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.

Felix, CEO of Mastodon, and I hope to collaborate more. Mastodon has wide adoption in Europe and 8k communities (servers) running independently. The customization they give communities is inspiring to me. Public squares should be a gathering place for you to discover cozier corners/communities.

People don't give Windows enough credit: it's a terrible tool that makes you hate it—and then switch to Linux

People don't give Microsoft Edge enough credit. It's a great tool for easily downloading a browser

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

"We are aware of a problem sending emails to users hosted on Bluesky servers, including 2FA login codes. We have escalated with our service provider and working to resolve the situation." status.bsky.app

The existence of Yuri Gagarin implies the existence of Yaoi Madonnarin

Hey, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social , are you free for the elections in France next year?

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

It's official: I don't understand a thing anymore.

To everyone who do not want to have a far-right or pro-russian president for their country: Ask JD Vance to come visit your opponent #Hungría #hungary #orban #magyar

Mass-destruction weapon.

In just one week, the balance of power in AI has shifted. Thread. 👇

C'est sans aucun doute dans ces moments-là que je suis fier d'être Français 🇫🇷 La souveraineté est plus nécessaire que jamais, et passer de Windows à Linux est sans aucun doute la meilleure idée qu'Emmanuel Macron ait jamais eue !

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says www.politico.eu/article/euro... via @politico.eu

I don't know if you've seen this, but Mastodon is launching Collections that are clearly inspired by Bluesky. blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/desi...

Just had sex with Claude Code. Goodnight everyone.

Okay, imagine this. You’re a lawyer and you want to file a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, so you’re looking for plaintiffs who have been harmed by Facebook’s practices. Where do you run ads to find them? Yes. Of course. But no. Of course.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I juste saw a guy coughing on the subway platform and losing his dentures 😵 His dentures slid across the asphalt!!

In November 2022, when ChatGPT launched, Stack Overflow was seeing 108,000 questions per month. By December 2025, that number had dropped to 3,862—a level not seen since 2009, when the site was only a few months old. 1/3

Paris under a blue sky—no other city can hold a candle to it!

My two cents on the NYT’s investigation into Satoshi: a massive undertaking, but it drags on forever. I tend to think it’s a journalist writing mainly for his colleagues, and that the sheer length is meant to be persuasive. On the plus side, it reads like a Bitcoin timeline.

Well, I've rarely seen a tweet that has aged well

THREAD: Introduction to Reverse Engineering 💥 I decided to start this thread because RE is often seen as “difficult,” when in reality it isn't that hard. I want to break down these stereotypes and provide resources to help you get started in this wonderful field :) 1/13