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Good updates and bug fixes out today, especially the new Micro.blog for iOS release. Tomorrow, releasing the first phase of the blog post summary feature I mentioned yesterday.

In the fog of Trump Two, we’re asking: what’s new? The co-presidency with Elon Musk is surely new, also the raging battle of exotic ideas among techno-optimists and libertarian anarcho-capitalists at war with the very ...

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As content moderation falls out of favor, OpenAI says it will loosen up

In high school when 5% of your class doesn’t like you it’s like 3-5 people. Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn’t like you, that’s 85 people! That fills a room. 150k followers and 5% don’t like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people. It’s still 5%.

Quote Posts are a popular feature of many social media platforms. They offer the ability to share another person’s post to one’s own followers, while adding a comment. We want to share our thinking process in implementing Quote Posts in Mastodon, and explain why it has taken...

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Spurs have lost 3 of the last 4 since De’Aaron Fox joined, but 2 games were lost by only 1 point. Meanwhile Wemby is doing everything:

That stat line makes Wembanyama the first player in NBA history to record multiple games of 20+ points, 15+ rebounds, 5+ blocks and 5+ made 3-pointers.

Won’t be surprised if he eventually has the record for most 5x5s too. 🏀

Ronny Chieng’s approach to comedy, along with his expanding TV and film portfolio, have put him on The Washington Post’s first-ever “Post Next 50” list – 50 people shaping our society this year. In this conversation with Elahe Izadi, he reflects on why he works to write jokes for his stand-up in a way that anyone can appreciate, even if they’re coming from a different perspective, and why the work of “The Daily Show” is crucial. 

By the way, Martine Powers interviewed another name on the “Post Next 50” list. You can catch her conversation with Congresswoman Sarah McBride here. 

Today’s show was produced by Sabby Robinson, with help from Ted Muldoon, who also mixed the show. It was edited by Renita Jablonski.

Special thanks to Evan Bretos, Hope Corrigan, Bronwen Latimer, Daniela Santamarina and Maggie Penman.

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Nice new developer site and technical design overview for Bridgy Fed. Whenever I’ve looked at the Bridgy code, I’ve always been impressed that it’s not over-engineered considering how much it can do. The same project in the hands of another developer might be 5x the amount of code.

As our centennial series continues, Jefferson Cowie, historian at Vanderbilt University and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Basic Books, 2022), reviews the history of white Americans fighting the federal government over civil rights legislation and more.

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Kate Shaw, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, co-host of the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny, and a contributing opinion Writer with the New York Times, talks about the constitutional issues at stake with some of the actions taken by the White House.

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This month we hear from the makers of the five films nominated for the Academy Award for best feature documentary. Today, Johan Grimonprez, director of "Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat", discusses his film's "fusion of jazz and geopolitics" that touches on colonialism, racism, the 1961 assassination of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, and a State Department-backed goodwill tour by jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong and Nina Simone.

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Scott Stringer, former NYC Comptroller, talks about his campaign for the Democratic nomination for NYC Mayor in the June primary.

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I sent Micro.blog 3.4.2 off to Apple for TestFlight beta review. If approved, will send it to Apple again for the release build, where presumably a different human will review the same build. 🤪

New motto: Pissing in the wind for the good of mankind.

I wonder what Kurt Vonnegut would have thought of twitter-like systems?

Here's the thread that's created in the demo.

Here's a two-minute demo of my new writing tool for Bluesky. This is quite a bit simpler than the last version, you log on directly to Bluesky, doesn't go through my server at all. This removes a whole layer of complexity for the user, and means a lot of people can use it without it having to scale up. Also made it simpler, more of a writing tool, closer to where I'd like this stuff to be when we have across-the-board textcasting support. Really focused on the flow.

I’m going to attend this Bluesky & Beyond event next week and FediForum next month. I’ve felt like withdrawing from active participation in standards work, though. I can only do so much and need to focus on where I can actually make a positive difference.

If the US were a company, what would its market capitalization be?