Eli Dourado

A European hydrogen lobbyist describes how the IRA is shifting hydrogen investment to the US from Europe after years of European subsidies.

⚡️ Now ready for development: custom algorithms! We've put together a starter kit with instructions on how to implement your own custom algorithm here. https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator

It would be cool if we could attach PDFs to skeets just like other media. 🤓

I met a turtle yesterday.

Touching profile of geothermal instigator Jamie Beard, who is a force of nature. I’m proud to know her. https://www.wired.com/story/where-to-find-the-energy-to-save-the-world-geothermal-texas/

Feature request: Forget a who to follow section. Give me a who to block section. “All these people you follow blocked this account. Do you want to block them too?”

The Bluesky firehose

While Yudkowsky is warning us about AI killing everyone, Lina Khan suggests that the AI era could be as chaotic as having social media companies sell ads based on personal data. LMAO. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opinion/ai-lina-khan-ftc-technology.html

Unfortunately bsky doesn’t have video uploads yet, so you have to go to bird site to watch video of a Ukrainian drone exploding inside the walls of the Kremlin. That’s a long way from actually killing Putin, but getting closer… https://twitter.com/darthputinkgb/status/1653745478008291328

Is it possible to expose how many users are blocking a given user? Maybe it should be listed alongside followers and following on users’ profiles. Like a decentralized reputation score. @jay.bsky.team

AOC’s skeet on CNN

Walking my dog this morning, I saw a Lamborghini Urus parked on the street. I am completely baffled as to why anyone would buy such a thing. I get wanting a Lambo. A Lambo SUV feels like such a waste, though.

Thinking about the future of AT Protocol, it seems that at some point there will need to be subrepos, just like git has submodules. Like if I’m building a subprotocol that requires hosting a ton of video data, Bluesky itself may not want to host all of it, and a subrepo seems like a good solution.

Just had a great experience with Github Copilot for CLI. Gave me a complex ffmpeg command I never would have figured out on my own. Without it, I probably would have just not done the thing. https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-cli

The AI pause that matters. This is what needs to happen if we want AI to have positive economic impact. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ibm-to-pause-hiring-for-back-office-jobs-that-ai-could-kill

What wants to get blocked?

It’s time to move past chatbots https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots

Morning thought: Eastern philosophy (and some iconoclastic Western philosophers like Parfit) basically believes that personal identity is a myth. We are all contingent on everything else. It’s very hard to live like that. But what if we all turned the personal identity knob down by 10%? 20%?

Doing the thing with the kids where you play “Roxanne” and they have to do burpees every time they hear the word Roxanne. Everyone does this right?

Current status

Looking forward to seeing a bunch of Econ nerds in Lancaster, PA today.

Sweet. I’m going to write a script to block everyone that @mattyglesias.bsky.social blocks.

eugh finally

Yep

Great piece advancing nuclear-positivity. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/opinion/climate-change-nuclear-waste.html

it is total nonsense that geothermal energy drilling is not categorically exempt from NEPA but oil drilling is

Hey new people, if you have a domain name you can use it as your Bluesky handle. It’s easy and is a form of self-verification.

we are human and need sleep. so bear with as we implement blocks (a week or two? juggling), along with sandbox-mode federation to test it all out. if you code and want to help, apply for a job. you will work intensely hard with us, but you may help remake the social web. come if you want to ride.

what if i don’t want my blocks to be public? what do we do if an aggro server refuses to respect my block? we had to answer all these questions, about an architecture that was not settled. it was simply not possible on the time constraints we had with 3 engineers.

i block someone on my server. ok. where does that information get stored? just my server? then other servers don’t know to respect it. ok, i publish it then. what if the other server doesn’t listen? what if there’s services beyond servers? (there are)