“nobody’s wise until everybody’s wise.” (Fannie Lou Hamer's “nobody’s free until everybody’s free” for the age of AI and the meta-crisis)

I gotta pop back up to shill our discord, come share your weird rabbitholes here! discord.gg/V5WADn9gqr

Our April updates are out! (Sorry we're a bit late - in a busy stretch here) On launching @semble.so connections, and lots of community contributions 🫶 "Sense is being made" -- @joebasser.com

#Bookreview in @science.org! “The future is not a train to wait for but rather a canvas we co-create individually and collectively” #Authors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Efforts to predict the future go hand-in-hand with efforts to control it. Rebel against tyrannical predictions. Let's be brave enough to imagine and fight for a better world." 💙

So good! And @atproto.science is the perfect place to realize this vision

👀

ICYMI: We have a new "AI Preferences" setting This allows you to announce to the entire ATmosphere network what you consent to regarding AI use of your public data. Other apps can see this but ~may not~ respect the settings We built this to give you a place to set these and will 100% respect them

every day I am forced to watch markets think we've solved world peace by 9am only to think World War Three is about to start at 12:30

Excited to announce that I will be giving the opening keynote for @newpublic.org + @publicspaces.net Open Social Award Show in Amsterdam next month! My keynote will discuss how we do community governance at @blackskyweb.xyz Best of luck to all applicants and hope to see you there!

What do people think about having a special "fulltext" connection type in @semble.so to link to open/archived versions of paywalled content? Having a dedicated type could make it easy to know for a given piece if it has an unpaywalled version (similar to unpaywall.org)

Dreaming of a sustainable atmosphere ✨️ ♻️

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be sensemaxxing

'“Part of believing in capitalism is you don’t have to feel guilty,” Sacks told me.' (during a Marie Antoinette–themed 40th birthday party in a rented ancien régime–style Los Angeles mansion) Wild how they're all just saying the quiet parts out loud at this point

New on ATStore... related apps by shared lexicons 🎉 For all apps we now show other apps that use the same lexicons. Already using one app? Find others that work with the same data. Your data is portable. Now discovering where it's portable to is easy. Like @disperse.social works with:

This is so cool! Comparison with another profile brings back fun Goodreads vibes circa 2009 😅 Feels like the start of a promising direction! soma.pouriade.com/compare/rone...

Worked on Soma this week, a fun little experiment for @semble.so. Visualize your cards, see how much you have in common with others, and get a fingerprint of how you collect (volume, velocity, diversity, focus)

Honored to be participating in this event and very excited for it. With all the inevitability narratives flying around, this kind of trans-disciplinary conversation about the world we *actually* want to create feels so important right now. Please join us next week if you’re around!

Brainstorming how to build/fund the future of science publishing and communication on @atproto.science with @exgenesis.ingroup.social 🤓

"The value is not only in the output. It is in the gradual understanding that comes through doing the work. AI can still be useful. It can help prototype, explore, and surprise you. But that is different from design. Design still requires judgment, conversation, tension, and time."

MAGA has picked up on @eurosky.social - we must be doing something right 😂

You're in for a (sweet) treat with this exclusive @rpg.actor item. RSVP below and show up to get it added to your character!

Has anyone written about how NYC is absolutely plastered with AI ads these days and what it means for the state of the industry? A year ago it wasn't so prevalent. Feels like SF now!

huge shout-out to @schlage.town for organizing tonight's @atproto.nyc meetup ❤️ so many new people that I didn't recognize and got to meet! so many cool projects!

THE ATMOSPHERE INTEGRATIONS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE MORALE IMPROVES

To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.

Such a cool demo of @passports.social by @teonbrooks.com at @atproto.nyc 💥

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

“A structural change in research contribution and assessment is necessary to unshackle research communication from long-form narrative publication.”

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

Wow we've got 40+ people RSVP'd for Monday's meetup, looking forward! Just updated the event page with our list of speakers :)

Hmmm … so, this is absolutely not what it’s meant for, but @leaflet.pub’s math support makes it possible to do some basic ShortFormBlog-style design in KaTeX. (Wonder what else could be done with this? Maybe something like Typst could be a good fit for this?)

SUBSTACK BEGONE LEAFLET RISING

One line that stayed with me - "If you don't make your own narrative, someone else will do it for you"

🎥 I thought this was a phenomenal film. So relevant for making sense of the unraveling world order, and what we can do to resist "the machine". Amy Goodman is heroic and inspiring.

YESSSS

Wonders of interop #54201 Use @margin.at to bookmarks links and @semble.so to make connections between them! Each app brings its own strengths, interop turns them into app-legos you can fit together in all kinds of cool new ways. h/t @kaij.party

Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust. Vouching is live on Tangled! 🎭 blog.tangled.org/vouching/

Took a step back from building to spent time musing and experimenting on the user education side The initial result is fundyourinternet.org, an attempt to think about solutions in terms of culture, expectation, and habit formation - not "tech" This is a first draft, and feedback is very welcome 👍

Interoperable protocol = "Yes, and" Closed platforms = "No, but" We ❤️ @margin.at

As young scientist you will have to choose: #Academia? Face the <5% tenure probability, fight for grants and prestige over papers publication. #Industry? Please your hierarchy and stakeholders, but for substantial reward. I choose the hard path to #RethinkScience. And you what will you do?

Excited for our meetup this coming Monday — shaping up to be a good turnout; we've got not one, not two, not three… Okay look we have SIX confirmed speakers! See below 🤩 Mon @ 5:30p (talks ~6) in Brooklyn — see you there!

Introducing Disperse: an experimental sharesheet that allows you to share to several Atmosphere services at once. At launch, it supports @bsky.app, @blackskyweb.xyz, @semble.so, @margin.at, @rabbithole.land, @kipclip.com, and @sill.social, with more planned. 1/

We need to make the Atmosphere the place where the cool kids hang out.

I don't think tech at large understands how hard it is to be an open source maintainer right now. So many great folks are on the brink of burnout. Funding is drying out. We live in a security minefield. Companies think humans are disposable. If you're a maintainer, we care. You deserve the world.

We are excited for the future of the ATmosphere

I really need an automation that updates my Notion automatically based on stuff I add to Semble 🤖 I know what my next vibecoding project will be

This is very interesting. Anyone that wants to be part of IETF + atproto should apply for grant funding to participate in the standards process. @thisismissem.social comes to mind of course Maybe someone on the @blackskyweb.xyz team? @rude1.blacksky.team

I am so underwater with work-wrangling and thought-wrestling so this is just bubbles rising from the deep, but: what I am excited about right now in the networks zone is that we have a real shot at a do-over on the social internet, which means we have a chance to make new and better mistakes.

"You can just review things" Looking forward to reading this exciting new piece by @infotainment.bsky.social (who presented some of the preliminary work at #ATScience) & @joelchan86.bsky.social !