Derek Powazek

Came here to say the same.

It is illegal to put someone in an advertisement on a billboard, but it’s legal to use their name and fake their voice in your paid-for product?

I genuinely don’t understand how this is legal.

It has its perks.

Button the goat with his head on my elbow

Button is here too.

Me sitting with my animals. A beer on the chair and a chicken on my foot.

Rain beat me to it. I concede. Drinking beer with chickens instead.

Me trimming the massive laurel hedge: hell yeah this is fun!

Me having to drag all the trimmings away before the rain comes: oh no.

You know a generation is 25 years, right? You’re talking about three generations ago.

Basically I wish Toni luck. I like it here. It’d be nice if the place stuck around.

It’s also notable that WP has a revenue model that they ruthlessly optimize and bsky hasn’t even attempted to have one yet. Going from zero to something is real different than tweaking what’s already going.

It’s an interesting comparison because WP is the decentralized social platform that Bluesky kind of wishes it was.

The trick is that WP really has almost no center (I know because I led the WP Reader team for a while). But Bluesky is *all* center right now, and that’s a very different thing!

It’s an interesting comparison because WP is the decentralized social platform that Bluesky kind of wishes it was.

The trick is that WP really has no center at all (I know because I worked on Reader and nobody used it). But Bluesky is all center right now, and that’s real different!

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cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Not a lot of people can do that job, and I hope they’re looking outside their usual VC circles.

Well apparently the new guy is just interim until they can hire someone for the position.

Bluesky deserves a CEO (and board) that understands it’s building a community company, which is different from an open protocol, and requires different things.

A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

The subtext I’m reading here is that Jay was always in this for the protocol stuff and not interested in running an actual community company, which showed in her work and her interactions here, so she invented a role where she could focus on that and left the CEO position. Which … good?

I like to leave these on the fence as a warning to the other plants.

Equality doesn’t have exceptions - that’s what makes it equal.

(Also bonus points to whoever decided to use the photo of Gavin making a jerk off motion for this story.)

I genuinely wonder who would want that thankless job.

It really is

They just want everyone to eat

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Huh.
www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

I'm a glutton for punishment, apparently.

All day, every day.

*goats

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Social media addiction isn't real, but AI psychosis is.
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Strap Brian Kilmeade to the bow and go for it.