I have noticed that a lot of the people who are shocked by the behavior on this website seem to have a collective amnesia of what the aughts and 2010s were like.

I just realized what his ballroom and library/hotel remind me of. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BC...

Found an album for my Tsutaya Nostalgia. linkco.re/0ZTHMhzF?lan...

The relevancy of these pieces can easily be answered by four simple questions: which party occupies the White House, Senate, Congress, and the Supreme Court? What are we doing here?

I think that the people who say this miss being the bullies. And, well, the people under the Gawker Digital Media Umbrella were the bullies.

There's a clutch of geriatric millennials on here who worked for Gawker and are incapable of understanding that they spent their twenties in service of a very bad project that had extremely negative outcomes.

My issue with the ex-Gawker folks is they created a US-version of British taboloid culture for the digital era (cramming all the 'derogatory' into that you can), and succeeded, but thought they were doing journalism.

I will say that people who did advocate for protocols over platforms aren’t culturally aligned with the ones who see cryptocurrencies as merely digital objects for investment. That’s kinda what separates ethereum from other forms of crypto. A lot of its advocates want to build something.

Trump doctrine is move fast and break things and make someone else fix it.

Bumping this straight to the top of my reading list. asianreviewofbooks.com/the-traitor-...

It’s nice to see that my favorite Japanese artists from Twitter and transitioning to BlueSky.

What?

What Level of Influence do the Pod Save America Failsons have? Because it feels like they peaked in the Obama Administration and they keep latching onto anyone and everyone who will make them even remotely relevant again.

If the Democrats ever have a Project 2029, I want in. Because I guarantee that I will be very good at it and I’ll enjoy it.

Sam Moyn prioritizes his academic project over having to fight for children in the here and now. Ironic for a guy who always complains liberals don’t fight hard enough. And easy to say from the comfort of Yale.

1.) We’re not. Multiple countries in the Americas do 2.) even if we were, that’s what makes us exceptional. It’s one of the reasons why I never fully fetishized Asia or Europe.

It’s amazing to me because the men who want wives like this 1.) make it very clear that it isn’t about providing, it’s about control and 2.) absolutely do not have their lives put together to do the former. They want a sexualized mommy who is younger than them that they can boss around.

BlueSky is mostly fine about this. (It at least knows and viscerally *feels* the stakes). But there’s something very perverse and sick about treating Supreme Court decisions as if it were a game of baseball.

The same thing that happened to Biden could happen to Mamdani and other Progressives regardless of their performance.

His audience isn’t really Catholics. It’s psychotic Neo-Evangelicals and the Weird New Right.

Threads got jokes

also everyone’s getting this wrong, the cuck chair belongs to the chief justice, not trump

The number of headlines in which cops get into fights at swingers clubs is as ubiquitous as the Florida Man meme. Let’s also not forget that GOP Swingers are the reason why we had the first Black President. Behold: www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-sca...

the other thing too is that the Administration and its supporters are aggressively advocating to break down the separation between public and private life. I zero qualms about them getting a taste of their own medicine. (I’m also surprisingly bored by the story for some reason).

I actually do sincerely wonder how many users on BlueSky who struggle with bad faith misinterpretations have diagnosed mental health issues and/or disabilities.

this is an important use-case for automation

BLUESKY

Nice to see that the X-Men are back to basics

when someone says something as stupidly illiberal as Samuel Moyn. There is nothing that compels you to be civil to someone to him other than your own professional cowardice. I think that’s what rankled me the most about DC Twitter. The smarm.

lol at the new he-man movie being a isekai

Trump in 1944: "we can't do D-Day, looks too hard"

If you follow the links in this you get to a Daily Mail article that makes it clear the knives are OUT for Miller, and you know what? Good. I hope Trump gets to see that guy go to prison before he dies and understands what his legacy is and how he'll be remembered.

I know that a lot of Lefties on this website and elsewhere hate Habermas that still eludes me, but can we at least hand him a W for this foresight on Karp?

Ah. So that’s who Moyn reminds me of.

everytime I see a minor on this site it's like 'why' is hanging out at the senior center that fun

This is correct and anyone who actually cares about politics as a practice rather than a game easily anticipated that Mamdani would disappoint these people. And that’s because AOC, unlike her former supporters, knows how to play ball.

this belongs in a museum about bluesky

Everyone on here does realize that protocols can configure into AI and possibly even resolve some of their concerns about the tech, right?

I’m almost done with Dixon’s “Read, Write, Own.” I think he did a good/great job of selling the decentralized Web and Block Chain use case to a cynical skeptic like me. All the more reason why I wish I could’ve made it to the ATProtocol Conference.

did bruce Wayne and Tony stark agree to the giving pledge

I can’t tell if the Comms Teams for these companies are incompetent or if the trouble begins when professionals and executives outside of that group are allowed to speak

I do enjoy that eventually tumblr idiots are going to embrace that authorial intent not only exists but matters in the age of AI after misreading, misappropriating, and decontextualizing the former topic over the past 20 or so years.

I sincerely don’t think that LLMs can perform critique but they can definitely write and possibly BS better than most critics.

as someone who has spent a lot of time around insufferable tech bros, the #ATmosphere conference was the least tech-bro infested tech conference I think I’ve ever been to (not counting RightsCon). it was a really friendly, welcoming, and *very* diverse crowd. i was impressed.

those of you who seem to think that the Bluesky and Atproto team and the dev community actually hate and resent their queer user base are, uh, very objectively wrong about that, as I’ve seen after spending the weekend with these people

my favorite was when a Chicago South side woman in shameless opened up a newspaper for La Canada, CA.

im beginning to suspect that this website doesn’t know what capitalism and neoliberalism means.

RFK Jr. is Abusing Steroids the Right Way by Ezra Klein

The topic of choke points reminded me of how the professionalization of digital social networks was ideally supposed to mitigate conflict. But the latter didn’t due to online populist sentiments.

firmly convinced the Rahm campaign is going to show the limits of being the media darling in the modern era because he is going to get a pile of these articles and he is going to get one percent in New Hampshire