Very happy to see FIFA actually reviewing and enforcing rules against simulation / diving. Can't stand the diving in soccer.

Mark Zuckerberg said (under oath!) that only 7% of what people see on Instagram is content from friends or family. "Social media" now has exactly as much to do with being social as "podcasts" have to do with iPods

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 3mo ago

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Big Tech social media isn't really social anymore. We scroll more than we post, and we consume content more than we connect with others. Research from @zephoria.bsky.social suggests we should call it what it really is: parasocial media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is the Bluesky content I crave.

Al Yankovic@alyankovic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

given how much journalism now is mostly or fully authored by claude or gpt, we really need the equivalent of this for blog posts Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

It's not quite there yet, but I'm pretty close to having my PDS implementation ready with initial permission data space support as part of the atproto-crates repository.

PARA is live on the web, and our first Android APK is now available on GitHub. A social network should not only capture attention. It should help people recognize each other, coordinate around what matters, and build power together. Public participation today. Privacy-preserving democracy tomorrow.

In case you missed it this week-end New blog post: Sharing or not sharing social graph, why not both? airglow.offprint.app/a/3mkddtrbsy...

Among the many great talks at this year’s @atmosphereconf.org, Principal Software Engineer for Roundabout @blaine.bsky.social’s talk about Roundabout, cheese, and ecological computing is a must-watch. Yes, we’re a little biased, but also, don’t those topics sound like they go great together? 🤌🧑‍🍳

actually though

daniel holmgren 🫠@dholms.at · 4mo ago

what's your ai strategy? what's your quantum computing strategy? what's your ww3 strategy? what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy? what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy? what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?

Here is a movie recommendation, you can watch it free as a gift: mubi.com/films/certif...

Watch your free gift: Certified Copy

While touring Tuscany, Italy, promoting his new book, English author James meets French store owner Elle, and the two hit it off, deciding to spend a free day together. As these two strangers get to k...

mubi.com

PARA is live in a public browser demo: web.paramx.social.ngrok.pro It’s a civic social product for communities, political identity, RAQ, policy flows, and structured participation. If you try it, I’d really value blunt feedback on what works, what breaks, and how it feels

Looking for new friends to DM with? Let us introduce you. Germ Social: Speed Networking is tomorrow. RSVP on Smoke Signal now!

Germ Social: ATConf Pregame!

The Atmosphere community conference is around the corner! There’s nothing better than arriving to familiar faces.

smokesignal.events

i'm begging the bluesky team to give us feeds that remember the position of where i was

I'm sorry, but this shit is just unhinged. If you believe you're in some sort of holy war, I think you're about a thousand years too late.

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I love our tri-cameral system of government: the executive, social media influencers, and the judiciary

I'm building on atproto because I think that a single social network has essentially no shot of dethroning the current tech monopolies. But an open ecosystem of interoperating apps is so infinitely more interesting than legacy social that it seems almost inevitable it will win

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 5mo ago

Can everyone building on atproto please answer this question? 😇

Today, @bsky.app + @atprotocol.dev devs can plug into XMTP to give users what they've been asking for: quantum-encrypted, secure group chats that scale to millions. With our XMTPID identity model, it's finally here. 1/5

germ is not open source, right?

chc4@chc4.com · 6mo ago

am i blind or is this closed source

microblogging industrial complex

A little tip, if someone follows you who seems off but you're not sure, check their list of followers. If it looks like this, block. A "name" and a "photo" and "bio" are easy to fake.

Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great. Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

nytimes.com

With Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing.

Nvidia acquires AI chip challenger Groq for $20B, report says | TechCrunch

With Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing.

techcrunch.com

Happy solstice! ❄️🌲