Joe Germuska

Read this excellent essay by @beenwrekt.bsky.social In short, forget OpenAI; we need to build open AI. www.argmin.net/p/the-world-...

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

Creatives!! Artists, musicians, writers, game designers, content creators, culture makers and culture experts, members/curators of fandom! Please consider submitting an application to speak as part of the CREATE track at Atmosphere Conf 2027! atmosphereconf.org/speak

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

we're bringing more of the Atmosphere into the app soon. bsky team is cookin!

This was so much fun! So privileged to share a stage with these smart folks.

The public notice and comment process is a fundamental part of American democracy because we have a fundamental right to have a say in the rules and regulations that govern our communities. They are using unproven tech to “make the regulatory process more efficient”

I led the team that was stuck with trying to put this kid’s code into production because they wanted it within our ATO boundary for regulations.gov www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

At #NPASummit and I wanted a grid version of the schedule so here is one if it's useful claude.ai/artifact/DYo...

Google Reader might be dead, but RSS is alive and well. Build your own RSS hub with Tailscale. Read what you want, from any browser, without exposing it to the open web. Build a thing. Escape the algorithms. More on the blog: tailscale.com/blog/self-ho...

Made this website on Friday before hitting the club. Thanks @attie.ai The data you create as you browse online and post on social is used to create a psychological profile of you that drives the bespoke ads you're served. Log in with your handle to see yours. savoring-glossy-papaya.attie.site

Last year I got a little bit carried away with an idea: what if I could generate color palettes for all 11,567 bird species in the world from their descriptions on Wikipedia? The result was Of a Feather, a series of prints celebrating birds, color, and my inability to let an idea go. 📊🪶

Has anyone experienced as much of Chicago’s late-night musical offerings the past few decades as Claudio Velez? I interviewed 16 musicians, DJs, and nightlife workers about the Tamale Guy’s relationship with Chicago music for this Reader oral history.

Interesting to see @eurosky.social pushing forward with tooling for publishers and organizations eurosky.tech/frontpage/ eurosky.tech/mu-studio/

Do govt bans on social media actually help youth? Probably not. Worse, they basically advertise social media as "cool" just when teens are over it. Do teens who want to access these services find ways around it? You betcha. Here are a few thoughts: www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/16/1...

it's funny to me that I just saw @mozilla.org hosted a conversation in a series called "Owners not Renters" which is maybe only streamable from X or LinkedIn? (my bad if my google fu fell short, but i looked a few ways and not even in an old-fashioned podcast AFAICT)

As a big fan of @standard.site I wanted to write down some thoughts on where I think it could improve and grow, highlighting some of the rough edges I have bumped into. I would love to just see this grow! jola.dev/posts/though...

A little more color on our midterms project, and how you can get involved, just published on our @leaflet.pub!

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

very reasonable criticisms of Attie from @zzstoatzz.io half-baked.pckt.blog/thoughts-on-... doesn't change the promise of the protocol

Are you a social scientist using LLMs to simulate human behavior in your work? We'd like to interview you to inform tools we're creating for LLM study planning & validation. Be ready to bring a dataset of LLM simulations you've worked with. 1hr $50 gift card. DM me if interested

This is really interesting in the details but also to see the beginnings of second-order architecture changes in response to llm coding

see also www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1m7...

I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

email alert from @ipums.bsky.social about shenanigans to mess with the 2030 Census. Comments requested by November 2 mailchi.mp/umn/ipums-10...

My concern with this is we'll end up recreating the failed supply-side approach to disinformation while ignoring the far more significant demand side. First is recognising the relationship between institutions, publics, and counterpublics have changed significantly.

Woohoo!! My minicomic as syllabus for my new Comics in Education class is live!! Took forever. I put everything I could into it & thrilled how it all came together. Class is off to a great start & excited for where we're headed! Download/print your own on my site spinweaveandcut.com/comics-in-ed...

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The whistle goblins spun back up so fast it was incredible to witness. We're churning out whistles and can get em to you too. linktr.ee/3dwhistles

I was so sad to hear last night that we’ve lost Lois Kahlert, one half of the immortal duo Dennis and Lois, who spent 50+ years as the greatest rock music fans in New York, Manchester, and anywhere else. Wherever they went, they were with the band—every band.

Calling all newsrooms and journalists: join @graze.social ’s people-powered midterms project. Sign up, volunteer for election night and keep watch as races unfold in every state. Here’s how 🧵 #Midterms #Journalism

ICE has been found to maintain a secret "Agitator Log" database that records interactions with protesters and legal observers in Minneapolis, contradicting agency denials and raising concerns about First Amendment violations.

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

I know this is kind of a cliché, but sometimes I'm sitting here in my living room with my front door open listening to neighbors greet each other on the sidewalk and bugs make bug noises and I read some garbage thing on Facebook about how the place I live is a hellhole and the contrast is absurd

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

The death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination

Still a few more slots in my Data Visualization with Embroidery workshop next 10/15 in the DH Lab at Alexander Library, Rutgers. I'll be preparing supply kits for in person attendees (online attendance is possible too). 🥰 🧵🪡 libcal.rutgers.edu/event/17621114 #criticalmaking #dhmakes

Those who have known me for a while know i have a, um, long history of working on American election coverage, so I'm excited to see this!

We've been surveying journalism professionals working and living in the U.S. and territories. How many have responded? 81. How many do we still need to respond? Hundreds... thousands... more of you. accessiblejournalism.surveymars.com/q/y2hGhFumV

Local journalist @phileil.bsky.social has an op-ed on how a well-known local progressive newspaper has been taken over completely to be AI-written. He offers a fairly balanced take, though unsurprisingly he comes down on the side of the humans. ↵ rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/10/05/c...

Where to even begin. Anthropic wants to "apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible," via crash courses with hand-picked religious thinkers. Why was one of the Jewish representatives an Israeli scholar who's defended autonomous weapons for armies and police?

New analysis from @nbcnews.com shows a persistent paid time-off gap between women and men in the U.S.: Seven million fewer working women receive paid leave. This article breaks down why. [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

On this date in 1977, Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker invented the high five.