Seems like Irans most powerful weapon is to tweet “Hormuz is open” Friday one hour before close and “jk lmao” after close

BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez just landed out against Trump: "Not just Spain, entire Europe is against this illegal war in Iran. We won't join it no matter what"

Thanks @laurenshof.online for writing this excellent piece 🎯 IMO sustainable digital commons governance is *the* problem to tackle, and if any ecosystem can do it I think it's this one 💙

Paul's article prompted a long one from me: What is the purpose of protocols? connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

baited myself into rereading this and makes me realise that I probably understand like 20% on the first read lol

We’re all doing a thing in Amsterdam in June!!!

In short: People, not platforms.

this week's news is about how @tangled.org @npmx.dev and @alt.store are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

It's good that many people are moving their accounts to Eurosky, but as this shows, it's not enough to just move the PDS to another server than Bluesky. Full independence requires controlling the whole process.

If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column

turns out bluesky has effective reinvented opt-in federation from first principles, which is both hilarious and kind of a good thing probably?

Partly inspired by @laurenshof.online's connectedplaces.online/where-does-c... jklb isn't quite a community, it's an alternate way to participate in feeds. The social.jklb.participationTrophy record, though, is a way to opt-in to whatever jklb is/becomes. If anything.

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

from the @hamidrezaaz.bsky.social daily Iran update on the other site he thinks that Iran's leadership might not simply accept a ceasefire and declare victory if the US backed down, but rather they would need more tangible gains that would be a recipe for a true crisis x.com/i/status/203...

Cashing in my winnings on my "Bluesky gets new CEO before end of 2026" bet on Polymarket. Shoutout to the CFTC for regulating prediction markets as derivatives not securities

we’re moss maximalists here

Where does that bring us?

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO. More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

absolutely wild that the news that dutch gas prices rose by 30% in a single day did not even manage to crack the top 5 most read stories like, how? how did we fuck up our information ecosystem this badly?

lol

For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains

in this week's article I talk about Mastodon's new Share button, and how a network that cares strongly about open protocols gradually became dependent on proprietary protocols instead connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

truly an incredible set of trending topics on bluesky right now

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

The visible song of a male Red-winged Blackbird in the morning light.

The Atmosphere — It's Where It's AT.

this week's atmosphere and fediverse news, with now three approaches to private data, and a whole bunch of atproto project updates and news connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

Vandaag staat er een fijne recensie van mijn boek ‘Koolstofkoorts’ in @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social: "Koolstofkoorts is een 'must read’ voor iedereen die bezorgd is om de klimaatverandering", en "een onmisbaar boek voor iedereen die met Afrika begaan is", schrijft Loïc De Cannière 👇

"Why does the media keep running stories saying the president everyone knows is erratic can turn it around?", hundreds of people with thousands of followers ask in public, quoting the media story and spreading it to all of their many followers, some of whom will click through.

there is this Chinese woman that writes English overviews of discourse on Weibo, and it is absolutely amazing Today's Weibo's discourse is apparently older Chinese people sharing body-sized produce they've grown weibo.substack.com/p/022126-if-...

new from me - FR#154 Search and Community about what goes wrong when your consent mechanisms only recognize individuals but your network is supposed to be made of communities connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

the good news is that bluesky is starting to take over from X as the place where US media sources their stories the bad news is that nobody at the verge reflected on whether letting social media discourse drive reporting on serious issues was a good idea in the first place

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

After years reporting on Europe’s dependence on Big Tech, we’re making a vital shift: phasing out U.S. tech and moving to European alternatives. With rising geopolitical tensions and risks tied to foreign cloud infrastructure, this is about protecting our journalism, security, and independence.

Political effects of X’s feed algorithm "Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts... initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

see, this is why the us gov needs to adopt atproto, you can just put an appview directly in front of a moderation relay 🙃

Laurens is an excellent thinker about open social spaces and the technical fundamentals. We are collectively lucky to have him thinking about the why of it all in a way that is so fundamentally tied to the meaningful details.

This is an absolutely fantastic article by @laurenshof.online connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...

new from me - Where Does Community Live? A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...

this close to adding a dark-mode style button to my site that lets readers toggle between ATProto and Atproto

im live with @iame.li on stream talking about popfeed and atproto

Going live in a bit to take a look at @popfeed.social with @laurenshof.online! stream.place/iame.li

Really succinct point by @laurenshof.online. Now the question is how decentralized do we want our feature set? Will people start demanding the centralization of the interfaces ontop of their decentralized protocols?