“Books are to be call'd for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument…”

I am not a fan of Whitney formerly of MomTok.

Is anyone here not a STEM grad who could help me unwind a, likely, false belief I have? To me, quantitative science: math and computer science, is objectively more complex and requiring of intelligence & education than the legal field. Does anyone disagree?

The fundamental difference between Mastodon and Bluesky, at least for now, is Mastodon is truly decentralized. www.compliancehub.wiki/the-decentra...

Keep Android Open keepandroidopen.org/ This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders. Source: mstdn.social/@rysiek/1155...

Can #Linkedin and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on Linkedin to train generative #Al models that create content? I’d prefer not. www.techradar.com/pro/linkedin...

My first thought was that this might be an over-reaction. Of course, bsky uses automatic labeling as part of their moderation of images and videos. It is impossible not to. But looking at Hive's ToS and other documentation, there is no limitation on Hive using submitted content to train their genAI

important note is that while hive does have genai image stuff, it's limited to stock stable diffusion and flux. they are not making new models and are not using bsky images to train them, they're doing software as a service for open source image generators.

seeing this screenshot and a lot of ₊˚⊹♡ discourse ♡⊹˚₊ 1) this is from 2 years ago, privacy policies change 2) pretty sure hive deletes customer data after like 2 weeks hive is NOT generative AI, they use AI models and traditional ML for spam and abuse and safety purposes

You don’t need to become an expert on AT Protocol, you don’t need to learn to code, but I really do want to impress upon people that “federated social media” is a vitally important concept in a time of global authoritarian and technofeudalist consolidation.

Now the Bluesky company and their appointees get to decide what content gets “verified”. The people running this company don’t want an open social network, they want a Twitter clone with better optics.

This is so embarrassing. I remember when this app was marketing itself on decentralization.

First time I successfully published a post from a rsky-pds instance! Huge milestone for Blacksky in building a fully independent implementation of AT Protocol 🚀 pdsls.dev/at/did:plc:l... internect.info/did/did:plc:...

I am happy to say the "Followers only" reply setting is getting implemented. We're also adding a way to set default reply settings If you want your posts to default to "Followers only," that'll become an option

welp

It’s pretty amazing that these guys are going with “Covid, which wasn’t a big deal, is the worlds greatest bio weapon, that we shouldn’t have cancelled school for a semester for, but also China did almost destroy the world, but don’t forget it’s also just the flu”

The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia. Instead, all notifications will be made on X. We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.

Sakamoto Days dares ask the question of what if Way of the House Husband was One Punch Man

This guy, he did Pebble and Beeper? For those who don’t know, Beeper lets you use iMessage from Android. This guy is amazing. And now he got Google to open source the Pebble OS and is bringing them back. I never had one but the Pebble is cool. www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24...

Who here is a founder or product builder and would be interested in a custom feed to trade advice, thoughts, support, etc? Any ideas on what you'd like to see from something like this? Let me know.

Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.

Se me olvida siempre postiar mierda aquí 😭

everything is Dead Internet now

I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.

I would love to get into Marvel Rivals. But it feels kind of overwhelming… So many different play styles and then right into PVP. This style of game makes me feel old

Number of homeless in US soared to a record high this year. www.hud.gov/press/press_...

OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company

Harper Lee’s friends gifted her a year’s financial support for Christmas so she could write whatever she wanted without worrying about money and she used it to write To Kill a Mockingbird in case you're wondering what to get your creative friends this year

if there's anyone you care about keeping in touch with from here, seems like now's the time to get that contact info

@girlwithatail.bsky.social hi! Random fan here 🙈 Just wanted to say as a long time CBB listener and now College Town Kevin - you are SO funny, it’s a joy to listen to you. EOM.

New COLLEGE TOWN special Holidaze episode: Who Wants a Meatball? Hosted by Jan and Beebo (me & Seth Morris) and MANY special guests dropping by! Come on over! Produced by @scottaukerman.bsky.social @brettmorris.bsky.social @cbbworld.bsky.social www.comedybangbangworld.com

Noo BS, what are you doing… Please go back to trying to be more like Mastodon and stop becoming more like Twitter techcrunch.com/2024/12/09/b...

[watching myself flop on bluesky compared to my reaction on twitter] No! NO! Where are my bots?! MY BEAUTIFUL BOTS?!?!

Bluesky has officially hit #1 on the App Store charts for Free Apps in both the UK and US.

A tale of two platforms: BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀

We combine cutting-edge AI and machine learning with the most ancient, changeless greed

Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data! Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters.  bsky.social/about/blog/0...

At 1 p.m. UTC today Mastodon was talking about Bluesky more than Bluesky was talking about Bluesky public.openmeasures.io/timeline?sea...

nerdculture.de/@davidfcarr/... Woah! Love to see it.

IBM said Thursday it will stop advertising on X, formerly Twitter, after a report from a media watchdog organization found that its ads had appeared on the Elon Musk-owned social media site alongside pro-Nazi tweets.

Recognizing fake news is now a required subject in California schools