Glad Zuck is standing up to Palo Alto NIMBYs. Anybody, including Zuck, should be allowed to run a local school in their home, free from nanny state bullshit. What you should be mad about is people poorer than Zuck who don't have the cash & lawyers to stand up to petty permitting lawfare from NIMBYs

Before I hear your jibber jabber on politics, I need you to recognize this is the median voter:

My side project is Web3 + Web5, so Web8. The Ocho!

I don't think we can pitch decentralization as a solution to people who want a bad account banned because they're not trying to fix what they see in their own feeds, they're trying to control what I see in mine. Fixing their own feeds is already accomplished by blocking and going on with your day

A truly neutral platform will host people you consider evil. If it doesn't, it's not neutral - it just agrees with you.

The POIDH (pics or it didn't happen) miniapp on Farcaster crowdfunded a bounty for the most kickflips in a minute and Dave here just broke the world record! farcaster.xyz/davebachinsk...

Since everyone is still giving hot takes: IMHO the biggest mistake was ever having a 'trust & safety' team or 'community guidelines.' The only rule shoulda been: "this is a tech demo, if you annoy us in any way for any reason, we will ban you & maybe all your followers, if toxic enough"

The constitution should be a living document: a large language model powered by Worldcoin™

Kinda surprised the ATProto repo doesn't build out of the box on main...is there not a CI commit hook checking this stuff? I can't be the only one trying this...

Orange Dreamsicle Negroni & a "Night in Cancun" clarified tequila/mango milk sour with Hibiscus foam.

That time I was forced to participate in a team-building exercise based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Happy Negroni Week!

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

A widow chose love. Trump chose hate. Carlson chose conspiracy. The crowd chose laughter. Faith turned into fraud, right before our eyes.

I hereby endorse Taste of Persia in San Jose. 11/10 😋

I'm seeing enough misinfo on here that I think Community Notes should probably be pushed up in the 'priority stack' of features.

Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The FDA is touting this as a success, but ultimately it's an illustration of how its own failures to reasonably regulate e-cigs are fueling a massive illicit market. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I agree with this article, I will admit I scrolled my discover feed anticipating some appalling takes, but for the most part I did not find them, quite tame TBH. The whining on X about "how bad Bluesky was" was just a blatant attempt to poison-the-well & shame ppl from trying decentralized social.

Also: engineering approaches to inference are strictly better for complex systems. Period. If your analysis pipeline is not amenable to engineering approaches to inference, then you're better off spending time finding a way to represent your data so that it becomes amenable.

On the surface, the notion that stablecoins don't need decentralized rails (like Ethereum) sounds plausible if not obvious. But it's wrong. 🧵

Private blockchains: still dumb paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/t...

Can any ATProto gurus give the lowdown on why I need to enter my password on a different domain from my PDS? For ex, here's deer.social's login page. Why is OAuth not a thing here? It breaks password managers (read: phishing waiting to happen)

Occasionally, I like writing long casts in my own voice, but sometimes I just braindump into a Claude chat window and let it do the expounding for me, this is one of those: paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/t...

You've gotta be kidding me. Appalling.

Donald Trump to address the nation tonight to explain statistical sampling error in detail.

Happy Birthday Ethereum! Believe in SomΞthing.

This story is wild. The FBI violated a warrant & took an innocent woman’s life savings. They never said why—because they don’t have to. She sued to stop that. Her case was thrown out last week. So the feds can keep seizing people’s stuff without charges or explanation. reason.com/2025/07/28/t...

Farcaster just launched collectible casts and it's awesome. farcasterhq.notion.site/Collectibles...

Oh snap! One hatched already

I am streaming across Twitch, @stream.place and retake.tv on Farcaster. retake.tv/live/453 Interestingly enough both stream.place and retake are both using @livepeer.bsky.social as their video encoding backends. But on retake, I launched a Clanker token ($FINCH) and made $300 from memecoiners lmao

Great meetup! Hope these continue (and I can bring something to show & tell)!

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/dfern.eth.xyz House Finch Nest Birdwatching

I have a House finch nesting on my back patio. You can watch it here: www.twitch.tv/daferna

"Fireworks warehouse exploded in Yolo County" Nominative determinism wins again.

finally a good fucking gimmick account

Somewhat interesting that all this just also happens to coincide with the anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Su...

My long term prediction is that social media that enables real economic value transfer will win over zero-skin-in-the-game social media. If you are providing value to your followers, you should be capturing some of that value, and there is no better place than Farcaster.

If you build your messaging with end-to-end-encryption only the members in the group can see the messages, the servers can't. So there is never any data to hand over. Also, stop using Telegram.

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

A long time coming, I was a summer intern working on stuff related to this years ago... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

I'm a big fan of the new tipping meta on Farcaster. Reward people for the value they bring into your feed. Zero crypto required (it's all stablecoins). And it actually works! (unlike the lightning network)

Going up to SF to see this: lu.ma/jna1kbdj?tk=...

Great read www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

The prosecution of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm raises larger concerns "that could chill the future development of privacy-enhancing technologies more broadly," EFF argued in its brief.

This would make something I'm trying to do a lot easier

Reporting on the L.A. fires had me wondering how well the rebuilding efforts on Maui have been going since the August 2023 fires. Of the 2,000 homes destroyed or severely damaged, a grand total of 3 have been rebuilt. That's a rate of one home rebuilt every six months. reason.com/2025/01/22/1...

Ross Ulbricht pardoned! Brian Doherty, who has been covering his case from the beginning, weighs in reason.com/2025/01/21/p...

Ross should never have gone to prison and Biden should never have let Trump have this win.

Ross Ulbricht was neither charged with nor convicted of anything relating to contract killings. That was a throwaway accusation from the prosecutors at a bail hearing. He did not deserve to go to prison and he definitely did not deserve to spend his life in prison.