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"Days after Meta announced controversial changes to its content moderation policies, a group of prominent technology leaders and nonprofit executives launched an ambitious $30 million campaign to build a social media ecosystem free from 'billionaire control.'" www.businessinsider.com/free-our-fee...

That one weird trick that lets you pretend that you took over Twitter to restore free speech, but regularly ban/shadowban/deboost those you don't like: just claim anything you don't like is spam.

Gonna dissent here: Blocklists are a hazard here on Bluesky. People create them, give them names you'd think you agree with, then add people to sucker you into blocking them. Don't use blocklists. Curate your blocks, and enjoy them properly :)

Heerlijke interactieve website waarop je een locatie kan ingeven, zien waar die x miljoen jaar geleden lag (door plaattektoniek) en, belangrijkst van al: welke dino's in uw buurt leefden. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth

yeah. this is just giving up the game: 1. keep folks only on his site 2. get people to offer their reporting to him for free 3. reward folks who aggregate reporting (and do so w/ minimum crediting). It's a shitty user experience. It also should incentivize reporters/outlets to move elsewhere

Hi everyone! DCN is now on bluesky and happy to be here. We’re just getting going but first want to post some starter packs we’ve discovered to get you to the amazing journalists and creators at DCN’s members. First up, spotlight on the BBC: go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD

La chanson pour ici Jeff Lynne's ELO - Mr. Blue Sky (Live at Wembley Stadium 2017) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQaJ...

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the Bluesky team and how impressive what they’re doing is? They’re a team of 20 who are adding a million users a day right now and scaling up with aplomb! Incredible

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

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Thanks for including mine! This is such a great list of books. It's wild to be on a social platform where you can't tag Cory Doctorow. I had to do a search to be sure but it's true. He wrote about why he isn't joining BlueSky here: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

The Guardian will no longer post its content to X

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

My entire "Quiet Posters" feed is basically @aoc.bsky.social responding to people after being gone for over a year. Also, if you haven't yet started using the Quiet Posters Feed, check it out. Highlights skeets (yes, skeets, don't @ me) from folks who don't skeet as much bsky.app/profile/why....

Royal Museums Greenwich has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. [kottke.org]

Great feeling to finally hold this baby 💥 Order now and receive The Tech Coup upon release on September 24 ↘️ thetechcoup.com

Techdenkers: Marietje Schaake over de macht van big tech. Met Marleen Stikker, Kim van Sparrentak en Haroon Sheikh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMD...

As everyone is currently talking about colour and how we name it, you should all take 7 minutes to watch this incredible Vox video. Basically, (most) cultures have an extraordinaryily similar system to naming colours it blew my mind. Also, turquoise is blue x 💙🧪 youtu.be/gMqZR3pqMjg?...

With Twitter/X having become such a cesspit and its owner spouting ever more deranged and dangerous nonsense, it may be time to post much more on here.

Ik ontdekte dat de Rijksoverheid al in volle vaart naar de cloud migreert, zonder enige politieke instemming & vaak ook zonder geldig ambtelijk besluit. De gevolgen voor onze autonomie zijn zo groot dat dit snel op de agenda van kabinet & Kamer moet komen: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The fact that it's just bored teenaged orcas looking for something to entertain themselves, and that something happens to be sinking boats, somehow makes this story even better. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Last week I had the honor of accepting the 2024 Helmut Schmidt Future Prize Instead of a traditional speech, I gave this talk on the history of AI, the business of surveillance, & why the use of AI "ad targeting for killing" in Gaza should be illegal👇 www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/de...

Happy 200th birthday to Beethoven’s 9th with its jubilant Ode to Joy. May you also travel from darkness to light