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➡️ My 2025 Open Social Web Prediction Score Card: before I try my hand at predictions for the Open Social Web in 2026, I try to do a sober look back at my 2025 predictions and how they did. See what you think. www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/20/m...

Anyone have a pointer to the leaflet lexicon on GitHub or somehere? #atprotodev

New: a *trail* on @danabra.mov's sidetrail — a mini-guide to getting started with Leaflet & social publishing! Try: making a doc (and a canvas) …publishing to a blog (or a looseleaf) …interactions like subscribing & commenting… wdyt? anything to add or clarify?

ooooh, new @revolution.social pod with @jay.bsky.team!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0O4...

We're doing the next @atproto.london at Newspeak House on 28 January, it's been like 3 months since our last one so I want a solid lineup of talks. Will announce soon but figured I'd put out an early RFP. If you want to do a talk about something ATProto-related at the next event, please ping me!

I was going to write a reply, but it got too long (300 char limit), so I put it on my blog and posted a link here. scripting.com/2025/12/16/1...

I'm glad to be able to help local journalism connect directly with their audience outside of the owned social platforms www.lenfestinstitute.org/institute-ne...

Celebrating #Erlang’s 27th birthday as #OpenSource, Elixir Hub 2025 survey results, new data_migration LiveDashboard package, critical #React RCE vuln, and Zig leaves #GitHub, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWy...

AI is wrong sometimes. Some of us seemingly don't want to accept that. But then you try it over and over again until it's right. That would be a terrible way to use your brain, to use random tries until it worked, rather than thinking of the solution first. But this is not a brain, it's a computer.

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...

When we were planning the August edition of @protocolsforpublishers.com we knew that being in the US wasn’t going to work for a lot of people. @chadkoh.com is running with it & now has set a date for London in early February.

Got a few inches

what's the lexicon for sharing original music on bluesky #atproto #lexicons #atprotodev

Before 2007 or so, if you had a blog it was considered rebel. "You work for us and you are publishing your own thoughts?" Then came Twitter and Facebook. Not positive in the long run but positive in making publishing personal ideas mainstream.

What is information?

Much obliged! Hottest ticket this spring youtu.be/mR2aQ-HE8iQ?...

Inspired by the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, I used it with Nova Multimodal Embeddings to build "SemStash", a semantic storage for humans and AI agents: dev.to/aws/building... #AWS #AI #Storage #Python #MCP

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Posting on Bluesky about my article about Bluesky in @techpolicypress.bsky.social Composable Moderation decentralizes rule-setting, reducing pressure on any single platform and limiting attempts to “work the refs.” www.techpolicy.press/composable-m...

Early bird tickets for #ATmosphereConf are available NOW. I'm even told by a reliable source that the weather will be incredible, but not so great that you don't want to attend sessions.

Having a Scotch

AI finds its way into Apple’s top apps of the year

Gemini 3 having a bad day?

One thing I can say about Mastodon is they share a lot more news links than Bluesky users (at least comparing my follows) . This isn't a feeling. I actually have counts

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west.

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west. www.theguardian.com

Google’s Antigravity AI deleted a developer’s drive and then apologized www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

#Instagram and #Facebook begin shutting down accounts as #Australia’s under-16s social media ban looms - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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

We’re building Roundabout, an app and website for neighbors to connect. As we build, we’re grounded in research about what people actually want, and we’re working hard to deliver that. But what DO people actually want? newpublic.substack.com/p/introducin...

Get all the details here: newpublic.substack.com/p/introducin...

WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

Scammers are using #AI to impersonate real lawyers - www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... "TBIJ finds dozens of Fiverr profiles advertising cheap legal advice with stolen credentials"

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★ Just published: 5ire — Smart desktop AI assistant with powerful local knowledge features Cross-platform desktop AI assistant supporting multiple providers, local knowledge base, and custom prompts. Integrates MCP protocol for enhanced AI tool capabilities.

Natural Language SQL with Oracle MCP and LangChain4j Want to build agentic applications with MCP integrations in Java? Sure! Just use Langchain4j. In this article, we'll build a natural language interface for your database orchestrated by Langchain4j agents, integrating Oracle's SQLcl MCP server…

The next OnePlus phone could have the biggest battery the company has ever put into a handset www.techradar.com/phones/onepl...

‘Rage bait’ named Oxford University Press word of year as outrage fuels social media traffic in 2025

"Historically low vaccination rates, skepticism fueled by the pandemic, misinformation, and “health freedom” ideologies have put communities at risk for the reemergence of preventable, potentially deadly viruses like measles and pertussis." #RSNA25 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is building tanks again, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports.

Trump's lack of regular voter contact has contributed to a growing fear among Republicans and White House allies: that Trump is too isolated, and has become out of touch with what the public wants from its president, @jonlemire.bsky.social writes.