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Calvin spent 28.5 years in one of the worst federal prisons for a murder he didn’t commit. But instead of growing bitter, he taught himself the law. If he could endure that and still choose to fix the system, then we have no excuse. Knowing Calvin has been one of the greatest gifts of my life.

"Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than those it commits itself."

– Ibn Khaldun, 1377

How might we use AI to consistency reproduce positive outcomes?

I find it helpful to ask the question—what's the next ribosome?

During the origin of life 4 bya, a folded matter phase of proteins & RNA emerged from an autocatalytic carbon cycle.

Then the ribosome acted as a "controller" to repeatedly create high-value proteins.

What are the AI controllers now?

The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Linking here! Thanks all ❤️

bsky.app/profile/josh...

This is a great list!

Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com

blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

The world has already eradicated smallpox. Polio is the next disease we could eradicate.

Here's how we got to where we are now, mostly thanks to the polio vaccine.

From our work on Polio:
ourworldindata.org/polio

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

We love links because we love the open web

Back in 1996, 88% of all eggs in the UK were laid by hens kept in cages. In the latest data this is down to 28%.

A big win in improving animal welfare.

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

just did another round of importing my follows from the old place, sorry if i missed you the first time, hello if you are new here 😀
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Hi folks, even if you added folks from my EA starter pack before, you may want to take another look because it's got lots of new folks, including @robertwiblin.bsky.social! Rob also has some starter packs on his own profile that you should check out. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Bluesky’s stream of consciousness 🌀

Visualization of the network: a night sky where each star is someone posting ✨

This is a great community ethos. Did you know there’s also a “Newskies” feed with first posts from new users? I sometimes go in there and say hi to new folks coming on.

Look at that domain handle 😍

Thank you for stewarding!

Agree 💯

🚨 Cool opportunity alert 🚨

yeah, idk

network effects (15M is enough to feel lively)
founder effects (jay good)

One thing I'm curious about: what post-Khan Academy educational UX interfaces are you excited by?

haha, saw your post on Twitter and was like, oh shit May-Li probs on Bluesky :)

If you want to follow some people on infectious diseases/global health, here is a starter pack:

go.bsky.app/ARRb7Xn

And here is a starter pack with lots of people covering/researching misinformation and disinformation:

go.bsky.app/T833yvS

The Right built a powerful, partisan, & participatory media environment to support its messaging, which offers a compelling "deep story" for its participants. The Left relied upon rigid, self-preserving institutional media and its "story" is little more than a defense of imperfect institutions.

And this concludes our social experiment. Thank you for your participation.

Ida B. Wells - Wikipedia

Happy birthday to the inimitable Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) journalist, philosopher, civil rights hero. Born into slavery, she documented & campaigned against lynching, & went on to co-founded the NAACP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells

Someone on Mastodon described Bsky as "a bunch of people hanging around in the parking lot after the mall has closed" and I thought it was A) accurate and B) pretty great actually