Seeing takes like this all over Bluesky, wasn’t the ceasefire between US and Iran? Not Israel and Lebanon? Who were already in military conflict before US Iran war? Like this seems extremely bad, but I really hate how often knee jerk reactions from ppl in my feeds here are just wrong ab basic shit

Israel showing its displeasure with the *ceasefire* by raining bombs on Lebanon’s capital city

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

The opposition party is currently being led by People Magazine’s headline writers. people.com/trump-ramble...

Those things are so not the same

I just listened to this and really enjoyed it! Recommend listening @werd.io maybe you already know but Simon is building software to help journalists tell stories with data. Might be cool to look into for propublica

For hobbyists a feed of feeds concept is cool to play with, but pragmatically, this isn’t smtg consumers will use (imo) Consumers need feeds that have content exclusive to a specific use case, and that is personalized to their interests

One v annoying milestone on the path to becoming a true (old) twitter replacement is when a bunch of users independently make the same joke thinking they are all oh so v clever ;)

It’s nice to know that republicans will absolutely not check Trump‘s power no matter how insane his tweets become. Just makes you feel good about the whole American experiment

This is interesting, someone created their own sort of modded use of Claude. Instead of relying on subagents it spins up separate agents in their own terminal session to serially evaluate plan -> execution of a task github.com/johnkf5-ops/...

What are the hard privacy limitations of an app like bsky atop a protocol like atmosphere? Could a user ever private their acct like on old Twitter? Restrict access/visibility of posts, follows, likes, etc only to mutuals? Or disable all together?

NGL I’m so fucking ready for a windows OS / office consumer (normie) competitor Free us from the bullshit

may this be the beginning of something

sick as hell

If the stakes weren't so high and the human toll wasn't so awful, it would be genuinely very funny how little of a shit Trump gives about any part of his job that isn't renovations or rigging elections. The most obviously checked out dude in history.

I don’t think building data centers is bad. In fact I worry not building them could be (letting global powers who aren’t democratic (I know I know)) become the leaders in AI) AI is a technological step function. A sea change. An incredibly dangerous one, but an inevitable one

If you’re watching the Artemis II launch, I can not recommend enough TIME’s fantastic cover story about the crew and the mission by Jeffrey Kluger, the best space journalist in the biz time.com/7346146/arte...

I can envision at least three separate businesses bigger than substack (in terms of actual value created) built on top of standard.site each with their own value props. When you go from moats to roads you stop building castles and start building cities and *everybody* gets a whole lot richer.

❌ not here for baseball bsky ✅ here for space / science bsky ❌ not here for apple event bsky ✅ here for fish biologist bsky Maybe one day soon we can have a quality mechanism to filter out topics we don’t care about from accounts we otherwise do

"If personalization can be described in plain language and built on open infrastructure, then recommendation logic is much more understandable and controllable. That doesn't automatically solve [lockin], but it does challenge the idea that personalization has to belong to the platform alone"

His 1000th instance of paint clown makeup on face dot gif

open.substack.com/pub/morethan... Our public lands are being stolen from us

Why would Texas need a list of trans people? Why would Trump need a list of voters? Why would the administration need a list of Jewish people?

Trump really is the answer to “what would happen if a craven nihilist stumbled into the presidency and decided he was going to die soon anyway so why not sell the country out for personal gain?

This subset of vocal, toxic, idiotic bsky users has been and still is a real problem I don’t know what possible solutions exist, but I think this does remain one of the reasons some ppl don’t want to be active here cc @noupside.bsky.social @yoyoel.com

reality tv ass president

the U.S. navy is 4x the size of the Royal Navy by number of ships and we have almost 6x as many aircraft carriers (11 vs. 2)

Software development in the age of Claude Code

Incredible lol

My gas and groceries are up 40%, my health insurance is up 50%, and the president is covering up an elite pedophilia ring. But at least there won't be trans athletes competing in a 2028 Olympic sport that I won't be watching.

Pay to be a creep

We hear the concerns about AI. Our goal is to use this technology to give people greater control, not to generate content. Attie uses AI to help you create custom feeds without having to know how to code.

Some are smart and malicious but Jason is truly just dumb as fuck

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Listened to my fav (and the only?) NC local politics podcast @thehometownholler.bsky.social today interviewing former NC (R) Gov Pat McCrory pca.st/episode/d36b...

I’ve never looked up the historical context / origin story of the presidential (and I guess gubernatorial) pardon(s), but it seems far too dangerous and reckless in these times No one should have that amount power; certainly not when leaders are corrupt and accountable like Trump can be elected

In honor of today’s No Kings rallies: Tracy Chapman - “Talkin' Bout A Revolution” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8F...

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

Raleigh, NC #NoKings

It’s always interesting to see which subjects Meta will refuse to do content moderation on because “free speech,” and which content moderation the CEO will volunteer to do in advance to curry favor. In this case it was “naming a DOGE employee”

Ever since I was a kid I always thought sperm whales and giant squids were some of the most interesting creatures in the sea Love it when behavioral moments like this are captured