T.W. Simpson
@simpsontw
Now building @skysquare.app, Semiological Guerrilla Warrior doing Industrial Semiotics @symbolscape.com. Find me somewhere between California & Taiwan. Exploring narrative, culture, and the architecture of the public discourse. Protocols, not platforms.
The answer to weaponized openness isn’t defensive closure, but better offensive openness. Instead of limiting visas, fund censorship circumvention and make systems like ATProto accessible inside China. Less flailing, reactive defensiveness; more strategic offense. Draw a circle that takes them in...
An example of how I'm using @skysquare.app: yesterday I read and shared this article. Today I came back and found other people had noticed it too, including @johntreynolds.bsky.social and @shawnsie.bsky.social. Shawn even shared the same quote I did. Naturally, I followed them both. 👋 guys!
👀👀👀 Interesting phenomenon today in the world of agentic coding with @anthropic.com Claude Opus 4.7 👀👀👀
This Memorial Day, I’ve been thinking about my grandpa Earl, who enlisted in the Army immediately after Pearl Harbor was attacked. He used to tell me that the young men he knew were all doing the same—not because anyone forced them to, but because there was a deep sense of moral clarity...
Sneak peek and status update on @skysquare.app. Now about halfway through migration to TAP using a full PDS backfill to Bluesky day one. This snapshot shows the shared URL distribution across the most discursive cross-section of Bluesky users —effectively a map of where collective attention...
Friends, we delayed the private release to do this right. Moving from Jetstream to TAP gives us access to the full historical graph of the network. Skysquare will be much more useful for historical research and trend analysis. Major milestone hit today. The plan is coming together. 🤙 Sign up at 👇
Rack is in the sous vide. Thanks for the recipe @kenjilopezalt.bsky.social! Using these cool tea towels I got in Vancouver on my way home from #AtmosphereConf to help insulate the cook. Happy #Easter to everyone who celebrates. Hope you are surrounded by good food, friends and family this day 🙏
Hot take: Derrida is more important than most famous computer scientists for understanding AI. Here’s why. 🧵👇
Heads up y'all, Gavin Newsom is making a primetime speech right now. x.com/GavinNewsom/...