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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1h

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 2h

In Amsterdam this weekend? Come join us for drinks and games!

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 4h

My entry for the @nordcraft.com bad UX date picker challenge. Drag the Earth around the sun to pick the date. Bad, enough for you @whitep4nth3r.com?

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Just about to start the cross London dash

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

It'll be a rush, but I should still make it to my Eurostar 😬

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Sign of the times that not one journalist has demanded that she sing them to the tune of New Rules by Dua Lipa

Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Oh mate

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

I have such a bad idea for this, but it would be a ton of work

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Not the best start to my journey to @viteconf.org

A series of push notifications showing increased delays to my train. Now at 24 mins

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Borough Market has definitely fit that description since the early 2000s, if not the late 90s.

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Bluesky devs aren't public figures

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

I'm not talking about posts like that. I'm talking about random, unrelated posts from different Bluesky employees.

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

This is what I'm getting at. I don't think saying something positive about AI is undermining the community

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Yes. Saying something you disagree with is not the same as saying something hateful, and telling someone to fuck off for it *is* toxicity.

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Ok, I disagree but think it's fine to believe that. The problem is that I often see people replying to a post about AI in the same way they would if that post was itself racist, transphobic or similar. That to me seems seriously disproportionate, and an example of toxicity here.

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

So do you believe that saying something positive about AI makes a person evil per se, or just that those people are inevitably evil in some separate way?

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

The fact that there are people who consider that saying something positive about AI makes a person evil does explain a lot

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Depends if you consider being a Bluesky employee or saying something positive about AI to be something terrible

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Same, and same. Great tool

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Yes, this is a technical thing. Account moderation is at the AppView level, and Blacksky still uses the Bluesky AppView (though I believe they are planning to move to their own)

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 1d

Yeah. For me it tips it from "wtf that doesn't even deserve flagging" to at least understanding where they're coming from.

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 2d

Missing some pretty important context there

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 2d

Ok, so if you click through the link at the bottom there in PDSls, it's apparently been a quote-post of this post by Jay: bsky.app/profile/did:... - which… I guess makes this look a bit worse (as in: I can see how a mod could have interpreted this in a more negative way)

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 2d

Ohh, this way… yeah I'd need to see the context

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 2d

I agreed at first when I read that, but it seems there is very important context missing. It's quoting a post by Jay alongside a picture of Charlie Kirk moments before he's shot, with an alt text that says "negative consequences" (from Jay's post). I can see how it could be interpreted as a threat.

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 2d

Ok, so if you click through the link at the bottom there in PDSls, it's apparently been a quote-post of this post by Jay: bsky.app/profile/did:... - which… I guess makes this look a bit worse (as in: I can see how a mod could have interpreted this in a more negative way)

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 2d

Ohh, this way… yeah I'd need to see the context

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 2d

I was surpised to learn that people with aphantasia don't seem to suffer any ill effects from it in terms of other abilities, so maybe the same applies to AI

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Matt Kane at ViteConf 🇳🇱 @mk.gg · 2d

You should try spaced en dashes – preferred British usage, and not used by LLMs.

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