I asked this on Mastodon, but it's only fair I ask here too. Since I am told ATProto is decentralized, how do I migrate my account & posts & everything to another service not controlled in any way by Bluesky corp? The only alternative I'm aware of is Blacksky, but are there any others I've missed?

Yesterday, a glorious moment walking along the north end of the #Portland riverfront, and signs that spring has well and truly arrived. 🙌 #PDX #Bridge #SilentSunday

Welp, now blocking the CTO of Bluesky for promoting slopaganda. Folks, if you don't want to spend all your time on a social network being coded by slopagandists and prompt junkies (via “Claude Code” etc.), can I highly recommend joining a *far* better social network? ☺️ https://jointhefediverse.net

No one wants to use AI—we know that this is a technology in search of an actual use or a "killer app," as they used to say in Silicon Valley, that will attract users to their platform. AI finally found their user base: fascist governments. And this time, the killer app actually kills.

Tech companies: We're going to spend billions of dollars on "AI" datacenters. Real people: And our kids can still walk to school safely, right? Tech companies: No. This is the reality of today's U.S. politics. It makes my brain bleed… 😵‍💫

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

And a new game emerges! I'll get things started: * Journalism is better when it's backed by live banjo. * Journalism is better when it's backed by live eels. Now it's your turn! Journalism is better when it's backed by live __________.

So they have no plan. Got it.

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Samuel the Alternate Man is on the fast track to turning his company into one of the most lothed & reviled in mainstream tech consciousness. OpenAI will go down in history as a blatent example of corporate cowardice & greed, one nearly unparalleled on the world stage.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Some other recommendations: * The Boy in the Bubble (Graceland, Paul Simon) * In the Air Tonight (Face Value, Phil Collins) * Conditioning (Human's Lib, Howard Jones) * Who Needs Love Like That (Wonderland, Erasure) * Look Out Any Window (Scenes from the Southside, Bruce Hornsby)

In 2019, the economic costs of US car crashes totaled $340 billion. This is equivalent to $1,035 for each of the 328 million people living in the US, & 1.6% of the 2019 GDP. Including quality-of-life valuations, the total value of societal harm from motor vehicle crashes was nearly $1.4 trillion.

Well well, the Dow's well under 50,000 points. Sorry Pam B.!

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

OK. I don't know if this is a Portland thing or a post-COVID thing or a "these days" thing but there's something lacking in cowork culture here. I felt a more vibrant creative indie cowork space culture in bedroom communities of suburban CA mid-2010s than today in Portland. And I can't explain why.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

Yeah, I'm watching "Donald Trump" tonight! …as played by Sebastian Stan in "The Apprentice" 😂 I saw this was on a free streamer and didn't get a chance to see it before, so figured it was worth a shot.

Life is better when you block assholes

Just gave my business website a much needed facelift! I'm still looking for a new client ... I can help with anything #Ruby / #Rails / #Hotwire / Web development. Get in touch if you'd like to work with me or have any leads!

Hey, everybody arguing about if X or if Bluesky is "The Commons" The correct answer is (obviously) *neither*. geez 🙄 Also there are other social networks…! I have way better engagement & convo in the fediverse than here, plus it's all non-profit/hobbyist services. Maybe THAT's the commons! 😁

Disenchanted. I wasn't expecting a sequel to Enchanted to be perfect, but I also wasn't expecting an absolute dumpster fire. I was legit angry about this movie for like weeks! 😬

CEO Sam Altman: “Alysa Liu uses far more energy when she's free skating on the way to winning her gold medal at the Winter Olympics than ChatGPT does when you ask it a question about Olympic free skating.” 🥇🤖

So…when will this guy look in the mirror and admit to himself he's part of the reason our country is even in this sorry mess to begin with?? …not holding my breath! (video clip h/t: @barbaraj.sobel)

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New AI model dropped? Meh. New priority bus lane dropped…in a city on the other side of the country from me? **YYEEEAAAAHHH!!!!!** 🙌👏🙌👏🙌

Um, I can be pissed off at Sam Altman & Tim Cook because of the choices they make. I don't care one iota they are gay. If anything, I am saddened their place in LGBTQ+ hasn't sufficently informed their sense of ethics, but that's a different conversation. I *really* don't care if gay men run SV!

I love the fact that *so* many responses to that terrible "what technology is the left excited about" article are like, we're excited about trains. And solar power. And vaccines. Like, y'know, stuff that actually benefits everyone and also helps the planet and also isn't wretched.

yep, we all know that children everywhere are scarred for life and will never read again if they are forced to read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

You have a real problem when the Boss and the Edge (along with the other Dublin lads) are all writing songs about you…and not in a good way. This is 🔥 Nobody does it like U2. Nobody. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ziTSYyook

September 24, 2024: Mark Zuckerberg Is Done With Politics February 18, 2026: Meta makes biggest-ever electoral investment in pro-AI state politicians

A wild Jared has appeared, roaming the streets of #portland in an old fedora hat.

And not just in regard to things, but people. It's important to keep caring. It's important to keep caring about how people work (not just labor), and how we're built (cognitively, emotionally). There is a remarkable lack of care in this age; carelessness at scale. This will not hold. It can't.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar work "will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake. We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

losing my goddamn mind over here https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

Elon is so full of it, he's not even good at being a racist. First of all he misspelled Scots. Second of all, he seems oblivious to how the Irish were discriminated against ("No Irish Need Apply"), as well as how poor classes were often treated badly by their own aristocratic overlords.

It's a little bonkers we're having so many flowers blooming already in February, right?? Happy Valentine's Day! 💘🌹🌸 #Portland #PDX

All right, time for a bit of levity. Who's a wacky comedian you can name who could simply just walk on to any stage without saying a word and then just stand there motionless, and we'd all be roaring with laughter already? I'll go first: Kenan Thompson. 🤣

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

You can never learn enough history.

Some slopologist thought they'd owned me with a dumb meme, so I fired up imgflip and owned them right back. You're welcome. 😎

Right. You've got to fight fire with fire. If the hype is absolutely off the charts, then the amount of raging pushback has to be similarly off the charts! Look, *do* I want be raging about AI tomfoolery every day? lol nope. I'd much rather hike through trees or play an instrument. Yet here we are.

Pedoligarchy.

HB 456: Protecting Kids from Pesticides Overwhelmingly the evidence suggests that children are particularly susceptible to the well established harms of pesticide exposure. It is our duty as physicians to do no harm, which is why UPHE supports H.B. 456.

These guys really just make up The Onion headline rejects all day, don't they. 🙃

The true winner of the Winter Olympics. 👏👏