Technocracy a new age

> Films with casts that were 41–50% BIPOC performed the best across several categories, including the highest median global and domestic box office receipts, the largest average theater releases, the highest average opening-weekend rank, and the widest international distribution. Shout out my DEIs

one thing that drives me insane about modern platforms is how many default to "3 months" or "1 year" instead of showing the actual date of a post, very frustrating

The blacksky.community web app has been updated to support OAuth login. This means we have gotten rid of the "Hosting Provider" field when signing into our app, making it more straightforward to use our app even if you aren't yet hosted on our PDS (e.g. if you have a *.bsky.social handle)

some of you are saying “go bad bunny” or “go kid rock” im saying “go robert mueller” and the rule of law

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

Lots of secret hostility. - Rudy is a hack - Blacksky is a semi-proprietary ethnocentric social network just “popping up” - Blacksky is masquerading as fully open source would you all like me to still speak at #AtmosphereConf this year? I don’t have to.

A lesson I’ve learned as a Black dev is that when folks tell us to go do our own thing if we don’t like what‘s available, it’s based on the assumption we can’t so we disappear. When we actually do it, it pisses off bigots because they’re faced with the reality they aren’t as good as they thought

The Blacksky community votes on what features they want. They do it all out in the open and they make the code available for anyone who wants to run their own infra. They’re building what their members want them to build. And they want private community-only posts bsky.app/profile/rude...

Rudy demos Blacksky-only posts right at the beginning of Black History Month, and a bunch of non-Black ATProto devs get mad at the way he implemented it? Yeah that tracks

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them: WE WANNA RUN OUR OWN APPVIEW rudy: yall got own appview money???

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hunter biden is just a simple man with a dangerous hobby. I'll take him over the average Harvard economics professor any day

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death to the advertising industry.

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Neil Gaiman has returned to the Internet to signal boost a Substack 'investigation' by an independent journalist known as "technopathology" which apparently proves his innocence the main thing it proves is technopathology needs an editor.

this would be like if at the height of the invasion of Gondor, Mordor had voted overwhelmingly for Aragorn

Don't be scared #art #digitalart #illustration #sizesky #sizeart #g/t #shrunkenwoman

Ok so UpScrolled is just banning trans women I did everything and stuck to the rules and just posted selfies and memes AND even political events happening in the world WTH

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There are people still calling for more training as the solution as if we could ever train away this hatred for Latinos.