I had missed this exchange last month between Nate Silver and Tyler Cowen in which Silver more or less admits that the academic conversation has moved to Bluesky, but rather than thinking that this shows how Bluesky has become more important, he claims it's why they've "lost influence." https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreickvwwbijajl4nicbjrgzdzwlfy4wgzkra7r7hf2troginpiws4yq
Incredible. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an ...
Just going to note, if you're sending me a request to take down a very factual news story about you that is from 2024, do not (1) say that the story is old and no longer relevant (2) insist that it is no longer accurate (it is!) and (3) ...
So [@timcushing.bsky.social](
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Capitalist Lion Tamer (@timcushing.bsky.social)
WILL WRITE FOR SHORT-LIVED ADORATION https://www.techdirt.com/user/capitalisliontamer/
 ) had some thoughts on all this... RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Charlie Kirk Doesn’t Deserve What’s Happening To Him I am not here to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk. I will not, however, engage in the...
Government officials in the "party of free speech" looking to use the power of the state to punish people for their free speech. Again. It's almost like they were never actually serious about free speech. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiediidkmdidymypl6rt5s7sqgiko55ol4nqlsno4xas46lxm5bvfy
Finally wrote something responding to that silly piece from a few weeks ago about why everyone should stay on X (they still wanted to call it Twitter, but Twitter is dead). You can stay in the system designed to hold you back, or you can be a part of building something better. It's time to build. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Stop Begging. Start Building As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this arti...
Do we file this one under free markets or personal liberty? RE:
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Karen Attiah (@karenattiah.bsky.social)
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. https://substac...
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So the site that was building a database of 60k+ people it "blamed" for the murder of Kirk (including many who simply quoted Kirk's own words) has "rebranded" and claims its new mission is "we track statistics on the prevalence of political extremism."
Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation RE:
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AccidentalInsightRepeater (@ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social)
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