🔗 Network map of Bluesky users.
Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow patterns. It is searchable and interactive.
.. you can find you
.. and apparently I am specifically ‘there’ because that is where i fit with other followers ..
You can also check your followers - and your followers' followers ….
Suddenly you could be ‘all over the place’.
Still not sure what someone like me can do with this - but who cares. It’s wonderful.
I have never really looked into Ghost - but plenty of people have - and they tell me how great it is. And I have no reason to believe otherwise, so hard to believe that this has only just happened.
Starting today, automated welcome emails are now built right into Ghost .
The old promise of platforms will provide is broken.
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Your authentic ideas are lost in a sea of algorithmic content designed for engagement.
We’re not going back.
Now we need to build something new.
What we build is up to us.
🔗 There’s no such thing as Tech ~ Ten years later - Anil Dash
Not wrong - yet constantly amazed by how this isn’t main stream thinking - by any stretch of the imagination.
🔗 Why the SpaceX, xAI Merger, IPO, and Pivot to the Moon?
No idea if this is right - and clearly neither does he - BUT - interesting read.
🔗 Turning AppAdddict into a Fully Searchable Archive with Integrity, Raindrop, and EagleFiler
I might have to borrow use some most of this from @louplummer.lol …
🔗 3D Printer Surveillance - Schneier on Security
One day we will have people in positions that make laws that actually understand the stuff that they are making laws about,
Horace again …
🔗 Does Apple’s AI Opportunity Outweigh Component Cost Inflation?
Unlike many of its peers, Apple isn’t in the race to win AI benchmarks or translate those gains into tangible financial gains. It just needs those features to change behavior and pave the way for healthier services revenue.
🍎 is not playing ‘our’ game - except for ‘announcements’ that for whatever reason they have decided to join. They clearly do not know how to play it and are losing. Badly.
Horace … 🔗 iPhone only Smartphone to Grow in China this January
Clearly 🍎 has lost the plot.