Reposted by NewsMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express. 14117284
Reposted by NewsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026In a *stellar* essay entitled "Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same" by the data scientist Lauren Leek, we get a top-notch example of "putting things together": laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... 11/laurenleek.substack.comTemperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the SameWhat 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it. 1326188
Reposted by Newsturgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026data visualization is my passion. 491173852143
Reposted by NewsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/07/2026My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you. 1953974268
Reposted by NewsKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 04/06/2026Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing. 1138294
Reposted by NewsChris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh 774307723
Reposted by NewsKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it upyahoo.comElon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attackThe use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona... 16388203360
Reposted by NewsDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/05/2026If you’re wondering how much AI vendors have been subsidizing tokens, here’s what a GitHub Copilot user would have been charged for their current usage under the usage based billing model going live next month. 1313423
Reposted by NewsMike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...liberalism.orgEnshittification, Despotification, and the Open InternetIt’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes. 291971645
Reposted by NewsMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content” 4423281031
Reposted by NewsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered. 104107973239
Reposted by NewsJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16/03/2026A new study finds that texting a random stranger is probably better to mitigate loneliness than talking to an AI-powered chatbot www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...404media.coTexting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study ShowsA newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM. 23671166
Reposted by NewsJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...404media.coI Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For ThemselvesThe hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE. 19158492119
Reposted by NewsSahil Bloom @sahilbloom.bsky.social · 24/02/2026A mentor once told me this: Confidence is less about knowing you’ll win and more about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is built on resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you embrace that failure is never final. 031
Reposted by NewsSahil Bloom @sahilbloom.bsky.social · 26/01/2026An idea I can't stop thinking about... 041
Reposted by NewsJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/02/2026With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers www.404media.co/with-ring-am...404media.coWith Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance DragnetRing's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism. 16406138
Reposted by NewsTheo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detailbluesky-map.theo.ioBluesky MapInteractive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern. 66472492153
Reposted by Newsdavidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 04/02/2026The United States now has a single major actual newspaper. That is a dangerous situation. 911638
Reposted by NewsKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 02/02/2026I find myself disabling anything that attempts to put words in my mouth. 51306
Reposted by NewsKathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I don't always agree with Hank Green but I do quite like what he's saying here. "When we can't find anything we can believe in, the humanity leaks through the drywall and says 'I AM STILL HERE! [...] I AM WEIRD, AND I AM HUMAN, AND I AM NOT FOR SALE!'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWP...youtube.comHere's Why New Year's Eve is Bad NowYouTube video by Hank Green 453049
Reposted by NewsPeter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The U.S. dollar has slid against the euro. Which puts the rise of the S&P500 in a new light. In the past year the S&P rose by 20% while the dollar fell by 11% against the euro. The Euro Stoxx 50 rose by 20% as well! 111
Reposted by NewsRyan Holiday @ryan-holiday.bsky.social · 10/10/20257 profound lessons from The Daily Stoic: 1. Focus on What You Can Control 2. Accept Adversity as Part of Life 3. Practice Gratitude Daily 4. Live in Accordance with Nature 5. Embrace the Present Moment 6. Control Your Emotions 7. Practice Self-Discipline and Temperance 814442
Reposted by NewsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2025"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944 13771102482
Reposted by NewsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery] 418147275324
Reposted by NewsDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/08/2025If free public transit buses in New York City is an unacceptable degree of socialism, where does nationalizing Intel fall on the scale? 531660
Reposted by NewsMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Data, striving to represent, can never keep up 921728
