Mike McCue

Thanks for sending this. Yes, we need a way better account model for the social web.

Good to know! CCing @gregscallan.com to see if there's anything we can do to support Akkoma instances.

Yes, this is something we're working on. Will take a bit longer but being able to Keep On Topic for more topics is coming.

AI bros are COOKED!

I created this entire sequence with my camera, using human skills. Something like this would have cost dozens of dollars in prompting, but for me it was completely free.

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.

Epic losing the App Store case against Apple but winning against Google which is technically more open is a great lesson in setting expectations.

Apple never set the expectation it was open while Google claimed to be but actually wasn’t in practice.

This was a fun discussion, though I basically had to keep saying "well, that depends" or "we'd need to dig into the specifics" because it's easy to make broad general statements that hide the realities of the law here. Also why I'll never be a politician.

No Democrat should vote for a single penny of a military appropriation for the Iran War until they first get to vote on a Declaration of War.

IRGC Destroys Second US THAAD System in Gulf, Wipes Out UAE Radar and $1.1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Shield — Iran Declares Missile Dominance - Defence Security Asia IRGC precision strikes reportedly destroy a second US THAAD system, its UAE radar, and Qatar’s $1.1 billion early warning system, exposing fractures in America’s Gulf missile defence architecture and ...

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries

This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.

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Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

BREAKING: War on Iran starts.

Israel has just hit Tehran.

What’s the sports version of stolen valor

Dang

Why ‘Playing It Safe’ In Your Career Doesn’t Pay with VC Bill Gurley Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · February 26 · 1h 3m

Of course, I’m so very biased because I’m a superfan of @karaswisher.bsky.social, but this episode was beyond fantastic. Super meaningful and insight-triggering questions (and answers). So worth it, and love all the positivities we can get.

Thank you Kara💕

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Keep your heads down until the firings begin, please.

No please jump away

exactly.

America's media consolidation nightmare.

CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Warner Bros, Paramount, TikTok, SpongeBob ... How much media can any one billionaire family control? And what happens when so much culture gets captured and politically reshaped?

YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms | Decoder

This conversation with @hankgreen.bsky.social & @reckless.bsky.social is well worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMjL... Amongst many other things, it talks about a way out from the reality that media, like most businesses, is not a venture-capital-shaped enterprise!

DOD claim: “This narrative is fake and being peddled by leftists in the media.”

Fact: It’s literally what Anthropic says are the issues.

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Just added @status.news @oliverdarcy.bsky.social to my subscriptions (which is on Beehive NOT Substack). Worth every penny.

Also, I canceled my HBO subscription which was about to *double*. Good riddance.

In the end I'm still very much in the black and better informed all things considered.

you'll love it.

A person walks along a snow-covered pathway on the Boston Common while A decorated signpost for the Common sits in the foreground

From the storm back in January.

OptiColour 200
Asahi Pentax K1000, 50mm lens

#film #photography #35mm #Boston #blizzard

I'll ping you if I start seeing any of the four horseman.

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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Now it’s OpenAI’s turn. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

lol @karaswisher.bsky.social I feel like this is getting a sequel

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

WIth about 23 hours to go before the Pentagon's deadline, Anthropic announces it has had enough time to think it over. Firm NO to the Pentagon's demands on "any lawful use" of AI. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Just a reminder that buying Warner has historically killed the buyer

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports