@decryption.bsky.social g’arn

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Exhibit A: in a recent antitrust filing, Meta argued it isn't a social media monopoly because it isn't really a social media company anymore. Only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.

Three dynamics are now dissolving it. First: the algorithmic shift. Platforms moved from social graphs to interest-based recommendation. You see what the model predicts will hold your attention, not what your network shared. TikTok set the template; everyone copied it. The social network is dead.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

This is fantastically well-written and exactly the kind of analysis I was hoping to see from Mothership. Check it out!

It's a great time to dream big

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

This is how I learnt that Toombul has been (partially?) demolished

if you didn't see it in today's sizzle - heads up that I am returning to writing it full time next week as @cameronwilson.bsky.social gets on the tools as a dedicated AI reporter for the ABC! good time to sign up for a free trial of the sizzle btw thesizzle.com.au

🚨 Finally done, I present you a set of baroque old town houses for #citiesskylines2 ✨ Here are 39 assets, made up of 6 buildings across different lot sizes and 5 levels and color variations to give a heterogeneous old town landscape! mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/141265/Any

I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city

After about 20 years of listening to his tunes, I’m finally seeing Dimitri from Paris tonight 🪩

I finally released the thing! Check out my first asset for #CitiesSkylines II: Gold Street Metro Station. This modern two-platform subway station is inspired by Old Street tube and has been genericised to fit into a broader range of cities. Get it on PDX Mods: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/141059/...

@railmaps.com.au I was wondering what licence (if any) your maps are released under? I create railway assets for Cities: Skylines II and want to create a generic version of this London tube station and will need a route map for one of the front posters. I considered remixing yours, if permissible?

I have a friend looking for a role as a remote implementation engineer / consultant / specialist. I don’t know what any of those are but I told him I’d ask around. Please let me know if anyone does hear of something that matches.

me, persisting with my silly little creative and community endeavours while the world collapses

The stakeholders:

hi, us president expert here! this is not funny, presidents only do this when they're in extreme distress

I’ve had to review various AI tools for work and I think it’s telling that Perplexity is the only one that doesn’t make me want to become a hermit, because it doesn’t talk back. I tell it to do something, it does it, it shuts up and lets me go away and figure out how badly it did it.

Look familiar? A classic is on its way to Cities: Skylines II Apropos of nothing, we have a Discord server where cool things like this are being built all the time: discord.gg/CTGTFgY9MV

...baaa? @cyriak.bsky.social

If Housing Discourse has taught me anything about what the "accepted" "wisdom" for dealing with rising prices during a prolonged period of constrained supply is; it's that drivers who are struggling with their fuel bills should just eat less avocado on toast and cancel their netflix subscriptions

australia having a Very Normal Weather Day www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Dog’s Eye Gunk Wiped Back On Dog

It didn’t work. The bricks matched OK, but the mortar did not. Sixty years on you can still see where the wall used to taper down to the ground when it formed a ramp. 4/5

hi friends, what is your favourite EU/EEA-based domain registrar?

Any use of genAI always reads to me like: “We just used a little bit of shit in our cake because we couldn’t afford chocolate.”

THEY CHANGED THE MUSIC STING ON THE MTV IDENT WHAT THE FUCK

How Australia killed populism open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Psst, hey... hey kid... you wanna buy a character encoding standard? UTF-8, ASCII, Unicode... I've got anything you want

hunting for deal's

If you’ve ever enjoyed point and click games, you gotta pick this up. The art, the music, the writing, the voice performances - it’s truly the total package.

marketoonist

I think the most cursed thing about this is that somehow it achieves a 3.5 star health rating

Fame & fortune seem just around the corner.

This is all so exciting 🥹 Biiiig Shoutout to BadPeanut as well, the stations in his pack are truly spectacular!

I would be pretty reluctant to carry a pager gifted by Mossad, gotta say

Semi-regular reminder that you don’t need to follow people on Bluesky whose whole schtick is staying on Twitter so they can repost screenshots of awful racist shit that people are saying to here. You don’t have to submit yourself to psychic damage via second-hand contagions.

Live your life with the confidence of a boomer who walks away from the contactless terminal at a bar before the transaction has cleared

Day 1 of posting a photo of my Pret Triple Bacon Ciabatta every time until I actually get three rashers of bacon in my ciabatta

As someone who still sends a post card home to ol' mum every time I go on a trip, I am very happy with this new trend of buying a "stamp" online and being given an alphanumeric grid to write into the stamp window

This IS relevant to my interests. Thank you, blooski (starring @decryption.bsky.social)

Sony had the juice, maybe more than any other company, and now every piece of consumer tech looks like shit

How good is Sweden?

Amazing what burnout from a Big 4 does to you. I've been so careful about maintaining balance in my new job that for the first time in a long time I just realised I'm sitting on a plane about to go on a trip and have had zero thoughts about work all morning, and it didn't fill me with instant dread!