Niraj Sanghvi‽

Niraj Sanghvi‽

@niraj.com

👨‍💻 Software Developer; Investment Research 📚 Interests: Space, Art+Tech, Film, Comedy, Vinyl, Cocktails 🤖 Bots: - @persevereimgbot.bsky.social (Raw images from the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover) - @joywave-bot.bsky.social (Joywave lyrics every hour)

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Replying to @thedailytism.com

You should be using kagi.com instead of Google. No AI summaries, paid subscription but with free searches. No data collection on customers. And you can uprank, downrank sites in results! And block sites too! And block AI pictures in image searches!

kagi.comKagi Search - A Premium Search EngineBetter search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

Such disappointment... 😭

Future Ruins@future-ruins.bsky.social

Unfortunately Future Ruins will not move forward this year. The reality is, due to a number of logistical challenges & complications, we feel we cannot provide the experience that’s defined what this event was always intended to be. Rather than compromise, we’re choosing to re-think and re-evaluate.

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All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed

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This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

It isn't a surprise to me that returning to print has made the Onion significantly funnier, but it is a surprise to me how *quickly* it has done so.

Niraj Sanghvi‽ reposted

With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months and will be presenting at the conference. This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵

This is the article I've been meaning to write (more poorly) myself for months, so it looks like my procrastination has paid off because now I can just point friends to this instead 😛 Great write-up by @fastcompany.com on @kagi.com and the massive benefits of paid search!

Fast Company@fastcompany.com

Kagi sees an opportunity to convince people to stop turning to Google for search, quit leaning on inconsistent AI answers, and start seeking out a smarter way to find what they need.

The Pebble smart watch was brilliant and I'm so happy it might be making a comeback! Also, it's pleasantly surprising to see that Google open-sourced the PebbleOS code.

Eric Migicovsky@ericmigi.com

** It's happening!! ** We managed to convince Google to open source PebbleOS. Took a while, but they just did it today! github.com/google/pebble With that, we're bringing Pebble back! I blogged about it - ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...

The amount of user control provided by the AT Protocol, custom feeds, and moderation lists is what makes this attempt feel different and more resistant to the inevitable slide into toxicity and enshittification that has plagued prior social media platforms, and time will tell if that approach works.

Steven Levy@stevenlevy.bsky.social

Here I am on Bluesky sharing what I wrote about Bluesky. It's easy to be a wonderful social network before the numbers get big, the VCs get hungry and the crowds get mean. I asked CEO Graber: Can Bluesky stay this way and become what all of us want? www.wired.com/story/plaint...

Niraj Sanghvi‽ reposted

Do you have any idea how badly you have to fuck up a website to get me to exclusively post on one where I have less followers

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