over with after the beach episode

The costs of AI models are becoming unsustainable for large companies (Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Uber, Meta, etc.), and they are beginning to restrict access to them for their employees, as they are unable to measure their impact on productivity. 1/2

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Never forget. 🫡

A question for those of you who’ve really gotten your hands dirty: Which “open source” LLM are you currently running locally? Model, configuration, use case, and reason for choosing it.

Reminder that you can use the Codex App, CLI and SDK with any open source model, not just with OpenAI models. developers.openai.com/codex/config...

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

When you're working from home full-time, you realize just how frantically construction work is going on in the streets and in the apartments around you.

It is worth noting that, following the Trump administration’s blocking of Mythos, the French politicians and editorialists who wanted to derail Mistral (a bill currently under consideration) in the name of neighboring rights have gone quiet; we no longer hear from them.

What if…

I've never ever seen a such fast progression and way more again for Mistral! That's crazy!

THEY RELEASED THE PAPER! This is big. Mistral AI just released a full paper on exactly how they pulled off the creation of Le Chaton Fat. Is this Mistral's Deepseek moment?

🚨 Anthropic just updated its privacy policy. Claude Free, Pro, and Max users may soon be asked for age or identity checks. Verification data can include government ID, face photos/videos, and facial geometry templates. Individual developers are the first group in scope for verification.

This tweet from @arthurmensch.bsky.social 😵

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Social media isn't social anymore

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

The Boring Company 🇺🇸 is introducing its ZPIT technology, an automated (no on-site workers) and continuous (non-stop) tunnel-boring method: the machine installs the segments (prefabricated concrete segments) simultaneously with excavation, at a rate of over 1 km per week.

I work in global health and created promo material effectively hailing "end of ebola in congo (DRC)" SIX years ago US cuts to USAID/CDC stripped surveillance systems, contact tracing capacity, health workers, meaning early warning/rapid response infrastructure screwed This is not a coincidence

Me: … Uber driver: … Me: … Uber driver: … Me: … Uber driver: … Me: … Uber driver: "We have arrived" Me: "5 stars!!"

Hi Bluesky 👋 I finally deleted my X/Twitter account today after years of going back and forth about it. Walking away from nearly 4k followers was honestly terrifying. Washington photographer obsessed with wildlife, ferries, storms, and dramatic Pacific Northwest light ❤️

If you're using Codex, I recommend using the 5.4-mini template by default, as it offers excellent value for the number of tokens, and switching to a larger template only if necessary.

We were incredibly lucky that an outbreak broke out on a ship we could have quarantined it and resupplied it, but no, we had to bring them ashore It’s a cruise ship, so as far as comfort goes, we’re set it’s not exactly hell

Those damn boomers who ruined the job market and made it impossible to buy a home—and who are going to drag us back into another pandemic… 😤

Statistics of no. of weekly active (posting) users on open PDSes 📊 eurosky.social - 6,214 blacksky.app - 2,152 northsky.social - 333 at.app.wafrn.net - 213 selfhosted.social - 104 pds.witchcraft.systems - 50 rose.madebydanny.uk - 47 pds.wsocial.network - 39 npmx.social - 36

@flashes.blue is now interoperable with @grain.social and @sprk.so displaying stories that were created in any of these apps.

It hadn't been totally clear to me if @wsocial.eu was being built on the AT Protocol, but this seems definitive.

I just read that 80% of traffic accidents happen within 10 km of home. I'm thinking of moving.

The latest trend on LinkedIn: obituaries 😵‍💫 It’s a bit like LinkedIn itself, which seems to be nothing but a waiting room for the dying

The UK’s National Insurance Agency is set to close a large number of public GitHub repositories where it had been publishing its software, out of fear that AI systems might uncover security vulnerabilities. www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/n...

You should read this remarkable New York Times article, which explains why there are systemic risks associated with AI. Not because it is fundamentally an uncontrollable technology. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

For the actors, sure, but how do they detect that for the scripts? 🤔 And does “AI-generated” mean it starts with the first line chosen from three options provided by the AI, or does 100% of the script have to be created by the AI without human supervision?

At one of Harvard’s most prestigious clinics, AI was pitted against doctors in emergency care scenarios. Even under these extreme conditions, the AI delivered more accurate diagnoses than the doctors. We are truly on the cusp of a new era in medicine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gitlab's HQ these days:

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼, 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁?

If you're leaving GitHub, we'd be very happy to chat! We work remotely, pay top-end of European salaries and are hell bent on building the best code forge ever. We're hiring for one intermediate/senior role right now: jobs.tangled.org/software-eng.... Go, Firecracker, distributed systems.

The outside world is terrifying. Not many people are aware of AI

Salesforce CEO killed UI

As I keep telling people: Bluesky is not decentralized, but it is decentralizable.

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.