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""Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually want."

"an unflinching reckoning with humanity’s biases and blind spots, our own unstated assumptions and often contradictory goals. A dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, it takes a hard look not only at our technology but at our culture―and finds a story by turns harrowing and hopeful."

Brief description of Bluesky vs. old silos in comic book form

"As many of you know, I’ve been pretty excited about where Bluesky is going as a social media offering, not just because of the people who have been using it (who have mostly been great, making it a fun place to hang out these days), but because of the concepts behind it."

On joining Google back when "don't be evil" really was its guiding principle, and eventually resigning from the company after it had devolved into the usual corporate behemoth chasing the next quarter's stock price.

This post by Christine Miserandino may be the original source of the term.

"I'm going to draw a line through 1930s agitprop, Ronald Reagan, methane-breathing zombie space aliens, the Mozilla logo, Barack Obama and the International Communist Conspiracy. It's a long walk, so please stick with me. Let's start with They Live."

And why SMS messages are more likely to get through. (Short version: They’re async, so the phone or tower can retry later, and they’re momentary, so they don’t tie up a channel like a call would.)
It's an older article. I wonder how well RCS fares under the same circumstances.

"I don’t ever plan to go back to the former Twitter; for my purposes the only thing it’s useful for now is as a honeypot for existing and aspiring fascists. "