Ian MacKinnon

Threads seems to have fallen down an alt right pipeline

The slow pace of GenAI images being rendered is reminiscent of the dial-up days.

Jeff Goldberg could have changed his name and profile pic in that Signal channel and done the funniest thing: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I hate how it felt like sovereignty was on the line for this game

Our next Infer Vancouver event is in 3 weeks, featuring Ada's @dhariri.com and Stingray's @imackinn.bsky.social – two founders working on the forefront of building with LLMs. lu.ma/brrgkhgv

Shopify's statement makes it sound like the bait and switch was the issue rather than the goddamn swastika

BlackBerry execs when they got big: let’s fund research institutes! Shopify execs when they got big: you know what kind of t-shirts we should help sell….

If this was a fight, they’d call it #Superbowl

I can tell something has changed because my normie friends are showing up on Bluesky

Anyone else in Canada get the sense that something was just let out of a bottle that a 30 day pause isn’t going to stop?

Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada

What the hell does Jason Kelce do in this situation?

Greenland should just schedule a referendum for February 2029 to join the US

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Bluesky seems to get spikes of people using it after deactivating from Twitter. Today definitely feels like one of those spikes.

The best part of all this TikTok ban nonsense is that barring a deal the CCP signs off on, or a law change, we’re back at this again in 90 days

I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise. Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble

As a Canadian, I'm debating whether to make a paid livestream of me scrolling TikTok following the ban

Did the election kill the effective altruist thing?

If "decentralized" comes at the expense of UX. The normies will never join. That can be a pro or a con.

I want to support public transit but they make it so hard sometimes

The follow/unfollow spam from earlier Twitter is rearing its ugly head. They really just shouldn’t send those once someone already follows ~1k already.

How young devs look at me when I tell them I used printed manuals when I first started programming #softwaredevelopment

Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one

So he’s basically giving 11 weeks notice

The trouble with being a one person tech team with ChatGPT as my sidekick is that I need to give it underlying system prompts to prevent me from going down rabbit holes and stay focused on an MVP the way a product manager would.

The legions of American swifities taking concert spots in Vancouver right now is the price we pay for our productivity gap

If you're clinging to 'my following is bigger on Twitter,' consider this: Bluesky is exploding right now. Delaying your move risks losing your active Twitter audience AND missing Bluesky's vertical growth phase, making it harder to build followers later.

Every couple of months when I have to fill out a government PDF

A terrific, essential read by my Globe colleague Samantha Edwards. Of course I read it on my smartphone. Using a flip phone helped Samantha Edwards gain some perspective on smartphone addiction. But giving up her digital life was hard in surprising ways www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

In case anyone wants to hear the story of later.com for the n-th time, I was interviewed by The Product Market Fit Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1889238/epis...

Hot Take: The best predictor of a site being a phishing page is the lack of a cookies banner.

I did a quick check to see how things were back on the bird site.

Hot Take: you can wait a few weeks to see how threads vs Bluesky develops before registering too strong an opinion on it.

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs

Most of my discover page right now