Zach Graves

Zach Graves

@zgr.bsky.social

Chief at FAI

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Issues in Science and Technology
@issuesinst.bsky.social

In our Spring issue, Foundation for American Innovation research fellow Lars Erik Schönander argues that the latest reforms of the Small Business Innovation Research program fall short. Read the full feature essay here: issues.org/sbir-reforms...

issues.orgReauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research Program Isn’t EnoughReforms to America’s seed fund should be a catalyst for policies that help more small businesses bring new technologies to market.

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John Sands
@iohn.bsky.social

I wrote about why @knightfoundation.org invested in @bsky.app: philanthropy can act when mission & opportunity align. We believe in @jay.bsky.team's vision for a better social web—& in ideas (like @masnick.com's) that grow out of the research ecosystem Knight has long supported. kf.org/kfbluesky

kf.orgWhy Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky - Knight FoundationJohn Sands explains our bet on a social web that protects speech, creates opportunity for publishers and creators, and enables research on the information ecosystem.
Bluesky@bsky.app

Last April, we raised $100M in Series B funding. This round gives us the ability to scale our team to meet the rapid growth of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Read more: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

bsky.socialBluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - BlueskyIn April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

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JD Vance
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.

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John Sands
@iohn.bsky.social

Ferguson, then Virginia Solicitor General, spoke at @knightfdn.bsky.social Informed conference in 2022.

vimeo.comSession 9 - HOW BIG IS TOO BIG COMPETITION IN THE TECH SECTORThis is "Session 9 - HOW BIG IS TOO BIG COMPETITION IN THE TECH SECTOR" by Knight Foundation on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…
The New York Times@nytimes.com

President-elect Donald Trump named Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission, installing a current Republican member of the agency who has promised to ease up on the policing of powerful American companies — except for the biggest technology firms.

nytimes.comTrump Picks Andrew Ferguson to Lead Federal Trade CommissionMr. Ferguson, a current Republican member of the agency, will replace Lina Khan, who had aggressively challenged mergers and the power of the biggest tech companies.

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Jerusalem Demsas
@jerusalem.bsky.social

Replying to @jerusalem.bsky.social

It seems like people are identifying a few things about bluesky that feel to be working: -Quote tweet function -Exclusivity of invite codes -Intangible culture of “posting” Honestly it just sort of feels like how twitter *used* to be. Is that just bc of similar aesthetics?

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Eli Dourado
@elidourado.com

Excellent post from Brian Potter on one of my favorite topics. https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting

constructionphysics.substack.comCould we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years. Unlike normal volcanoes, which tend to produce large cone-shaped mountains made of ash and lava, supervolcano eruptions (defined being at least an 8 on the

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Dean
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AND THEN HE STARTED CENSORING THE WORD SUBSTACK SO WE ALL DECIDED TO GO TO THIS NEW APP WHICH ISN'T REALLY JUST AN APP IT'S NOT CENTRALIZED IT'S MORE LIKE A PROTOCOL

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Paul Bohm
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Replying to @why.bsky.world

Back of the envelope sounds doable to me. Tough but doable. And I like that I can do crazy stuff as third party service (e.g. spin up and seed pseudonyms on demand, create alternate algorithms for filtered feeds, etc.). Can even do these as paid services. Congratulations, I'll watch closely!

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Paul Bohm
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Replying to @handle.invalid

@why.bsky.world reading the AT protocol docs. do you have any estimates on how this would behave at twitter scale? The big-world scaling would just push firehose to servers using negotiated peering agreements? twitter does 16TB a day? (with lots of redundant data and images/video i'm sure)

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mattparlmer
@mattparlmer.bsky.social

Sir, this is a Twitter

Prince Vogelfrei@princevogelfrei.bsky.social

let us fight tooth and nail not for community norms but for the basic sense of respect and mutuality that proceeds all substantive community, the ability to look your enemy in the eye and still see him as human, even as part of what you are

Zach Graves
@zgr.bsky.social

They should have done the Clubhouse strategy of phone contacts

Grimes@grimes.bsky.social

How do I find my friends on here without individually seeking ppl out via Twitter links can my twitter friends who see this reply plz so I can find u 🤍

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