Distraction. From what? With what? For why?

If you know anything about the smart glasses ICE is developing, text me via signal at 202-510-1268

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

devs working with bsky image embeds: we are planning to bump the image embed blob max size from 1 MByte to 2 MByte. first in the lexicon schema, and then in the Bluesky Social app. more about impacts, and what this means in terms of lexicon evolution, in this github discussion

Back in the BCCI days, you also had Giuliani taking a bow for high profile Italian Mafia takedowns. And it was simply a passing of the torch. The Russian mob filled the vacuum and got full run of all the rackets built by La Cosa Nostra. Then openly metastasized into every institution in America.

I wrote about why @knightfoundation.org invested in @bsky.app: philanthropy can act when mission & opportunity align. We believe in @jay.bsky.team's vision for a better social web—& in ideas (like @masnick.com's) that grow out of the research ecosystem Knight has long supported. kf.org/kfbluesky

I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next!

man we really need national vote by mail

Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up. Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.

@dailylovirae.bsky.social is on blast. God bless its little garden hose. Ew.

Police don’t show up to planned peaceful protests in battle numbers, armed for war upfront, weapons drawn, firing first. Approaching in an antagonistic offensive posture. They dominated have their heavy military armaments visibly, ready. They just don’t usually lead in with them. Kill squads do.

A mean trust fund baby. A vicious, soft-headed, greedy offspring of unearned privilege. A fraud. A felon. A thief. Nobody in their right mind would support any kind of financial account with his name right on it. Like buying a car named xplosion. From the We Sell Rigged Deathtraps company.

A mean trust fund baby. A vicious, soft-headed, greedy offspring of unearned privilege. A fraud. A felon. A thief. Nobody in their right mind would support any kind of financial account with his name right on it. Like buying a car named xplosion. From the We Sell Rigged Deathtraps company.

Yeah. The noise of corruption.

ICE operations are spinning up in Maine. @themainemonitor.org is looking to help report on ICE activity there and has set up a page to report what you're seeing. Also includes Signal and encrypted Protonmail options for secure communications.

We want to hear from you if you've seen federal agents detain someone in #Maine, if you know someone who is in #ICE custody, or if you have faced repercussions for observing their activities. If you prefer to contact a specific reporter or editor, you can via email or Signal. Click to learn more 👇

Keith Porter is a Black Father who was killed by an ICE Agent on New Years Eve. Do not say Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s names without also saying his. The violence of this administration touches us all, and we cannot stop calling for justice.

Intermittent fasting: to detox from media. Not to hide. To heal. Even just a little bit. Because the algorithm doesn’t just exist to amplify psychological dependence and outrage, it’s continually engineered to exacerbate anxiety and apathy. Don’t hide. Heal. Maybe even take that time to plan.

If you have receipts, get safety guarantees and a lifetime of money. If you can, find out if anyone has real plans to use what you know to start punching back, and post that shit as a rallying cry. Then load up and disappear. The crazies are as addicted to inflicting damage as they are to power.

Yeah it’s the one where they draw a big red heart around his name and then half of them pretend to oppose him

The big red line where they cross out opinion polls they don’t like and underline the ones where they know we’ll buy the line that midterms and 2028 elections will be the only thing he/they won’t touch.

Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere. From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it. We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.

It’s certainly possible to white label the bluesky app into an audience-specific product. You can add private communities and interest specific features. In that case, community is the product, just like the discord for a creator’s fans

Oh they have guns too :( Anyone who takes a gun into a daycare except in an active shooter situation is no friend of mine.

I mused years ago that their behavior is like that of people afflicted with addiction. They’re so far gone, lying and cheating and stealing doesn’t even come close to satisfying them long enough for us to begin to fix what they’ve destroyed. So far gone, they’ve now gotta plunder all our tomorrows.

I’ve never heard of mass transit busses or bus drivers making power outages worse.

Doomscrolling is easy. And kinda addictive.

Just looked up a widely prescribed generic and its manufacturer using this well-designed resource. The facility’s been cited for numerous violations that would seem essential for making pharmaceuticals cleanly and safely. Imagining the market opportunity to be had. Make money thru good product.

Was just wondering about the pharma industry and product margins. Was once acquainted with a couple sales reps who seemed to have bottomless entertainment budgets. Wonder if @mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban’s low cost Rx company does its own due diligence around the generics it supplies. Anybody?

Patterns.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.

It's something I'm working on. My teammate and I try to make sure we're sharing information and discussing students on a regular basis. It's far from perfect and I worry that things are slipping through the cracks. But I'm happy as a teacher and that hasn't been so true for a bit. I'll take it. 6/

One of my biggest concerns & reasons I did not want to compartmentalize was that I would need to know twice as many students (I know, secondary people, it's still not that many students in comparison!). I don't love this aspect. I don't know my students or their families as well as I would like. 5/

My students are currently creating brochures about a planet as a part of a research project in science. We are still reading & writing & I'm still getting to do some of that, but without it beating me down. And I only plan and assess for two subjects. I didn't know how much I would love that. 4/

As a result, I was more open to not teaching language arts than I'd ever been before. I do miss teaching my students language arts, but what I miss isn't the kind of teaching that is happening currently. So instead, I do read alouds and talk to kids about books during math and science. 3/

I love all of the content areas & never wanted to give up any of them. Last year, using a mostly-scripted curriculum for language arts was one of the most frustrating & demoralizing professional experiences of my career. I worked hard to make that curriculum interesting & relevant to my students. 2/

This year, in my 28th year of elementary teaching, I am compartmentalized. I teach two groups of fourth graders math and science. My teammates teaches them language arts and social studies. I have fought being in this position for a long time. Now that I'm here, I can't imagine being happier. 1/

It really is the lack of imagination that gets me with these technolibertarian world builders. All the money in the world and the best they can come up with is colonizer diet camp.

Everyday French

You know who told us not to say “Merry Christmas “? Nobody. You know who lied to us about it to make people upset, anxious, angry, and outraged? Politicians and their comrades in the rage-o-sphere. As if there’s anything other than their corruption and criminal acts that matter. All year round.

“The Left rigs all the elections.” And when they’re firmly in power, they pass some stuff that’s good, and then balance it out by giving all their corrupt, criminal colleagues on both sides of the aisle a pass to continue corrupting and criming.

Skynet. They’re building Skynet. It’s like the never even heard of ”The Terminator”. www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

There’s too much telegenecism. Telegenics, how things “play” and considerations of how things may play are more than costly preoccupations. They’re not distractions, they’re the central thing. Because catharsis theater and other polemic theatrics keep consultants in power and in the chips.

Note how eager they sound eager to invent any pretext to detain this citizen. And then at the end, to not only “cover my ass” - because the *entire* process is fucking illegal, but to provide a path to retribution if the citizen decides to bring a case. It’s not a phase. youtu.be/MQxw9fhmBv4?...

Much like his previous impeachments, the J6 hearings and indictments not bringing anyone in power to justice, this smells like more catharsis theater.

..and grounds for malicious prosecution.. These crooks love lawyering people to death so much, let em play on a less tilted field and see how their shit rolls then. How’s about another metaphor: When the deck’s not stacked in their favor, they’ve got nothing but a weak hand and a mouthful of lies