David Cornelson

We desperately need Gen Z to run for office. Millennials have failed us.

But that’s never been the point. The military industrial complex requires regular feeding.

My 24yo was never comfortable with ride sharing until she could order women driven Ubers. Now she loves it.

Hey #poker friends. Up vote my beta testing announcement on Hacker News.

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#startups

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

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.

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.

More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Obama encouraged Bush to bail out the banks and that just gave Wall Street and the banks immunity from consequences of bad financial practices.

Yes. Grant wanted to take over the south and wipe out slavery support and enforce unification.

Lincoln wanted to be forgiving.

Every single political victory from winning the war was unraveled immediately.

You can’t expect horrible people to stop being horrible.

I was in Grant Park in 2008. It’s shocking how far we’ve fallen.

White grievances were clearly upended by the election of a black man and Trump was in the right moment of history to capitalize on those emotions.

I sent an email too.

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

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I just don’t see that happening. The atproto protocol is open source and is currently forked over 800 times. Bluesky management theoretically could try to enshitify it, but a new app would pop up and I’m certain half the bsky team would revolt to said new app. This is exactly why Jack hates it.

The irony of Jack launching Bluesky with J and then dismissing it and hating it is hilarious. He actually believed that people wanted assholes in their timeline all the time.

So far corporate America has shown no interest in Bluesky at all and given the way there’s no algorithm or the ability to go viral. I don’t see that changing.

I think the thing that a lot of people may misunderstand about Bluesky and the network it sits on is that Bluesky doesn’t own the network. Any other person or entity could create a whole other app that ignored ads.

This is possible, but I doubt they’ll be in a timeline. Maybe the first spot and then no more.

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VCs have been involved from the start. Jay picked a temporary successor that understands open systems. It’s going to be fine.

Even when the llm makes mistakes, hallucinates, and I gotta redo a set of work, it’s still 100x faster. Code is now ephemeral. Guardrails will be the new coin.

No one need ever read code again. You will just replace it. Code is now ephemeral.

This is how I access Bluesky

They gave SFA a second season? But it’s complete trash.

It’s up $.80-$1.00 in the Chicago area since last week.

Hardee’s once had the best fried chicken. Mid 90’s.

And yet we still have idiots blaming Harris and Biden for withholding their vote.

Solo Stove choices.

Which one?

See Thomas Covenant and Arithon from Wars of Light and Shadow.

Two prime examples of this.

It’s the small unwatched moments when they reveal their heroism.

Well I still think they were naive, but also had/have every right to be livid at the U.S. and Israel allies.

As they say, all politics are local.