SO INCREDIBLY PROUD to share 2 HUGE updates:

1) The first baby was born using Orchid technology — and he’s super cute 🥰

2) I tested my own embryos with Orchid — we got SO much information & l feel confident now 🚀

This is the future of how babies will be born!

Last weekend, I gathered with 200+ family, friends, & neighbors to make an announcement.

An announcement rooted in my family's story, and the story of so many immigrant families who moved to the US to seek a better life.

I'm running for the SF Board of Supervisors this Nov! 🧵

President Lula of Brazil has just joined Bluesky. Bem-vindo! 🇧🇷

Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required): bsky.app

I've been helping with Juicebox, an open-source encryption key recovery system that provides high security coupled with a user-friendly design, to make encryption further accessible to larger numbers of people.

Details on how it works: juicebox.xyz/blog/key-to-si…

This is awesome, been waiting for better key management to exist!

The Bluesky user FAQ, now in Portuguese:

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber trib.al/xrvHQjB

Bluesky is built to give users control over their social spaces online.

Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets users collaboratively inspect and label content on the network.

Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent…

this is my dream city

We're hiring a product designer!

We’re excited to announce that Aaron Rodericks has joined Bluesky as our Head of Trust and Safety. Aaron, who has over a decade of experience in defending platforms at global scale, is leading our moderation team in cultivating a healthy space for public conversation on Bluesky.…

didn’t time this with federation, but happened on same day

Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data!

Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters.

bsky.social/about/blog/02-…

Find your favorite artists on Bluesky 🦋

Join Bluesky (no invite code required): bsky.app

The best founders are linguistic codeswitchers, they can speak to room they're in. Check out these 2 very different things from bluesky's Jay Graber 🦋:
1. wired.com/story/bluesky-…
2. protocol.ai/blog/transcrip…

Techcrunch on how custom feeds let users move beyond The Algorithm.

The goal of building algorithmic choice into Bluesky was to let you control your scroll. You can always choose what kind of feed you’re going to get.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/as-…

☺️🦋

a little known secret of bluesky is that coming in with a strong first post sometimes means you can skyrocket out of the Newskies feed onto a bigger feed like Discover

“no one is going to see this” -> 2k likes later, “never have i been proven wrong so thoroughly and so quickly”

Twitter alternative Bluesky shows off custom Super Bowl feeds (both with and without Taylor Swift) tcrn.ch/49rZFgL

This week Bluesky, the Twitter-style social app, threw open the doors for anyone to join. WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more. wired.trib.al/o0ySAtk