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@euxenus.bsky.social

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building a Second Brain, dissecting the Global Brain, and merging with the two

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exns @euxenus.bsky.social · Nov 19

it must feel good af to minimize free energy if you are

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 6

it's in the API called like "indexed_at"

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

both

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · May 3

me finding myspace tom

that guy who can find geographic locations anywhere in the world from one split second of a blurry google streets pic i don’t remember his name

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

even had to go to an old version of Gephi to get this image preview plugin working >_>

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

graph is based on follows

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

yeah I forgot about their tweets too. good correction!

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

cool. this embedding based or graph-layout based?

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

opened up the graph file and you're there. the layout isn't the same as the original, but if you look hard enough you're in the original somewhere!

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

every node in that CD txt file should be on the viz. I crawled on 4/30.

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 4

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

putting things into perspective with The Blue Marble & The Blue Sky

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

tools for thought

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

here u go bud

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

If you're the kind of person who wants to dig deep into tiny niches on Bluesky here you go https://github.com/deklanw/basic_bluesky_analysis/blob/master/notebooks/output/cd_txt/nested_state_0_state.txt

Browse or ctrl+f in this file and you'll find something interesting

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

OK, I'm tired. Done for now. Might post more tomorrow. Code is here. Please forgive the messiness https://github.com/deklanw/basic_bluesky_analysis

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

Niche of Ethereum

Top accounts:
@ligi.de @lightclient.eth.limo @franzi.bsky.social @q9f.cc @0xstark.bsky.social

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

ANOTHER niche of TFT-ish people

Top accounts:
@danhunt.bsky.social @schlaf.bsky.social @cortexfutura.com @mamanlunettes.bsky.social @lyle.bsky.social

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

Example niche you should check out:

Photographers

Top accounts: @brynnalise.bsky.social @abrahanny.bsky.social @bryanminear.com @jacksimpson.com @monaris.bsky.social @pli.bsky.social

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

Example niche you should check out:

Sveltey Frontend influencers

Top accounts: @threepointone.bsky.social @rich-harris.dev @jaredpalmer.com @swyx.io @thatjdanisso.cool @wattenberger.com

Check out that last account in particular if you enjoy data viz. She's spectacular

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

how's this

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

Example niche you should check out:

Meditators, Buddhists, consciousness, psychedelics

Top accounts: @leona.bsky.social @metaphorician.com @meansinfinity.bsky.social @tramazonlily.bsky.social @neats.bsky.social @vincehorn.space

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

A sibling tiny niche of TFT stuff

(Only 8 accounts so I'll just tag all..) @maggieappleton.com @robhaisfield.com @andymatuschak.org @schlage.town @nesslabs.com @travisnorthcutt.com @dharam.bsky.social @olena.bsky.social

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

Example niche: Future of coding / humane computing

Top accounts:
@geoffreylitt.com @gordon.bsky.social @thesephist.com

exns @euxenus.bsky.social · May 3

That pretty much does it for the highest level of community structure. To me this high-level view of the network gets boring fast. But, you *can* make finer distinctions! They're just harder to visually untangle in a viz of the full network. I'm going to post now about some niches