Bluesky sorts your following feed by attaching the timestamp of posts from people you follow to Hungarian Folk Dancers and having them perform an Algorithm for you in a theater somewhere. The result is a reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3San...
YouTube video by kamal yassin
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source. "public money, public code" www.zdnet.com/article/swit...
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
Where things get even more interesting is if you focus on the idea that this is just a bunch of sites and views on them, and run with it. Can you do web apps better? Yes. Can you have search that's good like PageRank was but much harder to game? Yup. Onwards!
Sparkly splendor! ✨ Hubble imaged the stunning core of globular cluster Omega Centauri in 2002. Thanks to gravity’s influence, these stars are “close friends” and have been for billions of years: bit.ly/4dVHRgp 🔭 🧪
One morning Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams and found himself turned into a giant website
I didn't get as much writing done today as I wanted, but I got some.
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm#linguistics@lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
Handle updated. Thanks to @cassidoo.co@jtauber.com for the push to do it.
So, uh, @mikeduncan.bsky.social is doing a thing. A fictional thing. Well, it had been better be fictional. If he got his hands on some future history books I'm not liking the outlook for the next while.
Great explainer thread of how BlueSky works. Not mentioned is that there is no privacy at all here, all your activity you is date/timestamped and on a public website. Mastodon is better for that. Please correct me if I am wrong!