So congrats on replacing those terrible ball players at little league and the minors with robots, I’m sure we’ll find another way to make pro ball players.

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Exgoose me? You’re funding Gander how? We're inviting Canadians to become co-owners. Over 1.5k Canadians have invested from $255 to $10K or more, totalling $1.2M so far! Become an owner! Tell friends, family, frenemies... anyone who wants better socials in Canada 🇨🇦 frontfundr.com/gandersocial

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

And this thread is helpful if anyone is wondering why we put a link in your bio instead of a (non-character-limited) separate record👀

A lot of questions come up about this (why isn't my link clickable? can I swap out anchr:// for https:// to make it clickable?) ... thank you Tessa for this explainer!!

I really like when people have seasonal emojis in their names on here🎃👻🦇

Other actions if people want more ways to support the Stanford 11 ➡️➡️➡️ bit.ly/S11actiontoo...

wish i was having tessa's kinda night😔🤘

Hey Siri, show me an example of environmental racism.

We’ll be adding new people to the beeeeeta!! So come hang:) discord.gg/ynbVSknK

And jumping into the conversation should be a lot faster now......................................we made some big performance updates to loading new friends’ ATProto cards 🏃‍♀️💨

finally!!! all our juicy bug fixes have made it off TestFlight and are now live on the App Store🙏🙏

What’s the consensus on app.bsky records? Is there any steam to make standardized (com.atproto?) profile records and/or blocks? Or have we sort of landed on using the app.bsky record as the standard for blocks/follows/profile

ok this is really fun, i got pdsfs running locally, and now i can browse my atproto repository in Finder

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Abolish ICE.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

In answer to your question, yes he is.

There's an @pp For That

BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

At what point can we assume most indie PDSes have implemented the new oauth scopes? Will there be a consensus on when it's safe to switch over?

Tuesdays are for chatting! Our Q&A today is with Richard Barnes @ipv.sx, a coauthor of both MLS and TLS - and a Germ advisor. It kicks off at 10am PST from his Bluesky page!

But also, perfect safety is not a possible goal, so it can’t be the yardstick by which privacy-protecting services are measured. “Give up your privacy and then you’ll be safe” is a lie.

Oh man this is a good one. Our constitutional right to privacy grew out of the colonists’ experiences of raids on their homes pursuant to “general warrants” by agents of the Crown. 🤔 More recently, a Gilded Age Boston Brahmin lawyer was annoyed that journalists covered rich people’s doings …

All right LFG, if I follow you and you’re on the Germ Bluesky DM beta, message me your question using my link in bio!

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

At risk of being uncharacteristically earnest on here, taking the lead on shipping our ATProto integration is something I’m *extremely* proud of, and I am so grateful to Tessa and Mark for trusting me with this. Can’t wait for everyone to get to experience this beta!!🌱

Damn, B.

"While the user experience is simple enough, the technology behind it is not." @techcrunch.com covers Germ DM x ATProto with a deep dive on our beta, co-founders, and plans. techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/g...

One FAQ about our ATProto integration has been, is it on or off-protocol? It’s both! We made deliberate choices to perform identity delegation and prekey exchange on protocol, and to transport cipher texts off-protocol. www.germnetwork.com/blog/integra... 1/n

BUG CATCHING SEASONNN

🔐 Building ATProtocol apps? Then you know identity and authentication is the first real barrier to entry - and it's a pretty high bar. The OAuth spec is a beast, and ATProtocol adds a lot of complexity too. That's why I'm running a masterclass this fall. 🧵 More details →

It’s here! Germ DM is now an #ATProto messenger. Read our full announcement now.

tfw you're This Company @josephcox.bsky.social in @404media.co www.404media.co/this-company...

Just me and my 24 cans of diet dr pepper against the world

Green ᵕ̈

I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up: san.com/cc/exclusive...

Gotta plug @timnitgebru.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social and Asmelash Teka Hadgu's piece: www.dair-institute.org/blog/elders/ And @anikacolliernavaroli.com's excellent interview with Timnit on the subject: www.techpolicy.press/through-to-t...

We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

As we knew it was going to happen, like clockwork, they're now saying they're going to prioritize denaturalizing citizens. We knew that was what they were working towards and that they are not going to stop there. Being quiet, seeing how far they will go is not an option. thehill.com/policy/natio...

here's the first end to end demonstration of a way to send value between two dids. i send @bumblefudge.com 0.0005 ETH i have work to do before i will release this publicly but it works!

Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

I have been supplanted by a 19 year old

Open source🤞🤗 and cool strategy for making encrypted first-contact messages indistinguishable from normal Guardian reader network traffic. This is exciting!!