William Aubry Kelley

Predators rapidly fill empty niches in ecosystems. Digital or otherwise.

5+ preorders: Someone take away @daytonward.bsky.social's credit card. :D

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Dr. Oz?!?

Here's a fun one: Following the lead of my friend Janet Hendrickson Munin : What is something you have done that you're fairly confident you're the ONLY person on my friends list to have ever done?

Release the Gaetz report.

Pass it on.

There is something deeply amusing about musklings coming here and realizing there’s no algorithm to boost their rage bait, which was their main advantage.

It was never about “free speech” over in the bad place.

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Hey, PNW friends! Big storm coming. Batten down the hatches! #PNW

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Idly watching Rio Lobo… John Wayne sure could sit a horse.

You forgot to mention that you’re a snackpack of whoopa** ;)

I hear you can make a small fortune as an author. Unfortunately, you have to start with a large fortune.

How long will Bluesky be able to resist?

From a friend on FB:
Remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil?”

The only people who would be unhappy in a Star Trek universe are those who thrive on oppressing others.

I'm old enough to have had the measles before there was a reliable vaccine, the mumps before there was a reliable vaccine, and chicken pox before there was a reliable vaccine. why the fuck would anybody voluntarily want to go back to that, it fucking sucked

I also remember the entire school lining up in the cafeteria to receive the polio vaccine, because who the fuck wouldn't have wanted that

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Isn’t this the strangest experience? Reading content produced by people. No ads, no AI cruft. Just… real people. I don’t think it can last but for now it is SO refreshing!

Announcing Project 2029 The Progressive Blueprint for a Fairer, Stronger Future.

This is real.

I’m serious about this.

Who’s with me?

I don’t want to think about what concealed carry bat’leths would imply…

Because 73+ million of us are gonna have lots of use for this:

What is this book going to be about. What will it have to say about the human condition? At this point, I don't care about the plot.

As I say when I teach -- plot is the shit that happens, theme is why it matters. #Writing

Yes :)

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome!

We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

And an immediate cessation of funding, and a meeting with the ethics board… ;)

Honestly? The GIL. Give it serious multi threading out of the box.

Good to see ya big guy.

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I’m this old…

The only thing I can think of is the Wikipedia donation model.

Well, Bluesky is clean, easy, and free. How long can it remain so? Is there ANY way to avoid the enshitification that comes when money becomes the focus?

Can anyone suggest a way to avoid it? Because as soon as it happens, Mu$k & co. can trash it.

That phrase is what is fundamentally wrong with late-stage American Capitalism.

There has GOT to be a way to avoid the enshitification that comes with making money the focus.