Meetup 2 recap, there are so many friends!

If you’re enjoying @margin.at, a bookmarking / highlighting / annotation app with support for @semble.so, donate to @scanash.com

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

"we can just do things for each other" 🫡

The competition has billions of dollars, billions of users and deep political connections. Quit the crabs-in-a-barrel mentality if you care about all of our collective work meaning something in this lifetime.

“The real moral issue lies not in making AI conscious and afraid of death, but in avoiding transforming humans into zombies.” arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016

It still seems fairly distasteful to have bots pretending to be human and to have feelings

we're living through a paradigm shift in how we build together. we have new, powerful tools on our side that, when guided by human values, can help us rebuild our online world faster than ever. the key is how we scale welcoming, inclusive, and healthy communities to match our new collective powers

my favorite new Atmosphere site gotta be @semble.so. Curate collections of essays, articles, social media posts, and images, and then share them with other people. Great for pointing people towards your favorite writing on any topic, or a references list for your latest essay.

Subvert has secured an additional $50,000 in funding from AmbitioUS, an initiative of the Center for Cultural Innovation. This is a milestone that reflects both the strength of our vision and the values behind how we’re building Subvert. Not a member? Join the co-op at subvert.fm

What's that? A combo meetup with @publicgood.tech?? Feb 17 @ the Bow Market

That’s right! Sebastian in the EU parliament!

added @standard.site support to obsidian-atmosphere - Publish notes to @leaflet.pub and @pckt.blog from within obsidian - Browse your subscribed publications and clip to your vault semble and margin interop is so good now that I need to update how I display the two 😄 github.com/treethought/...

@semble.so search is getting really good! The cool part is that it will just get better as the community continues to curate content Thoughtful curation + user owned data + real social networks >> SEO slop I just saved this piece and found great stuff thru "Similar Cards" semble.so/url?id=https...

This piece by @doriantaylor.com aged well "Radical Interoperability is a Political Agenda" - is it ever, eh

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

It was nice to work with the @cosmik.network team! You can see your Semble cards and collections on Margin, and even use the Margin extension to bookmark and collect to Semble! Try it out: margin.at

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

the application (app) model of software can, should, and must be abolished.

Interop is the future, once you taste it you can't go back to walled gardens Also - it was really inspiring & fun to work with @margin.at - happy to be building the Atmosphere's annotation layer together ;)

Very cool @atproto.science project!

Epstein files seem to me a compelling example highlighting the yawning gap between access to information and the capacity to make sense of it / act on it. Information disclosure becomes almost performative if we lack the social/technical infrastructure to process it meaningfully.

Interesting to see humans outperforming frontier models on relatively simple tasks - Opus can one shot code a complete web app but fails on these... story understanding is like Moravec's paradox for NLP

Slowly at first and then all at once. We're getting to the turning point.

Just another perfectly normal day. rentahuman.ai

One of our New Year’s resolutions was to start sharing monthly updates, so here’s one for January!

We’re very excited to have @smcgrath.phd present “Reigniting the Party: Lessons from a Stalled Migration to Bluesky” at #ATScience! The talk will detail an effort to migrate the @amia.org community to Bluesky. Scott will share lessons learned and outline revised strategies to rebuild the network! 🧪

👀 "for certain tasks–particularly those grounded in the physical world – visual generation more naturally serves as world models, whereas purely verbal world models encounter bottlenecks arising from representational limitations or insufficient prior knowledge." arxiv.org/abs/2601.19834

This looks cool; great to give people more expressive spaces to publish and foster communities… HOWEVER: Substack is not and never will be "your corner of the internet" — it's a walled garden: no API, opaque algo, a platform you don't own In the Atmosphere we build on open data + open networks ✨

killer atproto app right here - the day is nigh when we won't need to share screenshots of highlighted texts anymore

“In a physical world of .. printed journals, bundling made sense. In a digital world, we are increasingly constrained by boundaries that no longer make sense. In a world of AI, what does the bundle prevent us from seeing?” 🎯 Great piece by @row1.ca on unbundling research into modular knowledge! >

Meanwhile in crytpo DeSci land the #$DICK token is being launched, alongside D1ckGPT AI for men's health... wtf

"AI makes it cheaper to contribute to Open Source, but it's not making life easier for maintainers. More contributions are flowing in, but the burden of evaluating them still falls on the same small group of people. That asymmetric pressure risks breaking maintainers." also relevant to slop science

Gotta figure out how to make atproto a full time gig. I know several of us are in a similar boat. It would be sweet to be doing what I’m doing now, and a bit more and as the 9-5.

I think we still underestimate the degree to which the attacks on Harvard and academia more broadly are personal revenge by very powerful, very emotionally immature men who hate the unis they see as responsible for making their kids woke publicseminar.org/2024/03/psyc...

Emancipatory pedagogy "Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects which must be saved from a burning building; it is to lead them into the populist pitfall and transform them into masses which can be manipulated"

Coming soon - open collections 🌱

"How do we frame financial support not as charity, but as an investment in mutual survival?" 🔥

"So what would it look like to start over? Not to build a better inbox, but to imagine entirely different metaphors?" Great line, and you can swap out "inbox" for so many other interfaces - with @semble.so we're exploring different metaphors for feeds

"Epistemic injustice anywhere is a threat to epistemic justice everywhere" Justice requires not only fair distribution of material goods and political rights, but also equitable participation in the social practices through which we understand the world and share that understanding with others

📢 New #ATScience speaker! @simpsontw.bsky.social will present their project @skysquare.app : “Skysquare: context as a service.” Skysquare uses ATProtocol to reattach public discourse to its source, transforming the web into a socially annotated commons 📎

"this is a grim and critical moment. I know you and a lot of people are probably scared, feeling some “am I the baddie?” tremors at the level of your core identity. I know this is hard!" Love this

here's Meredith Whittaker picking apart Palanatir's "head of vibes" (wtf) on twitter, later he invites her over for a demo in the Palantir offices... We live in unhinged times #543528

Introducing our remote & hybrid co-leads, @erlend.sh and @psingletary.com . We've got three video streams from @stream.place , and @roomy.space for extended talk discussions and activity coordination.

AI for coding works so well because code has a bunch of built in self checks that allow an agent trained with reinforcement learning to find what works and what doesn’t. This will not so easily translate to eg machine design until we have way better simulations or much more “embodied AI” (robots).

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AT Protocol, the infrastructure powering Bluesky, “represents one of the most concrete opportunities for Europe to create their own social networking infrastructure,” says Dutch data analyst Laurens Hof (@laurenshof.online). Here are four case-studies on European projects that give us hope:

Applications for Mozilla Pioneers are now open until Feb 16th Pioneers is a paid program for builders to develop new ideas with us. We intentionally want to draw in people who might not normally be able to do something like this, so you can do it part-time! newproducts.mozilla.org/mozilla-pion...

Very excited to lead a UX research workshop for atproto product teams with @tynanpurdy.com and my colleague @anna.germnetwork.com!!