I've become kind of obsessed with how to get the cost of personal aircraft down. Example: A new Cirrus SR22 costs around $1.1 million and weighs 1,111 kg without fuel. Call it $1,000/kg. A Tesla Model Y (long range AWD) costs around $50k and weighs around 1,980 kg. Call it $25/kg.

A European hydrogen lobbyist describes how the IRA is shifting hydrogen investment to the US from Europe after years of European subsidies.

I drove 8+ hours today, and then looked up how much a charter flight for the same route (local airport) would be. Under $6k round trip for 4 passengers in a PC-12. Not quite affordable but cheaper than I expected. If we had had more innovation in aviation over the last 50 years, it could work.

⚡️ Now ready for development: custom algorithms! We've put together a starter kit with instructions on how to implement your own custom algorithm here. https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator

It would be cool if we could attach PDFs to skeets just like other media. 🤓

Posted on bird site: I want a simple chronological timeline without threading, and I want the app to save state about location within that timeline across relaunches and devices. I had that with Tweetbot, but then Twitter disabled third-party clients, and my experience has been worse since.

I met a turtle yesterday.

This is a fun one. White to move. Mate in one. Watch out for pins. Can you find it?

Touching profile of geothermal instigator Jamie Beard, who is a force of nature. I’m proud to know her. https://www.wired.com/story/where-to-find-the-energy-to-save-the-world-geothermal-texas/

Feature request: Forget a who to follow section. Give me a who to block section. “All these people you follow blocked this account. Do you want to block them too?”

The Bluesky firehose

While Yudkowsky is warning us about AI killing everyone, Lina Khan suggests that the AI era could be as chaotic as having social media companies sell ads based on personal data. LMAO. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opinion/ai-lina-khan-ftc-technology.html

Unfortunately bsky doesn’t have video uploads yet, so you have to go to bird site to watch video of a Ukrainian drone exploding inside the walls of the Kremlin. That’s a long way from actually killing Putin, but getting closer… https://twitter.com/darthputinkgb/status/1653745478008291328

Is it possible to expose how many users are blocking a given user? Maybe it should be listed alongside followers and following on users’ profiles. Like a decentralized reputation score. @jay.bsky.team

AOC’s skeet on CNN

Walking my dog this morning, I saw a Lamborghini Urus parked on the street. I am completely baffled as to why anyone would buy such a thing. I get wanting a Lambo. A Lambo SUV feels like such a waste, though.

Thinking about the future of AT Protocol, it seems that at some point there will need to be subrepos, just like git has submodules. Like if I’m building a subprotocol that requires hosting a ton of video data, Bluesky itself may not want to host all of it, and a subrepo seems like a good solution.

Just had a great experience with Github Copilot for CLI. Gave me a complex ffmpeg command I never would have figured out on my own. Without it, I probably would have just not done the thing. https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-cli

The AI pause that matters. This is what needs to happen if we want AI to have positive economic impact. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ibm-to-pause-hiring-for-back-office-jobs-that-ai-could-kill

What wants to get blocked?

It’s time to move past chatbots https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots

NEPA case brought against FAA for approving SpaceX Starship launches. https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/environmentalists-sue-faa-over-spacex-launch-license-texas-2023-05-01/

Morning thought: Eastern philosophy (and some iconoclastic Western philosophers like Parfit) basically believes that personal identity is a myth. We are all contingent on everything else. It’s very hard to live like that. But what if we all turned the personal identity knob down by 10%? 20%?

Doing the thing with the kids where you play “Roxanne” and they have to do burpees every time they hear the word Roxanne. Everyone does this right?

Current status

Looking forward to seeing a bunch of Econ nerds in Lancaster, PA today.

Sweet. I’m going to write a script to block everyone that @mattyglesias.bsky.social blocks.

eugh finally

Yep

So Iran seized an oil tanker yesterday https://www.reuters.com/world/us-navy-says-iran-seized-marshall-islands-flagged-oil-tanker-gulf-oman-2023-04-27/

One thing that I think normal users haven't realized yet is how much the protocol underlying Bluesky could in principle displace. Not just Twitter. Twitter + Facebook + Instagram + YouTube + TikTok + more. If this takes off it will be wild. https://atproto.com/docs

Great piece advancing nuclear-positivity. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/opinion/climate-change-nuclear-waste.html

it is total nonsense that geothermal energy drilling is not categorically exempt from NEPA but oil drilling is

Hey new people, if you have a domain name you can use it as your Bluesky handle. It’s easy and is a form of self-verification.

we are human and need sleep. so bear with as we implement blocks (a week or two? juggling), along with sandbox-mode federation to test it all out. if you code and want to help, apply for a job. you will work intensely hard with us, but you may help remake the social web. come if you want to ride.

what if i don’t want my blocks to be public? what do we do if an aggro server refuses to respect my block? we had to answer all these questions, about an architecture that was not settled. it was simply not possible on the time constraints we had with 3 engineers.

i block someone on my server. ok. where does that information get stored? just my server? then other servers don’t know to respect it. ok, i publish it then. what if the other server doesn’t listen? what if there’s services beyond servers? (there are)

Someone should put together an EconBlueskyIRL conference.

I see a lot of normal people joining Bluesky now. Please respect the community that we have built here together over the last four days

guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch

Hi @aoc.bsky.social, so glad you are here! Can I shill you my paper on NEPA reform? The problem is that current NEPA practice goes well beyond any plain reading of the law as it was originally passed. https://www.thecgo.org/research/bringing-nepa-back-to-basics/

@patri.xyz suggested we send a gift link, so here you all go https://trib.al/rW4MW5M

We're making our story about Bluesky our first post on Bluesky trib.al/SfcafUm

Basal metabolic rates are declining. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-023-00782-2

Want to test out a brand new, lightning fast, buttery smooth Bluesky client? v0.0.5 of Graysky is out now! Join here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/8Q1M4gwt

Excellent post from Brian Potter on one of my favorite topics. https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting