Some of you will fondly recall a short lived Comedy Central parody sitcom from the South Park boys called That’s My Bush! complete with laugh track. Now we just have CSPAN

This is so astonishing. I keep trying to explain to people who aren't following protocol conversations what it was like, going to #atmosphereconf. I'm just going to show them this—both as a record of the conference and as an example of people JUST BUILDING THINGS that are extremely cool.

I know from experience that leaving Substack has a cost. No other platform is as *easy* to get up and running, any time you change platforms, you're going to get significant churn. But, my friends who are on Substack--I don't think it will get easier to leave, might as well do it now.

This React -> Web Components post by the MDN team touches on challenges and solutions I've seen dozens of times over frontend's lost decade. Kudos to them for the improvements in performance, and the bravery to tell the story in an unvarnished way: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...

Not to be too Boss Baby Vibes about it, having seen one (1) Savannah Bananas game, I’m pretty sure it’s the best thing we’ve got going right now that doesn’t involve literally sending people to the actual moon.

I grew up evangelical, and it just floors me that I was always taught the Antichrist would be a false Christ figure who would convince a lot of believers. And yet this same group has been thoroughly taken in by Trump. I’m not surprised Trump thought he could get away with posting this.

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

Nikita and JD Vance having the same kind of week for being the exact same kind of dude. That's synergy, baby.

Commercial real estate in NYC was once described to me as "investment banking for dumb people". At the individual level, there are some smart and savvy people, but on the whole it's a dynastic industry where mediocre 3rd gen scions have most of the capital and power.

This is zero percent surprising to anyone who's worked with Jared. Even as a businessman, he's a shitty negotiator because he doesn't understand diplomacy there either. In some ways, he's a product of his industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

This doesn’t require an LLM, it’s like 12 lines of Perl to always pick the choice that leads to more money and power even if it ruins the internet or kills people.

This is the least surprising mask off reveal yet, right? Fieri has been grievance hustling for at least a decade now.

The purity of JD Vance’s moral nihilism is a thing to behold in itself—a man who consciously chose, as an adult, to shed all principles and commitments beyond sheer careerism—but it acquires an additional dark beauty when conjoined with his unusual ability to have whatever he touches turn to shit.

“Taste matters more than ever” is definitive when the cost of producing any digital artifact approaches zero

I'd say this about 50-75% of it. The rest is kids are smart and absorb what's happening even if they don't understand it all, and the world we've made for them — from climate change to an economy built mostly on gambling to lots of violent ways to die just going about your every day — sucks shit

Maybe next time we’ll listen to all the people, most of them women, Black, Brown, and/or queer, telling us who the very obvious bad ones are before Ronan Farrow has to write a 12,000 word profile nine years too late.

The main thing wrong with the deal that Obama negotiated with Iran, is that a Black guy did it.🤷🏿‍♂️ That's it. When I say that racism is expensive, this is what I mean. I'm not being metaphorical. I mean there is a direct, financial penalty that white people pay for the joy of being racist.

In a decadent failing empire, the chief concerns of these chuckleheads: someone is paying less than retail for the thing I am currently paying full retail for; a minority is accessing government benefits they don't deserve; something is preventing me from driving 20% over the posted speed limit.

We must all now buy the Bluesky book (which looks fantastic, btw!)

Updated this post so it plays the '80s music if you click on the section headings.

Having grown up in the south, the absolute certainty I had knowing the denomination of this church may well be the closest I’ll come to religious conviction.

Probably fine we spent the last decade and a half connecting a bunch of hastily built jank — a project so serious the best name we could come up with was Internet of Things — that now controls everything from light switches to critical medical devices.

What if Flickr never got acquired and went on to figure out mobile is how I might describe @grain.social You log in with your Bluesky (or other atproto) account. It's beautiful on the web and the latest iOS beta is outstanding. testflight.apple.com/join/ju9eXf6m

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

Trump absolutely losing it needs to be our giant psychic squid moment as a global society

Whiplash waking up to these photos alongside what the President has been saying. Hard to find words to describe the feeling of seeing these photos. I can't imagine what it was like for the crew to see it with their own eyes. Wow.

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

Most nights I'm excited to start my shift as short order cook and discover a new random bit of detritus left in the kitchen that will be somewhere between mildly annoying and outright poisonous.

Not the head of product at the bad site complaining that a feature that he uses all the time is being used against him in a dishonest way. Gee, I wonder who has the data and capability to improve such a feature. 🤔

Let me take a moment to talk about why it’s so awesome seeing the growth of publishing tools built on AT Protocol, the same open technology powering Bluesky. It’s about ownership, control, and future-proofing your publishing, whether it’s your blog, your newsletter, or just your homepage. 🧵

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

I'm all for dunking on Nate as often as possible, a relevant question: why are actual journalists and news orgs still on X? A question I might also ask of orgs that compete with Musk's hydra (NASA, car companies, AI companies) and also anyone who isn't a rightwing grift-peddling influencer.

I believe James when he says he wants Bluesky to thrive, one way to help would be to move off of centralized, VC-backed ideological projects like substack and on to longform apps built on the same protocol as Bluesky. @leaflet.pub, @pckt.blog, and @offprint.app are all excellent.

Depluralize a movie Dial M for Crow

My dad, who’s now hard of hearing, offered me his vinyl collection, which dates back to his youth in London in the 50s and through his arrival in San Francisco in the 60s and beyond. His one condition: I had to take them all. Challenge accepted!!!

Everything we’ve always known about the guy and lived through for past decade tells us he absolutely wants to be the only other president to order a nuclear strike, and if we make it through this week without that happening it’ll be a minor miracle.

Something I've come to believe after a lot of cooking is that it is almost impossible to make tastier food than what you get using a staple food and adding fat and salt. Like the entire edifice of culinary wizardry is built on the lie that you wouldn't rather have some fries.

Pretty cool how we turned Easter into Halloween 2.0 but in the middle of day to really amp up the chaos

I know a lot of researchers who should know AAT exists. “A disabled-led, unapologetically intersectional transcription and closed captioning social enterprise offering transcription support for researchers, by researchers.”

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Come work with us! Building something new in the end times is a really special thing to get to do

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

I think part of de-hyping AI is learning to read the research about its ill effects with an eye for continuity rather than novelty, which @naomialderman.bsky.social does here. ("A difference in scale may become a difference in kind" is still true, but continuities remain helpful to understanding.)

I don't even go there (anymore) so I can say with maybe just a bit of bias that the new slack.dev is SO GOOD (I see you and your good work, @minamarkh.am)