I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways... - Impressions from the main stream media of the recent mass migration / diversification to Bluesky. John Naughton sums up his thoughts and observations. A bit on the pessimistic side but he makes a lot of good points. We need more people, companies, institutions etc, running Bluesky instances because as great as the architecture is for users, if there is nowhere to move to, it’s all for nothing. It’s still an island, but could be part of an ecosystem. Looks like building healthy ecosystems is a very difficult endeavour. theguardian.com #

Elon Musk Is Now Cyberbullying Government Employees - I’m not goung to pretend I know anything about making huge cuts in the name of efficiency. Seems like you are going to make a lot of people unhappy whatever you do. Nobody likes ripping off band aids. But seems like gang stalker cyber bullying campaigns would not only be unnecessary, but counter productive. Why not just go in there are start cutting jobs and departments like an chainsaw wealding argentinian anarcho-capitalist? newrepublic.com #

Polymarket blocks French users amid regulatory scrutiny over $80 million Trump election bet - Prediction markets continue to make a splash. It’s kind of crazy that online betting has so little regulations, whereas Bitcoin and crypto are constantly under scrutiny. Strongly suggests it’s not really about protecting regular people. theblock.co #

Anthropic raises another $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its 'primary' training partner - It’s kind of strange that all the big AI companies are so dependant on the underlying cloud companies they run on. It’s a similar model to proffesional surfers and skateboarders. Imagine being a web developer and Apple gave you free laptops. On the other hand, Apple if you want to give me a free laptop, please get in touch :) techcrunch.com #

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