Quite the lineup of speakers at this Foundation for American Innovation event celebrating the open Web at Georgetown University's Riggs Library. luma.com/cfxt621v

Age verification has become a real policy flashpoint, but this paper from @fai.bsky.social's @lehogg.bsky.social and Evan Swarztrauber is a worthwhile nuanced read: www.thefai.org/posts/on-the...

Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.

This thread is staggeringly naive about what China is and what it wants, as are the people retweeting it as if it's some sort of cogent analysis.

Links and a bunch more stuff to buy (including a $350,000 treat for those you *really* love) on Transformer Thanks to @timhwang.bsky.social and @zgr.bsky.social for the inspo

Ferguson, then Virginia Solicitor General, spoke at @knightfdn.bsky.social Informed conference in 2022.

And thanks for valuable feedback from early reviewers: @mchrisriley.com @ethanz.bsky.social @chandrn.bsky.social @daphnek.bsky.social Francis Fukuyama Aviv Ovadya @zoelle.bsky.social @zgr.bsky.social @lehogg.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social ...

Back to see how things are on this site 👀

@fai.bsky.social party last night

My staff don’t have invite codes yet, AMA.

National Constitution Center in Philly

Had a blast at @calebwatney.bsky.social / @alecstapp.bsky.social / EIG conference in Lancaster, PA

It seems like people are identifying a few things about bluesky that feel to be working: -Quote tweet function -Exclusivity of invite codes -Intangible culture of “posting” Honestly it just sort of feels like how twitter *used* to be. Is that just bc of similar aesthetics?

Interpretability Research

Anyone have a spare invite code?

EFF’s Gennie Gebhart is hiring! She’s amazing and looking for a full-time, U.S.-based (remote friendly!) Director for the Public Interest Technology team. Have an outsized impact on digital rights through your management skills + technical knowledge #JobAlert

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

Getting excessively involved in local politics

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📢 Android is finally here! 🎉 Google takes a while to update their search so here’s the direct link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blueskyweb.app&hl=en_US

Porto’s in LA

How it’s going: Welcome to the first app built on atproto! https://atproto.com/

How it started:

It’s like kind of a cool clubhouse vibe

AND THEN HE STARTED CENSORING THE WORD SUBSTACK SO WE ALL DECIDED TO GO TO THIS NEW APP WHICH ISN'T REALLY JUST AN APP IT'S NOT CENTRALIZED IT'S MORE LIKE A PROTOCOL

At least we don’t have to call them “toots” here

People on Twitter staring at Bluesky screenshots like

Back of the envelope sounds doable to me. Tough but doable. And I like that I can do crazy stuff as third party service (e.g. spin up and seed pseudonyms on demand, create alternate algorithms for filtered feeds, etc.). Can even do these as paid services. Congratulations, I'll watch closely!

@why.bsky.world reading the AT protocol docs. do you have any estimates on how this would behave at twitter scale? The big-world scaling would just push firehose to servers using negotiated peering agreements? twitter does 16TB a day? (with lots of redundant data and images/video i'm sure)

Twitter Clone Wars

@mattparlmer.bsky.social I saw your fight with Yud made Niall Ferguson’s Bloomberg column 🍿

Free at last

bluesky has the mandate of heaven

Sir, this is a Twitter

They should have done the Clubhouse strategy of phone contacts

Hello blue world