johnny.bsky.social

A climate vulnerability assessment for U.S. highly migratory fishes in the Atlantic Ocean journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

The Crusader aesthetic and the proud self-labeling of oneself as an “infidel” grew in popularity during the war on terror and have remained as gestures of anti-Muslim sentiment on the right.

The tech industry has captured our imaginations, in part because we’ve lost a vision for a better future. @danmcquillan.bsky.social explains how decomputing isn’t just about exerting control over technology; it’s about imagining a better world. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/286_...

Putting this out there: Herdling just got a release date, and I'd love to place a feature on the game (or a review!). In addition to my writing bona fides, I have 25 years experience helping my family raise goats. LMK if I can shoot you a pitch, either here or at kmnelsonmail (at) gmail (dot) com!

People fall for faux outrage again and again and again

possibly my favorite genre of journalism is forbes 30u30 fraud exposés www.forbes.com/sites/monica...

Confession time: I've been working on a secret side project at Vox Media for the past 18 months and it launched yesterday

This book gives the very real and brutal details of what happened during that massacre of Black people.

This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics! desfontain.es/blog/privacy...

choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews, just covers. book 2: “are prisons obsolete?” by angela y. davis #BookSky #BlackBookSky #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

This is excuse-making by folks who don’t want to feel bad about being associated with the Christians they don’t like. The fascists are “real” Christians too, and always were. If you don’t like how that feels, take it up with them, don’t try to convince the rest of us “they don’t count!”

We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.

The media wants you to be outraged at bad Twitter jokes and random heated comments. They want you to direct your anger at random people on Twitter who "took things too far," rather than question the system that led to these conditions in the first place.

My Roman Empire is how the word “Neanderthal” used to be shorthand for “stupid/primitive” until it came out that ppl of European descent have Neanderthal DNA & suddenly news outlets published a bunch of stories about how Neanderthals were very smart & innovative, actually. Like this: bit.ly/3D1CtuS

Another Korea 101 point from the Realmeter poll from yesterday: "The response that [Yoon's declaration of martial law] constitutes treason was highest in Gwangju and Jeolla [the larger region Gwangju is in] at 78.2%" n.news.naver.com/article/005/...

My first for @theintercept.com: theintercept.com/2024/12/03/p...

"Palestine will be liberated in Arabic" – poet Fady Joudah talks with the Makdisi brothers about "Palestine in English versus Palestine in Arabic," poetry in a time of genocide, the limits of solidarity & more in the latest episode of Makdisi Street open.spotify.com/episode/3CdL...

🎁 From now until the end of December, each referral to Warp is 1 entry into our Holiday Referrals Giveaway! Here’s what’s up for grabs: - North Face backpacks - Moleskin notebooks - Hydroflasks - Hoodies We’ll randomly send out swag to some of the first 200 to repost this! youtu.be/ZRk7I0Np1hk

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

Many organizations for women in tech and other under-represented groups have shut down the past few years like Women Who Code and Girls In Tech. One of the reasons cited is lack of funds If you are able to, please donate to organizations that support underrepresented people in tech 🧵

Ah yes the party of family values. Imagine what an absolute dick Pete Hegseth have to be for his own mom to write this letter.

"why don't you do a clean install why don't you do linux what if you replaced this" no no no no no. This is the bestselling laptop on Amazon and I am acting as if I am a normal person. Normal people don't even know what linux is. They think the Penguin is bothersome

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

I just had a sobering thought. If I didn't have ADHD, I would probably be a much worse programmer and a much better writer. I'm not real sure what to do with this right now.

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

1/ I spent a significant amount of my life promoting Creative Commons. One key aspect was always: publish your content so others can make *unexpected* things from this content.

Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section? `npm install bluesky-comments` Built by @coryzue.com

This past summer, I had an opportunity to follow and photograph several colonies of oak treehoppers from newly laid eggs to the emergence of adults. Oak treehoppers are unique in that mamas stay with and protect their young throughout their entire development. Check out this emergence of an adult!

And of course it's all open source so feel free to steal and copy my ideas github.com/hipstersmoot...

Maybe the democrats should've run on ending the genocide? 🤷🏽‍♀️

A million people watched this video. People *do* care if you take the time to explain it. youtu.be/xoJZu_EaDeM?...

If surveys and election results aren't evidence you're out of step with voters then it is only resolvable by continued adjudication of elections, I guess we'll see in 2026 and 2028 if the standard of evidence for your humility in defeat is a bar you hold above the water as you drown.

Me: writes a paper (with @sashamtl.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) on how hype and choice of goals and benchmarks leads to an arm race in AI arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160 Them: here's my proposal to solve the problem by a better AI algorithm. 🤨 The problem is social: it's norm setting..

Using something like Porto Chrome extension (chromewebstore.google.com/detail/porto...) or this github project (github.com/marcomaroni-...)

👋🏼 Good to see you on this side. Welcome to Bluesky. I’ve put together a short starter pack of community members who post technical topics about Kubernetes. Hope you enjoy. go.bsky.app/MHYb3B9

Logan Paul calling a cisgender woman “a man” and “the purest form of evil” because the Olympic athlete doesn’t conform to an extremely rigid set of beauty standards

Remember when @ryanlcooper.com had a complete MELTDOWN after being told that “mild” COVID can damage the immune system? Well yet another study shows how wrong he was. It’s sad to see how he and others in media have fallen into conspiracies & denialism www.news-medical.net/news/2024071...

Bluesky has been independent from the start, but it took six months of negotiation in 2021 to set it up that way, and from the outside during that period it looked like the project was going to remain vaporware forever. Very glad we are alive today — it very easily could have turned out otherwise.