probably the most useful setting I always configure when setting up a new mac. it gets rid of those pesky styles and markdown when you copy-paste
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 PM
probably the most useful setting I always configure when setting up a new mac. it gets rid of those pesky styles and markdown when you copy-paste
Annoyed to find out that I was automatically enrolled in Meta AI for WhatsApp—without any option to opt out.
March 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Annoyed to find out that I was automatically enrolled in Meta AI for WhatsApp—without any option to opt out.
This is frightening
After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
March 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is frightening
One trend we will notice with LLMs soon is the quality of the responses will drop, purely for the reason that its training data (the internet) is getting polluted with it's own AI generated data. This will become a big risk for adoption of these tools in the future.
February 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
One trend we will notice with LLMs soon is the quality of the responses will drop, purely for the reason that its training data (the internet) is getting polluted with it's own AI generated data. This will become a big risk for adoption of these tools in the future.
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We moeten in Europa onze poot stijf houden om te voorkomen dat grote techbedrijven hier de macht overnemen, waarschuwt de Duitse mediawetenschapper Martin Andree. Aan FTM legt hij uit hoe deze bedrijven volgens hem streven naar totale economische dominantie. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/in...
‘Techgiganten zullen er samen met het Witte Huis alles aan doen om hun doel te bereiken’
De Duitse mediawetenschapper Martin Andree windt er geen doekjes om: we moeten in Europa onze poot stijf houden om te voorkomen dat de grote techbedrijven hier alles voor het zeggen krijgen. Big tech ...
www.ftm.nl
February 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We moeten in Europa onze poot stijf houden om te voorkomen dat grote techbedrijven hier de macht overnemen, waarschuwt de Duitse mediawetenschapper Martin Andree. Aan FTM legt hij uit hoe deze bedrijven volgens hem streven naar totale economische dominantie. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/in...
The disappearing web. We all believe the internet is here to stay; the network is, but content vanishes. In fact, 38% of webpages from 2013 are now inaccessible due to broken links or deletions. This is a stark reality: www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
When Online Content Disappears
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
www.pewresearch.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:09 AM
The disappearing web. We all believe the internet is here to stay; the network is, but content vanishes. In fact, 38% of webpages from 2013 are now inaccessible due to broken links or deletions. This is a stark reality: www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
No surprise this is happening—the social web has been scraped for both commercial and non-commercial purposes since the start. But let’s not blame the ATProtocol for making it possible
New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...
Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.
www.404media.co
November 27, 2024 at 9:37 AM
No surprise this is happening—the social web has been scraped for both commercial and non-commercial purposes since the start. But let’s not blame the ATProtocol for making it possible
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Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.
We wrote on Saturday about how Meta is going all-out to meet the threat of Bluesky: wapo.st/3OrYxBj
Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
November 26, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.
This is where having your own domain name comes in handy with @bsky.app
Gumper Aalbrok (32) ziedend dat hij weer te laat is om eigen naam te claimen op nieuw platform
Gumper Aalbrok (32) ziedend dat hij weer te laat is om eigen naam te claimen op nieuw platform
De 32jarige Gumper Aalbrok wilde, in navolging van talloze vrienden en collegas, ook maar eens een account aanmaken op Bluesky.
speld.nl
November 25, 2024 at 10:18 AM
This is where having your own domain name comes in handy with @bsky.app
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Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
buff.ly
November 23, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
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turning a big dial taht says "Listening to Users" and constantly looking back at the metrics for approval like a contestant on the price is right
November 21, 2024 at 9:26 PM
turning a big dial taht says "Listening to Users" and constantly looking back at the metrics for approval like a contestant on the price is right
Still testing out this personal algorithm on BlueSky. I still get to see too many American Football posts. This is probably because I selected “sports” as a topic of interest when I signed up. But hopefully the algorithm learns there’s more to sports.
November 20, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Still testing out this personal algorithm on BlueSky. I still get to see too many American Football posts. This is probably because I selected “sports” as a topic of interest when I signed up. But hopefully the algorithm learns there’s more to sports.
Back in the early days, working with the Twitter API taught me so much about building and connecting with platforms. Then they locked it down & started charging for access. It’s so good to see @bsky.app doing things differently—welcoming developers and encouraging these projects firehose3d.theo.io
Bluesky Firehose
The bluesky firehose visualised in 3D
firehose3d.theo.io
November 17, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Back in the early days, working with the Twitter API taught me so much about building and connecting with platforms. Then they locked it down & started charging for access. It’s so good to see @bsky.app doing things differently—welcoming developers and encouraging these projects firehose3d.theo.io
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Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
buff.ly
November 16, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
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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:
We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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:
We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:
This won’t be the only big media outlet not posting on X, but I’m not sure the main audience there cares if the so-called MSM leaves www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
This won’t be the only big media outlet not posting on X, but I’m not sure the main audience there cares if the so-called MSM leaves www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
One of the main reasons I moved over. Don’t punish users for sharing links that lead elsewhere—make the platform so good that people want to come back
Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.
Hard to describe as a journalist how grateful I am to have a text-based app that does not suppress hyperlinks. I don’t know if people realize exactly how hostile the corporate internet has gotten toward news.
November 12, 2024 at 8:55 AM
One of the main reasons I moved over. Don’t punish users for sharing links that lead elsewhere—make the platform so good that people want to come back
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Bluesky handles moderation differently than you might be used to. With loads of toggles and settings to change, it can be hard to wrap your mind around it. Here’s how it works:
How to Clean Up Your Bluesky Feed
In our recent comparison of Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads, we detail a few of the ways the similar-at-a-glance microblogging social networks differ, and one of the main distinctions is how much
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June 18, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Bluesky handles moderation differently than you might be used to. With loads of toggles and settings to change, it can be hard to wrap your mind around it. Here’s how it works:
Over on the other blue app, big tech leaders and CEOs are congratulating the new president-elect. While this isn’t new, it highlights how deeply tech and politics are intertwined. Tech needs the president just as much as he needs big tech.
November 7, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Over on the other blue app, big tech leaders and CEOs are congratulating the new president-elect. While this isn’t new, it highlights how deeply tech and politics are intertwined. Tech needs the president just as much as he needs big tech.