An excellent post on the importance of safeguarding our online digital communications. It’s not about having nothing to hide. It’s that our online data is used to enrich corporations & billionaires, (subliminally) manipulating our beliefs, weaponized by politicians & destroy democracy & freedom.

❤️ Love Springsteen!

Starting a series on Open Social! Hoping to spotlight some of my favorite atproto projects :) And your favorites too, so tag them in the comments! There were a ton of logos in this video, so I've tagged everyone in the comments #tiktoksale #opensocial #atproto

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Chat Control has seen many different iterations over the years, and now that it’s coming up on final negotiations, what the proposal does and doesn’t protect can be confusing. Here’s what’s going on. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Is anyone else getting a TLS error when attempting to call a public Bluesky endpoint like 'resolveHandle'? #atproto #bskyapi @pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net @matthieu.bsky.team public.api.bsky.social/xrpc/com.atp...

Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.

Tom Hanks on mask wearing: “I’ve had COVID enough in my life” www.thecanary.co/global/world...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Only we can protect our health. Just like choosing to wear a helmet, a seatbelt, and not smoking, I’ve chosen to follow the science & statistics to protect my health and my finances. Once lost, it’s gone forever. I proudly wear a mask when at public indoor venues. My health. My choice.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

The IETF OAuth Working Group has adopted the Client ID Metadata Document specification! > This specification defines a mechanism through which an OAuth client can identify itself to authorization servers, without prior dynamic client registration or other existing registration.

Hello World!

Zeppelin demonstrated the strength of an open, decentralized architecture. With alternative Bsky-like AppViews, Apps can provide users choice by setting the “atproto-proxy” header to an alt AppView’s did:web. This versatility is great for users & App devs to diminish reliance on a single entity.

@pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net Just confirmed a concerning behavior when deactivating & deleting a self-hosted account in the Bsky App. It deactivates & deletes the account in the PDS thereby removing access from other @Atproto apps. The Bsky App warning doesn't inform the user of this behavior.

Hello everyone! Announcing Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025. Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programe exploring the European open social web. If you're building on ATProto and interested in showcasing, please reach out! To register: luma.com/knk1342n

📍RFK Jr. has crossed the Rubicon. The war on science isn’t looming - it’s here. I had hoped that after the darkest days of the pandemic, we could start rebuilding a stronger science world. I was wrong. So, starting today, I’m back. And I want you to join me. drericding.substack.com/p/im-back-be...

#ATProto developers: please go look at the proposal for auth scopes. It's really important and has very little feedback on its discussion page. I have strong feelings about it but I really want to see what everyone else thinks.

I've developed an algorithm to find out who are my real ones and who are just faking it. Which my therapist says is good behavior

Shared by @thewhn.bsky.social on Twitter earlier today: short 🧵 here (ref screenshot): threadreaderapp.com/thread/19350... More info here: whn.global/want-to-redu... #COVID19 #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAwareness #InfectionPrevention #PublicHealth

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Many are asking why bird flu has suddenly disappeared from the headlines. The truth is, it hasn’t gone anywhere. According to my CDC sources, H5N1 is spreading especially among symptomatic farm workers.

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youtu.be/vqeIeIcDHD0?... #longCovid

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST. Use our template available on our substack at peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

Novavax receives approval but with restrictions in people under age 65. #Medsky www.statnews.com/2025/05/17/f...

Ripped straight out of Project 2025. Because the Heritage Foundation isn’t about American values or whatever. It’s about shilling for industry and capital.

The Republicans tax bill is here. It does NOT ban taxing tips. It does NOT ban taxing overtime. It does NOT ban taxing Social Security. Trump LIED to you — y’all got PLAYED.

In Trump’s America: kids can’t have more than two dolls, but the president can accept a $400 million ultra-luxury jet from Qatar’s royal family, just weeks after the Trump Organization signed a deal to build a luxury golf resort there.

The fact is… we have a slower disaster cooking… It’s similar to the climate emergency. Slow, but may be devastating. #LongCOVID

Bill Gates on Elon Musk cuts to USAID: The richest man pandering and taking away funding for those poorest and most in need. The cuts will result in millions of deaths. 

I have met thousands across our country who do not feel that our party is fighting for them- there is a reason for that. Many of our elected leaders are not and are failing to meet this moment. It is time for that to change.

For Mother’s Day, I want everyone who agrees that we need to love and care for one another to join the #MomSky by adding the hashtag to your posts and joining this feed: bsky.app/hashtag/MomSky #MomSky

Busting up big corporations.  Tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics.  Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

Testicular cancer was fatal in ~95% of cases before cisplatin was developed in the 1970s. Today, survival exceeds 95%, even when cancer has metastasized. That’s thanks to: Chemotherapies Scientific research Biopharmaceutical therapies Evidence-based medicine 1/

Dear all retailers: Post that tariff added cost with the price Signed, Consumers (Amazon actually got it right until they caved)

Young people deserve the right to privacy. Florida’s SB 868 is a dangerous bill that intends to decrypt teens’ private messages, ban disappearing messages, and allow unrestricted parental access to private messages. Stripping away the safeguards that encryption provides puts everyone at risk.

Today the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule was published in the Federal Register, finalizing the much-needed modernization to the COPPA Rule. Read more here: epic.org/updated-copp...

Unvaccinated kids face up to 20 times higher risk of long COVID, analysis finds. "Preventing COVID-19 infections in the first place, including through vaccination, appears to be the best way to avoid long COVID" Study: www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... Source: archive.md/ljlLj

Unacceptable Starbucks! You should support your employees’ right to staying healthy! It’s good for your bottom line, their well-being, and your customers too. Unless you rescind this policy, I’ll be getting my coffee elsewhere. Second thought, I think I’ll get my coffee elsewhere anyway. Bye. Bye.

Soon only white-bodied Americans who have “bent the knee” to Trump will be able to travel or study internationally — and return back home.

Very creative, San Francisco! 8647 ✊

To those making up Republican leadership, it's YOU motherfuckers that are enabling this shit. It is on YOU. You could end this shit quickly. It's YOU people are pissed the fuck off at. Don't you fuckers even think about blaming Trump, Musk...or any-fucking-body else. YOU are fucking responsible.

Because inaccessible healthcare, gun violence, and road violence do not give us enough ways to die prematurely in the US…

There are now so many more ways to die in America.

Studies show 25% to 30% rate of Long Covid. #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

"“We’re not taking any steps to reduce the risks of a nationwide epidemic,” he said in an interview with NY1, saying he is alarmed by the latest data on people diagnosed with long COVID and the lack of awareness of what seems to be happening.". ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...