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“Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers” 3/15/26 www.bbc.com/news/article...

so apparently the Mahmouds Family spammer has bought the domain name blackskys.app (note the extra 's') in the last few hours and has set up a PDS there? pds.ls/blackskys.app 🤨

ok Apple reaaaally fucked up how they handle age verification (I know the root problem is the UK's Online Safety Act) after I installed iOS 26.4 I was asked to confirm that I'm 18+... but apparently that's only possible if you have a credit card? (I have several debit cards but no CC) wtf Apple 🤦🏻‍♂️

Working on my slides

hey @thezodiacheir.blacksky.team, I wanted to give you a heads up about a pattern I and others have observed recently with some of the accounts that have been spam reposting and quote posting 🧵

--only-skip-permissions-if-claude-feels-like-it

✅ @atmosphereconf.org has been verified by @bsky.app.

"additional 2FA methods" 🙏🙏🙏

"We plan to add basic account management functionality directly to the PDS reference implementation." LFG.

"Don't forget to get outside and touch grass: Spring (or Autumn, for those in the southern hemisphere) will be over before you know it" 💚

hey we actually did most of what we promised last time! here's what we'll be up to the next 6 months or so 🕺💃

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"We plan to add basic account mgmt functionality directly to the PDS reference implementation... things like changing account email and password, deactivating or deleting an account, and exporting account data... Atmosphere apps won't need to request these permissions or re-implement these flows." 🥳

We've got an updated protocol roadmap out, covering the next few months. Look forward to seeing folks at AtmosphereConf later this week!

FINISHED

Afternoon walk / hike

any fellow Catbird users who want to try out the new group chats? 👀

@stream.place a little bug in the iOS app (latest version): if you open a stream from Bluesky – e.g. by tapping a Watch now link – and you don't have the app open in the background, the back arrow button in the top-left doesn't work and you can't open the Home screen cc: @iame.li @natalie.sh

For well over 20 years I've been taking 30 second videos of calm places & moments I've enjoyed being in. Today I figured out how to stream them 24/7 on stream.place, in a random order, in case anyone else might enjoy a moment of this little art project of mine. stream.place/byjp.me

Announcing: keytrace.dev Take your @bsky.app / @atproto.com account and connect it to your other accounts around the internet. Keytrace cryptographically verifies your connected accounts so other social apps can trust the data. Learn more: keytrace.dev/blog/introdu...

New release 1.27.2 is available that should put a final stop to the "expired sessions" issues.

Today marks 25 years since Apple launched Mac OS X.

american center left: "saying maxine waters should retire is extremely ageist and you should be ashamed lf yourself" Italian center left: "please god kill every person above 60 my country has had the same senators since 1995"

Heck, there's plenty of ageism against young people (read under 40s) running for office because of "lack of experience." And yet this only ever comes up in one direction.

it is not ageism to say that a person who is 25% likely to die during the next two years should not be making our democracy contingent on her healthy survival

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

and i really dislike that people try to read it in a better light. the company can do a few things right without us needing to cease all scrutiny about what they absolutely should be doing better

as i’ve said before, you can call yourself the safety-focused lab with ease whenever the other labs you are competing against have negative points in the “cares about safety” column. i’ve always read this as “safer than the competition” not “safety over everything else”

It's pretty wild that the AI Lab that won the "safety" marketing battle continues to YOLO unguarded tools at end users.

going to just periodically reup @simonwillison.net's post

I really think "give AI total control of my computer and therefore my entire life" is going to look so foolish in retrospect that everyone who went for this is going to look as dumb as Jimmy Fallon holding up a picture of his Bored Ape

finally, we have invented the button that deletes your computer

like, Anthropic, are you kidding me

hey, so uh. I know we say nice things about Anthropic around here a lot, but under no circumstances would I recommend people use Anthropic's Dispatch, and I would blanket-ban, fully disable, their computer-use stuff they're off the rails with this stuff and it's irresponsible to have normies use it

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

CERN took some antiprotons on a field trip! apnews.com/article/cern... (HT @matociquala.bsky.social)

The extinct Platybelodon, or “what if elephants were also body horror” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platybe...

the teaser text here is for another article... oops

bummed i can't make it to @atmosphereconf.org later this week so i've shipped my telepresence robot to @bmann.ca who has graciously accepted the responsibility of assembling it for the conference

Stand up to SLOP at Patreon.com/TonyZaret

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

coming soon to an app store near you: connect even more deeply with group clip clops™

over the weekend, @iwsmith.bsky.social's team rolled out a new version of the "suggested for you" interstitial on profiles that recommends accounts to follow. follows nearly tripled. should be a noticeable improvement for many of you. still room to improve, ofc. let us know if you have feedback!

Another win for Big Follow

@samuel.fm @esb.lol tiny sheets bug on iOS: if you tap a convo with an account that's deactivated/deleted/taken down, the sheet doesn't properly open up and the Leave conversation option looks strange and partially hidden

group chats on bluesky incoming