that's right

Progress towards private accounts is a very big deal and I’m thrilled to hear an official Bluesky person say it put loud!

normalize paying for critical social infrastructure (or running it) works for search: i am a happy paying customer of @kagi.com, a search engine that finally shows me results relevant to what i search for

I’m back to emacs as my daily driver in fact, VS Code’s excessive UI is back to being a distraction from what matters

this is really good. I am an optimist here: I think models are going to bring vastly more secure software than is the current state. But it's gonna hurt getting there.

A recap of #atmosphereconf 2026 as well as an overview of why I'm spending my very limited free time in my life betting on ATProto (and why I think you should, too!) This isn't just for developers. This is for everyone. brittanyellich.com/atproto/

boy am I feeling this one today. Even if you are STRICTLY butlerian-jihad-now the approaches you should take to advocating against "dumbass integrations that don't work and nobody likes" and "thing that is totally upending software dev at tremendous computational cost" are reeeeeeaaaaaal different

It's not the user's fault if the marketing team have swung wildly between "this will be essential for doing your job!" and "this is guaranteed to put you and your family out of the job!"

Hey on this note we’ve (@mysilio.com) been thinking about this stuff since 2019 now and have been a coop since 2020 and are suckers for a good cause, if anyone out there ever wants to chat open social and coops hmu.

atprOtO is a giant pile of economics problems people keep misconstruing as engineering or product problems. Raise money and hire a COO, or better yet, hire a fractional COO now and pay them in whatever combination of equity and cash you can manage so they can help you raise them a FTE salary.

Putting my time where my #atmosphereconf ecosystem mouth is: if any early-stage ATProto team needs help honing their ops or strategy, ping me. If we are aligned, we can find a way to make it work.

the Atmosphere needs a LOT of care to be a functioning space for us all to have nice things. there are many people here with experience in tradbiz, both sides of grant and philanthropic funding there was even an expert in co-op structures at #atmosphereconf! ask for help! offer to help! dms open!

@burrito.space is ringing the alarm bell and I agree with him. Double down on creating shared structures (co-ops etc) and pooling funds to support each other. Mutual aid, even. Yes @rude1.blacksky.team way out ahead of this as per usual.

hey, if AI proponents hadn’t been making up nonsense about AI tools while forcing them on us, then maybe people wouldn’t reflexively block AI tools, even when they actually work. that’s not on normies for being rational consumers. that’s on AI proponents for being systematically full of shit

Absolutely true. I've been using Claude Code a LOT over the past few months and still haven't decided whether this will end up being harm reduction/know-your-enemy work or the harbringer of a knew and exciting phase of working with computers.

This is also a correct take. The Big AI industry writ large did very much bring this PR clusterfuck upon themselves.

Alright ATmosphere Conf fomo is in full swing, won’t miss the next one!

police lie, and have no duty to protect you

Snopes said this is actually true www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

My latest:

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

Was skeptical, so I checked The White House app permissions myself, jfc

LOL

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

I recognize that this will not be a popular opinion, but I think it's true. And I hope people will read the whole thing before they start yelling at me based on the headline.

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

as a seasoned Trump watcher it's clear to me that his tale about Iran reaching out to make "a deal" to end his war of aggression is mostly if not entirely fabricated and represents a desperate attempt to find an offramp before the economy and his political standing totally tank

Do not give your local officials a moment of peace until they remove these horrible Flock surveillance cameras.

A great way to spend your time right now: yelling at your local lawmakers about why they need to stop installing those horrendous Flock cameras.

As someone who is still part of that dying breed of professional indie bloggers, I've been saying this for years. There's nothing stopping us from reclaiming corners of the internet again

The Atmosphere is a new open network. The features: - Your account works on all atmosphere apps - You can switch to a new provider with no fuss - Easy to make your own apps on it - Works great with personal websites And, Bluesky is an atmosphere app.

To be clear, the Republicans who policed all of our speech when Charlie Kirk was killed, & who jump on anyone who doesn’t mourn their heroes correctly, have just opened the door for every liberal & leftist in America to post ‘Good, I’m glad he’s dead” when Trump eventually dies.

here it is folks! lots of details to still nail down, but this is roughly where our heads are at for the design of a permissioned data protocol give it a read and let me know your thoughts!

I read this assuming Saxon was the baby he drags around the White House. This is Saxon. He's 20 years old.

site’s got the juice

for what it's worth i don't think Abughazaleh should feel bad at all if this goes the way it looks like it will from here. she ran a strong campaign in a spot where she was always going to be a massive underdog and she came much, much closer to doing the thing than I expected.

This is… cathartic

There are a lot of different paths to sustainability with atproto projects. Trying to make this open to a lot of different directions, not just investor funded startup. Many of the challenges are the same: who is the customer, who pays, how to get adoption.

When Woke 2.0 kicks off we're going to make these guys read the full text of Catullus Clockwork Orange style with their eyelids pulled back

um excuse me I didn't have an amiga and the game is called Gemstone III

Every Peter Thiel story is so outlandish that it sounds like anti-billionaire propaganda. Why would you try to convince 12 different billionaires to cancel their plans to donate their wealth to charity, let alone brag about it publicly?

This is dope.

It’s wild to work in tech at a time when tech CEOs are trying their best to look and sound like cartoon supervillains.

Alysa Liu and Ryan Coogler, god bless Oakland

I see some people pushing back against it and it reminds me that I was part of the generation who first learned Java in college instead of assembly. There were similar concerns that we would be deficient as computer scientists. It hasn’t hurt my career. I expect the same will happen here.

Margaret Atwood on AI

Using secure messaging services for all communications and considering what content you post on social media are just two easy ways to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to us in the offline world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

What are the best AI/LLM tools for collaboration? A lot of things seem to lend themselves to individual use, but I’m curious to explore more what is built to support teams and collective empowerment, decision making, etc

"War is peace"