Space Jesuit 🌺🌌

Happy new year, skybirds everywhere

As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

A joy to experience. Homme fatale indeed

💝 Also higher res photos suitable for posterizing, only a few have them and cameras have improved significantly since the last pass.

A catalog, a chrestomathy, a concordance of terms

Of course! Even at the original URLs, with the memorial note. It just deserves a living archive as well //

for fuck's sake, no, bsky is not selectively moderating against trans people, if anything, some people have done a lot of behaviour that according to the letter of the rules would result in permabans, and yet they're getting 24h strikes and being let back on because of community pressure.

Here is a lovely modernization of some of his maps about beauty, a topic he returned to over and over. paging @startuployalist... www.thebeautyproject.site/gunkel-maps/

History repeats.

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Chatting with Gunkel's archivist Om about digitizing the rest of his materials and upgrading the ideonomy site. There are so many good essays that deserve to see the light of day (and Patrick always wanted it to become a science, not just one person's ideosyncracy)

Only 31k? Yow...

Heyyy sky friends, I'm having a housewarming in SF this Saturday aft, ping if you're around and want to say hello 🧳🐈🍵🥂

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

I hate every single possible thing about this, and I'm heartbroken about all of it.

www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Jedi on the Enterprise would get so confused by all the technology. They’d try to Force open a door, but it’s just a sliding one. Worf’s standing there like, "...there's a sensor."

A friend pointed out a couple weeks ago that Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946 and I keep thinking about how it feels like our political imaginations are being held hostage, with occasional outliers, by a very particular generational precept of the nation.

bluesky elder status is actually determined by whether you used the love fairy or not

Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem | TechCrunch In November, Peter Wang sought ideas for a new fund to support the AT Protocol ecosystem. Four weeks later, he launched Skyseed.

More resources are starting to come into the atproto dev ecosystem.

“We don’t have to all fit inside the same, one-size-fits-all app,” Wang said. “The whole point of the protocol is to build many different kinds of apps, and let a lot of different kinds of user experiences flourish.”

CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978?

100%? 500%?

Try 1,085%

Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

screenagers

New from the SFI Press: A standalone version of
David C. Krakauer’s introduction to the Foundational Papers of Complexity Science! santafe.edu/news-center/...

Nice to see everyone I follow migrating here...

This might be the first time an open source app is at the top of the app store. Definitely the first open source social app.

Here for this all day every day

before I worked at Bluesky, I worked with scholarly metadata and infrastructure.

that field has had it's chain jerked around a lot w/r/t funding and sustainability of infra: maintenance, enclosure, M&A / consolidation, enshittification, grants, collective action, etc.

not dissimilar to web!

oh did you dumbasses think i was kidding? this is a small beautyberry bush and the birds are gonna eat the hell out of these things soon.

I just landed in Boston because I’m giving a colloquium at Harvard tomorrow. What an amazing opportunity but my heart is so heavy and everything feels unreal. How about I supposed to talk about neutron stars right now 🥲

We must all be allowed space to grieve, to mourn– to hold the pain of our own people's deaths, our massacres, our atrocities– the horrors experienced by our kin– sometimes people whom we knew personally, sometimes family members. Again, again, again: we must smash binary thinking. And again, again, again: We must let all of our hearts crack open, break wide enough to hold all of the pain, all the grief: including grief in its specificity, in its particularity. To honor all of the dead in all of the ways that they deserve from us.

@theradr.bsky.social blessing you for this.

guys there is no republican master strategy any more, lee atwater and andrew breitbart’s hearts exploded, steve bannon is in prison and nobody returns karl rove’s calls. they just say what they think now. stop pretending it’s 2004

I'm guessing Baklava House & Bakery on Lamar.