"[T]he communities that tolerate violence will get it. They’ll get it from vigilantes, from organized extremist groups, and—most concerning of all—from the state itself."
@adriennelaf.bsky.social

"Constitutional crisis does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitutional meaning."

From @jamellebouie.net

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media

"Streets to Schools" - A map showing all the streets closed in Paris as part of Mayor Hildago's "rues aux ecoles" program, making child safety our city's top priority.

#paris #urbanism #15minutecity #schools #streetstoschools #safestreets #thewaroncars

capgeo.sig.paris.fr/Apps/RuesAux...

Trump's Greenland obsession is a very concrete example of why the Mercator projection is bad.

Oh noo here I was believing everything I read on FB. Will have to be more careful starting tomorrow I guess.

www.threads.net/@zuck/post/D...

Nearly twenty years on, S3 remains one of the most useful (and used) cloud provider primitives. This is a cute log implementation that is so simple and only possible because object storage is so good these days!

Interested to see what the aforementioned “reasonable steps” will looks like re: enforcement. It’s supposed to be 13 and up in the US but last I checked it’s a checkbox on signup.

If I remember correctly, it was @dankennedy-nu.bsky.social who introduced me to On The Media when I was in his class. Thank you Dan!

I've been following the work of @noupside.bsky.social and @hankgreen.bsky.social for ages and last week they were on @onthemedia.bsky.social where they spoke on media literacy in the internet age. It's well worth a listen if you aren't an OTM regular: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

New: A conceptual model of how ATProto works, for ActivityPub people

I wrote about how to think about how ATProto works, how it differs from ActivityPub, and what decentralisation and federation even mean anymore

fediversereport.com/a-conceptual...

And I'm ready for what's next.

Today is my last day at a company I've been with for eleven years and two months—a tenure I'm unlikely to exceed somewhere else. Through many job changes, reorgs, acquisitions, a country move, and several corporate owners, it's been a wild ride. I'm proud of the work I've done here.

Now all I'm missing on bluesky are the paris metro lines with realtime traffic info. I hope they found that cat on line 8 last week.

With the recent influx(es) to Bluesky, my feed is finally starting to resemble what it once did during the halcyon days of the bird site.

Aegina, Greece // August 2024

sometimes I forget what it's like to use a social network that builds features its community wants and needs

Been lurking here for a few days and it’s giving me high school party that could be broken up at any moment rather than pre-2022 twitter energy for sure.