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A New Look for Bluesky: The Social Butterfly - Bluesky

A new look for Bluesky — the social butterfly — and a public web interface.

Are the new nostr users from yesterday technically eXes?

”The assassination of the warlord was two months in the making and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally and confidant, an ex-spy named Nikolai Patrushev” https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putin-patrushev-plan-prigozhin-assassination-428d5ed8

”Information entropy…trends towards “compressing” or discarding information over time in the name of optimization. This could be why..we see so much symmetry in the natural world—these symmetric patterns are a way to minimize and optimize information.”

VICE

Mind-Blowing New Law of Physics Could Mean We Really Live in a Simulation, Physicist Proposes

“Being a simulation is a possible consequence (or conclusion)" of the proposed second law of infodynamics, physicist Melvin Vopson says.

”We’d also need to replace American aid to Ukraine — €71.4bn in the war’s first 21 months, according to the Kiel Institute, or €40.8bn on an annualised basis. That’s €70 a year per European citizen of Nato. We could find that if we wanted.”

Client Challenge

”$300 billion is a reasonable down payment on the reparations that Russia should pay to Ukraine. Russian money should rightly compensate Ukrainians for the harm that Russia has done, and help rebuild the Ukrainian infrastructure that Russia destroyed”

The Atlantic

Give Russia’s Frozen Assets to Ukraine Now

Putin should pay for the damage his invasion has caused, and the money is needed immediately.

const influencerOnThreadsComparison = () => { const influencer = "IG Influencer"; const platform = "Threads"; const comparison = `${influencer} on ${platform}: like a fish out of sea.`; return comparison; }; console.log(influencerOnThreadsComparison());

Are these from the old Twitter and forgotten?

Nostr feed starts to look like town lunatics shouting to each other when it’s all caps.

Your best thinking wrapped in a 6-page memo

How mature is an organisation? Check how they encourage and support truth-telling. ..and now look at your public organisations 👀

Threads is opening up their API where X is doing the opposite.

Do you have a feed in a few years with all the AI content?

The AI writing suggestion bots are the new ”shoot yourself to leg” for content platforms. Sounds great till you see your feed

Benedict Evans

Presentations — Benedict Evans

Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.

Discussion groups seem to be working on Farcaster. The latest idea on Nostr of Whatsapp / Signal app functionality sounds like a good idea. It can generate virality without a need to have a lot of public content/users for the cycle* that can be hard to get started. Telegram became a dominant player by being easy to use and it managed to gain an aura of security (despite it never was/is). It has a lot of public channels and is one of the largest content channels in some markets. * spindlum sounds like the right term for this. You need the right content for the right people but who comes first the creators or the users and you need to gain a critical mass in some niche to get a full cycle (spin) to start over again and keep on revving.

X (formerly Twitter)

Dan Romero (@dwr) on X

How we're thinking about iterating and ultimately decentralizing FC channels