i made a retro TV that lets you channel-surf through the talks 📺 atmosphereconf-tv.btao.org source: tangled.org/btao.org/atm...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

If you follow the links in this you get to a Daily Mail article that makes it clear the knives are OUT for Miller, and you know what? Good. I hope Trump gets to see that guy go to prison before he dies and understands what his legacy is and how he'll be remembered.

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

I joined @kgosztola.bsky.social for this conversation exploring how financial access can be a tool to punish journalists who challenge powerful interests. Check it out and subscribe to Kevin's newsletter.

thoughtful people can use AI to do thoughtful, meaningful work. this is an excellent post by @blaine.bsky.social AI is just a tool. "social value does not emerge from technology. It emerges from people — real, local, invested participants who curate, organize, and care for their communities."

If you want to decompress from a busy @atmosphereconf.org take some time to listen to the calming music of 2n.hilk.eu, I think the first atproto music composition. You can listen on your own, or join a second person to experience the richer version. Close your eyes and take some rest ☺️

This kind of creativity—everywhere at #ATmosphereConf —reminds me of early days of RSS & the more open Twitter API — badges are especially cool: eg now someone could post albums of photos private to conference attendees or give them beta app access. And BlueSky couldn't turn it off if they wanted

What is Technofascism? This concept keeps circulating but what does it actually mean? I'm testing out a tentative definition and would love to hear feedback on it. medium.com/data-feminis...

"culture has increasingly ceded authority to systems that mistake information for understanding and speed for judgment."

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

This #ATmosphereConf talk from @dame.is is just a treat. I love their expansive vision of a diverse future ecology of applications -- "the everything ecosystem" rather than "the everything app" (check out their unique anisota.net client)

I was bummed to not share the stage with @werd.io but I'm happy we worked his voice into the deck. Also really good questions from the audience. The energy at #ATmosphereConf has been great and so cool to have a bunch of sessions on journalism and media. Let's build things together!

Hey #atmosphereconf we just proved that the right feed algorithms can reduce political polarization. And now we're building open-source recommender infrastructure that you can use for your ATProto app. rankingchallenge.substack.com/p/its-possib...

What may be the most heartening part of #AtmosphereConf, besides the community, is that it's a *technical* conference at which people present on politics, authoritarianism, epistemic challenges (in the opening keynote!). Because, for technologists, *that's* the job.

another good nugget from #ATmosphere conf delivered by @eclecticcapital.bsky.social: ATProtocol could offer "open enough to scale, closed enough to mean something" ‘the successful outcomes will look more like "guilds" and "collectives" than traditional startups’

Among the many brilliant bits of @kissane.myatproto.social 's #ATmosphereConf talk: could we develop “cognitive and emotional traffic calming” (much inspired by kelp ecosystems)

Two Parties, Two Internets: Republicans and Democrats aren’t just messaging differently, they’re talking in entirely different places dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/two-partie...

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/robe...

Women and people of color can risk their lives in Trump's reckless wars of choice but can't get well deserved promotions. No, those only go to white men in Hegeth's DoD. This story about Hegeth's on-going purge is revolting. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.

NEW: Last October, Border Patrol agents gassed Chicagoans after agents caused a major car crash on the southeast side. I analyzed body cam videos that show agents Benito Nunez, Oscar Guillen, and Carlos Chavira ignored orders to end the pursuit—moments before they blew a tire and crashed.

"I am your retribution" - Donald Trump, 2023.

Honestly feel like you could get true bipartisan, Epstein-files-level buy in for getting to the bottom of this.

Just the President of the United States again saying insanely, unapologetically, shamelessly racist shit, and the extremely powerful people around him nodding in agreement. How far back in time would you have to go to find another U.S. president saying something this bigoted in public?

Cool visual journalism on oil smuggling (you may need to subscribe to the FT email list to read it) ig.ft.com/shadow-fleet...

Local newsrooms in the US and Canada -- we want to support your work!

I want organizers to be as excited as I am about the phase shift happening on the web right now. If we nerds can help the organizers see what we're seeing, which is the potential for a systemic overhaul of the web as we know it, the organizers will understand what they can ask us to build for them.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

O’Hare (ORD) travel report. Essentially no wait for TSA Pre in Terminal 1 and so far no visible sign of ICE

I'm on a research trip this week and last night I wrote about the past and the present and the fuzzy lines that separate them. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

This reminds me of Sticky Terms, a chill little iOS game where you have to arrange fragments of phrases, all of which are idioms in diverse languages apps.apple.com/us/app/stick...

Thread of non-English Wikipedia articles about slang/idioms!!! Here's “Ketchupeffekt” from Swedish Wikipedia. They're all autotranslated to English in my browser

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Today we published a report on younger news audiences. Authored by Craig T. Robertson, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on DNR and other surveys Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understandin... Seven findings in thread

I like this lady. QUESTION: “If you could speak directly to Congress or President Trump, what would you say right now?” ANSWER: “Stop the bullshit.”

come to nerd out about community technology; stay for the Parable of the Sower references

Nice to see a @bandcamp.com Daily feature on Chicago's legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) daily.bandcamp.com/lists/aacm-d... legends of creative self-determination and independence 💖

I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

If there is one thing I’ve learned is that if a project is struggling, adding a bunch of new trainees always helps, especially if they’re being paid and you’re not, and they’re the reason you’re not being paid

Cheers to shadows and artists who include them.

What is outrageous about this, among many other things, is that makes relief turn on whose loved ones have the resources to hire or luck or network to get a lawyer to file for habeas. If you don't know to file or can't, even "we have no opposition" cases lead to continued detention.

Well this is amazing! Orta just went out and did the thing. Identity linking with ATProto, with the attested claims published into your PDS.

Recently spotted block club signs on Chicago's West Side

The Constitution protects the acts of naming federal law enforcement agents and documenting how they behave on the streets. Under no circumstances should Congress grant this administration new legal weapons to use against Americans who do either of those things.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

“There are constitutional reasons why every person should be counted" Yep. Sounds like something I'd say. Read the whole NOTUS piece, including insightful commentary from my friend @mmather.bsky.social, here: www.notus.org/trump-white-...

This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.

I posted the first drawing that said ‘maybe it will happen today’ on it a year ago. Seems longer.