"My social networks made everyone angrier at each other instead of connecting them, so now our friends can be robots instead" RE:
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Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 1...
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Ah, yes, the work of creatives being stolen to train LLMs definitely didn't require any taste, psychology, or chaos tolerance whatsoever. These are the kind of people who sit at bars and explain how VC funding is like jazz while not understanding a single thing about jazz theory. RE:
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Vikram Bath (@vikrambath.bsky.social)
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC in...
Also a hostile and political act: Canadian elections πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
Okay, but they should've known that if Google bought it, they would do a bad job of baking it into Android while rebranding it to something different, then shut it down for an alternative two years later [Facebook execs worried Google ...](
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Facebook execs worried Google would buy WhatsApp and make it β€˜a cross-platform iMessage.’
Benjamin Davenport, who became part of Facebook Messenger’s founding team after his mobile messaging app Beluga was acquired, testified in a 2022...
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Wanna go eat a pile of ketchup chips and glug milk from a bag to celebrate my country tn πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
Realizing that my aesthetic is slowly turning into "loudly open social web" and not sure how I feel about it (I feel pretty good) RE:
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Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq.com)
Working on some @anew.social merch πŸ‘€
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Looks like @npub1enkl...vnag just added the switch that federates your blogs/newsletters to @Bluesky directly via Bridgy Fed! RE:
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Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq.com)
So dope that @ghost.org is adding a switch for Bridgy Fed! One of our (many) goals with @anew.social is to make it easier to bridge your accounts...
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A Pro phone by the budget brand under the company that makes budget phones under their flagship brand that aren't as budget-friendly as their budget brand phones RE:
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The Verge (@theverge.com)
Nothing’s second modular phone reinvents the rules https://buff.ly/x2ymh5e
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A New Social (@anew.social)
Social media should be centered around people, not platforms. Let's build bridges, not walls. That's why we're building Bridgy Fed and Bounce. Lea...
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You're only decentralized if you have a Raspberry Pi running your own ActivityPub instance that's also bridged to AT, Nostr, and Farcaster, otherwise you're just a part of the oligarchy, man