I attended the NY Co-op Summit this past Saturday. I met tons of smart, dedicated people and had really exciting conversations about the role of tech in the worker-owned business movement. So much opportunity, time to get to work! #coops

This is the way: blog.muni.town/personal-dat... #atproto #coops

AI customer service is going great. How exciting!

This is a great one!

Taking down the temperature.

Pieces like thus imply that Internet content is immune to the FCC's censorship shenanigans. IMO it's worth keeping two things in mind: 1) the FCC also regulates ISPs in the US (many of which are also media companies), and 2) a federal court killed net neutrality in January, 2025.

Word.

A new record level of national stupidity.

I keep hearing smart people like @profgalloway.com say new media will be a bulwark against the authoritarian media oligarchs. Maybe, but remember, net neutrality in the US died last January. won't be shocked if the FCC unleashes their chaos machine on ISPs next.

😂 My gf finds it very funny that I listen to them. I assured her that I don't listen to "the murder ones."

*39 million* people on @bsky.app!

I’ve added OAuth login support to Tap, my little Fountain editor on #ATProto learning project. No more app passwords! 🎉 tapapp.lol

I don't use Kilo and have no ties to them, and I realize the post is intended to promote their own business interests, but I think it's a useful analysis of how "cheap" LLM pricing was always too good to be true.

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Damn, so much of where we’re at can be traced back to Bush v Gore.

From an email I received announcing The Browser Company getting acquired. Here's hoping the carefully/passively worded "will continue to exist" means open-sourcing Arc.

To get my brain around #atproto, I made a basic web app that edits and saves screenplays in Fountain format in my #Bluesky account. It actually works! You can check it out at tap.diggetal.com

Uh oh....

The most creative thinking about how to address economic problems is coming from #coops. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

My friends have had to listen to me rant about this for months. I *hate* video "podcasts." The first time I heard a podcast host say, "We're now on YouTube!" I literally cried out, "No!!"

It’s nice to have a workmate, but do you really have to insist on lying *right there*? #cats

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Venerable spot where poet Dylan Thomas drank himself to death. Ah, #history!

If I was obscenely rich, I’d live in the West Village of NYC, 100%. Alas.

Great event and great talks! #atproto is one of the most exciting technologies of the past 15 years, really excited to build on it at @limeleaf.coop .

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

If you’re in Denver, don’t Uber, Coop!

I’m boarding a myself train at 11:15!

@foxnews.com.web.brid.gy , whatever you do, DO NOT SAY MAMDANI. 🤣

Yup

Looking forward to attending #protocolsforpublishers in NYC on Wednesday. What is PfP? Learn more at pfp.unternet.co

Our own @jluther.net will be at this event next Wednesday in NYC. DM us if you'd like to connect in person! #ProtocolsForPublishers

As usual, Cory nails it. Never forget the dream driving this bubble: zero employees, government subsidies covering all other costs, 100% margins. pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/t...

It’s deeply concerning to see LinkedIn remove a policy protecting transgender and nonbinary people from one of the most prevalent and extreme types of online anti-trans hate at a time when trans people are under unprecedented attack, writes GLAAD’s Jenni Olson. www.techpolicy.press/linkedin-joi...

I finally updated nounly.net. People wanted more feedback after each guess, so I added (um, plagiarized) a Wordle-ish yellow/green hint widget. I also improved session management so you don't lose progress. Enjoy and let me know what you think in the comments! #puzzles #WordGames

This is a great one! (probably because @mubashariqbal.com and @blainsmith.com did most of the talking)

Another reason why I ❤️ New York, (scroll to the bottom)

Penny got sprayed by a skunk this morning. Not a direct hit, but she stinks, for sure. I thought #cats were smarter than that. 🙃

If you are cutting staff and other costs from carbon-based life forms because #AI is "cheaper," YOU are the one hallucinating. 🧵

Hell yeah. #unions

This is amazing and hilarious (and not really about microwaves): www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Your tax dollars at work deporting the worst of the worst. apnews.com/article/texa...

And yet I still can't set a default zoom level in Docs. 🤷‍♂️

Move your feet, lose your seat. #cats

Testing automated posting of new jobs to social accounts in @apply.coop. Pretty cool. WIP, but coming soon!

Matt Stoller, excellent as always. substack.com/home/post/p-... I wish we knew who this anonymous "corporate leader" he quotes is, because he summed up this entire issue in one sentence: "Generative AI...is a capital-friendly technology, not a labor-friendly one."

It's been an action-packed week at @limeleaf.coop !

Time to step up with some $$! (esp. if you're getting a tax cut from the BBB)

LOL

Every music service is owned by #bigtech. Quit them all and give your $20 a month to any of these fine folks: kcrw.com/music/shows/... www.wextradio.org www.kexp.org