daspikkio

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

now why do you need a fragrance to last 48 hours? go wash your ass

Kedging Cannon xkcd.com/3013

Wow, thank you all for following: 300k-plus followers on @bsky.app, for a site I only had 30k followers on before the election and that I barely checked. Crazy growth in just a couple of weeks. I am loving the energy and engagement, and lack of trolls, on this site. Aren't you?

Theodore Meron è sopravvissuto all' Olocausto che ha sterminato la sua famiglia. È uno dei giuristi consulenti della Corte Penale Internazionale che ha emesso il mandato di cattura per Netanyahu. L' accusa di antisemitismo per chi condanna #Israele per i massacri di #Gaza si conferma risibile.

Me popping into the infra team's zoom today

now might be a good time to plug the talk i gave last month about the AT Protocol. it’s about the relationship between the user and the product, about the shape of the web, and a bit about death

shoutout to @jaz.bsky.social & more backend folks @dholms.xyz @divy.zone @why.bsky.team @bnewbold.net @bolson.org @hailey.at @pfrazee.com for keeping the backend mostly alive this week and urgently pushing the scaling plans forward, what a week it’s been

Israel is already accusing the ICC of antisemitism for issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. But, as I explain here for Zeteo, that's BS because a Holocaust survivor/ex-Israeli diplomat was one of the top legal advisers on this ICC arrest warrant, and he strongly agreed with issuing it. Watch:

There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

12 years of #Scarfolk (and my life) now deleted from Twitter/X... The many political reasons aside, X's change to its Terms of Service are damaging for creatives, as their work - and all your data infact - is now training #AI.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

Also, in the classic colors.

In Libano, in meno di due mesi, Israele ha ammazzato più di duecento bambini. Non sono dati hamas, è l'UNICEF. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

1. The name Bluesky was originally a placeholder for the project started by Twitter to build an open social protocol. Purely by coincidence, my mother gave me the name Lantian, which translates to "blue sky."

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“The state of most social platforms right now is that users are locked in and developers are locked out. We want to build something that makes sure users have the freedom to move and developers have the freedom to build.” — @jay.bsky.team in @nytimes.com gift link:

Il Manifesto, naturalmente

Paid subscribers won’t get special treatment elsewhere in the app, like upranking premium accounts or blue checks next to their names. We won’t sell your data. And we won’t hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, NFTs, etc.).

An underestimated aspect of Bluesky is that a much higher percentage of folks here seem to have reading comprehension skills

18M + 1. 💙, Mar🐫

I love Philomena Cunk so much.

We apologise for any technical difficulties you may be experiencing. Our engineers are working on a solution as we speak. Please stand by.

Giornalista: Di recente hai affermato "Non esiste un vaccino sicuro ed efficace". Ci credi ancora? RFK Jr.: Non l'ho mai detto... Giornalista: Stop, fate partire la clip. RFK Jr. nella clip "Non esiste un vaccino sicuro ed efficace".🙂

That fight could have been an email

Geometry hates cars.

Cosa è successo nell'ultimo mese? Perché tante piogge sulla Spagna? Partiamo dalle anomalie di "pressione in quota" tra il 15 ottobre e il 13 novembre. Valori molto più alti del normale sul centro-nord Europa. Sul Mare del Nord geopotenziale in media 160-180 metri più alto della climatologia. 1/n

Avevo fatto, tempo fa, una lista di horror (e film perturbanti) senza jumpscare - ci sono pure pochissimi splatter, quindi può fare al caso tuo: mubi.com/it/lists/tim...

The decoy keyboard is working

A whiteboard from our Jan 2023 team retreat where I wrote down our goals, and the top one was “10k user signups.” We’re growing by 10k users every 10-15 minutes right now.

Him: “I tweeted” “I skeeted”

Bluesky by the Numbers today: 1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts 2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts 2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!) Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!! We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board. Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago! Holy Moly

Wait till the Department of Government Efficiency gets into the AWS billing console

Welcome to Blue Sky.

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

"Sentiamo le urla di chi è rimasto sotto le macerie. Non possiamo far nulla. Poi le voci spariscono, le case diventano tombe. Accade ogni giorno." Hussein Abu Safiya Da "Il Manifesto" di oggi #14novembre

Incredible

Pc overheating issue found

bluesky engineers: perhaps today it’ll be a little slower, we’ll catch our breath the internet: MORE!!

this is called “feeling the heat”

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