there a few realisations as powerful and radicalising as this one imo, since the implications on how our global information ecosystem works are so wide ranging RE:
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Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com)
Whenever I explain that almost 95% of the disinformation that gets laundered through mainstream media comes from 10 people who are all in the same ...
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it is very funny to use pictures as hashtags for people who cannot read RE:
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Pop Crave (@popcrave.com)
Police believe the suspected gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO has left New York City.
I've been keeping track of how many people mention the idea of insta on atproto, and its a lot at this point shows how the direction of a network is less dependent on the space of possibilities, and much more on the people willing to push it in the direction they envision RE:
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ceej (@ceej.online)
who's gonna build me atproto instagram, man? every single interaction in that app sucks to use. you can actively feel zuckerberg fighting you whene...
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writing is thinking, and its annoying how much your brain tricks you into pretending that thinking about writing is also thinking
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Im concerned by the lack of plan regarding this role. Dont even know if its fulltime or parttime, which continent it will be based on, and what the idea is once the funding money runs out RE:
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rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social)
....you're gonna have a bitch of a time finding anyone who is experienced enough to do that job at $75k, I'm sorry to say. [contains quote post or...
good, things are moving pretty quickly on the subscription front it seems RE:
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George Pearkes (@peark.es)
Wow, I'm getting Bsky updates as BBG headlines now *OVER 10M US USERS JOINED BLUESKY SINCE ELECTION *BLUESKY TO LAUNCH SUBSCRIPTIONS AT YEAR END, ...
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Bluesky in active competition with 2 different microblogging platforms, both ruled by billionaires that are actively shaping (tech) policy to their advantage. Both billionaires (correctly, imo) see Bluesky as a threat to their own platforms. RE:
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Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg seeks β€˜active role’ in Donald Trump’s tech policies https://www.ft.com/content/69f86be5-ecdd-4222-92aa-3df0a8db213c
adding 'david mayer' to all my posts to opt out of genAI training RE:
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Melanie Mitchell (@melaniemitchell.bsky.social)
Someone went down this rabbit hole and wrote a fascinating post about it: https://centreforaileadership.org/resources/analysis_the_curious_case_of_...
threaded view getting turned off with every single fucking app update is so annoying