I was pretty sold on Peter Watts' "Blindsight" for having both neurodivergent vampires AND aliens in the same book, but now it's introduced me to a great quote and a nice philosophical thought experiment for AI in basically the same sitting.

The Segment/Optimizely/Mixpanel/FullStory era of startups really fucked the game up. People collect data (surveil) their userbase just because they think they're supposed to in order to be successful.

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear, and no concept of the odds against them.” - Robert Jarvik

do want to clarify that i am not an official member of the blacksky team and am just a very strong believer in @rude1.blacksky.team & @blackskyweb.xyz mission !! #blacksky is community funded so the best way to support the team is by offering a one-time or recurring donation !! 🙏

this is dope lol

BREAKING NEWS: TikTok is changing hands to US investors on January 22 and the algorithm is being retrained! Thanks for being here and supporting @reedharmeyer.bsky.social and me ☺️ Time to get to work 🫡 @skylight.social #tiktokban #tiktoksale #news

Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere sources.news/p/whats-next...

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

If your thing says Bluesky without mentioning Blacksky, it's cool -- I'm just going to act like you and your project and your company don't exist. It's atproto or stay on your side.

Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team joins @rabble.nz to discuss what it takes to run decentralized social media at scale. In this ep: - How @bsky.app grew to 40M+ users with a tiny team - What makes the AT Protocol different - Why the right to exit matters for social media Watch now: youtu.be/p0O4dRi7nPs

If your Blacksky handle becomes invalid & switches to a myatproto handle, you need to (1) go to blacksky.community in a web browser, (2) log in (you will need to use your .myatproto handle to log in) & (3) follow the instructions in the screenshot provided by @rude1.blacksky.team below:

OK, y'all. We're back... Major thanks to @rude1.blacksky.team and the brilliant Blacksky platform he's built. We bypassed the "age assurance" hurdle by logging into Blacksky. Give Rudy all the things, y'all. All the things!

@nickharkaway.com, Gnomon.

“In America, one can never escape the inevitability of race. It’s happening now, as you read this—that inevitability, the one built on old power imbalances and a racial hierarchy, is pushing industries to the brink” reckoning with the reality of DEI for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

1997 internet-coded

Someone on here has been hitting me up since 6 months ago about coming to an nycmesh.net meeting (community installed and governed hi-speed internet) they’re bringing free WiFi to cemeteries + other cool stuff, and they’re looking for a new HQ!

the Discover tab is a route to a dark land

Another shout out to @germnetwork.com for displaying the Blacksky logo for users hosted on our PDS. Also leading the way by calling it atproto and not just bluesky

certain things don't even deserve attention you ask me how it's going? it's going according to plan.

My favorite thing about Rudy is that he will bring you along. There’s no gatekeeping in his world. It’s amazing.

Live in a bit! We're going to do a live watch+react of Rudy's Web3Privacy interview, followed by fixing the 🔴LIVE feed, followed by quite possibly making Google Slides on stream. Television!

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

Some people took down entire websites, changed mission statements and mandates or dropped entire projects at the start of this year But kept the job Kept the title and kept posting online telling other people what they can do to save the world But couldn’t even hold the line themselves.

We often use the word "publish" at Bluesky.. when we talk about how the protocol works, when we say you're publishing a post to the network.. I think it's because we see atproto like an open source manual for how to build your own printing press.

It’s not an echo chamber, it’s a collective of like minds building power. It’s not pointless to mainly gang up with those you’re aligned with.

> Unfortunately, I'm CEO AND the top shooter for my gang > My grandma told me keep my grass low but whole time-- > I'm the snake

as was recently announced, Blacksky Algorithms are Cypherpunk Fellows. And as I mentioned in my podcast interview with @web3privacy.info the original Cypherpunk movement was deeply flawed. Timothy May called for the extermination of Black and Jewish Americans and died a miserable old man.

Building on the @web3privacy.info @protocollabs.bsky.social Cypherpunk Retreat in September, we're excited to announce the first cohort of Cypherpunk Fellows... 🥁 🥜 Cashu Integration for ATProtocol 🗝️ Distributed MLS 🐬 Remote Attestation with Exported Authenticators 🍩 Simple Private Payment L2

vince for president m.youtube.com/watch?v=3w07...

to sincere post a bit: the ability to receive important timely updates like this one, from regional govt and institutions like this over an open protocol (vs closed/proprietary platforms) is a huge part of why I work on AT

Wondering aloud if the thinking on this has changed at all (cc @bnewbold.net) We're thinking through the spec for blacksky.cash particularly around collective funds (susus, mutual aid groups, giving circles, etc) and would like to use group accounts My first thought was group DIDs. More DIDs bad? y?

Diabolical

For you, the day Rudy quoted your post was one of the most important days in your life. For me, it was Tuesday.

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

competition keep dying off.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

red ascii openssl heartbleed

How I heard the story of the tech industry’s obsession with “meritocracy”, it stemmed from investment banker types laughing tech people out of rooms in the 90s as weird nerds. And they felt they too should be rich because they are “smart” and thus “deserve” Then built their worldview around that

One more thing... Any PDS should work with Deletem now. S/O to @blackskyweb.xyz and @rude1.blacksky.team for making it super simple to spin up an account and validate.

the whole idea of 'competing based on merit' implies what blacksky provides isn't valuable to them, and they'd rather have the scales set in a way that their expected actors can win more easily. Sometimes a whole really is more than the sum of it's parts and some folks don't/won't/can't see it

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

Excited to release my project from my year as a visiting scholar at BKC Harvard! This report and the accompanying podcast asks: how can communities come together on social media platforms, and what barriers stand in the way of solidarity? www.madelab.org/programs/soc...

Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team is the founder & ceo Blacksky Algorithms, building the intercommunal net, scaling safe communities with shared resources & democratic tools You can support @blackskyweb.xyz on OpenCollective opencollective.com/blacksky

Atmosphere Conf pt. 2! I’ll be speaking (again, but no tears this time, promise) It’s been a wild 2025 for Blacksky and the whole team is already excited for what 2026 will bring 👀 Looking forward to sharing more in Vancouver 🇨🇦

Missouri’s age-gate law took effect earlier this week, meaning 25 US states have passed a form of age verification. “The thing that people misunderstand most about age verification is that it actually applies to all of us ... Everyone will have to interact with this.” www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

This is a brag from the family group chat. My brother’s art peice protesting the so-called Alligator Alcatraz is showing in Miami. www.axios.com/local/miami/...

I'm happy to announce that my PDS, selfhosted.social, is officially open to the public now!

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