Cosmos gives us a sense of autumn gentleness.

Excluding the USSR, the allies in WW2, for all intents & purposes, fought for fascism. This notion that allied soldiers during WW2 were “the original AntiFa” is laughable.

We need a term like enshittification, but for when some government somewhere imposes regulation that makes the internet worse for everyone on the globe

Hope I get to sleep on this flight. Seating is 2/4/2 & I’ve (rn) got the enter center 4-seat row to myself. Doesn’t happen often, but when it does 🤌

Reflections #photography #blackandwhite

i like open source software because it means that i can modify the code myself if i need something that isn't provided by the software in question or its developer has stopped maintaining it so i can't really get attached to software that may just stop working in a few years with no way to fix it

WIP shaders and model

things bullets say

We're considering a feature that would let you specify topics you're not interested in, in addition to your existing interests. This would influence the content shown on your Discover feed and the accounts recommended in Explore. What do we think?

Things China gets absolutely wrong: air travel.

authoritarianism is the funniest ism by far. whats the ideology? the people in charge are the ones who are in charge? please say more

New print of my "Gema & Zoe" series. This one will be avaiable in the BCN Manga convention. #UtopianScholastic

WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3

closed source projects (namely appviews) are antithetical to atproto and idk why that's some controversial thing to say

Never met a single modern liberal who wasn’t an Alinskyist.

More pictures from tonight. #photography #iphoneography #shanghai #上海

Bsky is one of the only experiences where I have to maintain multiple robust block-lists in order to try to make the UX not trash bc of the user-base. Never the case w/ Fediverse nor X, even. I love the reference instance UX, tho, & I support the conceptual network protocol. So, I’m here anyway. 🤷‍♂️

hello. do you like me? then please consider trying Open Source Native iOS Bluesky Client App @catbird.blue if you don’t like me you should try it too and point out all the little things you hate about it to make me feel bad

Home ISP has 💯% ID’s me as 老外 & actively DPIs my VPN conn. making internet basically unusable. Extremely frustrating. Can’t get anything done whatsoever. If I want good internet connection must use cellular or go to comp. office. Doesn’t help that modern websites = bloated + heavy + block VPNs too!

Patlabor: The New Files Episode 8 The Seven Days of Fire

Blooming in the universe.

i think the only way for atproto to succeed is for us to show what apps can do when every app sees every other app's public data, and they share an identity system. no technical or sociological argument is as convincing as seeing seamless interop and the lighthearted competitive landscape it unlocks

Inside the Imperial Palace Kyoto…

someone should make a PlayStation Home fan server so we can just hang out there and never have to use social media again

some recent experience of mine makes this especially relevant, but i also agree that parts of Bluesky culture encourage this behavior and it’s pretty pervasive. not hating AI is in many cases all it takes to justify receiving asshole behavior.

This irks me to no end. Usable hardware, but obsoleted software. #apple

Professional recommendations have a trust problem. Anyone can write a glowing review and claim someone else said it. How do you know it's real? We built endorsements on at://work using ATProtocol's cryptographic infrastructure.

Just another Sunday -hot air balloon makes unplanned landing in our front yard 😵‍💫

Let me explain what attestations are and why they're useful for atproto 🧵 An attestation is basically a cryptographic proof that something existed at a specific time. Like a blockchain timestamp + signature.

"Anti-fascist" ppl = honestly their own worst enemies bc they've diluted the term to a point of meaningless via branding anything/everything/everyone they dislike "fascist". They alienate themselves + their minority camp unto a metaphorical, ideological island where everyone else is a "fascist".

The HTTP-protocol is (also) a de facto layer-4 transport-layer-protocol. It might have been intended to be a layer-7 application-layer-protocol, but — look at how people are using it. Applications are built on top of the HTTP-protocol somewhat similarly to how people decades ago would have […]

I like “AI”/LLMs a lot & use them reg. for productive means. I don’t use image/video gen. AI, tho (no use-case nor pwr avail.). What concerns me is how AI media gen is so prone to gen’ing rly disgusting or distraught output—so freq. gen’ing nightmare material. Why? Makes me v. suspect abt “AI”.

Suddenly.. #fujix100v #travel #photography #clouds #sunset

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Never ascribe to malevolence what you can explain by incompetence. Never ascribe to incompetence what you can explain by malevolence.

i get kind of annoyed that the political compass has caused a lot of people to view liberalism, conservatism, etc as a gradient that you can move “four left and two up” instead of as a series of distinct political philosophies with their own unique assumptions about the world and its ideal state

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

I don't think we can pitch decentralization as a solution to people who want a bad account banned because they're not trying to fix what they see in their own feeds, they're trying to control what I see in mine. Fixing their own feeds is already accomplished by blocking and going on with your day

I really think that growing up on the un-corporatized internet made me immune to disgust based outrage specifically regarding fictional art/writing When I was a fresh new internet face I had to wade through the muck of The Weirdest Horny Shit Imaginable to find things I liked and I did it every day

When the US government needed difficult minerals for the Manhattan Project, it did not mess with tax credits and grants. It built massive facilities at Hanford and Oak Ridge.

Essentially, war crimes, corruption, genocide, human rights abuses, et al. are perfectly acceptable so long as the perpetrators support Western liberal agenda. & they’re all terrible & reprehensible & unacceptable so long as they’re perpetrated by those against Western liberal agenda.

"We should replace government services with for-profit businesses because they are motivated by efficiency" You absolute dipshits. Capitalist endeavors are motivated to increase revenue while extracting an increasing percentage of that revenue as profit into wealthy pockets every single quarter .

Carbon storage initiatives are frauds and red herrings. Even at full capacity, they will only ever be able to store a tiny fraction of what we emit. The solution lies in ending our dependence on fossil fuels, and there is no technological shortcut for that.

It's funny how in 2000 or so we settled on the bluetooth standard for wireless devices and ever since nobody has had a thought to consider that perhaps wireless devices should work reliably

idiots. i built my sandcastle in the desert, where i have an elemental advantage against water

Any app you’ve disabled notifications for should never ask you to re-enable notifications. Or, perhaps only ask once & then drop the matter entirely.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 2 Unfamiliar Ceilings The Beast

Warm evening in 上海。 #photography #iphoneography #shanghai #上海