absolutely insane album, some next level beats www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xN9...

Well, I am sure having a ghastly time slogging through the research on how badly using social media to understand the world fucks up our understanding of the world *and* our assessments of our ability to understand the world

Hello American people, considering the state of your country I understand why you’d be fleeing to Europe. Just letting you know: the pendelbus tussen station Emmen en Ter Apel is no longer free — you’ll need to buy a kaartje. ✌️

Threads is effectively shelving their fediverse integration, after it saw marginally little use Zuck has played the game well, harming both open protocol movements while growing his platform, getting good PR and distracting regulators connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

am i required to have an internet handle take as an open socials commentator?

what type of energy company should bluesky merge with?

amazing

i think its highly underappreciated the massive extent to which text-based platforms select for people who can consistently post in large volumes short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day

Excited to be speaking in London! Last version of Protocols for Publishers was awesome (so Ive been told, fomo on not being there), and honored to do a deeper dive into the current state of Open Social

Join us in London on Feb 4-5, 2026 to discuss how we can preserve an open, equitable web, where no one company holds the keys. Here are the initial announcements 🎉 #ProtocolsForPublishers protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-london-d...

Mijn favoriete lengtemaat: grachtenpand

Some exciting indie tinkering - check out @laurenshof.online 's awesome new link blog with Semble as a backend! >

this week's fediverse news is about how peertube's newly released update indicates how you can compete as a decentralised video hosting platform, not by competing with youtube but by focusing on institutions and organisations connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

My underlying theory of the 21c right is modeled on Gellner's theory of nationalism: it's about devaluation of local credentials by a larger (in this case, global) cultural sphere.

What’s so interesting about big streamers like Atrioc covering the Feds FOMC livestream in a serious manner is that there are hundreds of thousands of zoomers interested in getting complex monetary policy concepts like Standing Repo Facilities explained as long as they can also spam 6 7 in chat

This week's Link Collection for the ATmosphere Report #146 is online! A huge collection of links (on-protocol with Semble!) related to atproto from the last week traverse.connectedplaces.online

on how open social protocols provide the European Commission with an opportunity for digital sovereignty, but that this opportunity also comes with a loss of power, shifting their position from network regulator to one-among-equals

@laurenshof.online reading your most recent newsletter and thinking about Paul Otlet. recommend this book on early info cataloging and internationalist efforts if you haven't seen it; @robin.berjon.com you might like it also

DigiD blijft Nederlands en dus veilig. Dat verzekerde de staatssecretaris van Binnenlandse Zaken na het nieuws over de mogelijke overname van leverancier Solvinity. Die zou geen toegang hebben tot de dienst, maar daar is niets van waar. En straks kan Trump dus mogelijk ook meekijken.

The EC hit X with a 120M fine for DSA transparency violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it shows the underlying issues with how the politicians (dont) understand how power works on social platforms. connectedplaces.online/the-digital-...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X. I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change. berjon.com/fascintern-m...

Made a new silver ring with a hammered design

smartphone buying guide that optimises for getting the lowest price in surveillance pricing

Techgiganten bedreigen de democratie en informatievoorziening. Regulering is belangrijk, maar ook nieuwe initiatieven. Interview met @laurenshof.online: begin klein, experimenteer veel. Bluesky maakt het makkelijker om zelf te bouwen en controle terug te pakken. www.svdj.nl/nieuws/stapj...

So what's the outcome? 2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week 2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped) 0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover

this week's fediverse reports has some more thoughts on Threads' user statistics, and about Holos, an upcoming project that allows you to run an ActivityPub server on your phone connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

When you have neither spine nor vision you end up enforcing your regulation in ways that achieve nothing but still give bullies and fascists a hook to play victim and kick you with at the same time. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Onze fotograaf Robin Utrecht vangt de status van de kabinetsformatie in 1 beeld: x.com/robinutrecht...

The new US #NationalSecurityStrategy is so alarming that I spent hours today on this piece, rather than my real work. We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves. jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...

Twitter becomes the first site to take a hit from the EU Digital Services Act *ELON MUSK'S X HIT WITH €120M EU FINE FOR CONTENT LAW BREACHES *EU COMMISSION SAYS X MADE 3 VIOLATIONS OF DIGITAL SERVICES ACT *EU GIVES X 60 DAYS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS, 90 DAYS TO IMPLEMENT

The Russians nearly murdering Zelensky on European soil? Yes, my fellow Europeans, that is how powerless we have become. www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

New: ATmosphere Report #145, with collections of links to interesting atproto articles for November This time, the links are on-protocol, as a @cosmik.network collection, with a page that lets you follow the conversations on @leaflet.pub and @bsky.app traverse.connectedplaces.online

I was interviewed about how media can use new social platforms Happy that they explicitly mention why I do this work: sure, big tech bad, but the main point is that social media are collective sense making tools, and thats what makes them so extraordinarily valuable www.svdj.nl/nieuws/stapj...

I wrote something that isn't a development log! @dame.is and @laurenshof.online have been up to some cool stuff, and it got me thinking. alpha.weaver.sh/nonbinary.co...

New: ATmosphere Report #145, with collections of links to interesting atproto articles for November This time, the links are on-protocol, as a @cosmik.network collection, with a page that lets you follow the conversations on @leaflet.pub and @bsky.app traverse.connectedplaces.online

coming to think of it more: Twitter having a 21% of 'ever used it' vs 8% for Threads is consistent both platforms currently having the same DAU, if you account for platform age difference (18 vs 2.5) and a ~6% annual churn rate techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/t...

this week's fediverse news is about how Newsmast is building apps for local news publishers that combines their articles with social media feeds, combining news with the fediverse into a single app connectedplaces.online/fediverse-re...

fascinating that Threads claims over 400M monthly active users while only ~21M of US adults claim to have *ever* used Threads So where are the other 380M users located? Taiwan apparently has an active Threads community, but where else?

Another timely summary plus analysis on state of open social by @laurenshof.online. If this topic is your jam, this newsletter is for you.

the gander thing is quite interesting. I will say im not too surprised that Canadians are pushing furthest first in this. being next to the US and sharing a language, we have a very long history of trying to keep *distinct* from them culturally, support Canadian artists to that end, etc.

this weeks ATmosphere/bluesky news, with how Eurosky helped show that the atproto ecosystem is bigger than just Bluesky, Bluesky doing dev grants, and how Gander is thinking about creating cultural sovereignty with their platform

Mastodon has a new CEO, with Eugen Rochko stepping down and the former CFO Felix Hlatky taking over the leadership role. this week's fediverse report is a reflection on that and a closer look at the changes connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it

Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power

There are 400+ apps built on @atproto.com with daily active users 🤯 @tangled.org is building GitHub but better for indie devs; @gandersocial.bsky.social building an app that follows Canadian laws; etc. We built Bluesky for builders and they are BUILDING!! And I got to meet @laurenshof.online 🤩

At what other event can you get both policymakers talking about democracy and @tangled.org talking about hosting repositories on the same track? Only at #EuroskyLive! Our communities need to work more closely together, we're making it happen.

this capsule hotel im staying at just full sent it with their space theme

Community-based social networking servers requires communities to set up new servers. but what if the act of 'communities-starting-servers' is tied to specific periods of time? connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Het verhogen van het waterpeil in veenweides is noodzakelijk om CO2-uitstoot tegen te gaan. Maar hoe ver kan je daarmee gaan, zonder dat koeien natte voeten krijgen? Voor @trouw.nl ging ik op reportage in Zegveld, waar geëxperimenteerd wordt met 'boeren op hoog water': www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...