Universities should run PDSs, government(s) should fund relays/labelers. Pooling resource in Friends groups can be a start but can also be frustrating. Comunal sewers are run by public companies today.

Our cofounders Tessa and Mark are heading to Berlin soon for the Cypherpunk Retreat for privacy builders. Will they see you there?

In @germnetwork.com your ID is a public key represented as a card you create and share. This way you can express all the ways to are as an individual, multifaceted. I came across this idea also in the quickstart guide to @restate.dev as an example to store state across sessions (using tickets).

This is pretty cool! cc @ronent.bsky.social, who's building a social network for scientists, and @aendra.com, who will appreciate the in-depth exploration of the dataviz (and probably a lot more). #science❤️bluesky

For the last two years, I've been paying for the Astronomy feeds hosting myself. It has been a privilege to grow our community here, but I also shouldn't keep doing it for free 😅 That's why I'm delighted to announce that we now have a donations page on Open Collective! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography

Getting ready for circuit-control.de?lang=en Workshop on soldering synths from Kits, spare parts and your imagination. Follow the robot🤖

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Nice write-up about #protocolsforpublishers, a great event in NYC last week I had the pleasure of helping with, with thanks to @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca @chadkoh.com @ruperts.world and many brilliant participants: www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-...

My thesis is that LLM chatbots as we experience them now are dangerously broken single player products. It's a mistake that they're single player, and the design patterns that need to exist to make them better will need to come out of social design, not ML.

So much truth coming from @devingaffney.com I had to repost twice

On the way back from #ATProto_NYC - what a friendly, fun, collaborative and inspiring community! Super excited to be building @cosmik.network in the ATmosphere. We win by out co-operating the competition 🤝 Props to @bmann.ca @knowtheory.net @chadkoh.com & everyone else who made this happen 👑

We’re getting the @betaworks.com space setup for tonight’s #ProtocolsForPublishers event that starts in a few minutes. I’m the MC, and we’ve got talks by @ivansigal.bsky.social, @devingaffney.com, and @ruperts.world

Alpaca festival on algorithmic patterns is coming up 12-20 Sept, starting with a huge diversity of top notch pattern-based music + crafts in Sheffield, plus dozens of online talks with watch parties in Barcelona, Berlin, Linz + Sheffield. Full info +tickets: 2025.algorithmicpattern.org

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

This is an extraordinary provocation for anyone tempted to replace coalition politics with preference agregation. That is: AI-enabled democracy is probably not going to be democracy.

In case you missed our latest blog post, check it out here: "Durable AI Loops: Fault Tolerance Across Frameworks (Without Handcuffs)" 👉 restate.dev/blog/durable...

We discussed rivers as actant systems just recently with @sabinebarthold.bsky.social

At Unternet, we believe the web is about to be shaken up by new ways of accessing information – and the entire business model is at risk. ChatGPT is just the start. We're announcing Protocols for Publishers to address this. The first talk night will be August 20th. lu.ma/gb050dwt?tk=...

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

The Alpern-Schneider Theorem (1985) Every system property P can be decomposed into: P = S ∩ L where: • S is a safety property • L is a liveness property In other words: Ensure that nothing bad happens while something good eventually happens bsky.app/profile/domi...

Noch einmal auf Deutsch: Wenn wir in Europa digitale Souveränität wollen, brauchen wir eigene soziale Netzwerke - aufgebaut auf offenen Protokollen wie #ATProto.

Announcing our final Graze Grants winner! Weaver (@nonbinary.computer) is building a flexible writing and publishing tool for long-form content on ATProto that keeps creators in control of their work and where it lives. We're so excited to see this grow into a home for writing on Bluesky!

IMO the term ‘Enshittifaction’ has risen to the top because: 1. Allows to act out against the widespread taboo of ‘you shall not talk about matters around excretion’. 2. Allows to skip analytical work to distinguish between multiple effects we dislike - very useful for defending cynical positions.

Make no mistake, and I don't use these words lightly: this is war. If you own digital infrastructure you own everything that rides on it. The Brazilians understand it; it's time European leaders moved from vacuous promises to action.

Are you cypherpunk? @kuehlewindt.com at @web3summit.com

I am so glad that I live in world of music, meet with friends to do sound experiments on a regular basis and have frequent conversations with Friends of Alan, a kind of mutual aid group of musician who make & share music.

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@sabinebarthold.bsky.social Let's talk on Monday 🤝

Protocols for Publishers is hosting two days of discussions in NYC in late August. On Aug 20th, join us for an evening showcase of discussion across ATProto, MCP, Web Applets, Web Payments -- exploring protocols for a sustainable agentic web, and futures that aren't disintermediated by platforms

We have two announced speakers: * @ruperts.world from @unternet.co showcasing Web Applets * @devingaffney.com from @graze.social explaining AT Protocol I'm acting as the MC and helping to organize with my friendst at Unternet. Thanks to @betaworks.com for hosting in their event space!

Reuters reports on our Eurosky initiative whose goal it is to establish a full, legally compliant #ATProto stack in Europe. But not only that - we’re working on a commons moderation service that can act as an incubator for smaller ATProto devs.

We are struggling to make this obvious to educators as well: The observation that Mastodon culture is centered at a single instance. Federation helps connecting those islands but people are still locked-in culturally. Also fact-checking is complicated in isolation.

"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...

I made an intro post on the @smokesignal.events Discourse forum. I want to help run a local instance in Vancouver with some friends who are musicians and promoters, I want to see about making a "Conferences App" product on top, and I want to see a bunch of other event products grow on top!

Do you think that Europe should bargain away its digital sovereignty to appease Trump and the broligarchy? Strong majorities in Germany, France, and Spain are against that (YouGov). @coricrider.com and I have a better plan: www.politico.eu/article/digi...

"Digital Sovereignty" sounds abstract but this poll shows *exactly* what it means: who has power to set rules that shape our lives. Half the people polled there think big tech is more powerful than the EU. The problem is: they're right. Is this an acceptable state of affairs?

Great write up from @manton.org with some ideas on #longform on #ATProto coming from @micro.blog He's also in the ATproto Touchers Discord in the Lexicon channel.

I wonder if this could be usefully turned into a "Liberation Pathways" interactive. You pick a use case that you want liberated, say news media, and it highlights every chokepoint that needs to be neutralised for that to be the case.

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Contemplating this article while watching cartoonish white clouds on my phone and outside. Both. @disquiet.bsky.social disquiet.com/2025/06/20/s...

"Okay, I love this, and I am no longer objective."

"Art is an open, distributed and participatory network".

Gardening, workshop metaphors, and how everyday things shape our view of the world (creating meaning). That really appeals to me. Two thoughts: Can this help shape the use of AI? And: Yes, why not have some fun with GenAI now that it has devoured our entire cultural heritage?

Build a ”Not A Typewriter” with I2C Solenoid Driver and Adafruit Feather RP2040 running CircuitPython learn.adafruit.com/not-a-typewriter #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/khEFYlZObyA

A far more representative benchmarking between all the top genAI models could be done by comparing them on a shared baseline of training data. Open, ethical-as-possible data like Common Corpus builders.mozilla.org/announcing-c... or Dolma allenai.org/dolma

Yesterday I got a message from @michae.lv about a presentation at #facct warning LLMs were uniquely unsuited to picking out harmful language used by Generation Alpha presented by a 14-year-old. So I wrote about it for @newscientist.com share.google/lQV8OAqM7byM...

the aigis cli is open source, kinda crappy, and also available. run it using `aigis --cli`. github.com/tea-party/ai...

This call by watermuseums. net reminds me of the talk "open-source is sewer" by @psharratt.bsky.social AHOY.eu/speakers/paul inspire digital public infrastructure like sewers.