Blaine
blaine.bsky.social
Blaine
@blaine.bsky.social
Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building for Local at @wearenewpublic.
I would 100% sit in a box at standards meetings and heckle with you.
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A.I. at its peak
October 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It was the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada earlier this week, and one of the narratives I heard was this one, struggling with the impossible choice of building new capacity in the shadow of cultural genocide (from www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...)
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
hahaha fair. Ok, the basic thing is just that at an underlying technical level, the "timeline" thing you see is just a list of posts. The "algorithm" is just a bit of code that decides what goes into the list, and in what order.

The Bluesky interface itself is ...
September 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It is very upsetting that Björk's Post was released 30 years ago. Brb, dusting off my Discman so that my music player doesn't share these sorts of "fun facts" going forward. (Mine was a D-145, but damn, the original D-50 looks sick as hell!)
August 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Vibe Coding.
June 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Eventful Saturday evening! Earlier, a big wind storm knocked some massive trees down, taking out power and blocking our road. Now, we've got impressive auroras lighting up the sky. Truly, country living at its finest. 🤠 by
June 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I mean, look at it!
May 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My copy of @loriemerson.net's "Other Networks" just arrived. The timing couldn't be more perfect (personal news imminent), I can't wait to devour this entire beautiful volume! 😍
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Awesome! It is showing on the sign in page, so maybe that needs a tweak? The sign up flow actually looks great to me! ❤️
May 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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March 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I love living in the mountains, but wish we had better trains. That nine hour long drive home after a super intense weekend took the last of my beans for a little bit. Bryophitic recovery mode engaged!
March 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
January 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Duolingo's April Fools' this year ought to be the launch of a new "Latentese" language that's just raw OpenAI embeddings.
January 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM