My post on Bluesky:

"I welcome new folks to Blue Sky, but I fear this could be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. This is still a privately owned network funded by a VC that must turn a profit. That will come from your data. Mastodon is clearly a safer choice, but it does take a small extra bit of effort."

https://bsky.app/profile/augieray.bsky.social/post/3lbkhmzfmpk2e

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

Elite Acquiescence and Treacherous “Normalcy” All Around Us
 
What are the reasons behind the pervasive tendency among ostensibly anti-MAGA elites to accommodate authoritarian power and preemptively signal compliance with Trumpism?
 
Some thoughts from my new piece:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/elite-acquiescence-and-treacherous

I did a four-page short comic for Le Lombard (Belgian publisher), it was a contribution to a big book project in French, featuring 24 other comic artists; an "advent calendar" book for Christmas. And yes, you have to cut the page every day in December to reveal a new story. I negotiated to have mine published on CC-By and made it using only FLOSS    .

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1055/new-comic-book-la-bd-de-lavent-le-lombard-publishing

#creativecommons #christmas #krita #comicbooks

Heads up via @emptywheel:

I keep waiting for this to get more attention.

In the spring, the oligarch owners started a purge of the newsroom (NYT least so).

But all three of these on the same day?

‪Sarah Scire‬ ‪@scire.bsky.social‬:

All today ... Washington Post senior politics editor Dan Eggen says he was removed from post, Wall Street Journal laid off politics editor Ben Pershing, and New York Times announced Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller is stepping down

No, ChatGPT won't help in the classroom, won't save teachers time, and doesn't represent a set of skills students need to learn.

On OpenAI's latest nonsense:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-has-no-place-in-the-classroom/