First AI is gonna write laws, then we are going to use them to vote on the laws, and hell we are probably already using it to enforce them.

To be fair, had they written the bill without AI, it still would’ve done little to help renters.

Inequality is one hell of a drug, isn’t it? What would the average politician know about renting anything, let alone the home they most often own.

Legislation going this hard to write bills that only benefits them shows how little they care about the public’s interests.

“AI Writes Useless Bill That Is Equally In Quality To Useless Bills Human Politicians Write”

“We want life to be great for everyone here, but don’t you dare spend a Federal cent or pass a law helping anyone!”

Help the average person?

Anything Zuckerberg is actively bad for you.

When I open the app, it’s a wall of influencers and brands posting the most boring things possible. What gets engagement on Instagram (people being hot) doesn’t make for good content on a text-based app (being smart or funny). They really need to change the algorithm to serve up good content, not content from people…

Yeah, looks like *most* people got that 😏

My general point is that Threads feels exactly like Instagram, which I’d guess is by design. People who love Instagram are going to love Threads because it pushes the kind of Content™ they’re used to and love being Influenced™ by. It’s fine, different people have different tastes; lots of people love Zaslavian reality…

That’s fair. It’s got a very Linux-y vibe to it, and those are the kinds of folks who tend to be totally cool with handling things themselves.

And again, to you Threads may feel “dull, corporate, soulless (yet Nazi-and-transphobe-friendly) influencer-and-brand centric” but that’s not necessarily everyone’s experience, just like how Twitter being a far-right hellhole was not a universal experience either.

In my experience Mastodon gets a pass because most people who care about it enough to still use it are those who basically just really really really believe in it, and are perfectly fine with its particular way of working.

Again, I’m absolutely willing to believe that Bluesky is awesome, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s not available to 99% of people out there. Maybe 98%. All I know is that the only person I followed on Twitter who got on Bluesky is a semi big name (big name in a particular subsegment of a mainly Anglophone…

It’s kind of wild that Jack F. Dorsey is the lesser of the three evils that’s running these things. Talk about damning with faint praise.

I signed up for a Bluesky invite the moment the option became available. That was how many months ago? And I not only haven’t received an invite yet, I didn’t even receive a stupid automatic “your address was registered” confirmation email! After waiting for a couple of months I thought OK, maybe there was a bug or…

Remember the era when FB’s membership was restricted to those who were in school and the big social media sites of the day were places like MySpace? On MySpace, spammers had started taking over the place, and no matter how loudly we screamed that something needed to be done about the spammers, the folks at MySpace…

Looking forward to trying it out. Haven’t gotten an invite yet. I’ll be curious to see if I can use my already purchased Namecheap domain in combination...cause that would be tremendously convenient.

As a piece of software, Bluesky is fine. Its creators are trying, and they’re getting somewhere. Good features are coming in. As a platform, Bluesky is questionable - its philosophies on moderation seem surprisingly naïve for something formed out of Twitter.