jordan silver 🔵

jordan silver 🔵

@silverlyne.bsky.social

he/they from LA interested in public transportation, retail facilities, operating systems, and information ecosystems of various kinds

566 followers491 following4.2K posts

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An appeals court has allowed two states to enforce social media restrictions. It’s time to keep a record of what happens next: lost access, failed age checks, and other privacy problems. Share your experience with us at agegates@eff.org.

eff.orgTwo States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access—Here’s What To Do NextLast week, two federal appeals courts issued opinions that will allow Florida and Georgia to start enforcing laws that will age-gate and block young people from accessing social media. The laws do not...

Discord will allow making channel messages indexable by search engines and viewable without an account. Can be either AI summaries or full history, only on SFW, 1k+ member servers manually approved by Discord. Messages from accounts flagged underage or from countries with privacy laws won't show.

discord.comMaking Content from Discoverable Servers Easier to DiscoverStarting on November 16, 2026, conversations in Discoverable Servers will be easier to find for people searching the web. Admins can choose which channels are surfaced on the web. Private servers, DMs...

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let's fucking go

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Brazil’s Federal Prosecution Office gave Meta 48 hours to say whether it will comply with recommendations on content moderation ahead of the presidential runoff, Brazilian journalist Laís Martins reports.

techpolicy.pressOn Eve of Vote, Brazil’s Federal Prosecution Office Demands Answers from MetaThe Prosecution Office gave Meta 48 hours to respond as to whether it will comply with the recommendations, reports Laís Martins.

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v1.136 is live! Introducing: Profile links We want independent writers, artists, developers, and creators to be able to build and fund sustainable projects on Bluesky. Help your followers know how to support you by adding buttons for Patreon, Ko-fi, your newsletter or website, and more.

How it started. How it’s going.

jordan silver 🔵@silverlyne.bsky.social

Funny enough the current discourse topic on Al twitter is that getting flagged as using a 3p harness on gemini gives them the right to ban your entire google account, and googlers are responding on twitter saying they won't take that action, which doesn't mean much if their TOS says they can..

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Today is my one year anniversary as a Chicago Transit Authority Bus Operator. To mark the occasion I have created a TAXONOMY OF CARS AND THEIR DRIVERS from the perspective of the bus. There is no such thing as a good driver, and In a perfect world the road would be bus, bike, and pedestrian alone.

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Applying for a Metro Senior discount fare card. Is it typical for websites to require a "jpg" and reject a "jpeg"? Is there any reason Metro should be making applicants jump through this hoop of converting files?

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Here's a test of Bluesky's crowdsourcing power: Later this week I'll be interviewing the manager of OpenAI's Dots product on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. What questions should I ask?

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friendly reminder that microsoft was so insistent on not making the final name of their products built off of their codename (as in, the final version of the "directx box" couldn't be called "xbox") that they spent a bunch of money pitching some truly terrible acronyms to focus groups

Jeff Gerstmann@jeffgerstmann.com

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Public (neo)clouds haven't reckoned with the fact their zero CVE initiatives are offset by video game nerds who keep undisclosed cpu, hypervisor, and TPM exploits secret so nobody will patch consoles that they purchased and owned.

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Spaces are, of course, being designed on top of atproto spaces. Give these early explorations a look, think of them as a starting point for Atmospheric communities that could begin in the app, then integrate atproto apps to build completely custom experiences for the people you care about.

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com

we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀

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we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com

the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only

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Internet platforms optimized for sharing knowledge and building communities of enthusiasts operate very different from internet communities optimized for maximizing engagement and selling ads.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social

Forum boards are the best form of internet, full stop, and the internet began to suck more and more as we strayed from that light

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I like compromises. But one place I don't believe in meeting people halfway, or 5% of the way, is the notion that AI would be better if not based on texts/images that governments have made illegal to copy. "OK, technically legal since you're not copying, but still, you should feel bad." Nope! +