Okay I have been avoiding *directly* addressing the Bluesky drama from today but hold on this whole thing about Why subscribing to a blocklist and antagonizing users who are "anti AI", I did not realize, also surrounds that blocklist bot's avatar being a "Studio Ghiblified" slop drawing of the Unabomber and suddenly this whole thing is a whole new level of bizarre and questionable https://bsky.app/profile/antiantiai.bsky.social

Data centers are expensive, unpopular, and could be a tipping point in the midterms https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/g-s1-117729/data-center-disputes-local-midterms

Apparently mastodon.social is being DDoS'ed. I'm not posting about it on the ATmosphere because people are already mad at me on there from yesterday and my attempts to engage on this stuff. But I do think it's interesting that I had no idea all morning that this was happening, and I've been posting and interacting with people quite a bit.

But regarding the "don't gloat about it, the fight isn't actually with each other", I actually agree with that *more* than most fedi people, even though people probably presume I am very anti-ATproto. I'd like to see both systems learn from each other's strengths. It would be great when the ATmosphere could be at the point where a big player is DDoS'ed and other instances don't notice AND it would be great when the fediverse has content addressed storage and portable identity.

I'm not interested in gloating, I'm interested in moving to a place where everyone benefits and we develop a better, more participatory internet for people.

I love when someone mentions their IQ, it means I don't have to talk to them anymore

Nervously watching my computer's temperature hit 95c while on a call with 7 people on a proprietary video platform using my fanless scrappy open hardware mini computer and my audio starts cutting out

"haha must be the wifi"

Well this is truly bad. US national level OS-level age verification bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

The text of it isn't out yet.

There was once a post I saw on Hacker News that said learning Lisp and Haskell was a bad career move. Not because you couldn't use other tools, you could use them with relative ease. But the author said learning them left them bitter when using anything else, because they were forever bitter that they weren't writing Lisp or Haskell.

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/

You know what, I'm trying to comment on this but I just can't think of anything funnier to say than how this is sure to turn out

If you wanted to make high-impact fediverse software, I would recommend making a simple daemon that does the following:

- Consumes RSS/Atom feeds
- Posts them as subscribable feeds over activitypub
- So dead easy you can host it yourself as a simple daemon on your server
- Optionally: collects replies as a comment section with a way to render them inline, a-la disqus, with some simple moderation tools. Simplest way to reduce spam would be to make it approve-only to show up on the feed.

You could extend this to allow posting on other servers etc. But, in other words, let more people use the static site generator they already have

I thought about releasing this recipe to the fediverse but it is too delicious. It will threaten the safety of everyone who tastes it. Even the smell is too dangerous

Everyone I know who uses Haunt to build their websites loves it, and there's good reason for that: it's the static site generator foundation that best understands that a static site generator is a computer program, a function whose input is a pile of blogpost files and whose output is a complete website.

But at the end of the day it's just a computer program, and you should be able to hack that program to make it yours

Use Haunt! https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html