I sometimes think that the because the internet is driven largely by individual citizen comment, the billionaire class had no choice but to flood it with disinformation to keep people from organizing against them. In other words, they couldn’t recreate traditional media, so they chose to break it.

Please allow opt-out from firehose/API download. Your promise that Bluesky will not train AI on user data was nice. But open data lets everyone else do it easily. Yes, public posts could be scraped by other means, but that’s more work & you can block it by behavior pattern.

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C’mon NYT. Stop pulling your punches. You know as well as us that he’s under investigation for sex trafficking and sex with a minor. He’s the least qualified man for any job in America. He’s walking garbage in a suit.

Saw one the other day and it wasn’t so much that I immediately disliked the driver, I was just gobsmacked that someone actually wanted to buy that monstrosity. I mean, it’s great for CO2 reductions, sure but…woof.

Dude, you had me at “We’re doing something like Mythbusters”. Sold.

Also true

Only the ones paid by oil companies. It makes them conveniently dumb.