Sure, banning words will fix prompt injection techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/y...

The EU's East flank will collapse soon because of its failure to prosecute the rampant corruption here. Russian info-ops are just giving slight pushes here and there, but most of this comes from local politicians slobbering at the mouth for more theft and impunity

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

"Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic." 🎁 article

This is the flip side: bsky.app/profile/mary... Agents bundle trust in a way that IDEs do not, and trust can be a taller hurdle. There's a time window before they clear that hurdle where FrankenIDEs may clean themselves up. Or @zed.dev can just eat their lunch. 🤷‍♂️

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap

This can't be a human. This has got to be a Petter Watts vampire with an art-compulsion mutation.

cyberscoop.com/github-inter... WELL THAT DOESN'T SEEM GREAT.

yep yep yep PDS resolution is TABLE STAKES. You don't have to go full OAuth if you're not ready, but any time I have to type in my PDS url is a mistake.

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

The IDE was a useful bundle when devs had to manually navigate text. The agent does the navigating (and a ton of editing!) now, so the bundle stops earning its keep. Cleanest unbundling keeps winning. numergent.com/2026-05/IDE-...

*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵

Github Copilot's service quality degradation continues at such a breakneck pace that you'd think there's some internal metric around making it suck. Maybe if they drive away everyone who had a yearly subscription before the new limits were in place, they'll burn less money.

This is painful to read. If you are into film or literature, it's at the very least an Euclid-level cognitohazard, and the fact I'm reposting it might mean it's Keter.

We need to bring @penny-arcade.com’s Glasshole back into the vernacular. www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/0...

(Screams in Ricardo)

i made a separate channel for myself in a discord with friends just so i have a place to scream, because thats what happens every time i write about eu regulations lol

"I'm gonna sue you because people don't want my product" is, incidentally, not the most compelling IPO narrative

Interior of a Tavern (flipped), by Adriaen Brouwer, 1630, 📸 by @asiakpurnell

The Adobe Good Name ship sailed so long ago that by now it’s mostly through the Here Be Dragons’ dragon intestinal tract.

Fewer, pricier flights from MAD -> BER, at mostly indecent hours, and I understand the current predictions are that by end of June / start of July Germany may be out of jet fuel. Things are looking like @localfirstconf.com will have to be a last-minute decision.

New in Winesky: you can now share sommelier recommendations with friends. Picking wine for dinner, settling a debate, or just showing off a great find — send the link, skip the screenshots. winesky.app/ViewRecommen...

reupping this again after @patak.cat shared it yesterday, because holy hell it's good. in which @anniesexton.com grapples with the realities of AI and code, and ethics, AI and art, and life, and eating beef, and grief at devalued skills, and all of the things.

ATProto, by design, refuses to be the place where things happen. Decisions live in apps. Value derives from execution, and execution will demand focus. This is application primacy — and it's why I don't expect an ATmospheric "everything app": numergent.com/2026-05/ATPr...

This is what composable data and coopetition look like in the wild. Each cross-app render is one more user wondering why Instagram ever made them choose.

Composable, composable, composable, composable. Composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable. Composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable, composable.

We don’t win by re-building the same Web 2.0 experiences (but on an open protocol). We win by making them intertwined - so that your friends who are into microblogging can interact with you although you’re into photos. Interoperability is our strongest advantage.

ID verification can provide an initial degree of trust but requiring real names doesn't equal safer social media, it instead increases risk of harassment and abuse.

#OtD 9 May 2012 Vidal Sassoon, "anti-fascist warrior hairdresser" died aged 84. As a teenager in London he fought Oswald Mosley's fascists in the streets with his hairdressing scissors, as part of the militant 43 Group. Learn about the group in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

Bloody visceral — love it.

And while we are in the business of supporting all our brothers and sisters, we must also acknowledge that trans rights are essential to a healthy, resilient polity. Scapegoating defeats the project, and utterly poisons the well. We are all in this together.

If we accept that brown and black people somehow deserve less respect, then the entire progressive paradigm falls apart and is meaningless. There can be no grand coalition without all our brother and sisters being celebrated, respected, defended and fought for. Always be making the tent bigger

Infrastructure projects, fuck yeah!

I think we already know how to do decentralized identity, the issue is that is has trade-offs, the most relevant ones here being 1. need for an RPC endpoint to resolve 2. blockchain cooties I guess people won't accept those trade-offs as long as the centralized thing seems to be working for them

"Cancelled. The author was killed by russia." Ahead of the Biennale, activists presented the "Invisible Pavilion" in Venice dedicated to Ukrainian artists murdered by russia. Volodymyr Vakulenko will never present his tales for children — he was tortured during the occupation of Kharkiv region.

Well, well, look who's starting to look more and more like a social app...

Hard to believe there's a Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year, but I guess the organizers just really, really like money. And look who shows up. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Composable data is going to be the ATmosphere's killer feature. Most users won't get it yet. But when the penny drops on “wait, if my data can work across more than one app...”, this discovery tool will send them down a rabbithole.

Northsky Social exists due to Bluesky Trust & Safety's unequal enforcement of their guidelines and their targeting of the trans community, palestinian community, and more. If you're at risk of having your account banned due to this unequal enforcement, you can apply for immediate migration

A key reason why engineers outperform LLMs is we are trained in college to not make mistakes. Unfortunately they did not train us to avoid hallucinating, which is one area where the right prompt will give a model an edge.

Hilarious that I lived to see an actual real-world legal firm that I have to assume is not staffed entirely by 7-year-olds arguing that North Korea "stole that money fair and square".

The community fuck-ups will continue until decentralization improves.

Hey y'all, I'm looking for some work to bridge the gap while I continue working on @cartridge.dev and @happyview.dev. If you have contract work for #atproto projects (planning, code, architecture), I'd be delighted to help. DM me with details. #atproto #OpenToWork #LookingForWork

To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.

I have relinquished the Star of Elendil. I don’t think I was ready.

You had a good run for a while there, @vscode.dev Time comes for us all.

New from me: Federation Has a European Legal Problem on what the recent Russmedia ruling means for open social protocols like ActivityPub and atproto warning: do not read if you value your sanity connectedplaces.online/federation-h...

Cuckoos can beget Offshoots — and that's a sensational feature of keeping lexicons open. @rude1.blacksky.team and @anirudh.fi just demonstrated how ATProto's app-layer credible exit is meant to work, socially and technically. numergent.com/2026-04/Cuck...

Fitness+ can't seem to figure out that after every strength session I do a 10-minute treadmill run. That's machine learning you could've shipped on a ColecoVision. And these people are trying to compete in the AI race.

Don’t wear these things, people. Full stop.