Dave in Vegas is pretty cool guy in my book.

4/8/26💡C-SPAN💪Dave in Vegas: “This war in Iran, he only went in there because he's probably a pedophile, people don't want to admit it, but he is... He is not a president, he is a dictator”🇺🇸🙏

These headlines are so insidious.

I don't even know if it's on purpose or it's just some standard formula to make headlines that provoke people who clickthru and load up the pages with all the ads on them.

I think it's on purpose. Downplay the good that government can do, accentuate the negative.

40% of people helped by Los Angeles homeless project returned to the streets: report Local programs to combat homelessness also face Trump administration’s attempts to cut off funding

Better headline:

"For 15% of LAPD budget, Mayor Bass reduces homelessness by over 60%< and reduces homelessness deaths for the first time in history. Still, improvements can be made."

Cartoon by Bob Eckstein

Mastodon's pretty good.

imagine if it was your job to catch it

Well the billionaires started eating Bluesky, pumping their disease-addled capital into it.

The AI showed up soon afterward.

It was okay while it lasted.

Head to Mastodon everyone.

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans:

1940: 81%
1950: 84%
1960: 91%
1970: 72%
1980: 70%
1990: 28%
2000: 40%
2010: 35%

For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

lmao Attie is blocked by more people than ICE on here

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Lol attie now more blocked than the white house. Loving the energy

Sick of seeing all this Attie slander from people who aren’t in a deep emotional relationship with Attie and planning to marry her

Want to know how much Republicans REALLY support our troops?

While Mango Musselini is sending Marines to the Republican's latest Never Ending War in the Middle East, Trump is ALSO sending ICE agents to harass Marine Corps' family members at Marine Corps graduation ceremonies.

Screenshot from Clearsky showing the attie.ai account as the second most blocked account on Bluesky behind only JD Vance.

lol

Screenshot from Clearsky showing the attie.ai account as the second-most blocked Bluesky account behind only JD Vance.

lol

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

'But war .... war never licks its b-hole like a housecat.'

Just blocked the attie.ai thing. Feel pretty good about it. Feel pretty bad that Bluesky's turning into everything I came to Bluesky to avoid.

How can I block Attie?

How can I block Attie feeds from scraping and stealing my Bluesky content?

Please answer. This tool is live on here and currently unblockable; this is against the law.

To put this in perspective: Meta had $201 billion in revenue last year. This would be like a person who makes $100,000/year receiving a traffic ticket for $190.

Easier to just use Mastodon.

That's going to be a paid feature.

The venture monkeys of late capitalism have arrived, and they're going to start extracting everything they can from the platform soon.

Best to just get to Mastodon now.

"Venture is dead." I've heard this same prediction in every tech wave Web 1.0, crypto, and now Al. The argument is Al's capital efficiency makes VC obsolete. I believe the opposite. Al won't just save venture; it will restore value to the entire startup economy. The Tragedy of the Common: How Al Will Restore Value to Startup Equity

The next decade of enterprise Al is being defined now. Meet the people building it. Sept 10 in SF: Connected Stack. Hear from founders of 11x, Arcade, Baseten, Chronosphereio, Cresta, Decagon, Deeptrust, Exa

Great piece from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and a noteworthy example of Bluesky users noticing something stupid, posting about it a bunch, and driving a whole news cycle. I expect we're going to see a lot more of that this year

Characters for OpenAl Realtime API are OUT! this is a showcase app of what you can build today on top of Realtime API.

So Bluesky has a new CEO, that’s a good idea bc Jay is terrible.
But the person they picked
1- hasn’t been the biggest user
2- is a Silicon Valley VC
3- is a big fan of AI and a bunch of his reskeets are some form of pro AI

Well, it was nice while it lasted. Enshittification incoming. Everyone might as well start migrating to Mastodon now.

The more the wealthy get involved, the worse it gets. Everything the wealthy touch eventually turns to utter shit.

Bluesky was fun for a while. Now it's going to die.

It's particularly strange that we have no real footage of the invasion. Like none. There are cameras everywhere, but ... I don't know, maybe I'm missing something?

CAT

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "This technology disrupts humanity's train, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working class, often male voters. These disruptions are going to disrupt every aspect of our society."