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the experience of making bluesky has been like planning this elaborate fucking party with fireworks and a sick dance floor and ten different magic shows and then people walk in 6 hours early and go “nah this is good it sucks out there”

Vice is going bankrupt, BuzzFeed News is dead. What does it mean? | Margaret Sullivan When it comes to news in the digital age, which journalism model will work?

Great column from Margaret Sullivan today over at The Guardian about the state of digital news media (the audience is there, but the business model is a mess) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/16/vice-bankruptcy-buzzfeed-news-dead-digital-age-revenue?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming STOCKTON, CA—Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo years of medical treatments and counseling to win at swimming. “It’s oh, so simple: several years of sweet-talking medical…

“I just want to win at swimming.”

Happy Mothers Day

What Is HuggingChat, And Is It Better Than ChatGPT? - SlashGear Most chatbots accessible to the public are closed source. This is where Hugging Face comes in with its open-source AI alternative, HuggingChat.

HuggingChat, an open-source AI, offers an excellent alternative to ChatGPT. Its strengths lie in transparency and the ability to customize, bringing a unique approach to chatbots. Give it a try!

Top 90 Users with Most Followers Bluesky Statistics updated as updated as of 4:00pm NY time 05/14 by @m3ta.uk and @vqv.app

A "Twitter spaces" on "THE FUTURE OF TWITTER with Matt Taibbi and Kim Dotcom" including a bunch of Twitter blue check grifter type people, such as Ian Miles Cheong, Michael Tracey, and Brian Krassentstein and hosted by Mario Nawfat.

Seeing as this is the future of Twitter, it's a future I want no part of.

us: eating mushrooms for lunch

me: “you cannot kill me in a way that matters”

them: ???

me:

It’s a cat world

Welcome to the Twitter Abyss Elon Musk's depraved, utterly irresponsible failure to moderate Twitter in recent weeks is harming innocent people. Here's what happened.

I wrote about Twitter’s grotesquely irresponsible failure to moderate its own platform - and why that means it’s time to leave, and to warn others.

https://faineg.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-twitter-abyss

Sky Spaces?

Yes! Most people will use default mod settings, but ~10% of users will experiment with novel ways of using labels, custom algos, lists, things I’m not even thinking of, etc. We are betting on process, in this case, experimentation, and the best new moderation ideas will emerge (we hope).

just fyi for new users 1 Bluesky follower is equal to 50k twitter followers

My engagement numbers on Bluesky are really humbling compared to Twitter. Tough crowd. I feel like I’m performing at the Apollo and the sandman is gonna come drag me off stage any minute. 😂

So the What’s Hot tab is for the cool kids?

Skeet? What’s that?

Now that’s a good one

Interesting

Like twitter but not

How does this app work?