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Chris Messina
@chrismessina.me
😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
🆕 App updates and snark.
🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.
#️⃣ Invented the hashtag.
🚬 Non-smoker.
Pinned
Bluesky is fun.

Feels like old Twitter.

So much overconfidence in ignorant positions!

I missed this! 🦃
Wow... Capital One just acquired Brex.

"Today, Brex and Capital One are announcing the largest bank-fintech deal in history for $5.15B, joining forces to build the most important financial platform for businesses in the US."

Big exit for YC!
Brex is joining forces with Capital One
Brex and Capital One are joining forces in the largest bank-fintech deal in history. CEO Pedro Franceschi shares what this means for the future of finance.
www.brex.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Spotify’s DJ is now appearing as a mini search bar below the speed dial section: “Ask for some music”.

#NewSpotify
January 23, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Product Hunt is experimenting with an AI commenter called "Curious Kitty".

www.producthunt.com/p/general/cu...

#NewProductHunt
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Chris Messina
For our first launch of the year, we're kicking off with more blocking features!

Rolling out today: ATProto across Bluesky, Blacksky, and any other PDS can apply domain blocklists to Bridgy Fed. Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.
Launch: Domain Blocklists
In November last year, we began developing additional user-facing moderation features for Bridgy Fed users. While blocking users across the bridge was always possible via DMs, we knew it would be easi...
blog.anew.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Chris Messina
The first article published on Offprint. @tynanpurdy.com on ownership, portability, and why he's done with platforms.

Thanks for being first, Tynan. "People over protocols, protocols over platforms" is a better manifesto than anything we could have written.
January 20, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Reposted by Chris Messina
Are you still posting on X?

Please stop.
Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.

‘Add blood, forced smile’:

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
"Like hashtags, but for stocks."

Hmm, not really but okay!
Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks.

Tag your posts with #$AAPL, #$NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Happy birthday 🌉!
It's hard to believe, but Bridgy is 14 years old today. I launched the first version of it way back in 2012. Happy birthday, little project buddy! 🎂🎈🎉
Bridgy up and running
I’ve just released Bridgy, a little side project I’ve been working on. Got a blog? Share your blog posts on social networks? Wish comments on those shared posts also showed up on your b…
snarfed.org
January 8, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This is super interesting, and will likely be a big trend (local AI on personal data) in Q1 2026.

/by @0thernet.bsky.social
Using AI for Personal Data
Actually using all this data that is collected around us
substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Lol... “You guys wanna DROP some data with me?” 🤓
Delete request and opt-out platform (DROP)
Protect your personal information. Data brokers collect, share, and sell your personal information. You can stop that from happening.
privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Attention farming in social media is like rice farming in feudal Japan:

every post is a grain,

both require endless cultivation for sustenance.

#NotAHaiku
December 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Telling my kids this is how mirror neurons form
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Half of my bluesky experience is AI porn bots following me and the rest is randoms, including static site generators that live in PDSes

So only half as bad as X!
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Reposted by Chris Messina
I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d

You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.

First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
December 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Zucked, same as it ever was.
Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere

sources.news/p/whats-next...
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I bought my ticket to #ATmosphereConf.
Be there in Vancouver March 2026!

/cc @snarfed.org @j12t.org
ATmosphereConf 2026
ATmosphereConf is the global AT Protocol community conference Join us in Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2026 at the UBC campus. Come early for two days of extended events, deep dives, and local activiti...
atmosphereconf.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Super smart.

Spotify is promoting "New Year's Eve mixed playlists¹ ", using their new feature² that lets you control add customize transitions between tracks. 🪩

You can see columns for BPM and key in playlists that have been mixed.

(Also note the animated shine on the album artwork)

#NewSpotify
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There’s something ironic about a book about AI safety, ethics, and society being narrated by Digital Voice Maxwell G.
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reposted by Chris Messina
v1.112 is live!

We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.

Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.

Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Code is now a commodity.

As the ability to generate software results in its abundance, value shifts to taste, judgment, and orchestration.

Meet the Mixologist, Producer, and Architect—three archetypes builders can embody in order to thrive in the AI era:
Code as Commodity
What can salt teach about thriving in abundance?
blog.chrismessina.me
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#100DaysOfRaycast just concluded — go see @alexi.build’s archive 👇🏻
alexi.build Alexi @alexi.build · Dec 12
Day 100 of #100DaysOfRaycast

Today marks the final day of the 100 Days Raycast Challenge, but I won't stop here, I'm doubling down!

- I'm going to do another 100 days! There are just so many features in Raycast that we haven't explored yet.

- I'll launch @RaycastWeekly Newsletter soon!
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Product Hunt has added a new “Best Products” item to their nav bar, listing Trending Categories of top reviewed products.

In addition, Shoutouts have been retired in favor of “Orbit Awards”, the successor to the Golden Kitty Awards.

#NewProductHunt
December 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
ICYMI, CBP is operationalizing parts of EO 14161, including: “Mandatory disclosure of social media covering the last five years for Visa Waiver Program travelers via ESTA” and collecting “High Value Data Elements”.
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by Chris Messina
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.

Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.

resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM