The past, present and future of social media (and Nostr revolution) Starting from 0:42 by @rabble https://www.youtube.com/live/uI38gUNaJLY #nostriga

LinkedIn the new gaming platform ”LinkedIn’s mission has always been to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.” How’s playing games making your more productive?

Pinpoint, Queens, and Crossclimb… game on!

Today, we officially launched our daily lineup of thinking-oriented games, delivered by LinkedIn News. Games are all about connection for us.

Max discovered the secret of FInns

DRAFT: I stopped smiling for 6 months and it changed my life

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Intereting breakdown of building, scaling and growing Bluesky

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel des...

Threads released their API for devs to check it out before the API release at the end of June. Am I missing something since there’s no direct upload option for media files in their API? ”image_url — (For images only.) The path to the image. We will cURL your image using the URL provided so it must be on a public server.” https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads/posts#single-threads-posts

”The program remains fully independent of NATO. France is the only member of the alliance that doesn’t belong to its Nuclear Planning Group, and President Macron holds full authority over potential use.” ”The U.K.’s smaller and less versatile nuclear force is, by contrast, fully integrated into the NATO command. Lacking an air component, it relies on American-supplied Trident missiles for its four submarines and possesses a total of under 260 warheads.” https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/can-europe-still-count-on-americas-nuclear-umbrella-511c8ba0

”An OpenAI team transcribed more than one million hours of YouTube videos, the people said. The team included Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, who personally helped collect the videos” ”At Meta, managers, lawyers and engineers last year discussed buying the publishing house Simon & Schuster to procure long works”

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (Published 2024)

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information ...

LinkedIn is the new Twitter Humblebrags mixed with influencer posts and how-to threads with an occasional sprinkle of borrowed TikToks and Reels culminating in deep insights with AI-generated illustrated images.

”Spatial videos filmed at 30fps in 1080p take up around 130MB of storage space for one minute of video”

MacRumors

$3 App Shoots Better Quality Spatial Video Than iPhone

A $3 third-party app can now record spatial video on iPhone 15 Pro models in a higher resolution than Apple

”But the catch is that no one can see the posts. You can publish as many posts as you like. The app even lets you add photos to your posts as well. But you’re sending those posts into the void. Developer Pat Nakajima said on Threads that no post leaves your device and all likes are fake.”

TechCrunch

Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever | TechCrunch

When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friends, zero followers, zero likes. But as you start posting content, you might get more a...

”Facebook “secretly signed Whitelist and Data sharing agreements” with Netflix, along with “dozens” of other third-party app developers… …to access, among other things, Facebook users' “messaging app and non-app friends. …allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a written report every two weeks that shows daily counts of recommendation sends and recipient clicks by interface, initiation surface, and/or implementation variant (e.g., Facebook vs. non-Facebook recommendation recipients).”

Ars Technica

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit

Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

”Bluesky is basically abstracting out each layer of a social media service and allowing anyone to provide alternatives at each layer… It creates a system that feels as simple and comprehensive as a centralized system, but which is actually decentralized, and enables anyone else to jump in and provide additional services and features at each layer.”

Techdirt

Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far

These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collecte...

”Bitkey, as a self-custodial solution, sits somewhere between a stand-alone Tapsigner and a fully-open, interoperable multisig wallet. It does better than the stand-alone Tapsigner in some areas (e.g. 2-of-3 security), while poorer in other areas (e.g. not interoperable; tightly coupled to Block as things stand).”

Nunchuk

Bitkey by Block: A Comprehensive Review

Block recently introduced a self-custodial solution for Bitcoin called Bitkey (https://bitkey.world). This review delves into Bitkey’s features, ...