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Every user AND non-user of "AI" on this website with strong feelings about it is falling right into the hands of the fascists pushing the tech on us. Infighting about LLMs on the left IS THE POINT of nation-state & corp oligarch mass manipulation on social media. So we fight each other, not them.

@ricardo.bsky.social Me, a few seconds ago.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The W3C TAG has published the Group Note: User Agents www.w3.org/TR/user-agen... It describes what makes software a user agent, and the duties a user agent owes to the user: protection, honesty, and loyalty. Feedback welcome: github.com/w3ctag/user-...

⏰ Last call! Applications close TODAY at 6 pm ET. We're looking for community organizations in NYC and Upstate New York to help bring local Latino voices into conversations about #AI. 👇 Details and application below. forms.superbloom.design/s/cmuleocg40... #community #EspañolLatino #civictech

I *may* have over-engineered this shadow designer just a touch but gawwwddamn, she pretty. #Lumen for #CSS → lumen.renderg.host

super cool. i think #booksky will be excited about this

10/10, fantastic post 🤣🤣

@trezy.codes @rpg.actor Do either of you know if there's like, a sound design community or something? With libraries?

The final part of “The Metric is not the Mission: After the Platform Age”, is out.The question is no longer what comes after Big Tech, but whether the future of the internet can be built around a different distribution of power! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 Cc @masnick.com

I still maintain that AT Protocol labellers won't be useful until we have labeller declarations that aren't tied to Bluesky and do declare what collections they operate over (what collections do they consume, what collections they label, etc)

@reams.ink here's the oauth flow error I run into when trying to log in.

Introducing #Assemblage 🧡 Add @semble.so cards and collections and @margin.at annotations to an infinite canvas, draw connections between them to create context, expand your understanding and see the bigger picture! → assemblage.renderg.host #ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin 🧶

Not that I want to get rid of http, but anyone else notice we could create a parallel web using webtil.es and a browser extension that turns records into ways to surface webtiles that read them and basically pages and apps live as records and read records and everything is local first & no servers?

Look at the time! The midterms are just 14 days away, and we have some *great* ways for you to get involved, and *make* the news instead of just consume it. First, sign up here to help moderate any of the 53 feeds we're providing to cover the election night:

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@lou.gg I actually haven't been able to post in @colibri.social chat rooms for a few weeks. Thought it was oauth weirdness on my phone, but my texts all show up grey and I keep getting errors about not being able to mark things as read. Not sure if the new version will fix or not, but wanted to name

I want other projects to learn & avoid what's been happening to WordPress .org The .org has been used as a point of control and not in a positive way over the last few years especially. Worth a read about accessibility too:

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I can't get over how happy this photo makes me! Ten (from Singapore) and David (from Ireland) have been responding to my newsletter coding questions for YEARS and realized they were both in Japan while answering this past week, and met up! I *love* seeing these kinds of connections happen!

We have a hard time conceptualizing the difference between a "I want to code this in my spare time and make something that's fun for me and others" or "I want to build a community project" or "I want to build a product" or "I want to build a startup" and it fucks us all up at many different levels

Inexplicably, out of all yall, @fettstorch.dev is the first atproto dev to make it into my dreams, commenting on augmented reality @mustardnotes.com annotations I was leaving places while hovering and flying through office buildings. 😴 What does it meeeaaaaaaaan? 🤔

For the past year, I've been working hard on HappyView. I've built so many features, and there are now hundreds of apps built on top of it. It's been a long, winding ride, and I've loved every minute of it. #atproto

Local opposition is one way to rein in a data center project. Taking them to court is another. This week @marthadark.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to talk about challenging data centers in court, including over local impacts and environmental harm. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/350_...

It can't be understated how this is the kind of project that fits a creator driven growth strategy for the atmosphere. Embracing and extending big platforms is the play here. Not asking people to switch. That'll naturally happen if we build the better more integrated ecosystem.

The goal for tomorrow’s No Kings Day is to make it clear that We The People won’t let the fascists sabotage the midterms. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

I’m still so bullish on atproto 🤷🏻‍♀️😤 Bluesky so quickly got compared to billion-user systems that it’s framed as if it’s struggling When actually it’s the breakout success of a generation of decentralized social protocols.

New @skyreader.app feature: you can now save and read PDFs/EPUBs! PDFs can be viewed in their original layout or with text reflow when supported (great for mobile). EPUBs display by default in paged mode and look great everywhere. Highlighting and notes work great for both.

Mapquest continuing their anti-authoritarian arc

We’re opening VoxPort remote recording to a small group of podcasters first, about 20 people. If you record interviews or co-hosted shows and want to help shape it, reply or DM us.🎙️

@lou.gg Event guru?

Who's got a launch coming up in the next 2-3 weeks? Asking for friends, because timing. (Me and you. We're the friends.)

Read our full project introduction by @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team here community.interledger.org/kayblackskya...

excited to announce that we've been accepted into the @interledger.org 2026 Open Payments Accelerator Cohort we're building native payment infrastructure for @atproto.com to enable peer-to-peer payments for mutual aid and community support

excited to announce that @blackskyweb.xyz was accepted into the @interledger.org 2026 Open Payments Accelerator Cohort we're building native payment infrastructure for @atproto.com to enable peer-to-peer payments for mutual aid and community support

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/captaincalliope.at Coworking and collaboration stream. Today's foci: app dev then ecosystem + economic development in the Atmosphere! Taking music requests!

@comail.at Hey! How's the email relay performing? We had an issue where an email from a regular email account went to spam and I'm wondering how y'alls infra is doing dependability-wise. /cc @taurean.bryant.land @doriantaylor.com

"AI is DYING, sharpie tens of unethical conpanies are going under after failing to steal money from actual industries that could help the human race and you're LAUGHING about it?" yes. yes, i am. it literally fuels me. 😇

Going to be livestreaming a bunch today. Coworking earlier in the day, more office hours and conversations later in the day. My big overarching task for the day: figuring out all the ways I can ask for help on things I'm working on and supporting others in doing the same. We're stronger together.

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

@trezy.codes hey! Im working on a project thats almost entirely going to be on permissioned spaces. Im wondering if you'd be down to help me figure it out/set it up? And perhaps on livestream?

If you use Signal on Android and if you really care about privacy, here are 3 default app settings that you should fix *TODAY* https://alecmuffett.com/article/167611 #android #privacy #security #signal