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I shared some details on off-the-clock.us, a members-only community container that I've been using to work through atproto spaces, communities, and feeds. More info and screenshots in discourse.

🇨🇦 #BillC22 is now at Senate and it threatens to break Canadian privacy and encryption for good! If enough of us speak up NOW, the Senate will act. Tell senators they need to reform the bill, sign the petition today: 👉 openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky thanks @eff.org for standing for privacy!

You don't have a "Bluesky account". lou.gg/blog/you-don...

The Call for Participation for AT Protocol Devroom at #FOSDEM 2027 is open! 🥳 We invite builders, operators, researchers, skeptics and community members alike, regardless of background and past speaking experience, to submit a talk. More info 👇 discourse.atmosphere.community/t/call-for-p...

If a package manager was going to publish more than just the packages themselves on #atproto, but also notifications and metadata, what would you like to see? New versions, security alerts, deprecations? What else? What if a package published Bluesky or Leaflet posts with change summaries?

It’s pretty great when an 18 year old blog (and blogging platform!) can get integrated with modern standards. Congrats @opensource.google for connecting Blogger to @standard.site

Ontario civic election night is so wild because you find out whatever happened to federal cabinet ministers and tv weather presenters: they’re mayors of towns you’ve never heard of that have populations twice the size of Saskatoon. Ontario is absolutely inscrutable to Western Canada.

Legend has it that there's going to be a robust tech-in-journalism track at Atmosphere 27. A community of hundreds of the most cutting-edge builders and thinkers on the internet will be there. You should probably apply to speak and share your work. Yes, you. atmosphereconf.org/speak

"This blog is about celebrating that friendship" with open source developers. That was our first post in Feb 2008. Today, all 1,557 posts (2008–2026) live in the Atmosphere as verified @standard.site records: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/02/welcome-to-google-open-source-blog.html

TIL: someone has ported English to Rust github.com/Aaryan-Kapoo...

Fun project I've been working on the side for a couple of months now. I quite like cycling, but I hate that I need to sign up for Strava/Komoot just to be able to share routes. In the spirit of rewilding the internet with ATProto, I figured why not build an open alternative? www.attrails.app

🎤 -2 days! Meet our final speaker for DWeb virtual meetup: Wesley Finck 💚 He's a longtime DWebber building Semble, an open social network where you can turn bookmarks into shared knowledge through human curation, not algorithmic feeds. 🌱Join us Wednesday! #DWeb

Oh yeah! Today is the beginning of meeting roulette! BC (where I am) has not changed it's time. Europe / UK has now fallen back as of yesterday. So +8 / +7 from BC. And this coming weekend is North American time change. Where BC will be an hour ahead of PT. My brain hurts already.

The world needs a high-quality, truly open language model. I wrote about why it’s necessary and why it’s easier to build than you might think.

Avi is picking up his boat lift in Venice for Rising Tide Boatworks https://www.risingtideboatworks.com/

hi, i made a screen recorder !!! it's called Screenie and it's out now ❣️ it follows your mouse and zooms where you click, smooths your cursor, has pretty backgrounds, blurs private stuff and a lot more. no account needed and everything stays on your mac <3 try 4 free at screenie.cam

I'm excited that the Elephant Goldfish model project was released to open source this past week and that we got to post about it on the @opensource.google blog. opensource.googleblog.com/2026/10/intr...

New video up! Kind of a follow-on from the last one, because a YouTube comment made me feel bad for the author and I think a lot of people are buying into the mindset that it conveyed. Things wander from there. Cool jackets are mentioned. Next one is a cybersecurity talk. youtu.be/a7gxS7w5gi0

The big question for the next 4 years is "how much do the BC Cons cater to the chud part of their base when governing?" and I don't think anyone knows the answer right now

Crucial points for the months ahead (full alt text in first pic)

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

If the B.C. election result stings for you tonight, remember that this province once forced a majority government to back down on a tax it had just brought in. A new government still answers to the same people who hired it.

Did you know that we gave a lighting talk at DWeb Camp in July? It's a friendly explainer of what Semble is, check it out or share with a curious friend! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsFl...

BC, LOCK IN AND VOTE! POLLS OPEN UNTIL 8PM TODAY!!!!

That’s @internetarchive.eu - thanks for supporting the Atmosphere!

OpenAI constructed an entire shadow internet for model training so they could remove all internet access they asked agents to try to communicate with each other, and they could: via the CPU cache 🤯 openai.com/index/securi...

Coming soon on FreeMix: - spaces (private data) support - playlists and charts - label/org accounts with sub-accounts - video guides and tutorials - faster zip downloads Were just getting started. freemix.fm

Times are challenging. That's a reason to fight even harder — not to make it harder to fight. #BCLab #BCPoli #BCElection

Today I'm finally opening @placita.app to everyone! 🙌🏼 It's a map for the places you want to go and the places you've been. Your places are saved on your own PDS, so they stay yours. Early alpha, so things will break. Tell me when they do 😅 placita.app

WIP Demo of @blackskyweb.xyz Cash. - @interledger.org open payments integration - e-cash stored directly on PDS via permissioned spaces, encrypted, with device enrollment - peer-to-peer (DID2DID) payments made by handle and sent to recipient’s inbox All done on protocol. Spec to be published soon

A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our choices, and make them together. Want to join? https://inference.coop

BC workers have a choice. We can keep building together with a government that sometimes frustrates us, but that we can work with — and where we've made historic progress. 🧵 #BCLab #BCPoli #BCElection

While waiting for anonymous ballot markings, a quick graph on the geography of votes. People can vote at any place they want, but on average people tend to vote close to where they live. GREEN and ABC were the top two parties at every polling place, here is a map of the GREEN vote share advantage.

You can now use @skyreader.app in other clients that support the FreshRSS API like NetNewsWire, Reeder, etc! Works for RSS, newsletters, and @standard.site publications. Subs, read status, and saves all stay in sync. See the docs for getting it set up: docs.skyreader.app/guide/other-...

Some shots from @getdweb.net Camp Berlin where I played music on a wooden staff. Thanks @wesleyfinck.org for finding them! More photos from camp at archive.org/search?query...

Canadian pensions earn 25.8% IRR on domestic VC versus 4.9% abroad, and while Ottawa just opened $1B for growth-stage funds, the Maple 8 pensions still have yet to show up. They're shirking their fiduciary duty if they don't. josephfung.ca/thinking-abo...

This is the most delicious apple pastry I have ever had in this country! Bought a package of six for $7 at VCC’s downtown bakeshop and I regret not buying more. Not overly sweet, a great puff pastry with finely sliced apples, called “Louvres”.

It started with a dream 20 years ago... 10 months of work with a lot of help from the AT Proto community, Bluesky, and friends. FreeMix is live!!! Open to all and all genres welcome. Free to join. I can't wait to see what you create. (oh and some exclusive tracks by me ready to be remixed)

Documenting a @folkcomputer.bsky.social program that's delighted me the last few weeks: + started with @joshuahhh.com asking about programs that can probe the pixels directly from the camera + led to these “marbles runs” + recently @itseieio.bsky.social made a version with nice gravity simulation

Fabric is this weekend! you can still get a ticket luma.com/fabric-2026

🪐 spaces alpha release 🪐 folks, this is the big one! lots of updates across pretty core protocol mechanisms. hopefully the last/only of it's kind (tho we are planning another release next Thurs)

Local-First Conf is back! Mark your calendar for May 25–26, 2027 in Berlin. Join the waitlist and get notified when CFP & tickets go live: www.localfirstconf.com

I'm going to @mozilla.org MozFest in Barcelona, October 28-30. Very excited! I'm going as a developer and community builder: running @atproto.barcelona and building @placita.app, an app on the AT Protocol. If you work on the open social web, let's meet! #MozFest #atproto

This game "Warlock" looks awesome. I know nothing about it, just stumbled onto the trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4yn...

This one goes out to all the #wasm component model enjoyers out there: compile, link and instantiate Wasm components on the web (and non-web runtimes that implement Wasm core) today with this handy Rust polyfill! github.com/dialog-db/wa...

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