i keep getting signed out of the bluesky app every day. ☹️

the most kermit-nod on-brand rich person company purchase of the last 10 years www.theverge.com/news/718639/...

ah yes, a social feed in which nothing is real, taking my "hot take that's actually a joke" about myspace in 2005 all the way to reality techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/c...

somehow Apple is fine with THIS being in the App Store, meanwhile every other app gets a harsh phone call and an app rejection if they have women in bikinis techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/g...

i bet that one person working at twitter who quit long ago and was the sole person still supporting the vine archive is very upset right now, and rightfully so techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/e...

"A social networking service, theGlobe.com made headlines by going public on November 13, 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date." - Wikipedia theglobe.com on May 22, 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20010522050731if_/http://www.theglobe.com:80

abnormally jazzed to note that i’ll be working as director of product at Raptive, helping to build a fun new creator-first community platform!

"we don't keep logs of conversations" but "there's no legal confidentiality when using chatgpt as therapist" cannot both be true, because if you're not keeping logs, then the conversation must be confidential, right? ...right? (OF COURSE they keep logs!) techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/s...

@asklumo.proton.me my chat history may be encrypted locally, but obviously something is being transmitted to a server and parsed on that server by a model. that part can’t possibly be encrypted by my keys. why not use a local model on device to ensure complete end to end encryption, no server?

everybody wants graphs with numbers going up and to the right! who wouldn’t want some more? techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/t...

age verification is coming for everybody, watch out folks, it's gonna be rough and privacy-invasive! www.theverge.com/news/704468/...

even youtube knows that the monocultural singular trending feed is long dead www.theverge.com/news/704222/...

nightmare fuel: your car transforming into MechaHitler as you're just trying to commute to work techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...

meanwhile, testing tea consumption patterns 2,000 years into it is still worthwhile, thank you for your service dynomight.net/tea/

once again academia swinging into the scene 10+ years too late, thanks for missing the boat. neat you paid attention but shouldn't you be on the forefront rather than the backfoot? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

had the random circumstance to be listening to many hours of Ozzy's Boneyard on SiriusXM and it was mostly a journey of me wondering how anybody, anywhere, could've ever been morally panicked about this kind of music. it's all so fun and obviously tongue-in-cheek! and great riffs, of course.

every day i wonder whether anybody could make this stuff up as a plotline for Silicon Valley or Black Mirror or something and i realize that we don't need dark satire TV anymore arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

big big DAU driver. can’t wait to see if the downstream bluesky stats move in tandem! www.theverge.com/news/699671/...

Both FAR games are currently heavily discounted in the Steam Summer Sale 🥰 A perfect time to gift it to friends or tell people to play it 🙏 store.steampowered.com/developer/ok...

robocalling in the new age techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/m...

hmmmmmmmmm you don’t say arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/m...

what is this, 2016? techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/s...

😏 techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/a...

just can’t imagine how this could go wrong, taking an essentially human-centric feature and handing it over to AI techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/x...

the fact that Anthropic literally "tore off the bindings" of books and then threw them away to get at what they wanted sounds exactly like how ruthless they are to me. knowing that, imagine what they're doing with that data and your data. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

please realize that allowing an app to have complete access to your phone’s photo library inevitably leads to this, which is why iOS keeps asking if you’re really sure you wanna allow it www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...

what’s “harmful to minors” is gonna be a fun space to watch. also, uploading your ID everywhere, not just for porn. just you wait. privacy and security engineers having nightmares already. techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/s...

everything on social eventually comes back to brands wanting to get the social part out of the way and just have direct access to its audience techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/t...

i guess it has been long enough for us to rehash this movie theme again, ugh. when do i get a new Poseidon Adventure? www.theverge.com/news/693198/...

another one for the “sure we destroyed the world, but for awhile there we created a lot of shareholder value” meme, thanks bernie techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/b...

gamifying retention in ways that’ll probably be a part of social media sooner than we think www.theverge.com/news/691308/...

big “please dont put in the newspaper that im working on a wearable” energy www.theverge.com/openai/69173...

sounds familiar 👀

love how the app for my car shows its VIN mostly-obscured like an SSN with asterisks for most of its characters, but then has the same VIN as the default profile name in fully unobscured plaintext in the same view. very smart security measures.

one thing i haven't taken enough time to dig into here on bluesky: if i'm posting about "Tech", how do i get to show up in the "Tech" suggested accounts that official bluesky is listing under that category? please don't tell me it's manually curated...

the full WSJ interview makes even more sense to me as to why Apple hasn't shipped what the ChatGPT-focused people were expecting. they're building something that's more like a toolkit beneath the product, not a product-chatbot in itself, because those chatbots suck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEk...

“reportedly only 62% of U.S. adults own any stocks directly” — i didn’t know you could use the word “only” to describe a majority of people. also, “stock trading family plan” is too funny. can’t wait to read @mattlevineofficial.bsky.social ‘s take on this. techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/g...

“what if it was reddit, but not. again.” digg 2: the search for more money. lining up with the spaceballs 2 announcement is pretty perfect. but yeah, 24 hour resetting leaderboards is an interesting DAU play, could also backfire wonderfully. techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/h...

and people think bluesky is an echo chamber, threads is like “hold my beer” techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/a...

film is fun in that they do literally just sell the exact same film stock with a different brand name on it and just slap an extra $2.50 per roll on it, and it works! www.theverge.com/news/689006/...

nobody could've guessed this turn of events!!! www.theverge.com/news/688252/...

solid gold internet content www.craigslist.org/about/best/a...

folks have forgotten that tumblr pioneered automated misclassification of adult content back in 2018. history repeats. techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/t...

i’d love to know what percentage of threads DAUs even know the fediverse toggle exists in the first place, let alone who would actually use this feed. my bet would be way less than 1%. www.theverge.com/news/688267/...

little late now… techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/m...

“social app on the blockchain” feels like five years ago techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/o...

roses!!!

feels weird that they’d choose this as the first rich text option, but okay techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/t...

social medias is the same techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/i...

coooooooooooooooooooooool riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/u...