Who would have thought that the guy who created Facebook to rank hot women would turn out to be a moral coward
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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
if you are surprised by the gregg wallace allegations, just remember he claimed this was his average saturday
@hankgreen.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social if you start selling plain black socks that are high quality on good.store I will buy in bulk and pay a premium just in case you’re weighing up future product releases
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how in 2024 am I leaving the northern line with soot in my nose and my lungs like I’m leaving a coal mine in 1913
trying out @tanstack.com router for the first time and it might actually be the best implementation I've seen
hot take: this is not any better than getServerSideProps direct db access in server components is great dx for hacky starters and then you’ll want to undo it more and more as your app grows and needs o11y/security/auth/caching etc theres one killer app for RSCs - reducing js bundles. stick to that
the best part of this is how the replies just go into the best bread to have with soup
Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin@voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2y agoThe "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
ugh why are the bugs always in the complicated part of the code that nobody understands
nytimes knew what they were doing posting this here
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y agoIf the election underscored anything about the internet, it was how far social media platforms had moved to the right. The change was an unintended consequence of a series of decisions made by some of the biggest social platforms nearly four years ago.
Tax Justice UK say: There are 55 billionaires in the UK. A 1% wealth tax on them and the very richest could raise £22bn a year. Enough to pay 276,000 nurses AND double dental funding in England, with change to spare. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/ap... HT @garyseconomics.bsky.social
Taxing the wealth of UK’s richest would raise billions for public services | Letters
Letter: Reforming the tax system is the smart solution to meet the societal challenges of today, says Robert Palmer
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my prediction is that the new mac mini is so cheap because apple is betting you’ll want to combine it with the vision pro or its cheaper counterpart coming later
if this platform does stick around and one day overtakes twitter for active users it is quite the statement on what can happen when you ruthlessly prioritise efficiency over the quality of your product
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We’ll see if Bluesky can make me love or at least look forward to a social media platform and engaging with people again.. also here is dog. He little. He cute.
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.
Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 2y agoHard to describe as a journalist how grateful I am to have a text-based app that does not suppress hyperlinks. I don’t know if people realize exactly how hostile the corporate internet has gotten toward news.
Shout out to @joshwcomeau.com's principles. He closed his 135K Twitter account, despite it being a major marketing tool for his content and courses. He spent his final days informing his followers about the election before closing it and moving here. Protest isn't always convenient.
so it's fine to call companies out for their boring, generic, corporate speak bs but when they congratulate trump you say "but so is every company, what's the big deal?" interesting