@durumcrustulum.com There are several Internet-Drafts I'm excited about on your Github (X-Wing, PQ HPKE) but sadly they all seem to be expired and the "Editor's Copy" goes to a 404. What's happening here, will these efforts come back to life?

At this difficult time it is important to have a large cat

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

My id used to be ciphergoth dot bsky dot social, then I changed it to ciphergoth dot org. Now my old ID is ... retweeting my posts? What's going on? Surely when I move my ID, it sets up a redirect rather than letting someone take the old ID?

Some people sort of absurdly rotate between this posture of being nice in person and then dunking online for the approval of their friends, then apologizing and say they don’t really mean it, then doing it again, and you quickly realize they are simply unable to resist any social pressure at all

ME: from now on I’m only working 3 days a week BOSS: wtf ME: no, mtw

probably the coolest one sentence wikipedia bio i’ve seen in a while

At Manifest (?) @benlandautaylor said that being on the edge of bankruptcy is a fine place for a large, functional non-profit. I think he gets bayes points for that. Lightcone is $139k off their lowest target.

It's slightly odd that people come here because they think that Twitter is too awful, when Bluesky's most important product differentiation over Twitter is "On Bluesky, death threats are A-OK!" x.com/davidshor/st...

Real "but I did have breakfast" moment here bsky.app/profile/dust...

Stolen from a Slatestarcodex commenter, but it was my favorite tweet from the other place so I'm using it as my first post here

Sorry to be the one to pull this card but I have basically zero trust for the results of a poll done by a bunch of inexperienced people who contracted out to Pollfish and picked an obviously highly attention seeking topic to launch their new “think tank”

Abandoning bsky for now, but will be back when this is fixed: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I think more than being correct this is almost the entire explanation for politics in 2024. The ease of digital publishing and ludicrous increase in screen time means that people are, more than ever, living in a world shaped to activate them emotionally - in practice, by inducing rage and despair.

This is one of those stories that I keep thinking will get bigger and bigger but which no-one outside of small security circles is talking about much... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Some wild, terrifying, but wholly unverified stuff about the South Korean coup going around!

It's like they made a list of every single safety-related commitment or effort they'd ever engaged with, and are now working through it trying to remove every one. www.ft.com/content/2c14...

On Threads my platypus got a poem!

so true

absolutely incredible attack vector

This is not a quadrilemma exclusively for private insurance -- in countries with some form of single payer, the same point applies. Most (like the UK) will make procedures unavailable when they don't think the benefit justifies the cost, regardless of what your doctor thinks.

I always think it’s like a little gift to the far-right every time this sort of thing happens. Because they can then say: See! I told you libs are intolerant. Come on over to us, where we’re not going to judge you for having normie opinions.

Bluesky moderation is insane.

like, the difference between "I think this mass shooter was good" and "I think the cop who shot this mass shooter is good" is not a difference in if they promote violence. if your platform has a rule against promoting violence and either of those are allowed your platform's rules are a lie.

It is... not good... that sharing an article published in The Economist is flagged by moderation as "intolerance".

Normalize saying “I need to think about that.”

I block every account I see that follows more than 10k accounts.

Last time Trump imposed tariffs on China They retaliated against American soybean farmers-who then lost all their Chinese buyers And the farmers had to get bailed out by subsidies So not only were the tariffs an abject failure They wound up costing the American people $23 billion in subsidies

i had a similar idea, replies can be any number of characters but every 300 characters the font size goes down by 2

I don't particularly know Rosie -- I think we've said maybe a few words to each other at some conference -- but I know how many of the smartest, gutsiest, most principled people I know in the Bay Area see her. OpenAI is not going down a great path, and her departure is their loss and a warning.

There’s a certain category of sentiments I like to summarize as “fuck you for trying”- hoping plants are sentient so vegetarians feel bad is one of those sentiments

Sign of the times

I mean, maybe, but we absolutely may not call it 'IAEA for AI' that is insane.

What's the Bluesky equivalent of a prescribed burn?

This is a Muhammed Wang error. Sure, at least 11% of voters think tariffs will make things more expensive but want them anyway. But we don't know that this 11% overlap with the 79% prioritizing lower prices.

Does BlueSky consider things like follows and likes to be spam, if the obvious purpose is to get your attention? Is it worth reporting?

The replies 100% get it :)

Me a long time ago, removed from my flat and placed on a space age background. Why yes I am quite bored, how kind of you to notice 😅

ok great I can make a 3rd party appview and tweet to myself. do I have to convince all of my followers to switch to my appview? this is just centralization with extra steps

chat is this true? is there any long-term plan for allowing people to be able to maintain access to their social graph without the bluesky org's permission? if this were true that would imply "no", correct?

If there was a drug that made people smarter, I think it would be odd to say that instead of taking the drug people should just solve problems faster and more accurately.

Twitter is pushing me away hard at this point.

I'm disappointed to see BlueSky actually banning accounts in a way that makes their content totally invisible instead of just labeling posts. What is the point of configurable moderation if there's just a layer above it with no option to opt out?

"we're not in a bubble, we just block people who think differently because we know they're wrong" is ... certainly a take

I think this is basically bad. This looks to me like a pretty base form of social conservatism that is opposed to difference and creativity outside of an established mould.

This is good.