Big day for people who studied abroad

Local bar’s direct tv goes out <5 min left 😭

This is a @bootsriley.bsky.social stan account now.

In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25M to 42M users, we took actions to keep it welcoming, using proactive design to reduce toxic content by 79%.  Our 2025 Transparency Report shares how we're building a safer platform while keeping a transparent and human-centered approach: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

2025 Transparency Report Overview - Bluesky

In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25 million to 41 million users, we improved the trust and safety infrastructure to better enable our mission. Here's what that looks like in plain language.

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🚩 Red Teaming Generative AI in Classrooms & Beyond Members #JenWeedon, @theodoraskeadas.bsky.social, & @sarah3amos.bsky.social show how red teaming can uncover risks in “technically safe” AI systems before they reach students. Originally published in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. 🔗 bit.ly/3MbgLJJ

FYI, on the Minneapolis shooting video: Bluesky hasn't taken it down. It's been labeled as "graphic media" so that people can avoid it if they choose. You can change your personal settings on whether you see media labeled as graphic (or whether it appears with a warning) here: bsky.app/moderation

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Are people unable to watch this now bc it's been tagged as graphic media? Because this is newsworthy and important and that seems like a problem to me.

This reporting update is really exciting. I've seen other socials where you quite literally need to have worked in Trust & Safety to understand how to accurately flag issues. Clearer reports = Better moderation + conversation

Bluesky@bsky.app · 9mo ago

v1.110 is live! We’ve expanded post-reporting options from 5 → 39. This gives you more precise ways to flag issues and strengthens the signals our safety systems rely on. Clearer reports mean better moderation and higher-quality conversations across Bluesky. Learn more: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

And that’s why you should only use Coco Lopez!!

B2B SaaS SKO vibes

Ben Wikler@benwikler.bsky.social · 2y ago

Feeling good vibes on the ground here in National Harbor! This vote for DNC chair will reverberate for years—and even decades—to come. To turn the tide against MAGA extremism, we need to out-organize, out-communicate, and out-fundraise the GOP. And it has to start right now.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

In light of the sudden .gov takedowns, this team’s work (and all the independent web archivists!) is crucial for preserving history

EOT End Of Term Web Archive@eotarchive.org · 2y ago

Every US presidential election period we do a wide crawl of all federal websites. YOU can contribute to the 2024 End of Term Web Archive eotarchive.org/contribute/ - Nominate Gov URLs - Upload bulk seed lists - Help surface database deep links - Spread the word #EOT2024 #EOTArchive

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2y ago

List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far: 1. CDC Atlas 2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 3. HRSA Target 4. Language removed for LGBT work 5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index

I've been told that political appointees delivered orders to CDC staff yesterday to either: A) remove all references to “gender ideology” by 5pm today, OR B) take down your website. What is "gender ideology"? Not totally clear. Which could explain why so many sites are down.

List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far: 1. CDC Atlas 2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 3. HRSA Target 4. Language removed for LGBT work 5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

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I couldn't resist.

Get ready for the return of “Pope Endorses Donald Trump” and other similar viral bullshit. This is part of the redefinition of “freedom of speech” to mean “freedom from moderation,” where any limit on algorithmic boosting or virality at all is “”censorship””. www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States

The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down

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It should not be this easy to find pages and content on HuggingFace that promote non-consensual deepfake pornography. All I had to do was search for 'undress' and 'nudify' to find these. This includes a space where you can nudify in-browser & promotions for other websites.

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

brat summer turned into fascist fall

11. Attempting to use a pure technology based solution to what is fundamentally a people problem has never once worked in all of history.

Twitter has decided to leave the EU's disinformation code, a voluntary pact that groups together the major social platforms where they agree not to spread disinformation. Just in time for 2024’s global collection of elections, in the US, UK, the EU, Ukraine, Russia, India, Mexico and Taiwan.

Now that alt text is visible to sighted users, it's a good time to plug @alt-text.bsky.social. Tag the bot in a reply to a post that has one or more images without alt text, and then the bot uses OCR to extract the text and reply with the OCR'd text as alt text. (This only works for images of text.)

Apologies in advance for the earnestness, but I don’t think I’ve had this much fun on a social app in a looooong time. I’m liking / reply-guying and skeeting like it’s 2015.

the hellthreads are extended gutters and the gutters are full of shitposts and the accumulated filth of all their replies and hot takes will foam up about their waists and all the deranged will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper ‘No.’

Ok, who’s gonna make the “Best of Bluesky” twitter account?

Instead of millennials “insisting” on work/life balance, try this headline instead: Workers Take (Less Than) Their Legally-Entitled Work Break to Do Free Advertising for Multinational Corporation https://artifact.news/s/3SyYKJ-17Fs=

I am shocked (in a good way) how quickly this small team shipped a valuable Trust and Safety feature after community feedback. Bravo @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com

Bluesky@bsky.app · 3y ago

You needed blocks. We cleared our calendars to finish building out blocks. Blocking has shipped to Bluesky web app users and will be available in mobile shortly (version 1.25, when it passes App/Play Store review — hopefully tomorrow morning). You can access this feature now at staging.bsky.app.

Trying to explain to people not on this app that Jack is getting Quote-Skeeted rn