venki

I was quite excited to read about web hosting and curious why being an introvert mattered

unfortunate how dunked-upon this post is, and that Noah & Nate Silver critiquing Bluesky in this manner are reasonably accurate.

Bluesky seemed like a really awesome experiment in open social media ecosystems, but ultimately has ended up primarily being a lefty Gab/Truth Social?

Yeah my related "society is immutable, technology is mutable" take here is that we'll see eg: self-driving Waymo buses, or some other tech solution that rebrands buses w/ additional conveniences, and that'll probably be a cheap, low-congestion transit solution.

concerning

jorber detected

not moots & not a designer, but im a good eng on sabbatical if you wanna try to hack together someday!

i'd really really love to see this for bsky someday
the open ecosystem really makes this feel like it'd make more sense

Will Bluesky’s daily posters exceed 2 million in 2025? 26% chance. Background: Bluesky’s daily posters briefly peaked at 1.5M during the election, dropping now to 600K. Will it hit 2M in 2025? Resolves based on data from: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats In...

Will it cross 2M?

manifold.markets/venki/will-b...

Will Bluesky’s daily posters exceed 1 million again in 2025? 41% chance. Background: Bluesky’s daily posters briefly peaked at 1.5M during the election, dropping now to 600K. Will it exceed 1M again, between June and December 2025? Resolves based on data from:...

Bluesky’s ATH daily active posters is 1.5M. It’s around 600k rn.

Will it cross 1M again this year?

manifold.markets/venki/will-b...

good social media platform
sora.chatgpt.com/explore/top

building a small free product that lets you know when ChatGPT scrapes your website to use in a conversation.

if you have a website & would want to beta test it, lmk

on the dev side:
bsky.app/profile/venk...

oh no...

More Drowning Children ...

More Drowning Children

would be cool to have a screen which uses an images-only firehose.
maybe hard to find the bandwidth for it tho?

everything is $/MTok if you squint at it

that's right im a freelance, unpaid, documentation writer now

merry christmas beskies

Surprised that this is getting dunked on, I thought Bluesky leaned further left.

i'll give it to the next person

GitHub - venkr/logpup: Lightweight instrumentation for personal projects and apps with 1-1000 users Lightweight instrumentation for personal projects and apps with 1-1000 users - venkr/logpup

:)

github.com/venkr/logpup

One reason: The American Medical Association limits the number of new medical staff we can train each year, causing a shortage of doctors & raising labor costs.

blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/a...

Easy to imagine an alt world where doctors make less + medical school costs less.

Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.

Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system

good post, incisive as usual from eury!

tbh - after meeting you: less queer coded than i expected given this skeet!

cam -> sf when? :)

pretty wild
we have only half as many cows as 100 years ago because they each produce 6x as much milk!

Specifically, that there was a belief until the 2010s that tech was bringing liberty & democracy to the world.

Now, the all you can say is that it’s bringing growth - which does feel more R-aligned.