1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow). The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements.
Many people emailed me to ask how to manage potential financial uncertainties in 2025. I wrote up a brief two page summary; this is not financial advice, but it offers a summary of the risks and how, potentially, to respond.