RIP 🙏

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

I’ll be presenting at #ATScience to reveal a sneak peek of @skysquare.app before release later this spring. Skysquare is a browser extension that lets you see Bluesky conversations about a page directly on the page itself while you read. If you're at the conference, come see it in action 📑 👀

"Your research institute on the Atmosphere", my @atproto.science workshop late Friday pm, before #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, is open for speakers. Would you like to get involved? 🧵 atscience.leaflet.pub/3mfz526irfs2...

For example, how could a Uni aggregate its faculty's use of @semble.so, @margin.at, @skysquare.app & Seams (@sealight.xyz) to tap their collective sensemaking, and then add value to it? Could we aggregate @sill.social feeds to create collective listening? They'll all be present in Vancouver.

#LocalJournalists are sentinels of what’s happening in America. Please follow @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social of the El Paso Times. He has broken multiple stories on CBP/ICE concentration camps including 911 calls logs and disease outbreaks (that are then picked up nationally w/o acknowledgment).

One of the reasons we’re building Skysquare is to restore context to public discourse — because increasingly the conversation happens without anyone reading the source. 👀👇

The agenda for #ATScience is up! Check out the speaker list and full schedule below 👇 The range and quality of proposals we received really exceeded our expectations - thanks to everyone who submitted something! March 27, Vancouver - can't wait to see you there ✨ Sessions include >

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

New blogpost about atproto It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical. www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

What are we doing here? On Bluesky, yes—but social media in general? But also here—in this moment. On this post. Gathering info? Performing identity? Testing an argument? Seeking recognition? Activism? Passing time? As we scroll, are we conscious? Are you asking yourself: What am I doing here?

When we say public discourse, what do we mean? Before social media, there were: —the agora —printed pages —broadcast signals Each had form, structure, limits and affordances. What form does social media impose on discourse—beyond its content? What are we doing when we speak into these systems?

This seems to be a common reply to my thread, so I'll address it here. Basically, the argument is who cares if this is a misleading attack on Newsom, he's bad so if it hurts him it's fine. And I think it's important to push back on misinformation so that when there are legitimate criticisms...

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

joining @danabra.mov fight. let's swap discover to a for you like feed. it allows us to better connect with others. it doesn't work well during boostrap but given the current discover experience for a fresh account, just default to a for you feed seeded with cat pics until there are enough likes

@atproto.science hey guys 👋 we have migrated our handle to @skysquare.app and noticed the ATmosphere 2026 page is still linking to our old .bsky.social handle, which is 404ing. would you mind updating? 🙏🙏 thanks! looking forward to the event! atproto.science/events/atmos...

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

My 70 year old dad, whose favorite band is The Righteous Brothers, just informed me that he enjoyed the Bad Bunny show bc even though he didn’t understand the words, “it seemed like everyone on stage was having a good time!” So there ya go lol.

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

For those of you who: * Feel enraged to watch billionaires destroy important newsrooms and * Recall vaguely that Jeff Bezos was once considered a courageous owner who fortified the Washington Post I recommend this piece by the Post's former fact-checker glennkessler.substack.com/p/a-billiona...

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

The GREAT SUPPRESSION is here. X and TikTok are actively censoring users and throttling profiles in real time. Social media has officially shifted from a toy to a tool, and these platforms are no longer safe or trustworthy. When you do not own the platform, you do not control your voice.

This is at least the 3rd app coming to Vancouver to talk about how ATproto allows users to add social/semantic layer to the web. The potential is immense. Also an interesting overlap with myhub, launched almost 6 years ago. This is going to be So Much Fun.

In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25M to 42M users, we took actions to keep it welcoming, using proactive design to reduce toxic content by 79%.  Our 2025 Transparency Report shares how we're building a safer platform while keeping a transparent and human-centered approach: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

LFG!! @skysquare.app 💪❤️👊

📢 New #ATScience speaker! @simpsontw.bsky.social will present their project @skysquare.app : “Skysquare: context as a service.” Skysquare uses ATProtocol to reattach public discourse to its source, transforming the web into a socially annotated commons 📎

It's not just "the cloud." UC Berkeley professor unpacks the physical cost of digital lives—from real energy use, ecological strain, and labor hidden from view. news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/21/t...

When will the great migration of journalists follow?

"Hundreds of nonprofit local news organizations have sprung up, from Lafayette, La. to New Bedford, Mass. to Chicago. Rather than relying primarily on advertising revenue, nonprofit newsrooms are sustained by coalitions of philanthropic institutions, local businesses, individual donors and readers."

BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph

(🦋) BLUESKY NEWS: The South African Sociopath—everyone knows who I mean—has apparently just made a series of changes to Twitter that launched a new exodus. The per-second growth rate here at BlueSky is now *more than triple* what it was yesterday. So welcome, Twitter refugees! This is *way* better.

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ChatGPT's new image generator explaining our logo for the folks in the back.

Watch this space 👀👀👀

Ever feel like a friend, a culture—or even yourself—is starting to fade into the din of the feed? Each scroll, a little deeper into confirmation bias. Each post, a worldview drifting further from our neighbors. Every reaction, more out of context. Until all that’s left is the echo of who we were...

Ever feel like a friend, a culture—or even yourself—is starting to fade into the din of the feed? Each scroll, a little deeper into confirmation bias. Each post, a worldview drifting further from our neighbors. Every reaction, more out of context. Until all that’s left is the echo of who we were...

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We need the right tech to fight back. "The Chinese government is using companies with expertise in artificial intelligence to monitor and manipulate public opinion, giving it a new weapon in information warfare, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents unearthed by researchers."