Seemingly all of Bluesky has taken reporting by Nexstar-owned The Hill and taken it at face value. Watch the actual video of the press conference and tell me if the article is a faithful representation of the facts.

BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history. The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.

I love that phrasing, "a little bit brave." You don't need any one person to be super brave if you can get a lot of people to be a little brave.

Read the highlighted sentence a few times, jfc From @lukeferrell.bsky.social's "THE MEANS-TESTING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

Second report of an ongoing campaign to hijack Singal accounts. Journalists and community organizers be aware! Never share codes, PINs, or passwords over text/email.

Wow, I was not expecting him to double down on this position. The smart move would have been to throw the ICE agents who killed Pretti under the bus, but it seems they have no coherent strategy other than “deny reality”

View from above

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

PSA for anyone using signal (or really any messaging apps)

As clergy pray, arrests begin

The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Open social is the future

Over 160 years later, Minnesota's courage still refuses to waver

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

Impeccable aura

This is a really good feed and it's become my go-to for Bluesky since I learned about it last week. I am an idiot so I don't know what makes it different, but it is better.

It's funny how Zohran's tactic appears to be showing up to things that are well-known problems and going "wait why haven't we fixed this yet"

That said, we know people want more safety tools, so @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social and I are building them! Here's what that looks like in our client. My post got a lot of interactions and then a big account reposted it, so alerts showed up and I have tools to deal with it. Give us more ideas!

I oscillate between both ends a couple of times per week

'Souls Tied' A deeply personal, and very special, image to me. Taken back in 2021 at the iconic Dark Hedges. This image won both 'World Landscape Photographer 2022' & the 'UK Landscape Photographer Of The Year - Black & White' category. #landscapephotography #northernireland #darkhedges

These Ukrainian girls are risking their lives defending freedom, showing far more courage and “ethos” than self-styled “warriors” whose patriotism peaks in killing defenseless castaways. Let's stand together & support decency! Still €4,300 to go: euromaidanpress.com/lets-support...

Fascinating. Wasn’t there also a recent study about creatine and sleep? I wonder if there is some connection there?

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Great and immediately practical piece by @asmartbear.com. A lot of his writing is useful when reasoning about complex/fuzzy systems in general. longform.asmartbear.com/roi-rubric/

National Guard members accompany their own mother to her immigration appointment in order to protect her from ICE.

This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil

We need more waitresses in Congress. secure.actblue.com/donate/cooke...

If you watch only one video today, let it be this one. Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America. His words could not be more on point and timely. Please pass it on.

Great strategy, positioning, marketing, and products read as “simple,” because they're born from clear thinking and writing. The process was likely messy, painful, protracted. Like an Olympian making it "look easy." Greatness appears effortless, but never is.

Initial conditions: m1=85.7 m2=17.2 m3=0.6 (solar masses) v1x=2.975 v1y=3.757 v2x=2.769 v2y=-4.583 v3x=-0.791 v3y=1.96 (km/s) x1=-24.0 y1=-25.0 x2=13.0 y2=-12.0 x3=8.0 y3=20.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in C Major – Bach

i see i’m not getting credited for a scoop again 🤡

Do LLMs Think Like Humans? They find that, While LLMs achieve broad categorical alignment with human judgment, they falter in capturing fine-grained semantic nuances such as typicality and, critically, exhibit vastly different representational efficiency profiles.

My approach to arguing with extremists online is pretty simple: I don’t. You don’t fight a forest fire by jumping into the middle where it’s hottest—you start at the edges, where it can still be contained. I’ve found it’s much more worthwhile to talk with people who are open to learning.

@hailey.at does this mean you folks are going to fix the Discover feed? I’m rooting for the Bluesky team and I think you all made the right call with focusing on the verified feature first! But I think the Discover feed being a wall of doomerism is not exactly great for the site.

Exceptional writing.

Updated paper by physicians at Harvard, Stanford, and other academic medical centers testing (the now obsolete) o1-preview for medical reasoning & diagnosis tasks: “In all experiments—both vignettes and emergency room second opinions—the LLM displayed superhuman diagnostic and reasoning abilities.”

PSA:

Interesting design trend towards more "expressive" UIs - s2.spectrum.adobe.com/index.html - m3.material.io - spotify.design

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

A trend I've noticed over the past few weeks. Bluesky is developing its own subculture, and it is truly starting to blossom.

I don't understand how there is so much proof that X and company create bad incentives for content creators, yet people still continue to support it. Bluesky (and atproto) don't solve every problem, but they are clearly a step in the right direction!

This is a useful framework for writing technical docs. diataxis.fr

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Both ATProto and Anthropic's MCP spec are picking OAuth as their auth layer. Both have highly distributed endpoints with many participants, where pre-registration isn't feasible. I pulled together notes and links on this bmannconsulting.com/notes/atprot...

How does this happen? Why would they vote on a bill and not make absolutely sure that all Dems are present? How often does that happen? Someone please enlighten me. Who is coordinating this? Isn't their primary job to represent the will of the people by voting?

I'm finding tests exceptionally useful for dogfooding my own interfaces. If the tests are annoying to set up, then there is probably an issue in they way I have modularized my code.

> " a U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians". This is an absolutely revolting display of inhumanity.