GameStop trying to buy eBay feels very much like the financial version of a bloke with £14 in his account offering to purchase Waitrose “under new leadership”. #gamestop #ebay

Given these three-cornered leeks by our friend Diana from her allotment, just in time for the spring equinox. Softer than wild garlic, with a clean, green bite. I’ll make a pesto later; the sort that tastes of damp soil warming and longer days ahead. #SpringEquinox 🌼🌗🍃🐝⟡˚ ݁⋆˖₊.𓂃

Wolf Super moon 🌚🌛 over the Kent coast - view from my window.

Entering Le Shuttle on the Eurotunnel, always a little daunting when navigating the edges.

Now for some good news: the UK is finally moving to shut down ripoff ticket resellers. You should soon be able to buy seats directly from venues without touts grabbing everything first. #MusicSky

The race to launch AI apps is moving faster than any real quality control. In the rush to be first, safety and oversight are being ignored and people are getting hurt. When a chatbot can push a child toward suicide, that’s not innovation, it’s negligence. #AI

cool fact, my self-hosted PDS is ~500 microseconds away from my apartment over the internet and that PDS is ~500 microseconds away from its S3 endpoint where my blobs live this is compared to the ~67-75ms jump from my apartment to bsky's US-east PDSs the site is a LOT snappier for me now :)

Tim Berners-Lee: “You shouldn’t be owned, not even your data.” The man who gave us the web for free reminds us: when companies treat your life as their property, the question is simple - who really owns you? #www

The Murdochs are reportedly eyeing a TikTok deal. Remember their last social media adventure with MySpace? That didn’t exactly go well. Moves like this are exactly why decentralised platforms like Bluesky are more important than ever - a place where content isn’t shaped by corporate agendas.

Massive Attack have become the latest act – and first major-label one – to pull their catalogue from Spotify in protest at founder Daniel Ek investing €600m (£520m) in the military AI company Helsing. #massiveattack

"Social media users are tired of losing their identity and data every time a platform shuts down or pivots. In the ATProto ecosystem, users own their data and identities. Bluesky is the first big example, but a new wave of decentralized social networks is just beginning."

Perfectly cooked haddock - Delish - Wonderful view, and the very best company - my Mr. Z! ❤️ What more could a girl ask for on a Friday night! 😁

Morning folks! Have a stellar day! Here's an earworm to get ya started

Funny how the tech broligarchs (and their enablers) keep claiming they can’t afford to pay creators for the work they’ve so brazenly filched from all of us… #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

Anthony Bourdain Day. Last year his coq au vin. This year, Poule au Pot from the Les Halles cookbook. Sausage-stuffed chicken, vegetables, slow-simmered. A quiet, thoughtful dish from a man who made food about far more than eating. #BourdainDay 🐓🥘

Earworm of the day: Joy Division - Shadowplay #OutsideBroadcast #MusicSky #JoyDivision

True the Bluesky 🦋 scale is tipped to the left, but it does offer a stable counterbalance to X. One way would may be to push non-political stories and conversations higher in the discovery feeds etc... @jay.bsky.team

Sad news, RIP, Brian Wilson co-founder of The Beach Boys has died. #thebeachboys #godonlyknows

Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Morning all, it's Thursday and here's my earworm of the day: The Clash - Magnificent Seven. #OutsideBroadcast 🎵

Tickets booked with @dsz.bsky.social to see the 4K restored concert film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII' looking forward to hearing the film's updated sound and new mix by Steven Wilson. #PinkFloyd #MusicSky

So long, Marianne Faithful...

Robert Fripp, Debbie c 1979

Today would have been David Bowie's birthday - here is my Earworm of the day: "Oh! You Pretty Things" "Look out my window, what do I see? Crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me" 🎶

Tip: If you get a haircut at the Dracula Barbershop 🧛 in Ramsgate then don't forget to take a few garlic 🧄 bulbs in your pocket. 🦇

Analysts predict that OpenAI will struggle to raise funds within 3 years, leading Microsoft to potentially acquire it. The #AI hype is expected to slow down, causing firms like OpenAI to seek larger investors. IMO this translates to a deal is probably already in the works. #OpenAI

Hell, yeah! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #251,849!

Oh boy, we sat through 3 hours of tedious disjointed Western clichés watching #Horizon An American Saga. If you value 1/8 of your day then don't watch it.

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground. www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...

Happy Valentine's Day - this is one of my favourite recent-ish photos taken at Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech. It was early morning and it was clocking 33°C (91°F) and we were melting from the heat.

"Just because you get to spin the baton up front. It doesn't make you band leader". #MastersOfTheAir

!jazbot whereami

It would have been David Bowie's birthday today. As I'm currently working in London, I stopped by the Bowie Ziggy Stardust Plaque for a quick photo. Only let down by how hideously commercial the area has become in comparison to when Bowie had his photo op there.

The source of my intermittent internet issues this morning has been diagnosed: cats. There were cats sitting on the router.

Last night, we @goodfood.kitchen went to see the remastered version of the Talking Heads movie, "Stop Making Sense." The soundtrack has been enhanced, and the video upgraded to 4K quality. The footage of the Tom Tom Club performing "Genius of Love" alongside the Talking Heads band, is brilliant.

Introduce yourself with three books you love: Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, A Foundling. Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album. Weaving the Web.

In January, the Bluesky app began with a few hundred users. We’ve since grown past 1 million. I’m proud of what our team has accomplished in the last 9 months: we’ve open sourced the protocol and app, introduced self-verification via custom domains, and enabled algorithmic choice with custom feeds.

Today, the Internet Archive submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive. As we stated when the decision was handed down in March, we believe the lower court made errors in facts and law, so we are fighting on in the face of great challenges. blog.archive.org/2023/09/11/i...

Greetings to the Bluesky community! This marks my inaugural post here. I've been a bystander on the sidelines for several months.