Josh

@oracularhades.com

he/him my code is in your bluesky app, big atproto fan, posts are mine.

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Ed Zitron must be absolutely seething that “guy who wrote a blog post so good it wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars of growth stock market cap in a day” is in fact a real job you can do but it turns out it’s not him.

X views are a total mirage. Whatever Musk reports is certainly a lie. They won't let anyone study the platform for a reason: It's entirely fake; it's a billion Russian bots pretending to be your girlfriend.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5d ago

The audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows, a New York Times analysis suggests. Views are dropping for many of President Trump’s greatest allies. nyti.ms/3TLV4TV

Four charts showing total views per week for 12 right-wing influencers. Headline reads: "The MAGA Media Machine Is Fracturing." Summary reads: "Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections."

This is deeply stupid and feels like a witch hunt: “we’re roasting this guy because he used an incredibly common phrase that we thought sounds like AI, but wasn’t, but then he said he did use ChatGPT for research so we’ll destroy him anyway”

Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 5d ago

The tell was a red herring. In a Ask-Hank-Anything video, he was reading from his script and he said, “A better way to say it—and I appreciate the pushback—is a word is a human invention….” Some people thought “I appreciate the pushback” was a leftover from his chat with an AI agent.

there was a recent bug in the Bluesky app that caused some people's chat permission settings to switch to "No one" we already fixed the bug, but folks may want to double-check their settings to make sure they are set the way they want. go here: bsky.app/messages/set... look for these settings:

Screenshot of the chat notification settings in the Bluesky app.

PSA there was a Bluesky bug recently that reset DM settings for some users (to disallow incoming DMs). You should re-check your settings if you want to make sure you can be messaged!

"Microsoft leaned on the Linux Foundation to make Linus Torvalds change his opinion about AI" is one of those things you can only say with confidence if you don't know anything about the current state of software engineering and also don't really know anything about Linus Torvalds or the LF.