For my podcast, [@revolution.social]( ), I’ve interviewed [@coachtony.bsky.social]( ), [@yoyoel.com]( ), @Renee DiResta, Chris Best, @Mike Masnick, and [@taylorlorenz.bsky.social]( ) where we talk about trust, safety, and moderation. I feel like I could stitch them together to make a very interesting
Medium has been around for so long we might forget it’s important role in the social media ecosystem. [@coachtony.bsky.social]( ), CEO of Medium, talked with me about Medium’s evolution, AI, their Reddit like content moderation system, and how they differ from substack. [youtu.be/ewrc0iPYsq0?...]( ) [Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on...]( )
Why isn’t there a charter train to burningman? The tracks go right by black rock city. It seems to me that a train would be better than the burner bus. Folks could take a lot more weight and a burner train would be amazing.
It was much more work to get Bitchat in to the google play store than it was to make it. Finally the real official, none scam, version is in the store. There were hundreds of fakes! [play.google.com/store/apps/d...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitchat.droid ) [bitchat - Apps on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitchat.droid&pcampaignid=web_share )
"On August 3, The New York Times published a cringingly bad op-ed by former BuzzFeed writer David Mack complaining that airport lounges are letting in too much of the rabble these days." Who knew people were so bothered by my using airport lounges. [newrepublic.com/article/1991...]( ) [The 10 Percent Is in a Fit of ...]( )
My talk from #why2025 about the need for fundamental freedoms similar to those we have for free software but for social media is online. [youtu.be/DIsNPMHWKSI]( ) [Four Freedoms of Social Media ...]( )
I thought substack said they'd take off explicitly nazi content... They were drawing the line at alt-right content which didn't advocate for genocide and fascism... Yet this is still up: [substack.com/@natsoctoday1]( ) [NatSocToday | Substack]( )
Housing was too expensive, but now that prices are coming down, somehow that's a crisis too... We only need a program to help write out bad debt for the relatively small % of mortgages that are under water. [archive.is/oz626](https://archive.is/oz626 ) [archive.is/oz626](https://archive.is/oz626 )
I really liked the warp terminal, it was fast, in rust, let me use my mouse to click around and edit as i was doing complex terminal commands. But now they've decided that they're not a terminal at all, but some AI coding agent... Basically making it really hard to use any other ai coding agent
@Mike Masnick I was just listening to your talk about titles for your podcast episodes for ctrl-alt-speech and I realized that I had no idea you gave each episode a unique title at all. I had to look because I assumed the titles were just the date. So maybe spend less time on titles? :)