I don’t think any demographic from old twitter has aged worse than venture capitalists

Can SNL morally ether this dipshit?

Everything is such a disappointment

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Still just shaking my head and laughing to myself that Nikita Bier is the X head of product I swear to god like half of tech was just craven, amoral, self interested shells of humans cos playing as reasonable ppl on old twitter

The cool thing ab writing a thread while in bed before you wake up and can only half see your screen are endless typos. But bsky doesn’t have edit or drafts or delete all and push the entire thread back into compose cc @internet.bsky.social

Just stumbled across this and it was like talking a walk down memory lane When I first fell in love w podcasts circa 2009-2013 npr shows played a much larger role in my listening, Radiolab being the most prominent

Just to reiterate, I think the Threads numbers Meta touts (both the initial sign up numbers causing unscrupulous journalists to say things like “fastest app to 100M users and current MAU) are not representative of actual, normalized usage

One of the biggest disappoints ab SV (and boy are there a lot) is that there are so many ppl that could actually make great products if they had access to capital + talent, but instead it’s so often ppl throwing money at folks whose only discernible skill set is climbing a corp ladder or peddling bs

Star Trek The Next Generation upon hitting 38 years old: *signs up for a Bluesky account*

79. American citizen.

38 years ago today: The Next Generation's first scene🖖 "Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7. Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world." TNG is 40 soon 🤯

Knew what this was going to be before hitting play. Was not disappointed.

Congratulations Brett Kavanaugh

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Honestly Jeffries move here is politically baffling and just undermines any faith that he can pull off the kind of strategy needed to deal with Trump.

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Release the Epstein Files

Why are you so bad at this

If 1/3 of the nation is putting their trust in media orgs and personalities that are clearly bad faith operators, the left, dems, and rest of the media has GOT to find a way to illuminate to everyone how those information sources are disingenuous and manipulating their viewers

Really seems like all the comedians should be finding the best possible jokes to make fun of Trump and just being going ham on him 24/7

It’s been, I think 2 years since I’ve seen anyone share a Ben Thompson post. Almost forgot ab him It’s so shocking how ab 95% of tech twitter is not on bluesky, which is completely insane (there were many many non-maga types, even if some self interested billionaires and their coat riders now are)

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

‘Every bit of public data that Alice and Bob created—their posts, their likes, their comments, their recipes, their scrobbles—is meaningfully owned by them. It’s hosted directly on the open web, with ability to “walk away” without losing traffic or breaking any links.’ overreacted.io/open-social/

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social please for the love of god can yall update signal to preview links from major apps like Bsky and YT, like everyone other messaging app on the planet has been doing for years

This is great. @anildash.com I think you would enjoy this. Same for @sippey.com and @mgsiegler.com and @joshelman.bsky.social

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Watching this unfold is like watching an old friend gradually ruin their life until they're a shell of their former selves.

right up there with slavery

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn’t aiming at ground and firing at people’s heads again.

we used to be a country. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

*sighs heavily and affixes a bumper sticker reading "I bought this while elon was vacationing on pedophile island" to my 2014 tesla model s*

For the love of god please stick to TNG or DS9 or maybe the recent movies If you pull a “every final fantasy ever” on this franchise it’s gonna blow so hard

@mgsiegler.com why do you think so few ppl from old tech twitter have migrated here? I remember there being a lot of ethical / not maga ppl in that community

This man has left his nation in a state of total isolation. He is disaster for Israel's international standing and security.

imagine telling taylor goddamn swift, with a straight face, that she should perform for free because the exposure is valuable

Bsky be growing paying p nice comp packages for a company w no revenue and no product vision

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

This is very sad for us, but we need to find a new home for Dug because he is struggling in a house with small kids. If you want a smart, lovable hound who enjoys nose work and nose hugs, please let me know. home-home.org/pets/ae50a2b...

Still day dreaming of a timeline when Twitter made a podcast app, inched its valuation out of Elon’s reach, and a lot of this shit never happened :/

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social I don’t want to interrupt concert preparations but also… I definitely squealed to see this!

Your regular reminder that this app is a poor product replacement for pre-Elon twitter and if they don’t get their shit together, they probably won’t succeed in besting X and creating the future social interest graph that is both moral and best for the user

🚨Season 8 – The Story of Socialism – starts today🚨 It’s arguably the most earth-shaking political concept of the last 200 years. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social start with the idea's inception during turbulent times in the mid 1800s. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Weird how Charlie Kirk’s killer is not even a news story anymore

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.