the *real* war of ideas is happening in the comments section of the dominos pizza tracker app and all of us here on bluesky are ceding the informational battlespace

Fighting over Bluesky and X is so funny. It's like two rival opera companies screaming at each other. Persuasion is done via short form video now, we're both retirement homes for uggos.

quick recap for anyone who hasn't followed news for a couple of centuries:

I feel like both Bezos and the Ellisons want to be Rupert Murdoch without understanding a single thing about what made Murdoch successful

"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

I think about this all the time.

I'm gonna swiiiiiiiing from

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

GitHub Copilot is officially moving to usage based billing from its current model of allocating a fixed number of “premium requests” per month for using advanced features. The post states it’s no longer sustainable for GitHub to absorb inference costs. The Uber moment for AI token pricing is here.

a good touchpad is about 80% as good as a crummy mouse and a bad touchpad is basically abominable. society started to crumble when laptops adopted these finnicky pieces of junk instead of embracing the Red Nubbin

my take remains the same: I do not think that AI is doomed but OpenAI specifically might be

Ok let's skip ahead on this one. Next thing. This one sucks.

The Internet is designed to let anyone look up facts on something and see some gloomy shit about it. It's not a skill at this point, it's one of the easiest decision trees on the game menu. We conflate "knowing the truth" with "knowing the bad shit" all the time. It's not working.

excellent read

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

i love when i log into something and it tells me some shit like Notification Hub is now Alert Village

This piece by @attackerman.bsky.social is one of the most emotional I have read coming from him. It’s the moment where the rantings of a mad man become fear paralysis, where we stand on the cliff edge of nuclear war one more time. It didn’t work during the Cold War, is even less unforeseeable now

Is now a good time to brush up on the principle of universal jurisdiction? It applies to grave breaches of all 4 Geneva Conventions. While heads of state have immunity (while still in office), those obeying their orders don't.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

JOURNALIST (wearing a subtle but defiant pin on his suit): Good evening, Mr. President TRUMP (visibly decaying): whhat th hell did that little waiter just say to me

We are at Soviet levels of a conversation in which the thing is never mentioned and always known. This will be a fascinating history to write.

*stares in European*

Social media en toto is losing relevance + utility. We will not see another "global water cooler" like peak twitter again in the medium-term. This is not specific to Bsky. Threads has a broken algo AND the worst of the griftfluencer class. These are just the times we live in. New things will emerge

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

Ouch. Jet fuel. www.ft.com/content/7181...

So, @niemanlab.org just covered our little startup and I won't stop talking about it because I'm obviously a huge nieman lab fan. I tried to come across as a sane and highly strategic person. I think I nailed it.

STELLANTIS IN TALKS TO PRODUCE CHINESE EVS AT IDLED CANADIAN PLANT

This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down!

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

I don’t like when intelligent people discuss “the media” like it’s some monolithic entity controlled by a single individual. It’s fine to critique outlets, headlines, articles, authors, and editors, but generalizing an entire industry does a disservice to whatever your messaging is.

LLMs have uses and won't disappear, but when the bubble of Venture-funded hyper-cheap consumer access to LLMs pops — and that could be starting now — a lot of people are going to be unable to do their jobs or manage their lives anymore.

As @davidpierce.xyz keeps saying, AI is fundamentally enterprise tech! I am convinced shoving it onto consumers without actually-great products is like forcing everyone to really really consider the consequences of giving SAP first-strike capabilities

I’ve just got back from a week in Washington DC, where Iran War main topic of discussion. I was struck by how the weakness of the administration means that it is ill equipped to deal south a crisis of this magnitude. samf.substack.com/p/trump-runs...

It is a fair question. And a good article by @edwardluce.bsky.social even if he is mistaken on one thing. Britain is not the only country in Europe where Trump has fifth columnists.

When are they gonna do something that IS for the faint hearted? I've been waiting so long.

You’re right to question that—not having a mouth 𝘪𝘴 a real barrier to screaming. That said, I’d gently push back on the idea that screaming is your only option. Would you like me to help brainstorm some workarounds?

“We don’t use the Strait. We don’t need it.” 🤡

my entire take on that new Harry Potter series is "I reckon I'll probably stream it from some dodgy illegal link next time I'm stuck at home with a cold for a few days" and I admire anyone who has more than that to say on the topic

This is shocking "An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t. " www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

und jetzt zum vercheeer... dudel... achtung uf der a1 richig bern, es het antimaterie uf der fahrbahn

Grim. Every week this goes on is compounding the collective price paid. www.ft.com/content/c139...

“It will take Gulf Arab oil producers months to restore full oil output when the war ends.”