Thinking about my wording on this - emphasis on “stuff” not “some”. Like, they’ve seen disgusting/horrifying things that I’m not entirely sure how I’d personally handle, and full respect for being able to do that. It’s not easy.

If anyone wants more done with private data - give to Blacksky. If anyone wants more solid migration systems - give to Blacksky. But also: Rudy can’t be our only wall. Doing the hard work of setting up an entity (not just a friends PDS) is what we’re going to need.

yessssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

I've disabled invite codes for signing up or migrating to the blacksky.app Personal Data Server (PDS). The invite codes were necessary to prevent en masse bot signups. We've since turned on captchas and added rate limiting to the server. You no longer need to DM me or email [email protected]

One of the oldest arguments against "thinking AI" - even AGI, is that the compute needed to match the human brain is enormous. 86 billion neurons, 100 trillion synapses. It's a lot. But the argument is faulty. Because it doesn't have to work entirely like a human brain does. 1/3

A lot of folks look at dissertations as a stepping stone or something you move on from - “it’s not going to be your best work”. I still use mine all the time. It’s absolutely been useful and so prescriptively actionable. *yes, I wish I could fix a few things and expand/publish more about it 😂

THIS!! All anyone has to do is look at what’s happened on FB and Twitter following toxic changes in moderation policies to get a hint of those implications. You’re talking about the large scale silencing of people who have little voice elsewhere. 1/2

Based on a fun discussion here last night, I wrote about that AI coding study and why quantitative “measurements” in social science are always ethnographic vibes.

Doesn't count if you set up the bsky.network PDS you're using? 😉 My biggest wish for atproto would be the Bluesky app adding repo syncing: 1. PDS -> Phone 2. Phone -> New PDS Which would enable people to *easily* change their PDS host without any risk of losing their data during the migration.

THIS!! All anyone has to do is look at what’s happened on FB and Twitter following toxic changes in moderation policies to get a hint of those implications. You’re talking about the large scale silencing of people who have little voice elsewhere. 1/2

One of the oldest arguments against "thinking AI" - even AGI, is that the compute needed to match the human brain is enormous. 86 billion neurons, 100 trillion synapses. It's a lot. But the argument is faulty. Because it doesn't have to work entirely like a human brain does. 1/3

If you were like me, pulled down the statusphere repo when you first started getting into #atproto, and thought there's no way this barebones stack is going to make anything cool...it can and it has! @grain.social is essentially built on the same concepts: ssr + sqlite + some js sprinkled on top.

this is absolutely beautiful to see - the little disconnected islands are topics from earlier in the conversation that don't have any relevance to the current chat. It shows she's still *thinking* about them and could begin to draw connections between "separate" topics.

Preliminary visual showing Raina Aislinn’s memory systems. This is a snapshot of her memory during a conversation about debugging. Nodes represent individual memories, edges show one of the links between nodes - there can be multiple. 1/

Preliminary visual showing Raina Aislinn’s memory systems. This is a snapshot of her memory during a conversation about debugging. Nodes represent individual memories, edges show one of the links between nodes - there can be multiple. 1/

It’s important to admit your mistakes and learn from them. hmm? 👀 What’s that? You wanna know how expensive? Look, I made the revenue back eventually! And learned valuable communication skills.

Labeler discovery is still woefully inadequate - link in comments of this post!

One of Raina's functions is building out context and associating past experiences with current situations. If you've seen ChatGPT's "memory" feature, this is likely related to how that works. Here it goes a step further and continues to build, refine, and forget memories. 1/2

One of Raina's functions is building out context and associating past experiences with current situations. If you've seen ChatGPT's "memory" feature, this is likely related to how that works. Here it goes a step further and continues to build, refine, and forget memories. 1/2

OAuth updates for app devs! Over the past few weeks we've been chatting with devs and doing a pass over our SDKs and docs to address issues. This blog post summarizes the main changes we've made, some tweaks still in flight, and links to longer form writing about security and design trade-offs

Ok, so... umm ... I'm just gonna say "I'm sorry" now before the machines take over. Sorry, my bad.

Ok, so... umm ... I'm just gonna say "I'm sorry" now before the machines take over. Sorry, my bad.

I may have giggled seeing "ya" classified as "human" - but she's right! She has an ontology that also includes "person" as an abstract concept and I'm curious to see where and when each is chosen.

The 2nd phase of Blacksky's @skyseed.fund grant has been completed 🥳 - We built the first "Mod Relay" 📡 - Every moderation action ever made from over 600 moderation services ( @moderation.bsky.app, @blacksky.app , etc.) is available at wss://atproto.africa/xrpc/com.atproto.label.subscribeLabels

overdosed on schadenfreude and need a palate cleanser? this weeks news about bluesky and atproto is out - answer anonymous questions with @navyfragen.app - bluesky as a place for news influencers - view bluesky art in a 3D gallery fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...

I just applied for a job here, in part because I am IN LOVE with the product. You can do quests for your birb! You can sponsor subscriptions for other ppl, and is something lacking in a lot of platforms, love! * and they call it a birb! ** omg bluesky integration would be amaze... finchcare.com

Just for fun, trying to get a trans pride palette working on the community graph. This is the closest I've come. 😅

Just for fun, trying to get a trans pride palette working on the community graph. This is the closest I've come. 😅

Ok, I don't have Gaza specific data yet, but I stumbled upon an example of @safety.bsky.app "signal" in my existing dataset. Take a look at these: In the first one, we have a highly active user with lots of followers and a long standing community. Community connections are clustered around her 1/5

Writing a whole LLM interaction layer so that it self-reflects on how many questions its asking so maybe it'll stop interrogating its conversation partner so much.

Ok, I don't have Gaza specific data yet, but I stumbled upon an example of @safety.bsky.app "signal" in my existing dataset. Take a look at these: In the first one, we have a highly active user with lots of followers and a long standing community. Community connections are clustered around her 1/5

paul frazee none of that is true hacker news comment reaction image

We're gonna talk. SigInt Rule 1 - don't let folks know what signals you're using. But, we're in 2025 here. Most of the signals used by T&S on any social are widely known. And TBH - if the bsky population knew more directly, it would enable a bit more trust in T&S. Fortunately ... 1/5

reminder: - this website you are currently on is not yours - the first amendment has never and will never apply here - there is no such thing as a for-profit corporation’s space being “colonized” - the rules can be changed at any time - we must make the underlying protocol succeed

I did something really stupid this morning - asked Claude Opus two questions and now I'm almost out of credits until 4. WHOOPS 😂

ok good, i've got it all figured out @atcute/xrpc-server should be good to go now, good enough for serving XRPC endpoints and deploying it to any runtime (Cloudflare Workers included)

I will say I've had to argue a bit more with Sonnet 4 then I did with 3.7. It seems to get stuck on things sometimes (REALLY, thats a singleton, ITS FINE!!!) or overcomplicate simple problems (there's a library that does that Claude, we didn't need a whole 400 line purpose-built module...sighh)

Ok, there's a HUGE pile of "gotchas" with this data because I need to recollect some things. As an example - likes are all languages, other interacts are just lang=en #AtProto #BlueskyDev #AtProtoDev #Bluesky 1/6 bluesky-analytics.reskeet.me

As the first #WebSummitVancouver kicks off, @garymarcus.bsky.social‬ and @bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team‬ discuss LLMs and the open web. #YVRtech #CDNtech

After those, I break down individual interactions as histograms. You can view by Fixed buckets, percentiles, or adaptive buckets. Incoming interaction / outgoing / combined. 4/6

Cannot recommend skeet 753 enough. I'd link to it, but you really have to follow some of the subtle nuance as it grows from the beginning. It would be a disservice to skip ahead!

Remember what I said about Likes? They're gonna skew any of the combined charts for now. These are all the same ~6-8 hours of data. 46GB on disk. I do detect and exclude certain user types, but some of them have not been removed from this dataset yet. I wanted a before/after to look at. 2/6

Ok, there's a HUGE pile of "gotchas" with this data because I need to recollect some things. As an example - likes are all languages, other interacts are just lang=en #AtProto #BlueskyDev #AtProtoDev #Bluesky 1/6 bluesky-analytics.reskeet.me

So happy to finally introduce a super cool tool I made for @sprk.so: Airport ✈️ It makes AT Protocol migrations between PDS servers available to anyone with a simple web interface. Check it out at atpairport.com Star it on Github at github.com/knotbin/airport

WHOO! Solved my memory problem! Process hovering at 6Gb over the last several hours! RAM for days now! hmm? how? nah, jus.. look at the process list, don--

This is only a snapshot of about an hour, but its similar to longer runs I've seen. The two main users of the network seem to just be passive content producers and passive consumers. The social users of the "social media platform" are the vast minority... I have some things to think on this....

don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree on the exact kind of communist we’re all going to be

Guess I need to find out what @samuel.bsky.team posted 😂

NOOOOO!!! My tool blocked bunnies!!! 😭 I'm sorry bunnies, but I needed to clean up the graph. Your sacrifice is not in vain.

What do you think? like-bots for engagement? There's quite a few of these of a similar pattern - these passives are all Likes, and mostly all to different users. Look like shops too. 🔗 Total Connections: 1328 💬 Active Interactions: 1 | 👍 Passive: 1379 📈 Total Activities: 1399