Mike McCue

Bought the iPhone #Duo at 5am online and got it today. Been using it for a few hours. Really want to like it especially because Flipboard looks amazing. But.............. give me a few more hours. Meanwhile here's some fun Flipboard Duo video featuring Massive Greatness by @mgsiegler.com

The Trump administration and the Venezuelan government have struck a deal to exploit Venezuela’s oil—but their partnership is good for the rich and no one else, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports. theatln.tc/PANSlDZN

Who remembers that first flip on the Flipboard iPad app? It was pure magic. That feeling is back, now reimagined for iPhone Duo. about.flipboard.com/inside-flipb...

Catch up on what people are saying about Apple’s iPhone Duo, out today. Our editors rounded up takes from @joannastern.bsky.social, @mkbhd.com, @wired.com and @macrumors.bsky.social. Plus, a peek at Flipboard on the Duo. flipboard.com/@tech/everyt...

The world is perceptually flat. www.theverge.com/tech/1015028...

Account seems back, but no word from Meta on why. Smart move by @indivisible.org to build on Bluesky, Mastodon, & direct newsletters instead of relying on Big Tech's whims. Meta needs to explain exactly what the hell happened on such a critical day. #Meta #NoKings

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

Loved being guest host with @masnick.com on @ctrlaltspeech. No shortage of things to talk about especially with Reddit killing off RSS, publishers being scraped to death by bots, 11th circuit upholding Florida's age ban and TikTok's CEO just saying no to ad moderation. What could possibly go wrong?

A little more color on our midterms project, and how you can get involved, just published on our @leaflet.pub!

Come and talk all things college football (and all things not college football) in @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social's Surf feed 👇🏻 surf.social/feed/surf%2F...

This is not ok. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

Vergecast. HomeView. 1:30 ET. We have a lot of questions about Apple’s new smart-home gadget — and all the updated ones, too. Come hang with Jen Tuohy, Nilay Patel, and me in an hour or so as we talk through all of... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1010286/vergecast-homeview-apple-smart-home

The AI Assistant floodgates have burst open. @kantrowitz.bsky.social and I go through the early leaders – and wonder where Google (and Anthropic) are here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq60...

"Algorithms and tech need to be balanced with judgement and principles." Flipboard CEO @mmccue.bsky.social Heading into the midterms, we want to remind you: our values haven't changed. about.flipboard.com/inside-flipb... Try the app: about.flipboard.com/download-fli...

Rewatched this tonight. Highly recommended. This Decoder episode stands as one of the most prescient takes form @reckless.bsky.social on the future of the web and AI

@reckless.bsky.social has described this as the "door dash problem." I still feel the monopoly of Google/Amazon/Apple will be big enough to bully any other business into relenting into their systems. www.theverge.com/podcast/8239...

A novel legal strategy represents a new front for the climate-change movement—if it holds up in court, @rossandersen.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/WtjyezsD

Can you guys help me with @mbajur's Prismo project? He isn't seeing many users to his revived Prismo project, which is kinda like early Reddit. You should check it out https://prismo.zip

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

Our colleagues at @cnn.com @msnownews.bsky.social and @politico.com are thorough professionals doing an excellent job of covering the White House. Proud of their courage and commitment to independent journalism in the face of intimidation and punishment.

The latest @Surf.social beta let's you add super powerful include and exclude filters for your feeds and sources. Want to see just climate change posts from the Congress Bluesky list? World news beyond Trump? Tech news other than AI? Hashtags without spammers? You're in charge.

Miss a day? Now your feed catches you up. Feed Pulse reads the posts your readers actually looked at, and writes a short daily front page for you - all through @cocore.dev's artisanal, farm-to-table AI inference ATProto co-op! Available *today* for all feeds.

Feeds are more than content streams — they're gathering places. @rollingstone.com, @avclub.com, @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social, @wired.com and @andydehnart.com are building feeds to bring their communities together — and leaning into the open social web.

BTW there's a fun story in here about when I demoed Flipboard to Steve Jobs: youtu.be/nXYz_oSWC9I?...

@bradporterbsky.bsky.social, founder and CEO of Cobot, recently interviewed me about starting companies, crafting products, building teams and the moment we're all in now. Check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYz...

It was awesome having @j4ck.xyz intern here. Many of the cool features and ideas he championed will ship soon in Surf. Jack is a unique talent and I'm excited for whatever he does in the future. We're all lucky to have him building on the open social web!

Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while atproto, activitypub, and the open social web community makes the Internet more open.

Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web

Excited to announce that the Graze team is joining @flipboard.com! We're thrilled to be working with such a stellar team continuing to build the next era of the attention economy. Read more below:

I ❤️ Graze and Portland

And @hipstersmoothie.com and @ellieonline.bsky.social and @go-brown.bsky.social and @rchowe.com and @sachajudd.com and @bgroupe.org - could not have done it without you all

@devingaffney.com and @ngerakines.me have built something very special. I'm really excited to see them continue to advance Graze as the ultimate feed building platform while Surf & Flipboard help millions of new users discover and experience these feeds in new ways that we'll be designing together.

Incredibly excited about this! Will be integrated into surf.social as soon as possible.

This is really big. Getting this going is the key to unlocking all sorts of useful things in the Atmosphere... This can take ATproto from "cool idea" to "hey this powers a better internet"

Since it's the #NoALPRs week of action, there are a few ways to follow activism against Flock, Axon, and other ALPRs here in the ATmosphere. (1/4) Here's a list of accounts organizing against ALPRs, including @deflock.org (and local DeFlocks) and @hibf.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/then...

The "Flock and other ALPRs" custom feed has most of the discussion about the topic (although I'm still tweaking it for stuff that it's missing). Thanks to @graze.social for all the support on this! bsky.app/profile/then...

I view blackskyweb.xyz as my life's work. What started as a side project has taken me all around the world, meeting such brilliant and creative people like @thehost.theinvite.us who referred me for this fellowship! And now I have a new community (my fellow fellows) who's work intersects with my own

Very excited to announce that I am a @mozilla.org Fellow working on @blackskyweb.xyz to create community spaces on the open social web (e.g. @atproto.com) Personally proud to represent the ATmosphere as a part of this cohort and on a global platform.

Bulleted is officially live: bulleted.app At the surface, it's pretty simple: It's an outliner. Every bullet is a record in a repository you own. The launch post covers what it does, so this thread is the part I left out: why I built it and what's underneath.

I made a DID-derived profile picture generator (always the same for a given DID) as well as a 90s style RPG game interface to @freeq.at freeqworld.boxd.sh

This is what democracy looks like.

🇺🇦✊ In Kyiv, people are taking to the rally for the second day, and there are even more people today.

There is no way that "278,000 noncitizens" are voting in US elections, as Trump claims in his speech. Its just not physically possible, as WIRED and other outlets have consistently reported. This is a scare tactic, and it's working. And the repercussions are endless:

we did a p good pod on this with one of twitter's earliest employees! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JCA...

Listen, I want you all to make a firm commitment. Next time we join an online community we all have to insist it's on the open social web so this can never happen again. We have to stop making the same mistake over and over.

Excellent news for Bluesky, developers and the open social web.

One thing I want to specify about this post — Virginia, the state whose rules were just struck down, is choosing not to appeal the judge’s ruling. So this particular case won’t be escalating to SCOTUS; this is the end of the road for it.

We are attacked at night. And in the morning, we wake up and continue living. My new letter comes from one of those days: a local charity market in Kyiv. Part of it is open to everyone: www.patreon.com/strategywoma...

Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...