In which @Jay 🦋 does a deep dive on what “Freedom of speech, not reach” means in the context of Bluesky (💅🏻) — and why it isn’t just lib twitter. Sites choose their moderation rules, but if ppl are unhappy, they can start a new site or host their own. [www.wired.com/story/big-in...](
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Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize...
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Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize...
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The left should be making Russ Vought own this 24/7 in very simple language: Vought is making it easier for scammers to target you and your grandma. RE:
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WIRED (@wired.com)
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of...
Exactly. They need The Villain who is keeping The People from knowing The Truth. There is no work that simply stands alone — everything is framed as something someone else should have done but didn’t because of Motives. Click through for Sohrab Ahmari’s underlying thread, which is worth reading. RE:
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Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social)
I’ve said this a million times but one of the funnier aspects of the right-wing propaganda ecosystem is that they complain incessantly about a ...
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Extremely dramatic Romanian election coming to a close with the centrist (an impressive mathematician) projected to win. Some of the American election-denier cranks on X are darkly hinting this is some kind of shenanigans, of course. RE:
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The Guardian (@theguardian.com)
Centrist Nicuşor Dan on course to win Romanian election with 99% of votes counted https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/18/centrist-nicusor-d...
“We are the media now” -> They are the government now. The base isn’t going to like this, and is going to spiral out in all directions. These people earned a living & got wildly famous - got their jobs, in fact - bc of their talent for reckless speculation. Some of that’ll come for them now. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
BARTIROMO: You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don't believe it. PATEL: Listen, they have a right to their opinion, but you know a ...
"“The alleged underenforcement of Meta’s monitoring policies cannot give rise to liability,” the co wrote last year in a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging negligence in removing crypto scams, adding it “does not owe a duty to users” to address fraud on its platforms. [www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...](https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fraud-facebook-instagram-813363c8 ) [Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of S...](https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fraud-facebook-instagram-813363c8 )
My 5th grader and I talked about this approach to “showing your work” for writing assignments in the age of AI - not recording, just the edit log. Really young kids are surprisingly aware that this is the kind of thing that can prove they did their work. RE:
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 (@clancyny.bsky.social)
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GAO is what DOGE wishes it could be. It’s good to see it pushing back. RE:
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Jose Pagliery (@josepagliery.bsky.social)
Breaking news: DOGE is now targeting the Government Accountability Office, a congressional agency. GAO is fighting back: "We are not subject to D...
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On that 3am system prompt update to Grok, Elon’s anger at Gemini, & the politics behind prompts. ‘The solution, is transparency. Not bc we can, or should, attempt to strip out values that the owner decides to encode but bc the values shouldn’t be obscured.’ [open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](
Yes but have you considered the issue of white genocide in South Africa?
Grok's non-sequiturs, Gemini's Asian Nazis, and glimpses into politics behind the prompts
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Ron DeSantis gets to own this policy from here on out, and the people of Florida should consider exercising their agency over the politicians who delivered it. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreicqncwh4zvfckfjo2dafvumwyxc55nmaaqkbg4x2m234qvzsu2abq https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreialmot2ia7eweidulsijdni2j3vhu2scl2y2qipihq2igqrzbjdea