@oaklandreviewofbooks.org Do we need to start an Oakland Review of Earthquakes

my entire feed is just Bay Area people who got woken up and I think that’s beautiful

That was a big #earthquake, esp for 3 am

Driving in Berkeley and the driver in front if me just rolled down his window and put a used banana peel on the roof of his car. Unfortunately, I do not have any red shells.

Reminder that I'm hosting a new podcast at @issuesinst.bsky.social where I basically invited a bunch of my friends who work in really interesting areas and we talk about what they do with a lens of disaster studies and speculative fiction. The conversations have been amazing!

I wish it was clearer that the "nonconsensual" part of the Bluesky TOS is almost certainly about nonconsensual sharing of nude photos and revenge porn rather than people's non-con fiction or drawing. /r/bluesky is seriously out of control on this topic right now.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

I ended up deeply misunderstanding an event that I was invited to with family and did not realize I had a 5 minute conversation with Keke Palmer. She seems nice. We talked about making snacks.

The "small" strawberry sorbet

right, this is the basic problem. ezra is a guy with a lot of virtues who has been forced into a situation where none of his virtues are actual virtues. i am biased because i'm a stranger whom ezra klein helped for no reason, to such an extent that i would not be here (anywhere) without him.

A story in three acts.

which btw is part of regulation like the Take It Down Act and more legislation pertaining to synthetic CSAM

I don't work at bsky I've just been in policy discussions before + I keep getting tagged by people angry about the changes to synthetic / simulated acts IMO that part is trying to get at the deep fake non consensual intimate imagery (huge problem with nudifying apps and software) and synthetic CSAM

had our first new game release in months, and it's my crossword dice game cross4! I made it because I love the crossword dice games of the twentieth century, and wanted to make one with a little more arc and meat to it. 🧵

If you're uncomfortable with Bluesky owning (and being able to delete) your data but don't want to go the whole way to self-hosted/another service, you should: 1) Register identity recovery keys, which will allow you to point your current identity to a new PDS 2) Backup your PDS periodically

"identity is a control plane" goes hard af

need to meet more cool weird brooklyn parents on this app…if anyone meets these criteria please say hello… :)

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!! I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!

Very excited to talk about Northsky, and what they've got coming up next!

Live in 30 minutes with myself and @knowtheory.net, our podcast about a human social internet and BOY DO WE HAVE STUFF TO TALK ABOUT THIS WEEK, plus we'll be meeting with this week's challenger, @lucca.northsky.team of Northsky / @transrights.northsky.social

Hey, I saw a thing this past week or so that let you register a cool bluesky handle through an existing domain like .lol or whatever. Anyone remember what it was? @knowtheory.net says there's more than one... This is RESEARCH for the SHOW

I am hyped about this. The ways that ATProto and Bluesky content can escape containment and get out into the wider world is so so important. Having tools like If This Then At to connect to other ecosystems makes that possible!

Today, at 10am PT / 1pm ET it's episode 13 of Han to Hon Combat with hosts @knowtheory.net and @danhon.com, who'll be joined this week by @transrights.northsky.social's @lucca.northsky.team www.youtube.com/@hantohoncom... and stream.place/hantohoncomb...

This evolution will be helpful in explaining how ATProto fits into digital sovereignty - come join @eurosky.social in November in Berlin.

Why does everyone on this website wake up so early 😵 I guess that makes sense as the Millennial rest home.

I guess it's opposites day? We have the announcement of the PLC spinning off and this at the same time.

Go beyond tutorials: Inter-service JWT, token-mediating backends, confidential clients, production abuse prevention, and development environment setup. We’re just a few weeks away! ti.to/ngerakines/a...

Very interesting to see this step in spinning the PLC off into an entity separate from Bluesky.

I miss websites. BuzzFeed, MTV News, Jezebel, The Toast, Deadspin, Vice, all my message boards, food blogs, design blogs, general blogs, Livejournal. We didn’t know how good we had it.

not lost on me that marginalized communities are leading the way here for a vision & actual delivery in production of a better world with digital tools that isn't a silicon ideology libertarian basis, instead communitarian @knowtheory.net and I interview rudy: www.youtube.com/live/kJdeCvQ...

Lol even scalzi is talking about !takedown

Whoa, this is a way more interesting commitment. Like the !takedown nuking PDS accounts is clearly an error imo. But it's super helpful to see clearer parameters around what type of Common Carrier the Bluesky AppView is meant to be.

That's a wiiiiiiiiild omission with a lot of downstream consequences. It's interesting to contemplate why we didn't collectively discover this sooner too.

if anyone is in Meta's Community Notes, can you send me a few screenshots of what it currently looks like? I'm at [email protected]

👀 biiiiiiiiiiig shout out to Hush

Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.

A nice little birthday present for myself is discovering that the Internet Archive is now just automatically using Ruffles to make old flash animations work. So other people can just use any old browser to enjoy what looptracks used to be: web.archive.org/web/20120727...

Really enjoyed this chat with the great @hunterwalk.com about what we're building at @upstarts.bsky.social as we approach our 6 month mark. Feedback includes: "You are SUCH a nerd my god" 🤓 and "You really nailed the balance of promo + substance here!" 😂

The maddening part is that Kennedy wins in this situation no matter what. Just giving him the keys to do this destroys a shared scientific consensus and recommendation. Moving to a world of relativity where we're just arguing about each other's opinions is a win for antivaccine conspiracy

Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez says Kennedy told her he plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month: “He did not have any data or science to point to." www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

oh no did i accidentally make this a dating app

:squints at skeet: :Looks up at @skylight.social:

I was so confused at my discord sidebar for a minute.

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

I love the #algorithmictransparency on @spacecowboy17.bsky.social's For You Feed. You can get it here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The “For You” feed recommends posts relevant to you. You can also see why every post showed up for you. 👇

The ATProto Community Fund participated with the #FreeOurFeeds team at #ProtocolsForPublishers last month in New York. Very excited to see them host a European ATProto & #Eurosky event around the Franco-German Sovereignty Summit in November!

Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

damn, RIP