Cool profile of @metr.org’s work in the NYT today! Particularly like this from my colleague Ajeya: “METR is an organization that asks... what we think would be most valuable for the world to know about A.I. and its risks, and then the answers are what they are.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/t....

Week 1 observations: toni.org/2026/03/13/i...

what it feels like catching up on new atproto projects (lovingly)

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

this but good

reading alexander hamilton's biography and becoming a hamilton-laurens relationship truther > hamilton meets eliza schuyler > decides to marry her > doesn't tell best friend john laurens > when he finally does, he's like "she's fine i guess but you're still my #1" > historians: "just friends"

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

on the surface Elon’s purchase of Twitter has made the need for open networks (somewhat) clear to consumers, but I’m not convinced this was net more effective for the movement for open protocols

we need a new word to replace “enshittification.” the word itself has become enshittified

it's good actually that the sitting U.S. Vice President has joined bluesky

bluesky is one step closer to getting its own 👊🇺🇸🔥 moment

just watched a video on Obsidian that described it as "future-proof," i.e. it uses open file formats so you can easily migrate to a different note-taking app & you're not locked in. could borrow that to explain bluesky decentralized → open → billionaire-proof → future-proof

personal update: today is my last day with the Bluesky team! this is bittersweet news to share, but the great thing about an open network is you never really have to leave. I’ll be rooting for Bluesky and atproto from the outside 🫡💙

Bored Cow animal-free dairy milk review: it has the creaminess of whole milk but not the sweetness. the flavor is milder but the difference is less obvious in coffee. it's not a true replacement for whole milk yet but i'm glad someone is working on it

guys be like "i know a place" and then take you to the cloudflare AI labyrinth

born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore the galaxies, but born just in time to watch nathan fielder's the rehearsal

NOOO THAT'S OOMF

kevin roose literally spends 75% of the article defensively preempting the obvious criticism (see comments on original post) and yet people are still mad at him (the author, not the featured ai researcher). not beating the "didn't read the article" allegations

the real abundance agenda is liberal pundits growing beards (see also: ezra klein)

common self-hoster W

me when i was trying to enjoy my friday afternoon and the verification feature leaked last week

i still think domain verification is a great solution but as someone who often explains DNS to large bureaucratic institutions these days, trust me when i say that quick and easily recognizable account verification is necessary too. especially for verifying authenticity in moments of breaking news

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

kelsey piper has this one tweet that says "we're not doomed, we just have a big to-do list" and i think about it 30x a day

Also, this is a first for me in like 15 years to be posting live from an event here and not on that other site, for all the obvious reason. Panel at #IJF25 in beautiful Perugia. Panelists from left: @peter.andringa.me; @fadahjassem.bsky.social; @sarahjeong.bsky.social; and @emilyliu.me.

Listening to @emilyliu.me doing an amazing job describing the benefits of an open protocol to a room full of non-technical journalists. It’s such a hard thing to do - but real examples and relatable stories go a long way. #atprotocol #bluesky

Big announcement: We now have *automated alerts* on @bsky.app! Follow @alerts.bart.gov for the latest about what's going on. You will still find news and more on this account.

bluesky is hiring a senior comms manager if you get the internet, media x tech, and understand bluesky’s mission as an open network, i encourage you to apply — even if you have no “traditional” comms experience (in fact, even more so!) job posting:

turns out 6€ aperols are the backbone of the journalism industry #IJF25

and coincidentally, I am in Perugia this week for the International Journalism Festival @journalismfestival.com as part of a panel about breaking news on Bluesky, might even talk a bit about me liveskeeting at the National Assembly on the night of the martial law declaration

will be in perugia for @journalismfestival.com next week to talk about breaking news on bluesky w @peter.andringa.me @fadahjassem.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social! pls drop me a note if your org is hosting any side events there, would love to attend :)

pov you put in a bid for tiktok and then you get hit with

Bluesky : BlueSky :: April Fools' : April Fool's

2024: we're a small team of ~20 😁😎😀 2025: we're a small team of ~20... 😮‍💨😓😪 join the team! we're hiring across operations, engineering, product, and more. also more job postings to come

we’re so back

learning about oomf's pre-bluesky lore (got to the chapter in "murder the truth" about techdirt)

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

i think if jeffrey goldberg changed his signal display name to MAR there's a very good chance he'd get added back to another group chat, given that there are at least two MAR accounts

one-shotted by 4o image gen

the urge to reply with 🙏 permeates all levels of society

this time last year, we were struggling to get mainstream press to see bluesky as anything other than a "twitter alternative" very cool to now read articles that situate bluesky as just one part of the AT Protocol ecosystem, where social media isn't built by a company but rather by community

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

ben stiller i need answers #severance

if this is the price for severance s3 then so be it. thank you for your sacrifice tim apple

electrified caltrain wifi you will always be famous

the length of tasks that AI agents can do is doubling every ~7 months straight lines on log scale graphs in thorough research papers are significantly more convincing to me than marketing speak — AI progress is real and it's happening fast, props to @metr.org for this new paper making sense of it