One of the things most quietly grieved amongst practitioners is the half-century of history and work in learning systems and technologies which have historically been categorized as “AI”, and they’ve all been run over by LLMs, and by the hype cycles the industry has *built* around LLMs. A huge loss.

The crash outs after the Mamdani & Wilson wins are 🤌🏼 I was just happy about a brighter future, but now I'm enjoying the worst people losing their minds, too

discussions are happening on the IETF ATP mailing list about working group scope and high-level goals. if you care about how the existing protocol meshes into the standards process machine, I encourage you to weigh in! "[email protected]", you should subscribe and read current threads first

Went today instead, making it 9h of Muay Thai this week. Exhausted, but hurts so good, and we rewarded ourselves with giant bowls of pho 🥊💪🏼

"We're all part of Team Open" 💯

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

"We're all part of Team Open" 💯

Time for a mid-month #ProtocolsForPublishers newsletter! Packed to the brim with information at the cross-section of open protocols and web publishing. This edition features AI getting news wrong but more people using it, community building, and witches! protocolsforpublishers.com/platforms-po...

*taps on meme*

Community-based social networking servers requires communities to set up new servers. but what if the act of 'communities-starting-servers' is tied to specific periods of time? connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Oh look, a little press! Thanks for covering FediMod FIRES a bit @fediversereport.com ! connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

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Almost certainly Seattle. Population went from 600k->800k, the city went from no rail system to a top-10 busiest network, region became an absolute economic powerhouse, there’s a total transformation of the waterfront, and so much more

My one simple trick across the internet (and in real life) is "don't post death threats," and it's been working okay so far

The best way to have freedom of expression is to write in a space that you control, in a form and medium that you control, for an audience that you have a direct relationship with. It just so happens that when you have space for context and the form fits content, you have better conversations, too.

Third session last night, and they pushed real hard on barbell this time. My whole body is screaming and all I'm thinking about is how I get my kicks harder this Sunday.

sooo i have spent the majority of my career working to fight the sexual abuse of minors and i also think that normalizing posts about violence towards women is bad (however repulsive the women and their beliefs are) obvi no one is feeding anyone to a woodchipper but i'm with bluesky T&S on this one

"It was just a joke" - hilarious when it's someone you align with, bannable when you hate that person

truly remarkable how "i need to be able to make death threats on public social networks" is the main divisive issue of our time combine that with the saying thats popular on here of "Neurenberg trials for the trump admin is the moderate position" I wish everyone a very GLHF with moderation

I’m giving a talk at @eurosky.social titled “EuroCloud to App Liftoff in the ATmosphere” As EuroCloud builds out hardware and infra services, what are the opportunities for building the next generation of EU designed & hosted apps? With ATProto building blocks.

Coast to coast, cities are showing that deep pockets no longer work

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Excited to finally release more features on @anisota.net that Bluesky doesn't even have yet! 1. There's an ATProto "explorer" built into anisota.net now. 2. The @leaflet.pub integration got so much better. 3. Set custom appviews. Also... something special is dropping around Thanksgiving. 👀

New in Leaflet: notifications ❗️🔔 We kept it simple to start — notifications for: - comments on your posts - replies to comments you make - new follows of your publications Log in & see here: leaflet.pub/notifications What *other* things do you want notifications for? Reply & we'll make a poll!

I realize there’s a lot of news happening right now, but it’s still wild to me that Meta is making billions of dollars on scam ads and ads for banned goods and no one is holding them accountable

you should follow the newly elected progressive mayor of Seattle

Coast to coast, cities are showing that deep pockets no longer work

We took on a powerful incumbent who was expected to coast to reelection. We faced more corporate PAC money than has ever been spent attacking a candidate in a Seattle election. We built a people-powered movement rooted in hope for our city’s future. And we won. This is YOUR city!

A lot of people think of moderators as eldritch entities that are bound to the exact words of the spell and if you don't speak the exact words, you cannot be moderated! Whereas in reality it's a bunch of very tired and overworked people going "are you fucking kidding me with this shit"

multi-scrobbler (by @foxxmd.dev) 0.10.2 has landed Teal.fm tracking support! this scrobbling client provides support for Jellyfin, Plex, Deezer, Spotify, WebScrobbler, VLC, YouTube Music, Last.fm, ListenBrainz, AND MORE! check it out: github.com/FoxxMD/multi...

This is such a banger 🔥

Huh. Looks Bridgy-able and Bounce-able to me 🤔

No, see, the problem with modern consumer technology is that the computer isn't in your face, constantly giving you information

more atproto news this week, with the launch of the knowledge sharing platform Semble, a new music streaming platform plyr.fm, hosting a static site on your PDS, and a whole lot more links

Every Chromium browser

And it's live! Go play the fun new daily puzzle game my amazing, smart, incredibly goofy wife Colleen has been working so hard on!

“Oh you work in trust and safety? Name every single cultural element for all global cultures for all time.”

Now I'm watching Physical Asia and it feels like I basically did nothing yesterday

And now, we celebrate 🎉

hey folks, if you want to be on a platform where there are so many people that all your friends are on here, you’re going to have to understand that moderation needs to happen at a scale that it doesn’t care about the context of johnny cash’s catalog

The AppView fiefdoms are inevitable

If you cannot recite this by heart on the spot, you are uncultured

@kissane.myatproto.social really hit the nail on the head with the term "High context moderation," which I think is one of the huge benefits of community-oriented applications on the shared network. Has me all the more focused on making other appviews approachable to host.

Everyone wants free speech, but not like that, and exactly like this

I can recite numerous full albums by heart but couldn't spot a Johnny Cash lyric if you threw it in my face, and I'm definitely not in the minority. Please stop acting like everyone has memorized the things you enjoy.

Linux Distros are going to be popping off as well. With Microsoft killing Windows 10 support and users not wanting to upgrade to Windows 11, Linux is the better option. • Ubuntu • Linux Mint • Zorin OS • Pop OS • Manjaro OS Yep, 2026 will be the Year of Linux!