I haven’t seen anyone take xAI a bit seriously at all, and yet it’s raised $12 billion total. Make it make sense

Wow.

Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

Well, when put it that way…

How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List A new tool for the rapidly growing X competitor Bluesky helps you quickly create new feeds that you can pin to the app’s home page to follow your various interests. If you’re daunted by the prospect of having to rebuild your Twitter/X lists on Bluesky’s…

How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List

a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us ! Alt: A bunch of guys at a table, banging their fists, saying “ONE OF US! ONE OF US!”

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The new Casio CRW-001-1JR is both a smart ring and a smartwatch A ring that thinks it's a watch, or a watch that thinks it's a ring?

Want

The new Casio CRW-001-1JR is both a smart ring and a smartwatch www.techradar.com/health-fitne...

hey this is handy

made some handy news lists you can pin to your home feed

📱 tech news
bsky.app/profile/did:...

📰 world news
bsky.app/profile/did:...

👾 gaming news
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Can you believe this whole site runs on a mac mini m4

Congrats to @bluesky for all the new users

My 2 cents. Find every news source the has an RSS feed or equivalent and create accounts that that show their public deeds on here under @johndoetimesfeed

That way we all get access to news without having to wait for them to create accounts first.

Microsoft releases Windows 11 ISOs for Arm64 PCs, letting users clean install Windows via official offline media, including the latest Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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‎Google Gemini ‎The Google Gemini app is an AI assistant that can help supercharge your creativity and productivity. With Gemini on your iPhone, you can: - Go Live with Gemini to brainstorm ideas, simplify complex...

the new dedicated Google Gemini app has hit the US App Store finally apps.apple.com/us/app/googl...

I shouldn't see people I'm following under the "Discover" tab. I already discovered them. I'm looking for new people to discover. I crave new people.

AI Inside #43 YouTube video by Techsploder (Jason Howell)

Hey! What ya doin in ten minutes?

OH, NOTHING?

Well now you are:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAb...

Analysis | The U.S. is getting less snowy. See this winter’s forecast in your area. Most of the U.S. is expected to see less snow this year, continuing a long-term trend of snowfall decline as global temperatures rise. Look up your county.

❄️ The U.S. is getting less snowy, according to 60 years of meteorological records.

In today's Climate Lab column, see this winter’s forecast in your county and find out if it gets less snow now than it used to.

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Amazon launches Amazon Haul, a storefront on its app that promises "crazy low prices" on a range of items, to compete with Temu and Shein (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Here's a (work-in-progress) Starter Pack with the 9to5 teams!

omfg

My university might cut humanities. I’m frustrated, angry — and afraid.

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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

Mozilla: Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites
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I've started referring to it as "doing my morning rounds."

how are you going to name your magazine after one of the top oceans and then publish this

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding ...

www.propublica.org/article/how-grad-student...

Someone on Mastodon described Bsky as "a bunch of people hanging around in the parking lot after the mall has closed" and I thought it was A) accurate and B) pretty great actually

Expand your apps and save money with Setapp's new Family Plan Setapp is a subscription service that provides access to hundreds of Mac and iOS apps and recently introduced a Family Plan aimed at helping users save money.

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A friendly reminder that when you used to rent videos from us. We didn’t care who you shared it with… As long as you returned it on time. #netflix #blockbuster

While we are being honest.