Just ordered. Can’t wait for this book. Congrats @robsheridan.bsky.social !

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Math is hard

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

In 2020, it became apparent that a lot of people had been asleep in science class. Well, in 2025, it’s become quite apparent that they slept through history class, too. #Resist

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

Let's Gooo! techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

Here is a (free) gift link to read our Musk story today: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/t...

Fox News talking about Luigi Mangione, but make the footage Kyle Rittenhouse

Signal is famous for knowing as little about its users as possible. The app isn’t hoarding metadata, tracking you, or showing you ads. President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social sees a shift underway as the monoliths of big tech lose popularity and the old economics of Silicon Valley become brittle.

Most of them were always dicks — arrested in adolescence. Now dicks with money, in the midst of a profound midlife crisis.

Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track

Love Halide and Kino - check it out if you haven’t yet.

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

DO IT

Intro has been in my head for months. Glad we finally got the full song. #squabbleup #gnx #kendricklamar

It’s a good Friday with no skips Kendrick. #gnx #kendricklamar music.apple.com/us/album/gnx...

Saafir of Hobo Junction, formerly of Digital Underground and Golden State Warriors passed away the day after the 30th anniversary of the legendary Hieroglyphics/Hobo Junction live on air battle on The Wake Up Show Saafir saying “Hella… we hella raw!” on Casual’s “Fear Itself” changed history.

Give this guy a follow. Bluesky is lucky to have him. @jeremyhenson.bsky.social

Normalize not using the word BREAKING before posts. #bluesky

bluesky request. do not follow or reward quote-doomers. people who quote an article and only add something like "you have no idea how bad this is" or "it's over" or "say goodbye to everything you love". they succeed from your stress. they're bringing you down with them. stay awake; not like this.

oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now sciencetimes.com/articles/509...

@caseynewton.bsky.social we need a small part of Hard Fork to talk about this AI rap diss track from Drake to Kendrick. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Here for the Thread roasting.

The fundamental problem with how Spez & Elon Musk are running Reddit and Twitter is that they assume people have no choice but to keep posting and reading their sites. This is such a stark contrast from Meta which is eternally paranoid about users growing tired and leaving its apps.

Apple's photos widget will be like "Remember this moment?" and it's the pandemic

Both. The invite tree accountability makes people more judicious about bringing in solid people, the early suspensions of bad accounts increased trust/confidence about commitment to safety, and the smaller community feels safer too. I do get nervous for #s going up & harassment campaigns starting

Congrats to Bluesky for hitting another major milestone today (Elon Musk blocking links to it on Twitter)

My thoughts on AI music.

We've started to use invite chains as an input for reputation. Invites are private to servers, and can be tooling for server admins to protect their community. After today, if a banned/actioned account invited you or you invited them, your posts may temporarily not show up in the What’s Hot feed.

guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch

alright, who's handing out the uninvite codes

Setting my filters to: Veteran of The Old Internet

Great episode. Go listen!