Ok @hankgreen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy is my anger translator regarding stupid controversies about Jimmy Wales and @wikipedia.org@bsky.brid.gy. I was going to say something, but Hank says everything I would have said here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0... Wikipedia and the Destruction ...

So @lastweektonight.com@bsky.brid.gy is running an auction of "John Oliver's Junk" to support public media that Trump has defunded. I don't have the money for it, but the one item on the list that would be most tempting is definitely the Ajit Pai mocking mug: e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i... Last Week Tonight

Interesting. I don't know any details or who is behind this, but someone has built a music app on top of ATprotocol/Bluesky. www.lyrc.app Currently in beta and only iOS so I can't check it out yet, but love to see all the building... Music has Meaning

So... all three of our foster puppies got adopted yesterday. Don't know if it was by anyone from here on Bluesky, but if so, please keep us updated on how they're doing. View quoted note →

Apparently the lesson Brendan Carr learned from the Kimmel debacle is that he didn't actually have any consequences for abusing his power to violate the 1st Amendment, so he's just going to keep at it. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreihfpmoez22qgk77vbt7shozyv3lfpuuynnuqiwhzumaoh6dvtganq

You get the feeling Hegseth simply asked Grok to name these? View quoted note →

At a post-conference dinner this evening, talking to two people who had never even heard of Taskmaster, and I *may* have gone a little overboard in talking it up.

Final episode of Series 20 of Taskmaster is out, and there are no bad series of Taskmaster. All our enjoyable. But this was one of the best.

Friend alerts me that my name appears in the Epstein docs, leading me to say "WHAT?!?" Turns out for some reason in the documents is the syllabus from a Harvard class on "Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control" which had students read something I had written... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreic2vmurcxjxsyh3mhhazcasqa3og7xzart5jdwv3taiwks7xzhbay https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiarmbnfswe6usonpjqy6q4ldnwu5pyainhu3v5icvwgh4memd22oe

Also there's a petition to bring it back. www.change.org/p/bring-back... Sign the Petition