Also what happens when people discover Chinese is so woke they’ve got no gendered pronouns in their language?

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So weird. A bunch of American TikTokers are fleeing the site ahead of its potential ban to an app called, Xiaohongshu or Little Red Book from China created by a guy named Charlwin Mao. Its terms of service state users must uphold socialist and Chinese values. But also Mao is a Stanford business and Bain Capital alum. So clearly as silicon valley as it gets in addition to being very Chinese too. Just goes to show that social dynamics are as important to how these apps grow as the tech itself. https://www.ft.com/content/1adcaa42-b613-4909-b390-c767a064d420

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I guess this boat is all about science.

@Cory Doctorow has a good take on the problems with Bluesky and why they’re supporting the FreeOurFeeds.com project. I mean if you take Nostr plus the Bluesky bridge eclipse.pub. We should be putting a louder voice out there that Nostr is the open free alternative to Bluesky.

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What would it mean if apps stop being a major source of work and instead we just have a world of libraries which easy user combines together using AI in to an app for themselves? “Today's software ecosystem evolved around a central assumption that code is expensive, so it makes sense to centrally develop and then distribute at low marginal cost. If code becomes 100x cheaper, the choices no longer make sense! Build-buy tradeoffs often flip. The idea of an "app"—a hermetically sealed bundle of functionality built by a team trying to anticipate your needs—will no longer be as relevant. We'll want looser clusters, amenable to change at the edges. Everyone owns their tools, rather than all of us renting cloned ones.” -

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Interesting a bunch of activists and tech folks are creating an independent foundation to try and wrest control of bluesky’s ATProtocol away from the VC backed bluesky company.

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I originally proposed that bluesky’s intellectual property would be placed in an independent foundation from the start. Will it be too late now that Bluesky’s raising a massive round of VC / Private Equity funding from Bain Capital? It would have been a lot easier to make this system open if it had started out that way.

I went with @Matt Lorentz to visit Rabble Coffee!

If you’re in Europe and developing Nostr then you should apply for NLnet grants. They fund a broad diversity of open source open protocols. Their work helped lay the groundwork for Nostr by supporting the precursors and ecosystem. Just don’t make your proposal sound like a cryptocurrency project as they’ll think of bitcoin in the same bucket of shitcoins. So focus other aspects of what we’re doing in the nostr ecosystem. 🫣 View quoted note →

“The sad truth is neither Republicans or Democrats actually care about protecting speech or civil liberties online. Both parties just want to censor the other side.” - @Taylor Lorenz

Stop pretending Meta cares about free speech

+ Galaxy Gas, a leaked Dobrik doc, the first ChatGPT terrorist, Shark Tank TikTok deal, and the worst music on IG Reels

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Tencent has released an absolutely amazing video restoration library… I think it’s going to cause every old film to be re-released at higher video quality.

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Rumor has it Bluesky is raising a big round at a $700 million dollar valuation. It’ll push them to even more chase VC returns.

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X competitor Bluesky is being valued at around $700 million in a new funding round after explosive growth in the wake of Trump's victory

Bluesky is raising new funding led by Bain Capital Ventures that would value the social media company at around $700 million, according to sources.

Sunsets are so magical. Even more when you’re standing in the warm waves.

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Tell me you used google translate for the sign without telling me you used google translate.

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