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

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/