"it would be nice to see folks in the tech industry stop chasing their tails, desperately finding ways to apply new technologies to everything when sometimes the innovation we need is a little less technology and a little more of a personal touch."

Journalists - what do you really care about? We’re running a free online 2-hour workshop for journalists on 11/06 exploring exactly that; starting with your own values, before looking at how values shape coverage. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/commo...

Journalists: every choice you make about what to cover, how to frame it and whose voice to centre shapes what seems normal, possible or impossible in our culture. Rarely are those choices made consciously. A practical toolkit to help you understand how: valuesawarejournalism.org

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

"The problem is not the tool; it is the mystique that has grown around it. Mistaking mirrors for windows is not a technological error so much as an old human one." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

the section on high-trust micro-communities is the opportunity/hope, and feels like #atproto / #atmosphere is well-positioned to provide the infrastructure...

From Social Networks to Sensemaking Networks @ronentk.me unpacks what he and @cosmik.network are up to... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0C...

Going to host a Tech Talk again! I asked @trezy.codes to talk about HappyView @happyview.dev happyview.dev With the release of v2, it's an all-in-one appview - single binary, OAuth, built in backfill & indexing. Discord devchat stage for live questions + streamplace stream, May 28th, 5pm UTC

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

Beautiful beautiful beautiful essay by @terrygodier.com: www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i... Wonderful articulation of layering, wonderfully presented.

ATProto community, we're getting very close to VOD general availability! I've posted some draft versions of the following atproto lexicons: `place.stream.video` `place.stream.media.track` `place.stream.media.origin` Please roast my lexicons! What's good, what's bad, what makes you mad? Speak now!

super insightful reflections and lessons learnt about how to approach #localfirst development...definitely worth a read! www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/05/arch...

"the technology’s main challenge is buy-in from institutions, governments, and corporations, because they would need to issue and recognize verified credentials. Without their participation, the system is limited to peer-to-peer or experimental use." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Rewilding the Web will take place @schoolofppls.bsky.social on the 28/29th May! With @philosodave.bsky.social, @anil.recoil.org + Jon Crowcroft, Elena Rovenskaya, Orit Halpern, @georgien.bsky.social, @r-emrys.bsky.social, @blaine.bsky.social + others Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-...

How do we guide and support intuitions for what the #Atmosphere is and how to participate...? 🤔

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:

Hey y'all, I'm looking for some work to bridge the gap while I continue working on @cartridge.dev and @happyview.dev. If you have contract work for #atproto projects (planning, code, architecture), I'd be delighted to help. DM me with details. #atproto #OpenToWork #LookingForWork

For my first blog post, I've written some thoughts on open-source, StratosFund, and financial sustainability paths for Atproto. I hope it gets some interesting conversations started. #offprint https://the-better-future.offprint.app/a/3mkommpvxr523-a-better-open-source-future

Cool analytics on trending @semble.so collections from @uppy-hacker.bsky.social ! Lots of thoughtful curation is happening, and it's exciting to see how new analytics interfaces help show meaningful activity that might otherwise get lost.

"'Slop' is the word of the year" Indeed...

"(AI) extraction is just one dimension of the problem. The other significant problem is the way that monopolistic AI systems flatten and colonise everything, from culture and languages to economies."

Taking slow media to a new level, I've just sent a new edition of my newsletter, only 364 days since the last one buttondown.com/justenoughin...

just sharing a sensemaking artefact from a few weeks ago...will be interesting to compare and contrast with the discussions and narratives emerging from @atmosphereconf.org these past few days. #atproto #AtmosphereConf

it's working! (well, locally for now, but hey....) #PermissionedData #atproto

catching the live stream of @blaine.bsky.social discussing cheese, living systems and ecologies was an unexpected delightful start to my day and conclusion to the day @atmosphereconf.org #AtmosphereConf

The second installment of the ATmospheric Weather Report is here. ☀️ at-news.leaflet.pub/3mgzuvb2ah22z

this week's news is about how @tangled.org @npmx.dev and @alt.store are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

"The tyranny of the quantifiable" ....probably the most eloquently titled collection I've come across yet on @semble.so ! (and wasn't the least bit surprised to learn the phrase was sourced from a Rebecca Solnit article)

Check out my first blog! As the ATmosphere moves towards permissioned data, how do we make sure privacy is really preserved? Can we build a permissioned data app today? All that and more in the post 👀📅

The week-end is over so I'm pressing ⏸️ on my custom PDS project for now. Here's part 2 of my dev journal. I've learned a lot already and so far I feel like it might actually be worth finishing. It's really cool to get a more intimate understanding of ATProtocol and it's implementation.

the "thing" I wrote yesterday is now here in a publication... #atproto at-wayfinding.leaflet.pub/3mgsx6o3trc27

The articles that people are bookmarking on @semble.so are high quality. It's quickly becoming my go to place to consume dev content

The first at://news weather report is here, learn about what happened across the atmosphere this week and how we are exploring how to collectively-source future newsletters with your help!

My week-end side-project: make a PDS, maybe. So far I've skimmed the spec, and started playing with @rivet.gg. I'll be using existing libraries wherever possible, so it's not like an independent reimplementation. I'm going more for a customizable repackaging of the reference PDS if possible.

"Currently we're building pear: a permission-enforcing ATProtocol repository, tied to your ATProtocol identity through a service, as defined in the DID document (for now)."

Drafting a pitch deck for Lanyards. It just hit me that #ATscience 🧪 in the #ATmosphere 🌀 is very real now. @atproto.science → @curvenote.com @chive.pub @lanyards.app @hypgen.bsky.social @layers.pub @margin.at @andreasthinks.me @sealight.xyz @semble.so @standard.site @viewsift.com 😻 #ATproto 🪿

February updates for @cosmik.network & @semble.so ! Including @central.comind.network @funferall.bsky.social @uppy-hacker.bsky.social @tgoerke.bsky.social @o.simardcasanova.net @hacdias.com @bmann.ca @caleb.jasik.xyz @atproto.science

I can save bookmarks with @margin.at, file them in collections created with @semble.so, and both bookmarks and collections are visible in Margin and in Semble Oh, and if either Margin or Semble shut down, this wouldn't impact my data All of this dark magic is only possible thanks to AT Proto

I have a Private & Permissioned Data collection on @semble.so using the new “open” feature that I added this link to - feel free to add relevant links of your own semble.so/profile/bman...

It uses #atproto link sharing docs @margin.at and @semble.so and grabs them via the official atproto js sdk, and rehosts them in a list on my site. You can see the code here: gist.github.com/jasikpark/41...

The agenda for #ATScience is up! Check out the speaker list and full schedule below 👇 The range and quality of proposals we received really exceeded our expectations - thanks to everyone who submitted something! March 27, Vancouver - can't wait to see you there ✨ Sessions include >

For those that missed here's a Semble collection for links shared today: semble.so/profile/did:...

Thanks to @chrisshank.com for pointing out @pfrazee.com's short post with the backstory to this... "The name AppView came from a database processing ETL mindset, like a materialized view in postgres." www.pfrazee.com/leaflets/3ly...

Mulling this over for the last few weeks whilst building/learning around #atproto and now just going to say it... not a fan of the "AppView" term for the first-time builder.

today we had a class of young students (12-14 yr old) came to visit the @aial.ie on campus. they were so keen to learn about AI and most importantly I was blown away by the type of questions they asked us: water consumption of data centers, how openai makes money, why RAM prices keep going up, ...

little redesign of the collection page 👀 easily find out who's contributed and how many cards they've added 🌱 ...and a sneak peak of collection following 🤫

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Becoming risky taking a *quick* look @semble.so of a morning...so many inviting rabbit holes to get drawn down!