Cool new things i learned today: - you can embed the whole firehose on a 6 year old mac no problem - tailscale means you can serve localhost ports within your tailscale network AKA your phone - duckdb has basically no concurrency model with writes so you have to snapshot it

I'm so frustrated -- gonna reach out to my alderman. Chicago takes > 60 days to send out tickets. It doesn't do anyone any good. It delays revenue for the city. It prevents behavior change to make our streets safer. And it frustrates drivers to no end!!! @blockclubchi.bsky.social expose? #chicago

Learned the hard way that cloudflare does not like PDSs and thinks they are Bots

Take back your attention with opentrough.com ™️ Making steady progress. Recommendation systems are essential when there is too much stuff out there. What they optimize should be up to you

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

The atmosphere is a public id for the internet; URLs are for websites. Atmosphere accounts are for you. Use it to find your friends and share things with each other.

Awkward question.... when building apps on ATProto do you need a T&S etc if you dont charge anything? For example Leaflet doesnt have one i can find?

Suppose you had access to all your seen views, likes, etc. What stats would you be curious to see. For example: - Which profiles are the ones I see the most? - Who do I like the most? - When do I scroll and how much? Would you be interested in categorizing things? If so how so?

omg

One of the most inspired features in claude code is /btw -- it's so good for keeping you in flow and learning as you go

ATProto but for Google Reviews where you can label a reviewer as a hater.

If i want to build a model off of bluesky data -- I know i can use Tap and try and hydrate a local database, but are there other "curated" datasets I can use off the shelf? #recsys

Same graph, but with the time series expanded to three years. Honestly, it's a minor miracle that a social media company not backed by oligarchs or the state, with no attempt at establishing a revenue stream, and with multiple established competitors, had so much growth in such short time

Gave a talk today at ACM Chicago about compiling intent. I feel like anything that is right will “feel right” and this isnt it. But at least it’s something pboueri.github.io/talks/intent...

Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web: verge.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social vergecast.surf.social wired.surf.social 404media.surf.social poweruser.surf.social

Artemis II flight path, intersecting with the orbiting moon. The distance around the earth at the equator is about 24,000 miles. The distance illustrated here is about 10x that (almost 250000 miles). We're an incredible species when we put our minds together instead of trying to destroy each other.

New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model. All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways. (1/2)

@modal-labs.bsky.social is such a joy to work with as a single person. 0 ceremony -- just straight iteration in the cloud.

I’ve been on a “what work means” reading kick so far i have read: - working - stud terk - Janesville - amy Goldstein - Debt - David Graeber What else should i read? #booksky #econsky

ITT: Dont use technology that has lots of benefits but also exploitation Sent from my iPhone

We hear the concerns about AI. Our goal is to use this technology to give people greater control, not to generate content. Attie uses AI to help you create custom feeds without having to know how to code.

I think if @attie.ai as smart persistent saved searches - better than term search but not quite recommendations. The query in recs is just the user, not user + prompt. Very useful for a discrete information need (recurring or not) but likely not the majority of feed consumption

Could social media make us less polarized instead of more? We tested 5 algorithms on 3 platforms with 10,000 people for 6 months during the 2024 election, and found that the answer is yes. 🧵

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

The problem with the question of why AI productivity gains lead to layoffs instead of simply producing more is that you need demand to go with supply. Consider Epic Games who just had layoffs due to Fortnite engagement dropping. Shipping 10 new battle royale games thanks to AI is counterproductive.

I cant get over how reproducibility just doesnt matter anymore. Under specifying an app with 4 sentences means, regardless of harness quality, you will get a huge range of possible outcomes.

I'm giving a talk at ACM Chicago on April 2nd about intentc: A Compiler of Intent. It is an experimental project with some good ideas, but ultimately it is not the right final form for what the future of software engineering looks like. Hope to see you there: www.meetup.com/acm-chicago/...

Compassion is cool

Things I need from Claude Dispatch to feel complete :tm: - Voice to Text mode: noone got time to type on the phone - Drag and drop pictures and artifacts: need to be able to share stuff that way - Sub Agents: I wanna be able to spin off background tasks without the main thread blocking

Whats most interesting to me is how AI mediates the message as well. Theres something about people baring their soul to the agent if their fear thats pretty nuts. I love that anthropic publishes this stuff and takes the time.

We invited Claude users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. Nearly 81,000 people responded in one week—the largest qualitative study of its kind. Read more: https://anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

Good Evening, “IL-9 Congressional Primary” was a 12 month sociological study conducted by Northwestern University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

About 10% of the time i read AI and see Al like ال and it tickles me.

When you chose a school for your kids, you probably didn't realize you were choosing educational software, but that choice of software might be more consequential for your kid than the choice of school. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/o...

I have always been the kind of developer who only cared about outcomes. Give me the tool, the framework, the head start. I just want my website. A totally different kind of developer exists who cares about the *craft*. Getting that function just right. Those devs are in pain right now.

Not great, Bob

Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

@wttw.bsky.social ‘s FIRSTHAND docs are amazing - makes me inspired with how many heroes there are everyday in Chicago www.wttw.com/firsthand

Still the most prescient piece of the future of work and where we all end up youtube.com/clip/UgkxXNJ...

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Nothing to see, just very powerful pattern matching. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels. read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed

One of my senators (D) went on TV and framed the problem with Trump's decision to launch an unprovoked assault on another country as entirely about process. She agrees with the carnage, she just wishes she would have been consulted about it first. Sorry to be a bit bummed out by that, I guess.

Endorse - get the limit you need to not feel constrained and then walk back if youre way under

new blog post on permissioned data in atproto! this one introduces "buckets", the protocol-level primitive for shared access control. I walk through two approaches that don't quite work and land on something that I think does let me know your thoughts!