ive been exposed roughly 500 times to that ragebait headline of the nyt on bluesky today, greatly increasing my perception that women in the workplace is now apparently a newly opened front in the culture war, meaning that the piece did its propaganda work very effectively

I normally don't pay any attention to celebrity gossip - but as a former disinfo specialist, this case is 'the future' of what coordinated inauthentic messaging looks like. Don't look at Russia or China - they are looking at Hollywood dark PR firms for how to evolve.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

on a side note: ive always been slightly confused how he/him is one pronoun set, described with two grammatical cases, while he/they is two pronoun sets, described with one grammatical case anyone know of articles that explain how this came to be?

i only joined for the last 10 minutes, but took some quick quotes from the summary of the chair at the end, and im assuming things went well

We’re launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest, more sustainable way to travel across Europe by 2040. It’s a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks, unlock investment, and harmonise rail systems ⬇️

Er zijn heel, heel, heel veel races gewonnen door de Democraten gisteren. Soms op plekken waar Trump vorig jaar nog met meer dan VEERTIG procent verschil won. Hier een selectie, maar er is veel meer:

Set to become the youngest PM of The Netherlands, Rob Jetten spoke about the need for independent European pillar within NATO that would, under the leadership of European defense minister, operate independently, if needed.

new bluesky growth strategy: hold an election in the United States weekly

His stock is trading at 100x rev, is up 152% ytd, and is at the same place as a week ago So what kind of ceo meltdowns are we gonna see on tv if we get a broader correction in the market? What if AI is indeed a bubble and it bursts?

quick proof they’re doing this

How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent digital infrastructure before we actually take credible action? The need is as clear for cloud as it is for the rest of our critical digital systems. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

my favourite part is that the 'posts more than 50 times' label is basically saying 'git gud, get the 100+ label tomorrow'

an overview of the current state of blogging on atproto, and how it gives insight on what decentralisation on atproto actually looks like in practice

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

matt levine never misses

FTR the app-view is up and has been for a few weeks. Ingesting terabytes of social media data is not trivial. I've worked to re-implement some experimental work by Divy into rsky-ingester, rsky-backfiller, and rsky-indexer When it's production ready, it'll move off of staging.blacksky.community

got woken up by a bird outside my window who was practicing their bike alarm imitations

Great post on atproto blogging / longform, and implications for the dynamics of publishing in the open social web. We're glad to see people publishing such a diverse range of things on Leaflet too!

one fun shift in traditions over time is how people put up christmas trees earlier and earlier growing up you were supposed to have them only after Sinterklaas festival (dec 5th). now that has shifted to 'after halloween' it seems, already saw 3 houses with christmas trees today

an overview of the current state of blogging on atproto, and how it gives insight on what decentralisation on atproto actually looks like in practice

Ik probeerde, terwijl het donker werd, te volgen hoe de inktviszwam uit het ei kwam. Met een hoop kunst en vliegwerk, maar het heeft wel wat. #november_kiek #mooisteavondfoto @ikbendaan.bsky.social

AT service operators and moderation thinkers: I put together an early proposal around infra abuse notices across organizational boundaries. really looking for feedback on this one, it is bait for counter-proposals and references to prior work!

finally getting around to playing Hades 2 and damn its just so good Hades is really not my genre of game at all usually, but there's just something about the games that just makes it all click and its soo satisfying

Homey literally said "touch mass"

if i had unlimited time i'd do a phd in religious studies about how the nazi bar parable has become load bearing in peoples moral framework for understanding social media

this weeks fediverse news connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

This is one of the additional electric ‘beer boats’ that has just been put into service. It is loaded directly from the lorry with beer and other beverages, ready to be delivered to bars and restaurants in time for a busy Saturday evening.

kim kardashian saying the moonlanding is fake is because she is one of the world's most skilled and successful people at exploiting how the modern attention economy works her statement should be seen as having no relationship at all to her personal beliefs about the reality of the moon landing

for context on what 'winning' means here: D66 got 17% of the vote, and gets 26 out of a 150 total seats. They got 15k total more votes than the far-right PVV, who also get 26 seats Big diff is that D66 gained seats while PVV lost, compared to last election

these labels are a theoretically a great idea to find spammers but its mainly helpful to show that i have a lot of oomfies who fucking love to post

Another genocide...in Sudan www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!

i think this results in two types of social media platforms: one for engaging with your friends, and one for distributing information current platforms smash these use cases together, but the rise of LLMs makes it necessary to separate these use cases again

for this week's atproto news I'm comparing todays Dutch election result with how active the politicians are on Bluesky and in other news: - GreenEarth is building personalised algos on atproto, with 300k in funding - more interop between publishing platforms - polls on leaflet

As an aside I would love for someone to explain how best to write articles based on evidence from casual/unsystematic long-term first-hand observation, because a lot of my unique ideas (which people tell me are highly insightful and that I should write about) are dervied from this sort of research

This deserves much wider dissemination. Nevermind that it’s about the “fediverse” — everything in here is relevant to the coordination challenges of a pluralistic Open Social. AT protocol has very different constraints and affordances, but the fundamental coordination problem is the same.

figuring out the UX of federation is hard. advantage of having 2 open protocols is that they can learn from each other todays lesson for atproto: look at the activitypub-federated SocialHub forum to understand the downsides of forum<>microblogging federation

nederlands zal verder blijven opschuiven naar rechts tot we een ander informatie ecosysteem hebben

There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge. connectedplaces.online/on-the-coord...

i have 3 beliefs: - authoritarian speech restrictions are bad - ironically supporting authoritarianism because funny dunks is bad - fuck being scared of cringe, sincere-posting is good

Excellent essay in The Baffler about my new book Blank Space thebaffler.com/outbursts/bl...

im considering 10 candles as the ttrpg system, anyone has any experience with that? cavalrygames.com/ten-candles-...

looking for recommendations for a horror ttrpg oneshot! Doing a Halloween session with my DnD group this Friday Last year I ran this oneshot interpretation of Curse of Strahd and I can highly recommend this one, its really good www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

what if baseball was more like league of legends where players get increasingly powerful items over time to force an ending to the game

what makes Ed Zitron such a skilled PR person is that he managed to convince everyone that he's a commentator on AI when in practice he's much closer to being a commentator on financial markets

The Americans don't have tech sovereignty either.

this week's fediverse report has some more thoughts on how the state of the open social web is getting increasingly intertwined with american politics connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

very much a "Jerry, yes" post

Skywatch was mentioned in this week's Connected Places by @laurenshof.online. We're grateful for the mention and for anyone more widely interested in what's currently going on in the ATProto Community and Fediverse, we can't say enough nice things about Laurens' writing! Check it out!