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@charlebois.info
internet explorateur @oueb.social et autres aventures à montréal @xx-c.art ? agentic interfaces for social protocols
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This is well worth a read for anyone involved in AI things: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/m...
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as a little pre-show surprise, here's an early draft of the permissioned data proposal! github.com/bluesky-soci...
Don't forget, @dholms.at is joining us for the livestream TOMORROW for a permissioned data AMA.
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Friend of Hypha, Zeke Williams, just released an important paper explaining how Big Tech's influence is driving irresponsible AI development, and charting a course towards alternative, more equitable, models of development. Check it out!
1/7 Proud to share our paper, accepted as an oral at ICML '26! We highlight how Big Tech’s influence on AI R&D drives damaging outcomes, and what we as researchers can do about it. We also discuss underlying economic causes. See link for paper, and below for a brief summary arxiv.org/abs/2512.03077
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Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team
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New report: Can Canadian co-operatives build and own their own AI infrastructure? We looked at the technical, financial, and market feasibility and found a viable path forward. The Canadian Solidarity Stack is out now.
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The new episode of Future Mending Radio is about a worker coop in Toronto -- @hypha.coop -- that is implementing image verification technologies for journalists. www.buzzsprout.com/2396702/epis...
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decided it works fine & i'll save design iteration for later link your eth wallet at the link below, or send to existing user at atpay.stellz.club/send. should work with most wallets, contract wallets may have verification issues due to public rpc node rate limiting. i'm working on solving this
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Something awesome about Bluesky: 1. I see a post I'd like to load in my agent. 2. "wouldn't it be nice if I could give it the atproto link?" 3. Wait, markdown would be better, let's try renaming the domain to bsky.md on the off-chance… 4. It works 🤯
May 14 You'll find me at://montréal meetup showing some of @hypha.coop's work. Venez voir ça!
Rejoignez le premier meetup des enthousiastes d'Atproto à Montréal le 14 mai ! / Join us for the first meetup of Atproto enthusiasts in Montreal on May 14th!
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Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust. Vouching is live on Tangled! 🎭 blog.tangled.org/vouching/
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two upcoming javascript proposals i'm really excited about: - module declarations will let you define multiple javascript modules inline within a single file (github.com/tc39/proposa...) - module expressions will let you create workers without requiring a separate file (github.com/tc39/proposa...)
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Okay, it’s here! pdscheck.dev is LIVE!!! Thanks to @bad-example.com and @pds.dad for all their work on debug.hose.cam, and thanks to Claude for doing most of the heavy lifting. License is CC0 with an MIT fallback, and source is at tangled.org/chaosgreml.in/pdscheck, PRs OH SO WELCOME!
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🎥 I thought this was a phenomenal film. So relevant for making sense of the unraveling world order, and what we can do to resist "the machine". Amy Goodman is heroic and inspiring.
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🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️
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Replying to @distributed.camp
So what happens when people can build their own software AND define their interface? What I said then and said now remains. The value then shifts from the developed experience to high quality data feeds. Right now people are hand-wringing about LLM-generated 'production' code. It's too late.
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Pollen is now available! If you thought our talk was cool, try the demo for yourself: nectar.hypha.coop Or read the blog post I wrote to understand how and why it works: hypha.coop/dripline/pol...
Our Pollen browser extension is now live on Chrome and Firefox! It's an experimental tool for adding "claims" to images on Bluesky (commentary, provenance, facts) directly attached to the image content itself. nectar.hypha.coop
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alright protocol devs, some wonky bits: we revisited the recent service auth JWT harmonization proposal, and have a revision up that sticks with a single string 'aud' field. also touches on issuer 'kid', and makes 'lxm' mandatory for XRPC endpoints.
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My answer to this isn't technical, it's about power dynamics. Your PDS is the server that puts your data on the internet. You've never needed to think about that because your data has always been on Facebook or Google or Amazon's servers. We're doing the same thing, but billionaire-proofing it.
How do you explain what “my atproto” means though? This is different from email in that it actively defies decades of implicit learning people have done about how the internet works, and it’s not one service w an easy analogy (mail)
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Our Pollen browser extension is now live on Chrome and Firefox! It's an experimental tool for adding "claims" to images on Bluesky (commentary, provenance, facts) directly attached to the image content itself. nectar.hypha.coop
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Lovely to see @couleurs.bsky.social getting some appreciation. Thanks @finest.day!
That's just the kind of thing I love. 💜 “The colors of the sky over Montréal.” @couleurs.bsky.social, by @charlebois.info. thegoodwork.blog/posts/la-cou... #art #photography #sky #journal #blogging #writing #montreal
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Writing about attested.network, an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol. It builds on what we learned making atprotofans.com. Draft is up and feedback is welcome.
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Anyone looking for a breath of fresh air in the Atmosphere should try @anisota.net by @dame.is and @hypha.coop's spores.garden. It's a wonderful calming experience. Everyone else, of course, too. 🌿 thegoodwork.blog/posts/planti...
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Written media, from this bluesky post to the front page of the Toronto Star, will soon be consumed primarily via AI mediators. We believe this can be a time of great opportunity for media publishers, so we put together this short survey of the evolving landscape to help you navigate the moment.
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@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more. Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/
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Custom feeds are the singular theory of action for growing the open social web and reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy. I don't have all the answers, but the future of social is becoming clearer everyday. jshaked.leaflet.pub/3mhqtyaufyc26
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Replying to @norvid-studies.bsky.social
Best explanation is here TLDR; curate a personal website from your ATProto data. Collect spores and plant some flowers.
You're invited to visit my garden and steal all my special spores. spores.garden/charlebois.i...
good spore explainer for all gardeners in the atmosphere
When spores.garden generates your theme, it also determines if you get a special spore✨. It will be displayed in your garden to start, but other gardeners can steal it, enabling it to travel throughout the network of gardens! Can you find any spores in the wild?
If you’ve been wondering what spores.garden is, this one’s for you.
Not a blog, not a website builder, not a social media. Spores.garden is a cozy place to highlight whatever is important to YOU. Write new posts, share images, and bring together your ideas from across the Atmosphere by editing and adding new sections to your garden.
Thanks to @literaryarsonist.press for this new spores.garden feature that enables adding posts to your garden by simply pasting their URL. You can see this very post blooming at the top of my garden: spores.garden/@charlebois....
Your garden renders beautifully on Bluesky now. Also, there’s a spore in my garden with your name on it. https://spores.garden/@charlebois.info
can't wait to explore your gardens
We built you a garden! Spores.garden is a personal site where you can curate your thoughts and explore other people’s gardens by following a trail of digital flowers. We’re still building and adding to it, so let us know what you like and what features you’d want to see!