Welp, time to unfollow my rep, @trahan.house.gov, since they backed the new KOSA bill. Just a lot of disappointment after seeing that this past week. Sadly, no alternative as they're running unopposed in the primary. I am amused by the unenrolled person running, Ades.

Yeah really. And here in the US, somebody needs to tell the same to members of the Congressional Equality Congress in the House who voted for the anti-LGBTQIA2S+ "KIDS Act" -- and ones in the Senate who have voted for KOSA It's not enough to say"happy Pride." Vote like you really mean it.

It's always lovely to see people supporting the LGBT+ community. Someone needs to tell London Labour Assembly Members who all abstained this week on a motion standing up for trans rights and challenging the EHRC. Why abstain on people's human rights and then "celebrate" Pride?

Moderation is an unsolved problem. Fascism & transphobia prosper in parts of Mastodon. There’s no support to deal with this. The hardest part is funding. It relies on community funding for server costs. There’s also a huge amount of work to be done around the scenes, moderating and fixing problems.

If you pay attention to the news, you'll notice that a disproportionaly large number of the anti-ICE and "antifa" protesters who have been charged by the government are transgender. Talking more than 1/10 for a population that's at most 3/100.

Yep and here’s a good example of where this sort of thing is a regular occurrence vis a vis Black and Latino people. heated.world/p/the-enviro...

Piers Morgan

NEW: Americans are pessimistic about the future. But which actors do they think are having the worst impact on the economy/society? Voters find the most harmful actors to be: 1) Billionaires 2) Corporate landlords 3) Sports gambling 4) Artificial intelligence 5) Cryptocurrency

White people outside US: Wow the US is such a racist place that did horrible things. US Black people: Yeah, no shit. We know that. Have you guys looked into how you treat non-white, Black, and indigenous people in your space? Them: ............ Us: Yeah thought so. 1/

“Responsible use” of LLMs isn’t a thing! On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @savasavasava.myatproto.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me to discuss the problems with AI “harm reduction” frameworks in edtech. Monday, July 6, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute

Meanwhile The Stranger just endorsed a guy who supported Judge Brett Kavanaugh instead of progressive fave @ronpdavis.bsky.social or just the incumbent Gerry Pollet. So weird. This really needs to be the last time The Stranger does endorsements. Tap out. Just do arts, culture, and entertainment.

Do white USians wonder how it feels like for non-white people to live in a country where the President is a full on racist white supremacist? Like where he announces every single day that you are inferior, unintelligent, and need to be eliminated from the country?

Daniel's permissioned data proposal just dropped!! This will be a major upgrade for atproto that enables private groups & communities. Really hope this technical design resonates with people so we can keep moving fast, but please do get your comments in

Thanks Mark @maboa.bsky.social for all your work on getting #AtmosphereConf transcribed along with a read-along interface that highlights words as they are spoken. Mark has done a great job of documenting the pipeline and we'll ask him to write a blog post about it.

NCOSE, one of the main groups pushing KOSA, has been caught citing fake cases in an attempt to shut down legal sex work. Why are Dems like @blumenthal.senate.gov still treating the faith-based, anti-porn group as respectable, reliable legislative partner?

Imagine if every platform you’d ever been on had acted on harm, prioritized/humanized & transparented their backend to demonstrate this level of care for safety in the community. Go, JD. Go Blacksky. Amazing. Im geeking out on that graph. #Trust #Safety #Transparency #Community #SafeFromHarm

Hey everyone! I’m starting a monthly blog about trends in moderation from Blacksky’s Trust and Safety team called: “What’s Happening on My Feed?” The first post: “Putting the Trust back in Trust and Safety” is out now, check it out: whatshappeningonmyfeed.leaflet.pub/3mpont6fedc2z

As long as the mainstream of the party is more concerned with earning plaudits from Republicans for being reasonable they’re going to keep losing over the long term.

Puget Sound is rich in quality progressive media. I've created a BlueSky feed "Puget Sound's Only News" so we can follow them. Stop feeding the reactionary Seattle Times or the defanged Stranger. Details of who's included & support links at bit.ly/4vHTccZ Subscribe via the # or More Feeds links

Forums were (and some of them still are) great -- not because of the jankiness, but despite it. Something forum-like really seems like a potential "killer app" for the Atmosphere, so hopefully the move towards communities and permissioned data will lead to it happening.

Surveillance becomes a part of the landscape when we do not ask ourselves such questions. The good news is that when we do ask them, the landscape can begin to change. globalvoices.org/2026/06/27/w...

Hell yeah we are

Important thread on the 19th's Revolutionary Project 🧵 and recording of related event #America250 #History #Journalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnE...

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

@shreyanjain.net what spelling do you prefer, ATmosphere or Atmosphere? I see it both ways .... you coined it so I'll go with your preference!

#atproto folks - how would something like "Community Notes" work? I'm thinking something akin to a labeller but it's more like something an appview opts into using to "enrich" posts (like sending the AT URI to bullshit-detector.site and then showing it accordingly).

hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.

Really looking forward to this -- starting in just a minute or two. Here's the registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Every year, @huertanix.bsky.social and I do a "Worst of Cybersecurity Reporting" talk at @cactuscon.com. We first roasted 2019 articles and keep getting invited back. We work on this talk all year long, discussing candidates in a shared doc, and we'd love your help.

Outstanding Members. WTP x SWAR x Blacksky Algorithms to the world and back. 🌍 @rellyrebel.bsky.social @dimezcartier.bsky.social

74 examples of dangerous st0ps due to mistakes! "machine errors account for about one-third of the mistakes in the cases @ij.org identified. The rest involved human error, with officers entering wrong information into the system or misinterpreting what the #ALPR data says." #deflock #surveillance

One of the most underrated parts of organizing your community against the surveillance tech being installed in your neighborhoods: The smile it will bring to your face every time you drive past the empty spaces where the Flock cameras were before you annoyed your local officials into submission.

In light of this decision, the federal government should rethink if it can continue to buy Americans' location data without a warrant. I'll keep pushing for black-letter law that would stop the sale of your data to anyone, including the government.

Can someone go back in time and tell confused, bullied, profoundly uncool middle school Evan that one day she’ll play a sold out show with Billy Bragg?

i don't know who on the new york times masthead hates trans/nb/queer people, but i think the public deserves to know who specifically has been calling the shots on what is undeniably a campaign to manufacture consent for their erasure with scientific disinformation.

Medical practitioners should be instructed not to be visibly displeased when patients refuse to be recorded and have their words automatically transcribed. Nor should they insist that the transcription will then be checked by a human. If I refuse consent that should be the end of it.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

@sebastian.eurosky.social @sherif.eurosky.social @robin.berjon.com did you see that @waag.org's move to Eurosky is on Hacker News? The comments are not so good (as is usually the case with HN discussions of the Atmosphere) but any publicity is good publicity news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4873...

Here's Axios's summary of the KIDS Act and KOSA passing the House, highlighting the opposition in the Senate (although for the wrong reasons). As I said in the post at the top of the thread ... www.axios.com/2026/06/29/h...

Unfortunately, it looks like the KIDS Act (including the House's version of KOSA) has passed the House -- I saw a report from @benbrodydc.bsky.social on Xitter that it was 267-117. Disappointing, but not unexpected. Up next: a Senate Commerce Committee markup in mid-July. Stay tuned.

ah good, the Republican Project 2025 was a playbook for rolling out Christofascism and the Democrats have responded with Project 2029, a plan for permanent electoral irrelevance

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

KOSA, the KIDS Act, AI, Bad Internet Bills, and a potential giveaway to big tech -- UPDATED Whatever happens with today's House vote, there's still a long way to go. The battle is likely to go to the end of the year, as it did in 2022 and 2024. thenexusofprivacy.net/kosa-kids-ac...

New NYRA Blog Post Published: "How the KOSA and KIDS Acts will Harm Vulnerable Teenagers" KOSA & the KIDS Act harm vulnerable teenagers by cutting them off from online communities & support systems, and could be used to censor LGBTQ content for minors. www.youthrights.org/how-the-kosa...

An important analysis translated by our friends at @derechosdigitales.org, translated from the original Spanish (¡también disponible!) about the narratives obscuring digital surveillance: globalvoices.org/2026/06/27/w...

The first era of Blacksky was building community. The next era of Blacksky is building coalitions. Blacksky to the world and back. 🌍 @jdot.blacksky.team

Flock also has drone fleets, so folks have that to look forward to as well.

You are regular person you do not have to shrink your political imagination so that it fits into the non existent Dem party policy talking points. Imagine thinking that folks are going to just stop agitating for PIC abolition. It won't happen because it's a longstanding political and social vision.

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i...

Sheri Byrne-Haber's "Giving A Damn About Accessibility" has great tips on how to deal with people who challenge or dismiss the need for accessibility. uxdesign.cc/giving-a-dam...