I hope we start to see a rift in the media landscape between outlets that are willing to let journalists have opinions and take stances (The Verge, ProPublica, 404 Media) and legacy outlets that continue with their neoliberal centrist both-sides bullshit (NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Washington Post)

the New York Times is a conservative media outlet

reactive responses to AI are making people who call themselves liberals actually exhibit reactionary ideology. instead of a nuanced response to the release of Attie, which would be “hey, it lets me create cool feeds like this one, which removes politics from my following feed”, it’s just “ew AI bad”

free idea for @graze.social or @attie.ai: a feature that allows me to set up a "filter" for other feeds I already have that removes posts in that feed which meet certain criteria. the idea that made me think of this is "Follow Minus Politics" or "X Feed Minus Politics"

thinking about becoming addicted to caffeine

I think it’s pretty simple, now that we have the terminology to describe it: “at protocol” makes people’s eyes glaze over, but “Atmosphere” is simmering we can work with. “own your data” is nebulous and weird but “leave if you want and keep your posts” and “billionaire-proof” are winners

wrote a blog post about a 2015 keynote by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social that stuck with me and how it relates to atproto. with AtmosphereConf right around the corner I wanted to get this (and my next one) out there so it could contribute to the conversation. would be honored if you'd give it a look :)

Y’know what they say, ‘an Apple a day keeps the Doctor away’. Hi, this is Dr. Dre for the new iPhone 18 Pro with Beats by Dre-

I get the sense that preserving justice in an AI-dense future will require convincing a lot of tech nerds (like me) that their sense of “woah this shit is so cool” is an inherent bias. that it will cloud their ability to see how AI might kill jobs, kill culture, even kill people (in ChatGPT’s case)

I'm going to "Atmosphere Team Office Hours March 13"!

Somehow it's even more fucked up than the headline suggests: The cop rejected medical treatment in the ambulance, the next ambulance arrived at the scene 10 minutes later (24 minutes after the shooting) and the man they shot ended up dying

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social Hey Mike! Would love to ask you a clarifying question about your 2015 keynote The Garden and the Stream. You don't seem to have DMs open on here though. What's the best way to contact you?

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Here's my stance on the NYT mess: There is nothing to be gained by staying. Whatever prestige or integrity it had has long since rotted away. It is the single most damaging press institution towards trans lives in America. If you expect people to be sympathetic for working there, you're a fool

I would bet real money that Gavin Newsom still uses Twitter and that’s why he’s Like That

my brother in christ you’re acting dumbfounded that “everything is so political” but you’re visiting the fucking White House. where the current (and wildly unpopular) President lives. then you’re attending his State of the Union. a political speech. what part of this whole thing isn’t political

Zohran really is going to usher in an age of socialism by making public services Good Actually isn’t he

putting files in the cloud should instead be called “giving them to god”

a guy named tj who calls his therapy sessions “tj maxxing”

any leftist indulging in this hypothetical with liberals is actively hurting their cause rn I hope y’all know that

tag your subrational libidinal desire mine is to feel like I’ve given as much good to humanity as it has to me

I really do hope Discord’s move to implement age verification and increased surveillance, including by using partners connected to Peter Thiel, is a line in the sand for most users

tbh nobody should be asking leftists if they'll support newsom and leftists should mostly brush off the question. it's a divisive trap that serves *only* newsom's personal interests. he isn't the candidate, he's a shithead and nominating him would be a bad idea. useless hypothetical.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

mifepristone would be a beautiful name for a baby girl. unfortunately, you see,

I feel like OpenAI and makers of some other foundational models aren’t going to see the revenue they’re banking on within the next 4-5 years. once they do, are these models they’ve trained going to be sold to cover their debt? if so, to whom? will they go out of fashion or become cheaper?

lion eyes lionize lyin’ eyes

there’s so much in this image

I know it's not thaaat hard to do, but I got Claude to admit "I genuinely don't know" at the end of this short conversation. and specifically it happened *without* me prompting it to tell me if it doesn't know something. it's possible that Sonnet 4.5's system prompt encourages this somehow, but-

I’m curious: are people that are becoming radicalized through ICE actions still liberal because they don’t yet denounce capitalism, or are now more leftist because they are willing to take more militant action against the system?

at what point does “loss of life” go from “tragic” to “infuriating”/“unacceptable”

are we at war with the US government? because it sure feels like they’re at war with us

One of the most critical skills to develop when you’re new to activism is knowing the difference between people who are teachable vs people who gleefully refuse to engage with reality. We need to change as many minds as we can, as fast as we can—AND we have no time for minds that refuse to change.

can’t believe I’m approvingly reposting Will Stancil, but I guess that’s where we’re at

who called it deleting wlw anime shows from my hard drive and not yuri nullification

both the post and reply here are very real, tbh. it’s super okay to want to use social media as an escape sometimes, and it’s also important to not do that so much that you aren’t living in reality. the problem is that Bluesky allows you to do both and each user usually only chooses one of them

I feel like we need to build our own systems in society to provide for people's basic needs, outside of the govt. we need to stop trying to rely on the fickle administrations of the govt to give the most vulnerable among us food, shelter, healthcare, etc. and just have the community provide it

the bank when I try to deposit monopoly NFL fans right now money 🤝 “these bills are fraudulent”

I love that the Maple Leafs are 7-0-2 in their last 9 games but we’re about to have to play the Avs and Mammoth in a road back-to-back starting tomorrow and absolutely nothing could make me feel good about that

Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.

band name dibs: Insect Protest

I’m increasingly of the view that Bluesky will never be the replacement for Twitter (short-form reactions to real-time world events) while it also tries to be a dialectical discussion platform (the closest example of a good one is Kialo). there has to be a different platform for actual discussion.

Unrelated ag fact: there are stingless Melipona bees that make honey! Sometimes people think "I should raise those! Why do we even bother with honeybees, if we can just raise bees that don't sting?" Then they try raising the stingless bees, & find out why almost nobody does that

is there a general consensus in the #atdev community on whether we’re working towards a future where 1. some random app will trigger Germ or whatever app you prefer and you have actual convos in there or 2. some random app will somehow use Germ’s flow to deliver messaging within the random app ?

fixed it for ya

this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them

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