software probably really did peak with hypercard

Applications coalescing around social consensus is an interesting lens to see ATProto through.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

For the lonely Guild Navigator in your family.

No shame in that taking a lot of de-programming, folks. It did for me.

yesterday someone introduced the term Combat Poster and thats just such a perfect term

What this ecosystem needs is a way for people to sign up for Bsky accounts without them having to ask "what the fuck is Bluesky?" Effectively, a flow that's as transparent as OAuth for sign-ups. We're almost there, but every step you ask someone a question you double your odds of losing them.

"The Force Awakens is a warning sign that nostalgia is a dirty and non-renewable fuel." Sensational line from @theautumnwright.bsky.social over at @avclub.com www.avclub.com/star-wars-th...

#Monkigras is not a conference - it's a communal hallucination where for two days we believe that talks can be creative, conversations can be individual and hustle-free, event food can be great, and corporations can help with inclusion. You should come! monkigras.com

I am not sure if I'm ever watching the movie but this was a great read.

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

That's certainly one way to title that chart. The other one is "in only a year, Hyperliquid has as much revenue as the entire Solana ecosystem". (probably not quite, since they didn't add the exact figures, but seems damn close) Source: blog.syndica.io/deep-dive-so...

Maybe the move is to reclaim the @ Cc @anna.germnetwork.com

Yes. A proper process would go through user interviews, do cross cultural impact, etc I’ve been using “Bluetooth” as an example. “Wifi” might be another one. As Mark says, can we be aspirational enough to take on “internet”? I don’t see anyone else coming to save us.

Normalize a John Waters baseline on books. “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em”

I still have a hard time believing not only that we had an “I Have No Mouth…” game adaptation, but that we had “Chronomaster”, a game written by Roger Zelazny, in the same year.

Look, I'm an Ellison fan, or I was at an impressionable time of my life, but not only was Agatha Christie a better writer, she was even better at Ellison's two greatest skills: arrogance and being a petty bitch.

Complacency is the company killer. It is the little comfort that brings total annihilation.

Interesting. This seems aligned with the small world / local reputation approach I was kicking around for a while, and which I ended up applying elsewhere.

We value time spent. Learning, improving, creating, perfecting. Art is proof of work.

Alrighty then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

specifying a birthday is now mandatory for everyone. we have a global minimum age of 13, and this is now being enforced properly

OAuth for thee but raw-dogging full passwords for me. #ATDev

Is there a list of areas where @bsky.app is demanding "age assurance"? I just tried to add an account to their mobile app and they requested a birth date. Seems absurd for something that is 1) not being accessed or hosted in afaik any jurisdiction with age restrictions, and 2) a company account.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

This is pure hardware porn. I don't think I'm ever building one - no 3D printer, and minimal soldering is still soldering, and I fear it would send me down a hardware homebrew rabbit hole - but love the way it seems solid, tactile, self-contained.

Weird-ass timeline of tech and geopolitics intersection, exhibit N+1.

Germ has received a Cypherpunk Fellowship for our open-source contributions to Messaging Layer Security. Many thanks to @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info for the support. Check out our full announcement: www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-cy...

The absolute level of incompetence boggles the mind. And @linkedin.com has the gall to tell people that verification increases trust - anyone trusting them is getting phished.

Got two obvious spam messages on @linkedin.com *so far today* with the exact same text, about "investing in your company or providing funding for your current project", both from people labeled as a "Verified recruiter". Not even doing the most basic spam checking, are they?

I've come around to the idea of anti-fascist licenses, even if they are likely unenforceable. It is social signaling, but there is value in signaling that you don't want a certain kind of asshole contributing to or using your software. Movement building is the right lens.

Are fonts with ligatures display-fluid and thus woke?

Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU Aquarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called “Rebel Code”. It was the first – and is still the only – detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interviews with the gifted and generous…

Cool idea - can't wait to try it in an on-going project.

Happy Mother Of All Demos anniversary! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhpT...

So it’s not just my company and they have something borked in their flow, which on top of that is not set up to provide proper feedback. Smashing.

The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.

Even if the entire US political apparatus were to pivot away tomorrow from senile dementia and fascism, it's going to take a while for the country itself to get this out of its bloodstream. I don't want to be around for the detox.

The true scandal here is that the @ec.europa.eu has an advertising account on X. Why are our taxes used to finance Nazi propaganda? www.politico.eu/article/x-ax...

Meta is mass banning queer and sex positive accounts in Europe with no justification besides “this goes against our community guidelines”. If @flashes.blue had an event integration with @smokesignal.events it could trigger a shift in the queer community to use ATproto for organizing.

Skeuomorphism for the loss.

Everyone's focusing on how aligned this is with the European far right and that's true, it's the voice of the Fascintern. But what I find telling is how much it aligns with the European *centre right*, notably von der Leyen.

"Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory".

There's something alluring, tactile, almost Gibsonian, about special-purpose hardware - even more so if it's used for creating things.

Ugh, I need some #ATDev help. I've got an expo app that was working with app passwords but I'm migrating to OAuth. Auth flows seemingly work fine whether I'm running as a web app or on iOS simulator. However, creating Bluesky posts only works well on web, but fails silently on iOS simulator. 1/

What the fuck....?

The puzzles in @doublefine.com’s Keeper are barely there, but damn if it isn’t the world’s prettiest Salvador Dali Walking Simulator.

CNN can be and often is pretty shit, but that's a choice image for how Putin is doing exactly what he wants with the U.S..