An overview of Skyseed Fund, Peter Wang @wang.social @skyseed.fund Peter goes into why he started the fund, what he sees coming, including AI that is open source and preserves human agency #ATmosphereConf

Exited to announce that @flashes.blue received funding from @skyseed.fund!!! Funds will be used to get the #android release on the road as well as initiating setup of commons #atproto infra in the EU. Plus, we started designing a mobile PDS.

Elon Musk calls for 'arrests' after woman points her finger at a Cybertruck www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-te...

"An open social graph completely changes the economics of building apps." @wang.social on @skyseed.fund's investment thesis at #ATmosphereConf He got into this from a Python and data career, started studying media, attention, and trust in 2016.

Excited to announce that @blacksky.app received a $30K dev grant from @skyseed.fund to further Blacksky’s mission of fostering safe, self-governable spaces on atproto Funds will be used to hire a part-time #rustlang dev, build our own relay implementation, get rsky to v0.1.0 + cover server costs

v1.1.0 is out! You can now switch between grid and full-width layouts for your portfolio and media section. Plus, post videos up to 3 minutes long. Check the comments for the full list of features!

Following on last week's announcement of the #ATCommunityFund, we're pleased to share that we have a donation from @wang.social's @skyseed.fund to work on bringing location data to #atproto atprotocol.dev/location-dat...

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About the @roomy.chat project - Led by @erlend.sh @zicklag.katharos.group @zeu.dev, we've been funded for 1 month by the @skyseed.fund to explore this project - We are Open Source! Submit issues and suggestions at github.com/muni-town/ro...

Ok, went to sleep only to wake up to the beta having filled up again 👀 I’ll see if I can throw out some of those unclaimed email invitation spots to free up some more room later.

“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy.” -- James E. Dennehy, NYC’s top FBI agent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

My mood…

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

This is Rupert Murdoch's Wallstreet Journal… Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”

Btw…there are a lot of hidden gems in app’s settings such as mute words (hide videos that have these words in the description), hide counts for likes, comments, etc., mute lists (subscribe to lists to mute multiple users at once) and more. Worth checking out!

We're just going to leave this here…

If they're going to take responsibility for dismantling the U.S. government as we know it, they ought to be named and known.

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Here...go nuts :) testflight.apple.com/join/GUvUDGFE

Me and @zeu.dev are working on #roomy with a grant from @skyseed.fund. Now we have minimal synchronization for direct messages! All data is synced locally and with your PDS. It currently uses inefficient polling, but all communication is between your browser and your PDS's with no central service!

Making @bsky.app billionaire proof means making real commitments to community - that's why, today, we're open sourcing our core engine for algorithmic matching. This is a work in progress, but we wanted to get it out as quickly as possible - and if you're a dev, and want to work with it, DM us!

This is exactly the kind of chaos caused by Stephen Miller's poorly-written Muslim Ban; it was an executive order written by a guy who didn't know the details well enough to know the ramifications of the phrasing, so people with green cards got detained at airports. This is that, writ larger.

@marcelias.bsky.social: "There is a reason why Trump nominated Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth. He wants to humiliate these Republicans, because he knows that once they have voted for these folks, he will own them. They will not have a shred of dignity or standing left."

Who can I bribe to migrate a bunch of golang modules from OpenCensus to OpenTelemetry? opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/su...

cannot express clearly my disdain for almost all DC journalists today this month marks a massive failure in American journalism probably bigger than the failure of Weimar Germany’s👇🏼 hard to get how long-term journalists can look at themselves in mirror these days bsky.app/profile/them...

Almost like he isn't properly qualified!

I was skeptical at first, but Bluesky really is a fantastic platform for scientists who want to engage in broader public conversations. Thank you @bsky.app and @jay.bsky.team for this amazing resource!

So, #byebyefacebook! Although I Quiet Quit almost 7 years ago (here's how: medium.com/the-mission/...), I think the time has come to completely eradicate all things #Facebook & all things Meta from my life. I took some screenshots along the way, in case anyone's thinking the same.../1

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