In which @Jay 🦋 does a deep dive on what “Freedom of speech, not reach” means in the context of Bluesky (💅🏻) — and why it isn’t just lib twitter.
Sites choose their moderation rules, but if ppl are unhappy, they can start a new site or host their own.
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The left should be making Russ Vought own this 24/7 in very simple language: Vought is making it easier for scammers to target you and your grandma.
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Exactly. They need The Villain who is keeping The People from knowing The Truth. There is no work that simply stands alone — everything is framed as something someone else should have done but didn’t because of Motives.
Click through for Sohrab Ahmari’s underlying thread, which is worth reading.
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Extremely dramatic Romanian election coming to a close with the centrist (an impressive mathematician) projected to win.
Some of the American election-denier cranks on X are darkly hinting this is some kind of shenanigans, of course.
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“We are the media now” -> They are the government now.
The base isn’t going to like this, and is going to spiral out in all directions.
These people earned a living & got wildly famous - got their jobs, in fact - bc of their talent for reckless speculation. Some of that’ll come for them now.
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My 5th grader and I talked about this approach to “showing your work” for writing assignments in the age of AI - not recording, just the edit log. Really young kids are surprisingly aware that this is the kind of thing that can prove they did their work.
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On that 3am system prompt update to Grok, Elon’s anger at Gemini, & the politics behind prompts.
‘The solution, is transparency. Not bc we can, or should, attempt to strip out values that the owner decides to encode but bc the values shouldn’t be obscured.’
[open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](
