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Bad artist. Dog valet. So very tired. Partially Liminal.

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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 07/10/2026
we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Cuducos @cuducos.me · 11/05/2026
And now approved at the Firefox Add-ons website : ) addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
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AT Protocol URI Handler – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download AT Protocol URI Handler for Firefox. Redirect at:// URIs to their web equivalents
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 02/04/2026
This is huge. Amazing work by @mmccue.bsky.social and the Surf team, and also to Vox for making some really bold moves embracing the open social Internet. And, look how good it looks!
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brain @littlebluecouch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
teaser image for Dune 3, except it's called Doug, and Paul and Chani are replaced with Doug and Patti
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modern life is rubbish✌️ @maddielonglegs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy 25 years of dust2 Cyberspaces you could navigate as well as any place you’ve ever lived.
Wikipedia screenshot of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_II
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Recsysml @recsysml.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Posted here as well. www.linkedin.com/posts/gaurav... I hope this gets the visibility to the the right audience
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Personalization at Bluesky | Gaurav Chakravorty
If you’re interested in building personalization systems where architecture still matters, this is worth a read. Ian Wesley-Smith — someone I hired at Discord and worked closely with — just published ...
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I made a post about personalization at Bluesky. open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
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Personalization at Bluesky
The past, present, and future of personalization of the Discover feed
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It’s impossible to watch any political thriller now because whatever incident is generating dramatic tension pales in comparison to reality.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Sign in PRO for presumed liability. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If we want to create a more affordable, livable Seattle, we need to design for *reducing* car volumes. This is the only way to meet our climate, public health, vision zero, accessibility and housing goals. Our fight to design highway on-ramps with LESS capacity epitomizes why it's still hard.
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Op-Ed: It’s Time to Imagine a Safer, More Connected Rainier Avenue » The Urbanist
# Rainier Avenue has too many cars traveling at dangerous speeds, but conventional planning practices make it hard to change that and design a future where Rainier Avenue thrives. Let's stop making ha...
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Recsysml @recsysml.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
In this three part series I compare #LLM and #RecommenderSystems to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think. Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
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Ranking Models explained: Deep Dive into RecSys Architecture (Features, Embeddings, & Attention)
Watch now (18 mins) | What happens post retrieval in a recommender system
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Bill De Blasio meme: "1 Line: "Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mode that doesn't lose power Huh?"
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 19/11/2025
This project is absolutely nuts. You can take the vector embeddings for text and convert them back to the text that generated them. github.com/vec2text/vec...
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GitHub - vec2text/vec2text: utilities for decoding deep representations (like sentence embeddings) back to text
utilities for decoding deep representations (like sentence embeddings) back to text - vec2text/vec2text
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Read Xia et al., “TransAct V2.” earlier today, some notes: - long and short term user histories (long term [10k items], short term [100], impressions [100]) - sampled soft max loss function seems useful in environments with very weak negatives #recsys #ml arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267
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TransAct V2: Lifelong User Action Sequence Modeling on Pinterest Recommendation
Modeling user action sequences has become a popular focus in industrial recommendation system research, particularly for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. However, industry-scale CTR models o...
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Atticus wants to play
A corgi lying on the ground facing the camera. A red ball is sitting next to his snoot.
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
watching Alien: Earth and I think I'm rooting for the alien
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
todays discover outage was brought to you by the letter <SPACE>
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
anyone got opinions on data orchestration tools? Specifically Dagster vs Temporal?
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
To celebrate Zohran Mamdani's apparent win in NYC I donated my democracy vouchers to my choice for mayor, Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social . If you live in Seattle you can too! www.wilsonforseattle.com/democracy-vo...
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Vouchers | Katie Wilson
Each Seattle voter has $100 worth of Democracy Vouchers to give to their candidate(s) of choice. We would love if you assigned your vouchers to our campaign!
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page testing
a test image
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
EWR giving SEA a run for bad airport award
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
been hitting refresh all day www.kuow.org/stories/moni...
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Monisha Harrell breaks silence on her uncle – and former boss – Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell
Monisha Harrell describes the mayor’s office as being a dog-eat-dog environment where white male advisors vied for power and influence. She said her experience, as a high-level woman ignored by the ma...
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SXSW @sxsw.com · 10/03/2025
You won't want to miss this one. Join @bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team for a conversation on the future of social and how users can take control over their own online experience at #SXSW. #Bluesky #JayGraber Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj
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House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
4 days left!!! Now that it's sunny, it's a great time to get those ballots into drop boxes, or in mailboxes! ☀️🗳️☀️🗳️☀️🗳️
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
this is a test of the corgi broadcast system. If this were an actual corgi you would be loudly hearing barking at the wind. this is only a test.
a red and white Pembroke corgi rests on a leather chair. He looks sleepy.
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I've won 1 of my last 10 Deadlock matches. Game feels dead now and the only people left are the try hards. Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
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Fuse Washington @fusewashington.org · 03/10/2024
Hey Seattle voters! Have you used your Seattle Democracy Vouchers yet? We recommend donating yours to Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council Position 8! You can donate yours online, even if you lost your original paper copies:
alexisforseattle.na4.documents.adobe.com
AMR Replacement Form v3
Share with your colleagues and friends the simplicity of using Adobe Acrobat Sign to sign documents electronically. Click on the buttons below to spread the word! Learn more at <a target='_blank'…
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
🙄
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Ian @iwsmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
I turned off the porn filter and now my feed is all raccoons
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