Jaden Geller

i can’t think of any better alternatives

if usernames are scoped to app, no way to know an account is associated with a particular website

seems strictly better to have @apple.com vs @apple

ya i think it was confusing for @bsky.app to present that as the same manner of verification in this thread

but at least they don’t show badges for those ones! so it’s not actually overlapping in the app security design

i agree domain names are a bit confusing and not well understood by the general public

but our web trust model is already built on them

perhaps would be nice if we had always disallowed registration of similar domains, idk, what’re your ideas?

this is just a fake example, but if google added bluesky support to gmail, you might see @someone.gmail.com

you’d know that account was provided by gmail.com

but if you see just @gmail.com, that’s prob official gmail, bc they wouldn’t give that one out

you’ll notice both of our accounts are bluesky domain names, bc they’re given out by BlueSky.

this doesn’t provide association with the company bc they give these out to new users

but if you see a different domain at the end of a username, you know that website gave out that username

this new verification method relies on badges and trusted authorities. no technical expertise necessary

the existing domain method allows users to prove, on their own, that their account is associated with a web domain

basically, they’re adding badges that indicate someone trustworthy checked that the person running the account wasn’t impersonating someone else

BlueSky staff, or orgs like NYT that they trust, can add these badges

it seems like the new feature is a way for BlueSky itself, and other orgs it trusts, to verify user accounts a different way

what I described was how you can prove to people an account is associated with a domain

but their new feature explained at the top here is another way to verify!

in web browsing, domains are the part of a URL that says which server to connect to

the part after the / isn’t part of the domain. that separates the domain from the path in the URL

the basic principle with domains is you read them right to left

each dot prefix is a subdomain, underneath the parent domain

things like com and net (on the right!! not in middle) are top level domains

if you have questions, i’m happy to answer (:

it proves that the owner of the domain endorses the account

e.g. if an account is @google.com, it must be Google. if it’s @google.com.tricky.net it’s not

if you’re not familiar with domains, prob worth understanding a lil! otherwise ya might get phished (scammed by an impersonator)

NIH cancels grants through flagship long COVID initiative Termination ‘a waste of the money we’ve spent already’

this is fucking devastating.

do people actually believe batshit crazy shit like “mermaids exist, and the rich are throwing mermaid eating parties”??

can’t tell if it is a bit or if the post-truth age makes flat earthers seem smart

voice is good but choice of words is awful

how do you make sure sensitive stuff isn’t persisted? any features to detect and redact passwords?

don't complex proofs have the equivalent to effects? we just have to make the dependencies explicit, which lets us reason about them compositionally

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about bots

if many people are going from point A to point B, it seems efficient to charter a direct ride

i love the bus, but this is good too

skill issue

i’m just trying to say, it’s faster to learn by asking llm and understanding the output

vs. trying to build up an understanding from scratch, scanning docs for the right apis, etc.

it helps you quickly pinpoint what you need to know

idk i learn a lot by looking at the outputs

you can read that code and know how to do something like that next time

its almost like a tutorial for your specific use case. could even ask llm to explain it all

wow so comprehensive

i recognize most things, but what are the less obvious things you included?

All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders We put them all in one place.

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how does this even work? if somoene orders from Temu, and they haven't updated their shipping model, customer on the hook for fee on delivery?

am I understanding correct that w/ end of de minimis exemption, customs will charge $27 processing fee on every shipment from china? (previously was only if worth >$800)

Lol JD Vance's favorite anonymous neo-Nazi just flagged me as a potential threat to DOGE employees and Ed Martin responded

120. The Impoundment Crisis of 2025 The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.

For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even *this* #SCOTUS:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...

fear schools focus too much on what history happened not how history happened

okay but it’s very interesting to read what Chinese people think of the US on RedNote