When I was first building my event organizing site, I thought I'd build it & then integrate it with ATproto in phase 2. Why? Because I completely misunderstood what ATproto was & how it works...& I'm probably not alone. I wrote up a post sharing what I've learned. remotesynthesis.com/posts/totall...

I Totally Misunderstood ATProto

I thought I knew what AT Protocol was about. It was for Bluesky and Bluesky-like sites and maybe auth. I wasn't entirely wrong but I was also way off the mark.

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in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon

Racism is so deeply ingrained in their worldview that they frequently make the incorrect assumption that everyone else shares it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

This is spot on & it's not new. I'm not a particularly young person and it's been an expectation of only the left to understand the perspective of the right ("real Americans") throughout the entirety of my lifetime. In fact, the entire "liberal media" was built around presenting this perspective.

It's always interesting how "liberal" or "leftwing" spaces (whether perceived or actual) have to "stop being a bubble", but no one asks the same of Truth Social or any of the other rightwing spaces.

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.

Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d ago

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Everyone come clean.

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests

Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a ​configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue...

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Just released a new project: Radial, a coding-agent orchestrator for atproto. It's a bit like a team issue tracker where you run your own agents with a system to capture what your agents learn into durable, reviewable team memory. www.disnetdev.com/blog/introdu...

Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere

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"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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It's amazing that @lastweektonight.com did a nearly half-hour deep dive into Trump's crypto and still barely managed to scratch the surface of it because it is so vast. youtu.be/A9iZ10yIRwM?...

Trump & Crypto: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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We all need to disconnect from Elon and all his companies. Ignore. Distance. He’s irredeemable. The opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s indifference.

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2w ago

Wow "traitor to the west," strong words, Elon, who are we talking about here... ah the editor-in-chief of The Economist

AI removes a lot of the barriers of building, but can also make it too easy to skip due diligence & build the wrong thing. I learned the hard way with a recent side project that building with AI requires more research & is helped by relying on open standards: remotesynthesis.com/posts/when-y...

When You Build the Wrong Thing | Remote Synthesis

AI makes it almost too simple to release stuff, which can, as in my case, lead to not enough preparation.

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Everything Musk says here is awful and blatantly false but it's worth noting that the editor in chief of The Economist clearly states that she doesn't take issue with the cuts DOGE made, just that they happened too fast.

Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w ago

He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.

Not that we didn't know this already but having ICE - whose jurisdiction has absolutely NOTHING to do with elections - investigate voter fraud gives away the game. ICE is no longer a legal entity bound by laws and norms, it's Trump's personal force, focusing on whatever he wants.

404 Media@404media.co · 3w ago

NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.

i wish there had been some way to know a republican president would start an unwinnable war in the middle east that did nothing more than pad the bank accounts of him and his cronies

Apparently SpaceX caused airspace closure today along my route causing a multi-hour delay, a missed connection & stuck in Panama City tonight. Couldn't cancel original hotel as notice was too late and had to pay for new hotel tonight. F--k Elon Musk. www.faa.gov/space/stakeh...

every 5 months you hear "Joe Rogan is turning on Trump" from people in the media who don't actually watch rogan and take the bait like it's susan collins casting a line when in reality this is literally what he says almost every single day about democrats including fucking yesterday

This is as good a look at the current state of working in tech as I've seen. I definitely felt my own perspective reflected in the data and takeaways and it passes the "smell test" based on my own conversations with others. www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-w...

How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two

Results from our second annual tech worker sentiment survey

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(AP) — A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose” as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

The "American Dream" is officially dead. It may never have been as real as people believed it to be, but that belief is why people around the world strove to come here. It took 50 years but the ultra-wealthy (our new oligarchs) killed it. Trump is both a symptom and the final nail in the coffin.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

“.. That is the US to me: a country where some people become trillionaires and others lose everything to disease. “.. Dickensian.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7185...

The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.

Since when does the military take orders from a president posthumously?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump tells the New York Post that if Iran assassinates him, "I've left instructions to just literally bomb them at levels never seen before" 🙃

The best part of making the switch is that you'll find you spend far less time and mental energy trying to decipher the results to avoid ads, scams and AI misinformation.

Aidan Moher@aidanmoher.com · 4w ago

I've spent the last week testing out Kagi.com thanks to @doctorow.pluralistic.net's recommendation, and it's honestly wild to use a search engine that works again. I'd forgotten.

Another great chart from Lenny Rachitsky’s survey of how tech workers feel about their jobs. That the fear of AI’s impact on their jobs is more that they will be overworked following layoffs (52%) than that AI will take their jobs (22%) totally resonates given my observations.

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

I'm waiting to hear how both sides are "testing the limits of the cease fire" by refusing to cease firing again.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

*US MILITARY SAYS IT'S LAUNCHING SERIES OF STRIKES AGAINST IRAN

This Fourth of July New Yorker cartoon is painful and accurate.

There's so much insanity to dissect here but I'll start with, how did we go from 8 wars only weeks ago to 100 wars? Is he counting every short-lived ceasefire in the Iran war as ending a new war?

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · last mo.

I had to double-check that this was a real Truth Social post by Donald Trump. It was. He’s completely unhinged. #TrumpIsUnhinged