Mark your calendars for our second Cultural Analytics Talk Series lecture w/ @ucbids.bsky.social!

@ischool.uw.edu Prof. @mellymeldubs.bsky.social will discuss how authors and readers are using #AI to generate fiction writing.

📅 Oct. 24, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online

This is the way to do it, technically and on the human level. And I appreciate that @rude1.blacksky.team got a meaningful decision/update together before speaking on this instead of wading into the first wave of confusion.

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

When we asked people to name color tiles, this is the range of colors people called "charteuse," which includes the color you said. So there are certainly some people who agree with you.

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...

This message (and solution) is probably something that is very obvious to many on this app

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

I just noticed we see the same pattern in the misspelled "chartruse" and "chartruese!"

I'll have to update our data cleaning rules later to group those misspellings with "chartreuse."

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...

The English color term people most disagreed on was "puce." Our closest matching label was "idk."

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...

There is only one Mandela effect theory I believe in, and it's not the Sinbad movie or the Berenstein Bears, it's that this was the original color of chartreuse.

When we asked people to name color tiles, this is the range of colors people called "charteuse," which includes the color you said. So there are certainly some people who agree with you.

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...

One of the amazing things about science is we will never run out of mysteries.

Take "Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500", which performed a survey of 10,000 dinosaur fossils for evidence of tumors in the bone.

I was prepared for yes, no, but what I wasn't prepared for was:
"only in hadrosaurs."

Amanda shared already but here’s the post they suspended me for. It’s ~ two weeks old. And let’s be very clear: we don’t actually know why this happened. Was it a reporting brigade? A weird delayed automated mod AI action? The timing is definitely suspicious I can’t lie.

Faine just did an interesting writeup on that, tying it to the old Petz games vs. the Sims

bsky.app/profile/fain...

realizing that the velociraptors in the first movie are pretty clearly engaging in play behavior

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

am very excited about Doll’s appview project. making relays non-archival was the key to making them affordable/easy to scale. Bluesky (the company)’s Bluesky obviously is archival, but for a community to run one cheaply this seems like a great way to keep costs manageable

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

i generally agree it's probably not IDEAL if someone chooses to spend their time treating a chatbot, a virtual pet, or a NPC in a video game badly - I wrote about this recently - but I also think that it is genuinely batshit to act like chatbots are sentient and deserve rights in 2025

but I don't think they are sufficient. and "love it or leave it" messaging doesn't speak to me.

I don't think every day people should need Linux sysadmin skills to form communities or have freedoms online.

This is the key question — and in a lot of ways, this question is *a big reason why Bluesky exists*. Twitter wanted to get out of the business of making calls on both moderation (what you can say) and algorithm (what gets promoted). This was a key motivation for making “an open protocol”…

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

You don’t need to become an expert on AT Protocol, you don’t need to learn to code, but I really do want to impress upon people that “federated social media” is a vitally important concept in a time of global authoritarian and technofeudalist consolidation.

By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...