For instance, she was recently mentioned in this great talk by @dustyweb.bsky.social crediting her for co-defining a philosophy of agency-maximizing, which I think is a marked improvement over utility-maxing, if one's trying to pick a metric to ethics-max. Fun talk, too!: spui25.nl/programma/we...

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If you live in the CA-05 district, vote for Kate, you're lucky to have such an easy good choice.

Ever have a feeling like “wow, this app that used to move slow sure has released a lot of buggy long requested features lately, I wonder if I’m downstream of some vibe coding”? (Roam Research)

“source?” is actually a compliment, because it implies the asker trusts the claimer over their own ability to do research.

Bsky please steal this old tweetdeck feature: On post drafting view, tap your own avatar to select another. If you can’t have privacy, pseudonymity is one of your greatest weapons, so let it be fluid.

It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!

I hear they changed the name of Home Box Office Max?

Getting new followers when I haven't written anything is a weird feeling. I bias to thinking it's a bot. I loved the obvious attribution that comes from the wave after a good tweet. Maybe would be fun if the attribution was sticky: View followers by pie chart of what activity got them on board.

New liver, same eagles.

@kentonvarda.com On your LAN house setup: Were your fold-away desks in the upstairs office off-the-shelf or custom built? Any leads on that? Seems like a great use of space.

And butchers, while we’re at it. How about “I really software engineer’d that turkey”

I found a loose bolt at the fair, among the rides. It was fun: I could just walk around and alarm people.

Agoric has moved Endo and HardenedJS to the Decentralized Cooperation Foundation so it can better serve the growing ecosystem. Agoric and MetaMask continue to support the project’s development and Mark Miller and I continue to serve both Endo and Agoric.

I have dragged a piano skeuomorph out of a closet, fidgeted with adapters of all sorts, and then contorted myself into uncomfortable forms, rather than just use a "piano with your keyboard" software.

That "computer engineering for babies" book could get A LOT more ambitious. Book three needs to introduce memory modules you can pull out of the book, for one thing. If they play it right, they raise a crop of own-computer-building kids.

Bloop.

help needed: I'm giving away the last of our trees, and I'm in a tough spot. I've been so busy with life and the project that we are overdue for a serious fundraiser. please help continue the Nonprofit. We need to raise at least $3000 asap to keep things afloat. buildsoil.net

Unless I'm misunderstanding the docs, seems that @yubico.com 's YubiHSM modules fall short at a crucial operation from being a truly auditable root of trust for a system. Specifically, you cannot prove that you didn't create a hidden copy of a private key. 🧵

A “clerical error” resulting in a man being wrongly disappeared on grounds of terrorism, snowballing eventually into revolution was the plot of the film “Brazil”. Where’s Kilmar?

Getting offered an unnamed “crypto” to snitch is the most overt “you shall be paid what you have coming” (you’ll be betrayed/rugged as soon as you have delivered) shit imaginable.

Spoiler alert: I think there are good reasons that stuff is doomed in its current form, thankfully.

Just a guy, a girl, and a focused ion beam microscope, goofing around looking at some diatoms from diatomaceous earth. Y’know, just some prehistoric algae that look like microscopic alien spacecraft and still produce up to half the oxygen on earth. www.youtube.com/live/I3Mf-pn...

There are as many kinds of decentralization as there are gates.

TIL that “Hox genes” convey location data to cells to help them differentiate correctly.

As foretold! Spritely Goblins 0.15.0 is OUT... Goblins in the browser!!! spritely.institute/news/spritel... You can even try a real little running mini chatroom using Goblins and OCapN, right in the blogpost! This has been SUCH a major effort from the whole Spritely team! Goblins + Hoot! Horray!

A computer could never beat me at chess. I would simply unplug it.

Doordash, but for the library.

The new Wallace and Gromit movie was a surprisingly poignant story about innovation, automation, capitalism, digital security, and what it means to enjoy living in light of all that, but is also of course funny and the return of Feathers McGraw. All that stuff was a bonus.

In the Netherlands it is not uncommon to offer rentals without flooring - just subfloors. You have to BYO floor planks or tiles

So Temu is Uyghur slave labor, imported with a 0% tarrif exception? www.americansecurityproject.org/temu-investi...

Brb, rebranding sugary drinks as prebiotic.

I've been signed out of my twitter account on all devices. My password has been changed, and I am not receiving password reset emails. No unusual activity from the account yet, but don't believe anything that account says until this + my Farcaster account says otherwise. warpcast.com/danfinlay

Welcome to our Bluesky account where you will find updates on open science publishing, policies and practice. This account will also provide thought leadership posts on scholarly publishing, partnership announcements and updates on PLOS policies and initiatives.

I found the tweet being mocked, and while his video does pass orion, it clearly isn’t the drone he’s talking about. Liking and reposting misleading political memes is a bad look, y’all. x.com/govlarryhoga...

When I buy a product, I expect it to shelter me from the reality of death in perpetuity.

So first of all, @bnewbold.net was very nice: > I am so *happy* and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her thoughts and put them out in public. Her writing sheds light on substantive differences between protocols and projects, and raises the bar on analysis in this space. Aw thx 💜

I'll also say that I've been doing this in an incredibly stressful time, *on top of* a mountain of work. We're doing a fundraiser btw over at @spritelyinst.bsky.social. If some of the things I talk about resonate with you, maybe look at our work and consider donating: spritely.institute/donate/

Three weeks ago I wrote "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec... Shortly thereafter, @bnewbold.net wrote his response: whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net... I have written my (final) response blogpost: dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-b... And as last time, 🧵. Buckle up.

Threw on the first movie of The Nutcracker recommended by Apple TV. Was surprised to find it starring Macauly Culkin soon after his Home Alone role. And then I noticed how similar the story arcs were, so now here you have it, Claude’s analysis of Home Alone as a retelling of The Nutcracker Suite.

Quality Bluesky right here, you mention a Star Trek ep and the writer is there to comment. Top tier social media experience.

Bluesky: plz don’t ask to view my photos when I save a photo. I know it’s just a little careless coding, but it’s the kind of thing that Google and FB makes into a nasty policy, so it’d be nice to not provoke those vibes.

Spritely has a unique and powerful approach to the decentralized web. One where privacy and programmable interactivity are both first class citizens. A nonprofit, looking to find the supporters who will make its mission possible.

OpenAI is looking to introduce ads and... “The good news with Kevin Weil at the wheel with product is that he came from Instagram. He knows how this [introducing ads] works,” said Friar. Oh no. No no no. www.ft.com/content/9350...

You: We need to avoid centralized entities because they are _bad_! Me: Centralized entities are going to exist because they are effective, and our central concern should be to make them _good_! We are not the same.

tired and enraged about the latest round of discourse

Former Amazon worker here; do not cross this picket line. Don't do it. Don't even order from them (unless absolutely necessary). They're a disgusting company to work for and the reason for my knee problems that required years of physical therapy. Fuck Amazon. We stand with the workers! 👊🏻✨

Ok, so Rogan claimed to Andreesen that he knows “sophisticated trolls on Bluesky” who are trying to prove how easy the woke culture is to lead to ridiculous ends. Not to start a witch hunt, but… Would be interesting to map the spread of ideas like “you shouldn’t be able to read my public posts”.