I need to see the one on Aerials, that’s an epic song.

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Everlasting.

Has an “everyday I’m hustlin” vibe.

Castling was introduced only 700 years ago, Chess 960 in the last few decades. Whatever this is it’s not the first “patch” of chess in two millennia.

This is some of the best journalism I’ve read in a long, long time. Depth, detail, perspective, prose, indignation. Well done Maureen Tcacik.

Hard than a MF

Excellent combo pack.

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Correct.

They replaced an unappealing game with a series of unappealing games. This is the same tinkering the NBA did with the Dunk contest- new editions have just made it worse.

Obviously, I don’t want to equate legit NSFW type content with transphobic or racist content. But from the perspective of creating a shared environment around shared content standards, this thing is beautiful. What Rudy and his crew are doing with this tech needs to be more widely imitated here.

Blacksky is a new paradigm for social media as far as dealing with the complications of open social media content/participation, I really like it. There’s a huge tech debate RN on Bluesky about how to deal with transphobic troublemakers, and I’m like, stop ignoring this innovation over here.

Reddit. Of course. As soon as I saw your answer I was like “r/scifi would probably work”. And it does! I feel like I wasted your time but thank you anyway for putting me on the right track.

@cemurphy.bsky.social I saw your two great starter lists of foundational SciFi texts for a new reader. I’ve got sort of the opposite question- I’m looking for a Sci-Fi short story title I read long ago but can’t remember. Can you recommend a SciFi reader forum where I could ask that?

Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies

It took two Suicide Squad movies, a Harley Quinn movie, AND The Joker 2 movie for me to *finally* pick up on the harlequin reference. SMH

Same.

Man that song is fire but you have fast forward through half the track to get to the real song.

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15 drink limit is for the “can’t drink all day unless you start in the morning” folks.

Indeed.

Muting what one dislikes is good, what’s better is doing it as a community. A core value add of Blacksky is blocking racism and misogynoir so that we *don’t* have to manually do it. It was never “complete access” as you said earlier, setting bounds on content is in line with what we signed up for

This is the great thing about ATProto/Bluesky- labeling content, curating feeds & communities so that people can ONLY see what they want. Nothing is stopping people from creating a feed here for folks who want to post themselves having sex. Although I’d argue Only Fans & Pornhub do it better. 🤷🏽‍♂️

And what I like about this update is that the Blacksky feed now mutes that sexual content for its general users. I’m concerned about *their* burden, not explicit posters. Also, people who want to post explicit content need to shoulder the burden of making a feed so those who desire it can see it.

I get it. You develop a great tech innovation, make it widely available for free, and then AWS comes in and eats your lunch. I mean literally eats your lunch, even though it makes a giga-billion dollars per year and could easily pay you a fee. So you close access and the OSS community gets burned.

Prime is obnoxious but has some solid commentary, also is a Neovim lover. Speaking of Neovim I found a Zig guy that walked through how to use Kickstart.nvim to get a decent Neovim experience. Of course it was painful but I’m now able to code on a Linux box with that setup. It’s almost…pleasant?

Thanks for the suggestion. To lessen the pain I’ve already found a Vim cheatsheet and a few videos. My main goal is to incrementally make using it less painful.

But the poster of sexual content should bear that burden of clicking and categorizing, not people in the Commons. It doesn’t harm that poster to *not* be able to show their sexual content to the entire Feed, but that content could harm the Feed. Post it for the audience that explicitly desires it.