“About 26% of parents who participated in the survey admitted to allowing their children to bypass age checks, with 17% who said they actively helped their kids.” www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

here's what we're thinking: 1) you have 5 minutes to edit a post 2) you can only edit each posts once 3) images and videos can’t be edited 4) a prominent "edited" badge appears on the post 5) version history is visible to everyone 6) your account has to be at least a week old

For those whose replies are largely *edit post wen?* - do please add your opinion to Alex's thread.

Extremely cool job alert!

Kudos to Ireland’s parliament (Oireachtas) for concluding that an under 16 ban for social media is likely to do more harm than good. Curious to see how it plays out with Patrick O’Donovan insisting that he’s going to push one through. www.kfmradio.com/news/nationa...

Last week I was on a planned vacation, which ended up being good timing given a wave of dogpiling directed at me. One positive difference from similar moments in the past is that our detection systems for coordinated harassment and abusive pile-ons are improving. So I don't need to see any of it.

this is the basic reality-distortion field aspect of mobbing. the friend/enemy distinction in your brain grabs hold of your reason and drags it around like a dog. you stop being able to see the world in front of your face.

Tbh part of why people hate decaf is the lack of caffeine - but also because it’s usually badly done with heavy chemicals. I used to drink terrible quality decaf as I switched to low caffeine options and when the first smell is more like burnt rubber, you aren’t doing yourself any favours.

Super sleep deprived. Ground some decaf beans manually, threw them in the aeropress that folks on bluesky convinced me to buy, did not measure the water or the immersion time. This is by far the best cup of coffee that I have likely made in months. I have no idea how to reproduce.

BREAKING: The Chinese government pressured Zambia to screen + exclude Taiwanese speakers attending @rightscon.org, leading to the largest international convention on digital rights being canceled a week before it takes place, the host org @accessnow.org tells WIRED. By @telliotter.bsky.social + me

Rather hysterical framing of a very dry EU feasibility study into decentralised social media. No, the EU is not trying to "merge" X/Twitter with Mastodon/Bluesky; they're looking at potential technical/legal/regulatory implications of platform interoperability. But, this framing makes more sense...

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

I was recently doing a podcast about Canadian workforce skills. Some interesting questions came up about a report looking at AI sovereignty but Jaxson Khan. It looks at multiple dimensions such as cultural as well as the usual technical stack independence. aicompetitiveness.ca

How is ROOST thinking about AI-assisted and agentic engineering in safety-critical open source? A new blog from our team shares observations and the principles guiding our approach, anchored in our mission of online safety for all 🐓 roost.tools/blog/navigat...

And it's officially off. This one's gonna need quite the post-mortem.

the government of zambia is announcing that it canceled RightsCon. this is a serious attack on civil society, the global & local ones. thousands of people - activists, academics, govt etc - are en route to lusaka. to cancel at this late stage is just horrible.

I feel so bad for rightscon. They keep valiantly trying to host in the global south only to get screwed over by the global south. Brutal challenge to find safe spaces to host a massive human rights conference. www.404media.co/rightscon-hu...

It's today, today!

All I gotta say is that people who are criticizing any staff of a website for blocking users of the website need to spend a few years as staff of a social website and experiencing the unhinged abuse you get for it and see how fast you resort to mass blocking too

That is incredibly cool.

Watched the street fighter trailer and yeah I’m totally going to see it when it comes out. Remember playing SF2 on stand up arcade machines as a kid. I didn’t have…. checks notes - sexy dhalsim on my expectations list. youtu.be/Xt4X4FvXk2A?...

photos are about to get a big upgrade with @thepope.dev's snazzy new carousel

You wouldn’t let a child use Microsoft Windows? /s

Really helpful read on what are these tokens that folks always refer to with LLMs.

Just found out Bluey is a girl while reading a book to a few kids. I had no idea.

@joshpetri.bsky.team accused me of being a coffee snob. Considering I’m happily watching a brewing competition and now have a backpack full of decaf beans to try… he’s probably right.

nasa employee: oh hey y'all are back astronaut: Jerry's verified? nasa employee: yeah, so? Where u going? astronaut: *turning off their phone and getting back on the rocket ship* Jerry's verified.

For some reason a few years ago I set myself a random goal to read all the books of the Horus Heresy, and every 2 books or so I wonder why I keep putting myself through this. This genuinely comes from no other purpose than trying to understand what it was, but I took it too far. #warhammer

Fascinating conversation with @bsky.app's @rose.bsky.team about what they are thinking and how they feel about you, dear user www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZbd...

I wrote a short post-mortem on the Bluesky outage we had on Monday. First time using pckt, it was a really nice experience tbh! pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

In the early days of the app it was always ‘but you are targeting my identity and are biased’ when the content was usually repeated death threats.

First kick at developing and publishing a feed, since oddly enough there was no feed that I found for me to learn about AI on Bluesky. Here's one that surfaces convos from the past 48 hours. Def a first try, so I'm sure there's a lot that I'll learn along the way. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Chrome's unending desire to merge my video call tab with another random tab is the biggest pain.

Note to self: when I am listening to music mixes with a lot of police sirens in it, it makes it harder to differentiate when there’s an actual police car behind me with the siren on.

I used to have a counter in my early days at Bluesky “it’s been 0 days since bloom filters were mentioned”. Jaz was one of the main culprits.

As one of the least technical people in this company I’m trying my best to learn about AI. Both to make our products safer but also to keep up with the pace of change in the industry. For those who don’t use it blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... is an invaluable tool for discovery.

Don’t everyone post all at once, I can only copy and paste them all to the big excel spreadsheet that powers bluesky so fast

Our team appears to have fixed the issue as of roughly an hour ago, and we will continue to monitor closely. Metrics have been looking healthy for the past hour

this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...

Found it appropriate that I'm trying out claude code for the first time and I get something with tentacles as a buddy for T&S that mutters about 'false positives'.

“verify jerry” they said “ what could go wrong” they said

Are we the… pickleball of social media?

Some decisions fill you with regret. Others haunt you multiple times a day…

It’s vibes like this that want more often for this site.

Fairly certain based on our enforcements that teleguard was used heavily in some child focused communities. Turns out none of that was really encrypted. Oops.

2026 question: If I gave a friend a bunch of RAM I didn’t use for a gaming computer (long story - double order back in 2024), do I still need to buy him a wedding gift?

Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age law has been in effect for three months. The eSafety Commissioner’s first report shows a rough rollout — platforms are missing key obligations and early harm indicators haven’t moved. @markscott.bsky.social and I report: www.techpolicy.press/early-lesson...

in our defense, the buttons are like, right next to each other

Jerry today.