Looks like the unhinged AI podcast ep with the always-great @oddletters.bsky.social is up! Ty Audrey and co for the chance to talk about LLMs as, you know, demons.

the eYou people, a closed european twitterclone that is now using didplc for identity, seem to be reading my posts and have figured out the fairly horrifying implications of it

hear me out: @™️🅾️💲🅿️♓3️⃣®️e

The Europeans are probably right, you don't really need A/C in 30 degrees. Honestly, at those temps, I'd probably be more worried about heating and putting on more layers.

The wait is over... Anisota virginiensis is here! A big evolution in our experiment of what social media can be. • Spells • Post Poetry • Blended Feeds • Alt Text Generator • Post Adviser • Support for @standard.site, @grain.social, @teal.fm, @leaflet.pub • More... Enter the forest: anisota.net

Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.

new from me: ai bots are overwhelming the signup application process for fediverse servers. so how do you build community when you cannot distinguish between an LLM and a human anymore? connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

Give me whatever amount of funding the Commission is burning on "Web 4.0" and I will bring tech sovereignty to an entire sector of the digital sphere.

The Airport Standoff That Explains How Power Works in Iran

Having lived through the Paris 2003 heatwave it really seemed elderly women were at greatest risk of death. Now we know. I've also read much anecdotal evidence (make of that what you will) that estradiol HRT can reduce heat tolerance, so be careful out there <all> my sisters in oestrogen-taking.

im genuinely worried about what happen when the political right in europe figures out that they can tie the academic climate movement to an anti-airco position, while europe is experiencing 40C+ heatwaves, and popular demand for aircos is gonna skyrocket

This was a super interesting conversation. Watch below if you'd like to understand Iran, the impact of the war or what may happen next. We discuss the origins of the regime, the power of the Revolutionary Guards and much more. Crazy stories, too.

«The very property we are building open networks to achieve, that no single actor can control the network, is also the property that makes this emergent object of legitimisation [of violence] impossible to target.» We builders have a responsibility to internalize this. Networks = conduits of power.

“the amplification layer is not a neutral piece of plumbing, and that this instance on X just so happens to be carrying right-wing content. It structurally favours whatever the existing order has already sanctioned.” @laurenshof.online ht @erlend.sh

bluesky is the new york times of social media, where it tricks you into thinking it is for global news, only to occasionally snap back into revealing that it was a local news source for new york city all along

turns out, when elon musk posts "imprison the government," it doesn't matter much. but thousands of accounts repeating each other does so if permission for violence was never really coming from the owner, what happens on a network that has no owner at all? connectedplaces.online/the-permissi...

My guiding principle is that platforms actually don't — or even can't — suppress anything beyond nudity, gore, swears, some hate speech, etc. But I do think they can promote different content and incentivize users to make more of it. Which is what I think is happening on YouTube right now.

This is Tyler Fischer, the solo builder behind Sill, Excellence Award Winner of the #OpenSocialAwards 🏆 We really do use Sill everyday for finding widely-shared links from Bluesky and Mastodon. It’s an incredibly useful tool that defies the algorithms, ads, and feeds of traditional social media.

when i sent this email two years ago i had no idea what it would lead to. incredibly grateful to officially be a full-time, founding engineer at Blacksky starting this week

i think its noteworthy that the one part of the european sovereignty project that is actually going fairly well is dressed up in language on social media to be completely incomprehensible and inaccessible

Y'all might like knockout.blue Built on AT Proto!

i always use the dutch translation for machines, and now my airco is called luchtvoorwaarden

in a world where open social protocols see mass adoption, with the ability to run ads as separate posts in a feed significantly diminished, i expect this to become the new default on how advertising works

Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

turns out that the end result of "lets connect all the people from the world together and learn about each others cultures and politics :)" is that i now know a lot about algae

now were talking would love to see some integration with custom feeds as well

the difference in pathways for the knockout is crazy argentina likely getting cape verde or saudi arabia, or usa likely getting bosnia or qatar, versus brazil getting either netherlands or japan, is wild

hold on, just tuning in, messi missed a penalty?? what?

Allow me re-introduce myself! My name is JD Lauwerends, I’m 30 years old, from Amsterdam and I’m the (now fulltime) Head of Trust and Safety for Blacksky. 🤓🎧

My new stakeholders are 🥁 Y'all! Today is my first day at @bsky.app! Excited to work on good tech™️ finally.

shoutout to Uruguay for the most impressive version of being offside imaginable offside while going backwards with only 3cm of the entire pitch being offside is fucking hilarious

the davos crowd vs the FOSDEM crowd

Mooie gelegenheid om deze geweldige cover van @hardgras.bsky.social te delen.

Fuuuuuck

Black Watch Series III, by Gene Davis, 1974

The Dutch any other day: go back to your countries! The Dutch whenever they need diversity to win championships in sports or entertainment:

SUMMERVILLE

WHAT A GAME LETS GOOOOO

this made me check le chaton fat if there were some good new memes and apparently it has been memed into existence?

Idk if you even realize how big of a jewel this is A movement can (and probably has to) consist of people who don’t even like each other but are still pushing towards the same ends, using different tactics, etc

‘Matrix has been building rooms this whole time’ connectedplaces.online/decrypting-m...

Getting to chat with the folks building a better web is one of our favorite parts of the job, so we're going to do more of it (and on a regular schedule)

20,000 on Eurosky and growing! Switch to @eurosky.social, try out @mu.social — the future of social is coming and we're barely getting started.

Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team

that old Frogger game where you have to cross the road dodging traffic, but its Russian MANPADs

new in my series about @matrix.org : Where Do Rooms Go? Why did Matrix end up being deployed largely by European governments and militaries? And what does that say about the various projects for private data and communities on atproto? connectedplaces.online/decrypting-m...

I tried to explain to myself the behaviour of some people who only seem to reheat one another's ideas — and are the same people still on X today, irrespective of political alignment. berjon.com/rt/

Dangit, Midjourney beat us to the whole “pivot to running a spa” thing.