I guess we gotta repeat it for the folks in the back: I've never seen a project like Blacksky over years of watching social platforms. It's remarkable in many ways. That Blacksky is out in front on both community and technical leadership is something the Atmosphere is incredibly fortunate to have.

@rude1.blacksky.team is a hacker Normally I'm here for atproto beef, it's good for the Nielsen ratings, but there's just nothing there this time. There's gonna be 99999 experiments into shared-private data until we decide on a consensus way to do it

I'm going to "ATPROTO READ-ALONG"!

Okay, got it scheduled: ATPROTO READ-ALONG on stream tomorrow morning. Starting with @bnewbold.net and @tessa.germnetwork.com, drop other links to stuff I should read!

Comfy

We have to stop using the word "private" for ATProtocol data. This is shared, permitted content. You're giving other people the ability to see it, therefore it is not private. Your journal is private. The posts that you want to selectively let your friends see are not. Its a real big difference.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Ads and product images like this are wild. You absolutely know someone who doesn't know better is going to be like "nice, I can leave this power stripe and my camera in the rain now" and then blow something.

How cool is that? 📷🌎 Great work @polijan.bsky.social on atlas.atmo.pics! Really excited to see where this goes. #ATProtocol #ATGeo

"Big change is that all users must have a PDS, and if they don't, we supply it." Let's goooo!

We're planning to stop rendering blobs in the browser from the com.atproto.sync.getBlob endpoint. Let us know if you have any thoughts on this.

1Password not mincing words here: "If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop." "If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." 1password.com/blog/from-ma...

Hey #LazyWeb, what's the general opinion of Hetzner?

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Biggest Revelations From The Epstein Files https://theonion.com/biggest-revelations-from-the-epstein-files/

Ya’ll Opus 4.6 is a lot for a minor release bump

Trump tightens control over 50,000 federal workers reut.rs/45RK1fg

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

Have my eye on this.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Nope.

#HugOps to the Anthropic and Signal folks on-call this morning.

Pretty done with this week already.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

atproto folks with a special knowledge and interest in calendaring / events! I've got questions! 💜 discourse.atprotocol.community/t/recurring-...

This looks cool; great to give people more expressive spaces to publish and foster communities… HOWEVER: Substack is not and never will be "your corner of the internet" — it's a walled garden: no API, opaque algo, a platform you don't own In the Atmosphere we build on open data + open networks ✨

🏝️ A small quality of life update is out that improves the home page. Now when viewing the home page while logged in, you'll see your next RSVP'd "going" event above the recent activity list.

A community is devastated after ICE raids an LA church and arrests a congregant during a church event. “This was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.” ~ Church officials, in a press release

"A Little age" is a chill city builder and resource management game. A free Demo is available right now! store.steampowered.com/app/4354200/... In preparation for the Steam Next Fest in 3 weeks we're looking for all the feedback we can get. Please give it a try! #CozyGames #IndieGame #GameDemo

@devingaffney.com and I have been working on some @graze.social labs features and I'm pretty happy with how my atmosphere feed has turned out. Definitely needs some tuning and there's a lot of room for improvement, but so far so good. #ATProtocol

We are officially closed for Early Bird tickets for #ATmosphereConf! Standard tickets are only $50USD more. We appreciate everyone that made early decisions. We have over 160 of you joining us so far! More speaker announcements & remote tickets this coming week.

My FOSDEM talk is live! Decentralized Public Broadcast with Streamplace: video.fosdem.org/2026/k4601/P...

Popping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights. Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets

Has anyone created an ATProtocol Lexicon LSP?

I've been using Conductor w/ Claude Code lately and love it. A clean interface for multiple git worktrees of projects, each with segmented ports and dev containers for isolated dependencies, and the notes / context features make working in parallel across 8+ projects a breeze.

Thanks @essentialrandom.bsky.social for joining the conference producers crew as webmistress! She’ll be wrangling Astro and Quickslice to get the #ATmosphereConf website plugged into the Atmosphere, as well as any PRs you want to help out with. And of course, joining us in Vancouver!

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I'm going to "Office Hours with Paul, Jim, and Divy"!

“Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.“ Read about what’s coming with Blacksky Cash in our latest blog! blackskyweb.xyz/money-for-mu...

We’ve got a save the date announcement today for this year’s Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com - July 11th to 14th in Berlin. We’re supporting the conference & leaning into some “Day 3” content with some malleable software and other topics. Add your email to be notified!

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Created a @smokesignal.events for office hours later today smokesignal.events/pfrazee.com/...

If you want to make a sustained impact via economic non-participation, here is a list of companies and how to cancel your subscriptions with them to make the most of your dollars. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Racist fucking bullshit

I posted something and after reading it a few times over, it came across as more critical and dismissive than I wanted it to be. I do have some reservations, but I'm generally* happy with and encouraged by how PBC is handling most aspects of moderation.

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.