Bryan (they/them)
@chaosgreml.in
@ecosystemaction.com | @atproto.la | @charcoal.watch | more Focused on freeing everyone from doing things that don’t bring them joy, and building communal infrastructure that makes it possible.
Also disagree with this as a broad statement, you can learn a lot from listening and following what Apple has and has not added to the toggles in Settings, and how just because something is there doesn’t mean it’s easy to find.
hailey@hailey.at · 7h agoi distinctly remember the reasoning for not doing this in the bsky client: it’s too confusing for users who just want defaults. but this misunderstands the normie user. a normie user doesn’t even open settings to begin with to know that there are options. and it only hurts the power user.
We should be just as wary of the drugmaker CEOs as we are of the AI CEOs. They would love nothing more than to sell you $50k/month drugs for the rest of your life instead of curing cancer.
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 10h ago"Executives leading the companies that discover new drugs say AI isn’t going to cure cancer anytime soon. They are dimming the hype around the technology’s use in drug research, saying human biology is too complicated even for superintelligence." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
After 2024, a bunch of people concluded that the right-wing bubble of X was the site of true wisdom & a reflection of the true America. Now I see a bunch of people basically doing the reverse, about Bluesky. This is not a healthy phenomenon & should be resisted.
Bluesky was right all along and will accept your apology any time
Many savvy pundits on X framed the 2024 election as a massive political realignment and Bluesky as a “copium” den for progressives in a bubble. Boy, were they wrong.
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Federal policymakers: invest in states, make them partners in climate & energy policy!
How Democrats Can Make Sure Their Energy Policy Sticks
Two longtime climate strategists have four ways the new congressional majority can get it right.
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People should really be listening to @volts.wtf to understand what’s going on in this space!!
rationalists overindex on "bad things happen because of not knowing enough" instead of what is often the case "bad things happen because of bad incentive structures and rational strategic behavior" the AI race is, for instance, an incentive structure problem not an awareness problem.
Whatever your community has an "ah yes, it's natural that this should be very hard" ethos about Is a thing that your community will perpetually be bad at, and just wildly underdeliver on. . . . _regardless of how hard that thing actually is._
Always great to be reminded the haters still hate you lol
Yeah, this was out of line. I shouldn’t have said that even though the other person said some absolutely risk could and hateful stuff prior, and you’re only seeing the part that makes me look bad because that’s their goal. But I was wrong for saying this, and I owe Rude Law Dog an apology.
kat@katherine.app · yesterdayreminded of this gem when they start talking shit about oomfs lol
lexicon proposal! adding scheduling to the calendar namespace! Im really excited about this one: it could enable any app dealing with calendars to consume your availability and show the bookings you already have. discourse.atmosphere.community/t/proposal-s...
[Proposal] Scheduling in the calendar namespace: calendar.availability and calendar.booking
Hey y’all! I’m Bryan (@chaosgreml.in), and I build Tandem, a 1:1 booking page on atproto. Tandem is live now. It follows the standard process all these apps have: a host signs in with their atproto ac...
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One of the world’s top professional societies for scientists and engineers has retracted 1,417 conference papers in one go go.nature.com/4iye6WE
Record-breaking retraction: scholarly publisher pulls 1,400 conference papers on one day
Nature - Announcement by IEEE follows publication of a study showing the retracted papers are linked to paper mills.
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Oh no, I think it’s very clear how bad this is. The answer is clear. We aren’t done yet, and we’re not giving up. We have been through harder times and worse moments. Let’s fucking go.
Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d ago1/ People are not understanding how bad this is. The biggest canard I'm hearing from people who don't know what they're talking about is that nothing will change because Miller was always running the White House. No—Wiles was. And she worked hard daily to limit Miller's influence.
#LosAngeles! It's time once again for our monthly meetup! Join us SUNDAY at 11AM PT (watch that time change!) for exciting conversations at @crashspacela.bsky.social, incl.: - @chaosgreml.in showing off new accessibility experiments - a discussion around @anildash.com's recent FediForum talk
atproto.la gathering November 2026
Join us at Crash Space where we collectively reimagine what the social internet can look like when built on top of open protocols like AT Protocol and ActivityPub. We welcome folks from all kinds of b...
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Sometimes the creator of pds.ls ends up in my feed and I’m reminded that she said Rudy Fraser was a hack and then proceeded to engage in racism with her friends for three days towards me and @heika.dog
Currently working on fun experiment for this!
midwest emo fan@natalie.sh · 2d agoyooo guys dont bully people, just block and move on x
"They are not technical enough" has to be one of the most cursed sentences in tech.
Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2d agoFeatures of this include litmus-testing behaviors around who gets to count as technical, the idea of including others being a zero sum competition, ruthless competitiveness, etc. The more closely we stereotype "being technical" as having those traits, the worse the mechanisms around social learning
I’ll acknowledge that “shameful” is probably a bit harsh. But I do think it is really sad and disappointing how many of my peers chose to behave on that user’s issue.
Bryan (they/them)@chaosgreml.in · 2d agoOh wow this is why people fucking hate developers Jesus Christ, y’all, is this how you think you should treat users who are trying to use your software and want to figure out how to? In what world is the behavior I see on these comments from MULTIPLE people I know at ALL acceptable? Shameful.
Oh wow this is why people fucking hate developers Jesus Christ, y’all, is this how you think you should treat users who are trying to use your software and want to figure out how to? In what world is the behavior I see on these comments from MULTIPLE people I know at ALL acceptable? Shameful.
Anirudh Oppiliappan@anirudh.fi · 2d agohey finally we have drama on tangled tangled.org/pds.ls/pdsls...
Little something I’m cooking up because I’ve been annoyed with the lack of disability affordances #autistic #toneindicators #iosdev
One of the funniest things I see every day is people not doing the job and then saying they know how people should do the job, even though they haven’t shown in any way ever they could do the job.