Interesting thread here where Adam presents evidence that Trump has been having mini-strokes x.com/adamscochran...
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Interesting thread here where Adam presents evidence that Trump has been having mini-strokes x.com/adamscochran...
How did republican satisfaction jump 60 points in a single day? I always think these polls that break down results by party are broken.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Yep! Great stuff!
AT Protocol can eat their lunch. I don't know why we're not doing anything with AT
open.spotify.com/track/09K6fw...
Why don't we just elect a CEO once a year? (This article from 2017)
Y'all mind endorsing someone in Texas that does campaign events like that?
What's interesting to read isn't the article about the ridiculous question "can AIs suffer?", but the comments following the post. A bit reassuring to see that many consider AI for what it is: unintelligent and artificial. Can be useful tools unless you ask for an answer you don't already know. ⚒️ 🧪
Going on for 6 days now. They didn't silently turn this off, did they?
Very likely! Bots for me but not for thee
shout it from the rooftops
Imagine if instead of chasing clicks by posting a high volume of content, you got more clicks because you posted a thought provoking piece that encouraged deep discussion within a community and thus caused them to bump your content often
Honestly the death of the bump is probably a societal killer. It sounds like an exaggeration, but this is probably what causes all conversations on modern social media to be vapid, shallow, and ephemeral. Ideas must be built over time, and the bump resurfaces those ideas.
The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.
I think this is another case of a credulous journalist failing to do their own research. About 70% of traffic from X is now bots, so they definitely are not "cracking down" on the problem. I RT'd the source of this claim a while back
The bad news: Republicans could pick up 9 seats in the 2026 midterms purely from partisan gerrymandering (which is cheating) in TX and other states. The good news: Democrats could overcome those losses with a small (1-2pt) victory in the House popular vote www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-will-r...
How to modernize Newspeak: Make a social media network where you can only post pictures, and only allow simplistic interactions like liking them or posting short comments on them. Oh crap... I've just created Instagram
I have an interesting observation: Pretty much all modern social media platforms do not let you bump discussion threads to keep them alive for longer than a day. Complex ideas take weeks and months to develop though. You know how 1984 had Newspeak that was designed to prevent critical thinking? Hmm
The reason why fundraising text read like scams is because they are. The political fundraising system has imported the tactics of elder financial fraud. These tactics are designed to filter out skeptics and specifically target and exploit seniors. 95% of scam PAC donors are 65+, costing > $500m.
Have you seen the press conference the CA governor's office reacted to? It's absolutely hilarious. Like a scene straight out of The Office or Parks and Rec
I'm dying laughing right now. The video is they're replying to is absolutely hilarious. "The entire southern border wall will be painted black, so it will get hot in the sun and 'make it even harder for people to climb.'" "That is specifically at the request of the president."
I'm dying laughing right now. The video is they're replying to is absolutely hilarious. "The entire southern border wall will be painted black, so it will get hot in the sun and 'make it even harder for people to climb.'" "That is specifically at the request of the president."
Anyone have any good "third places" y'all like to hang out at? Has to be a spot where you socialize with others :)
Wow! Did they have Bill Nye on VHS?
Basically me after every email I write. No amount of proofreading can stop me from making typos/mistakes lol
"In July, five months after her death, we discovered that Sophie Rottenberg, our only child, had confided for months in a ChatGPT A.I. therapist called Harry." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
The second I write this message, I find that y'all have already done this. To be clear I was talking about this page :D
Have y'all considered overhauling the feed discovery page? They're currently sorted by likes and the page has featured the same feeds for about a year, so it's pretty stale. Would be nice if the list rotated over time with e.g. a basic decay algo or stuff like community featured feeds
This is what it is, along with a financial incentive to play up anecdotes for the algorithm. For a lot of Americans, their feeds both locally and nationally have turned into Best Of Liveleak, an outgrowth of a political project Musk and Congressional Republicans have wanted for years.
Relatable tbh
Is this AI, or are we now calling all software a computer runs "AI"?
I think you can also create subthreads nested under messages, but it's like a poor man's forum since discord strongly encourages you to write short messages
Ahh Discord is no good. They use channels instead of topics, so you can't track work streams unless you create a new channel for every project. It just doesn't scale
Ah yes, more memes to share with the security folks
Alright this was a really good idea. I'm able to easily keep track of the projects I'm working on and what I've been doing. Also finding that I no longer have to keep 1000 browser tabs open just to retain documentation/context since I now have a place to drop links.
I thought when you put the rocketship emoji in your README.md it makes your software go faster?
I've just straight up stopped using mine. The app is too NSFW to be usable :(
Pretty sure this is Facebook's default algorithm setup for men.
Check out my #DEFCON33 talk about the Signalgate, full of unbelievable incompetence from the highest levels of the Trump administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...
Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been cleared to leave prison on work release.
Hopefully they don't find out about Redlib...
Grok got suspended lol
Here's a hosted instance of this alternative frontend: redlib.freedit.eu I'm also using Kagi URL rewrite rules to automatically rewrite results for Reddit to use this hosted Redlib instead. Reddit tracks your history, and at this moment you do not want your history tracked.
Lately I've been screwing around with using alternative frontends to popular social media sites. Latest one is Reddit, and the alternative frontend is Redlib: github.com/redlib-org/r... Surprisingly, the alternative frontend is actually faster than Reddit's official frontend.
Congrats on the rollout! I think federation will be essential to the network's survival, and should be a strong deterrent to government censorship.
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://2020census.gov Action taken by the Department of Commerce (Census Bureau) at or around 2025-08-09 06:11:10.
So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing. https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued ht @mattl
buckle up tanglers, we've been working hard! first up: ✨CI is now generally available!✨ head to your repo settings and set your workflow runner to the hosted instance. 🚀 we have also got support for secrets! you can now deploy your site on CI! read the blog for more: blog.tangled.sh/ci 1/5
Ask LTT (Linus Tech Tips) to review your search engine (unsponsored, so they give it a legit review)
This is when the internet peaked and we never should have progressed into the current era of social media and hot takes and call outs.
We can do it everybody www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
Some friends who are mostly still stuck on Twitter (certified young people) told me about this. Creative art / tech / visualization hacking is what gets us to interesting spaces. And @bad-example.com’s microcosm stack makes a bunch of whole network things much more approachable.
This is pretty cool. You only need a gaming rig to run these: ollama.com
Weren't they raving about mysterious drones right before inauguration? This'll make the problem 100x worse
I started a thread to track maintenance I've done on my car. All posts are chronologically sorted and dates are plainly and clearly listed out What did I do for my car a year ago? I can just check the thread and scroll up to replies I've posted a year ago. Boom. What other note taking app does that?
Seriously wondering why I haven't thought of doing this sooner... Again, it seems like a dumb idea at first, but the structure of forums is immensely helpful for taking notes. Forums have great features such as strong chronological sorting, ideas organized by topic, and searchability.
From @techcrunch.com crunch, learn more about #MozillaVentures backed @germnetwork.com which is now a Bluesky messenger with new end-to-end encrypted messaging. techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/g...
Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."
This is some awesome stuff! Really admire the work you're doing here.
Looks like Plaid already got sued and lost: www.plaidsettlement.com
Yeah, same! This really should be illegal
This is Trustly (might as well as rename their business to TrustMeBro). But yeah, pretty much the same as Plaid
I can't understand how this is even legal. This is a third party saying "give me your username and password and just trust me bro" They literally cannot even implement standard security techniques like hashing and salting because they need the plaintext password to authenticate.
Lol, wtf @att.com? This is wildly insecure. You are just begging for a lawsuit.
Good read on the Tea app hack: programmers.fyi/tea-app-hack...
The system account and discobot sure do look suspicious
I'm selfhosting an instance on Docker and just running it on localhost. Pretty easy to get started with, and I can use a built-in command to create an admin account to work around the need for a mailserver.
Gonna try to use Discourse as a personal note-taking app. It's counterintuitive, but I think forums offer a lot of advantages over simpler note-taking methods like loose files. The structure of forums should naturally lead to better organization of my notes.
(I'm not sure how Slack works since I've never used it, but threaded ramblings are great IMO)
You know what would be an interesting idea? Deploying an internal instance of Bluesky and doing this in tweet form. I've been rambling about Discourse on my Bluesky profile, and this is such a great format for me to track a single thread and add to it as I have more thoughts.
"According to [cybersecurity firm] CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake." mashable.com/article/x-tw...
Keep it weird, Austin!
There's a free/cheap tier of Netflix, and that's immediately obvious to people that it's worse because they play ads. But when it comes to search, people think "free" is good because they've never heard of having to pay for search.
Late in the day but this is really phenomenal work by CBS. I didn't think the story could surprise me anymore, but I exclaimed out loud several times reading this. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
One FAQ about our ATProto integration has been, is it on or off-protocol? It’s both! We made deliberate choices to perform identity delegation and prekey exchange on protocol, and to transport cipher texts off-protocol. www.germnetwork.com/blog/integra... 1/n
Truly extraordinary Google AI results. Amazing.
This is some pretty good reading material: bsky.app/profile/brya...
Because Bluesky is built on a protocol, an outside group can build end-to-end encrypted messaging long before the core Bluesky team likely would have gotten around to it. Very cool ➡️
The dead internet theory is alive and well...
Tough to find a major media org who isn't capitulating to Trump.
I got a PDS running on a Raspberry Pi Zero with a Cloudflare tunnel
New in PN: Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump "AI companies now face a choice: Either create two sets of AI systems — one for general use, and a right-wing version for government — or just make all their systems Trump-compliant."
You ever try an ink tank printer? The ink comes in really cheap bottles that don't have any DRM, really nice :)
The dead internet theory is alive and well...
I think that Discourse wins D&I (Diversity and Inclusion) hands-down. This is an insanely good participation rate. Teams/Slack/Discord don't even have a leg up on this IMO; group chats just fundamentally cannot scale.
Doing some more research... This screenshot is pretty crazy. These are statistics for a thread on a public instance of Discourse. There are 165 participants in this thread. Have you ever seen a group chat with 165 unique participants!? Nobody checks a group chat that has more than 10 people in it.
Chrome vibes, metal beats, and 3dfx Glide like it's 1999 all over again.
App for women to anonymously share bad experiences w/men verified users by asking for a selfie and their driver's license...& now their database has allegedly been breached: www.404media.co/women-dating... Maybe app should have deleted those drivers' license scans after verifying identities, eh?
youtu.be/Gngkqc2NIwU
This, and it doesn't work. Now, it is possible to address the harms of mass engagement-driven platforms. But doing so requires pushing back on the core biz models of the platforms, not tinkering on the edges w surveillant 'solutions' that increase surveillance w/o addressing the root cause.
Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.
I subscribed to WIRED because for a while you were the only ones really reporting on the stuff DOGE was doing. I'm not sure what role you may have played in that, but if you were a part of that then thank you!
Okay! I do still think it's a reasonable question (not an accusation!) that everyone should ask about every source. I'm tired of constant negativity online though, so I'll leave you with something positive: Thank you for your hard work in covering the stuff happening in the federal government!
Dataset: bsky.app/profile/ddos...
i assume baku (the lil pi zero) will fall over at some point but it’s not even sweating yet pushing notifications for a few dozen people.
Hi! I don't want to unfairly accuse y'all of any wrongdoing, but this does seem like a real, documented problem. I'd be curious to understand how your team avoids this?
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Consequences of years of lousy and extractive US social media platforms. People want to leave; they just need somewhere better to go.
