Charlie O'Keefe

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Best DEF CON badge ever :)

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Today, we’re officially introducing Kagi News: a once-a-day press review that cuts through the noise. Global stories, community-curated sources, and zero tracking. Links below 👇

very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF! last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

The department of the treasury should probably be moved explicitly under the legislative branch and out of the executive branch.

happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was skeptical at first, but Bluesky really is a fantastic platform for scientists who want to engage in broader public conversations. Thank you @bsky.app and @jay.bsky.team for this amazing resource!

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video! Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

Mike is a great follow

This morning we’re announcing Surf, a new kind of browser for a new kind of web — the open social web. Built on AT Proto, ActivityPub and RSS, you can easily create and surf custom feeds that organize people, videos, articles and podcasts around the things you care about. More at surf.social

The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything: • @houseofcommons.parliament.uk • @houseoflords.parliament.uk • @ukparliament.parliament.uk • @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk

After 54 years of tyranny, the Assad regime has finally come to an end. Bashar al-Assad has fled his homeland like the coward he is. He joins his despicable family in exile. But the great Syrian people are not out of the woods yet.

Today I wrote about an FTC Commissioner's batshit crazy statements arguing that the FTC can punish any social media company that doesn't follow Elon's lead in how it moderates. Also it can punish advertisers for not advertising on X. www.techdirt.com/2024/12/06/g...

Here @ilpost.it, an Italian national newspaper, confirms the pattern of Bluesky bringing more traffic than Threads. It's not an Anglosphere phenomenon! "[...] in just two weeks the percentage of traffic coming from the platform to the newspaper’s site has surpassed that coming from Threads [...]"

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Wonder if news editors are going to realize people knew about an actual coup an hour-plus earlier on bluesky than twitter. Hearing a lot of that rumbling from old friends still in the legacy content mines today.

Launching bluesky in today's social media world seems a bit like the napster launch in 1999, but without napster's copyright issue. A weapon the recording industry deployed against napster back then, other than lawsuits, was hiring some firms with the express goal of clogging the network with junk.

How Bluesky could implement Limited Audiences / Non-Public Content and private, end-to-end encrypted protocol-native DMs using existing cryptography: soatok.blog/2024/11/29/i...

We shouldn’t want a single platform out of fear of “bifurcating” the ecosystem. Twitter has already splintered into multiple platforms and in the long run that’s good. We should want to enable seamless conversations across platforms, instead of the current norm of sharing screenshots across them.

To put it in sports terms, watching team bluesky as a software nerd is a bit like watching a group of your favorite college players turn pro and pull off a season of upsets, shocking the established juggernauts, and now they're making a run at a world championship. Like the Miracle on Ice of tech.

Yay, The HN algo strikes again! But this setting should be at the top of each thread. 1. It's not nearly as useful as a static setting. You often want to see the hot replies, then see the newest replies, etc. 2. It's *probably* also good for the conversation that people see the same default view.

Independent implementation of a "relay" - and it's running! Even more progress toward practical decentralization. (ELI5ish in the replies)

Looks like @waybackmachine.bsky.social is unable to archive the content of bluesky posts so far. I assume that's a consequence of how the web version of their Expo app works...

Miracle count: - Smart team that values decentralization. - Insight to decentralize the right things. - Technical skill to actually build it. - Understands social challenges of growing a social network. - Billionaire airdrop. - Numerous Twitter own-goals. - Timed just right to pick up the slack.

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

Anyone else remember that "Campfire One" event 17 years ago when Google released project codename Maka Maka, dubbed "Open Social" which was their big answer to the early growth of facebook? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOE...

Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.