Ace: aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
CBD: cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com
joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com
J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com
Jay Guevara 2025 Jim Sunk New Dawn 2025
Jewells45 2025 Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024
Captain Hate 2023
moon_over_vermont 2023
westminsterdogshow 2023
Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022 Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022 OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published.
Contact OrangeEnt for info: maildrop62 at proton dot me
Bluesky was an interesting attempt at redesigning the core architecture of Twitter, but had no natural userbase until Trump won the 2024 election, whereupon the craziest people on Twitter departed en masse all at once and created Bluesky accounts.
That gave the site a massive boost in user numbers but at the same time a massive headache, because suddenly its users were overwhelming screamingly insane leftists with all the problems that come with them.
For roughly a decade, Twitter hosted what is lightheartedly called the "national conversation" on issues of the day, particularly social justice and public health. Twitter never had that many users, compared with Instagram or Facebook. But it had a big group of influential users - politicians, policymakers, journalists and academics, all of whom were engaged in a 24/7 conversation about politics and current events.
Mostly leftists, often far left, but at least, at the time, paying lip service to civility and rationality. Those days are far behind us.
That's what they're trying to regain, but the more they tighten their grip, the more star systems slip through their fingers.
That was a boon to progressives, who wielded outsize influence on the platform because they were early adopters who outnumbered the conservatives. They were also better organized and better networked, and had the sympathy of Twitter's professional-class employees, who proved increasingly susceptible to liberals' demands for tighter moderation policies on things such as using male pronouns to refer to a transgender woman.
Translation: Stalinists policing speech.
It's not surprising that progressives want to return to the good old days. But it's not working, and I'm skeptical it ever will.
Those were the days, my friend. Thought they would never end.
Something similar has happened on Bluesky. The nasty fringe has become even nastier: A Bluesky technical adviser recently felt the need to clarify that "The 'let's tell anyone we don't like to kill themselves' crowd are not welcome here" because left-wing trolls kept urging people who disagreed with them to commit suicide. And without the leavening influence of their opponents, Bluesky discourse appears even more censorious and doctrinaire than what progressives were saying on old Twitter.
Jesse Singal, call your office.
Oh yeah, the key point: Bluesky activity is down 50% since November; it's in a death spiral and there's likely no way out.
Nothing announced officially yet. But it will at least not be significantly hampered by only having 8GB of RAM because it won't be fast enough to need more than that.
This has up to 2TB per second of bandwidth per stack, with each stack providing 36GB of memory.
Both of those numbers are what is currently described as "a lot". Nvidia's RTX 5090 has 32GB of RAM and 1.8TB per second of bandwidth across sixteen GDDR7 chips, so packing more of each into a single device is quite attractive to high-end hardware designers.
I had to block a bunch of these today, not just Google but Amazon and Alibaba as well, incessantly spraying redundant and nonsensical requests at my servers.
Time perhaps to take another look at Nepenthes, which is designed to derail AI web crawlers and fill them with garbage.
"It's just another example of how innovation technology is coming into service of our partners and making sure that we're doing all we can to simplify the operations, make their jobs just a little bit easier, maybe a little bit more fun, so that they can do what they do best," Starbucks Chief Technology Officer Deb Hall Lefevre told CNBC.
This has upset the Stalinists infesting - well, pretty much everything including these days The Register - because they love discrimination, bigotry, and hatred.
But Xlibre works and the main competitor - Wayland - kind of doesn't.