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The last couple of months have been filled with conversations that have me more excited about the future of the internet than I've been in 20 years.

It’s pretty great when an 18 year old blog (and blogging platform!) can get integrated with modern standards. Congrats @opensource.google for connecting Blogger to @standard.site

A series of linked threads which are all true, but in my view skirt around the central fact. This is a discussion about land, land in the UK has an owner, it is seen as an investment. This is a discussion about money, historically it is a an issue of power.

📣 Upcoming webinar on co-production in divided social-ecological contexts @violetcv.bsky.social will share insights on designing, facilitating, and evaluating co-production processes on polarising topics. 🗓️ 13 October 2026 🕑 09:00 AZ / 12:00 EDT / 18:00 CAT/CEST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/ypp5radv

We are #hiring! 🎊 The Stanford Natural Capital Alliance is looking for a Nature Finance specialist to join the team either in Stanford, CA or Washington D.C. Apply today: stanford.io/4jOBvoU #NaturalCapital #Hiring #NatureFinance

𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱, the world's largest peacebuilding org, is running 𝗔𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆, an EU-funded project, on Agora in Kyrgyzstan.🕊️ Through Amplify, citizens, civil society organizations, and local authorities come together to deliberate on local development issues.

“We have the tools. Now we need each other.” We’re delighted to join the 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 in Paris on 𝟮–𝟯 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 as a Community Partner hosted by Deeply Human Innovation together with the Learning Planet Institute. Hope to see you in Paris: deeplyhuman.io/summit

OK, I wrote up a whole blog post with some more detailed thoughts on this. Curious if anything here resonates with other folks. Thanks to @iame.li, @dholms.at, and @bnewbold.net for helpful pointers and discussions! pckt.blog/b/bits-of-en...

A beautiful piece by Sam Sussman about how libraries connect us, even across time and space. Check it out at the link below and check out his book BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, out next week. www.wordsandmoney.com/my-mother-li...

Challenging article from Tom Wheeler! His formulation of the problem posits that our existing playbook from electricity or broadband might not apply to AI, but there are good solutions to explore like public compute, nondiscrimination rules for AI infrastructure, and better and safer open models.

It has been a month since a rogue frontier AI hacked HuggingFace, and little has changed in policy or public discourse. Some thoughts on AI safety, the need for distributed power, and how federal legislation like the FRONTIER Act is urgently needed. publicknowledge.org/it-is-time-t...

One of the best talks I've ever seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-... If you want to get to some cool parts, you can skip into 15 min or so.

A long talk

many ways of energy flow

"What capacity does a rural place need today to shape its future in a sustainable way?" Silvia Brandi presenting farmlab.at and the international FabLab Network in her keynote during the valleyofthecommons.com at the @commonshubat.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMZ...

today we're gonna talk about hubs like the @commonshubat.bsky.social , Akasha Hub Barcelona, Liminal Village in italy, Commons Hub Brussels and Traditional Dream Factory in Portugal join us for the keynote ‚monasteries of the 21st century' by Lorenzo Patuzzo www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7QM...

join us online for the keynote by @kilianjoerg.bsky.social: “Reclaiming the commons“ speaking on nature & ecological collapse, radical commoning and our love for machines producing a certain lifestyle www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFr...

the second week of Valley of the Commons is starting at the @commonshubat.bsky.social with the keynote by Roberto Valenti from liminalvillage.com speaking on building a regenerative commons with a social, legal and technological stack centered in community building www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH17...

“nature is more redundant than efficient” @jeffemmett.bsky.social

Kilian Jörg 's work revolves around the cultural narratives we build to metabolize ecological catastrophe, and the radical strategies for living otherwise. They've published several books on these themes and currently teach at arts universities across Europe.

How do we think productively about escaping an ecocidal, capitalist system — and what grows in its place?

We're thrilled to share that Kilian Jörg, an artist, philosopher, and fav anarchist, will be joining us at Valley of the Commons during the second week (Cosmo-Local Production, 31st Aug-6th Sep 2026).

absolutely fascinating that satoshi had reached out to @mbauwens-p2p.bsky.social back in 2009 blog.uncommons.cc/cryptoflight...

If you are nearby to Tokyo, this may also be a good place to find atproto connections. Tagging @moja.blue to help spread the word.

I got into tech six years ago because I figured I could have an outsized impact on making a less harmful, more empowering world for workers and marginalised people. Only this year, I started connecting IRL with people who think this way. Here I tried to write about the ways that's transformed me.

learning is always an option

With huge community level implications: workloads increase as journal editors, grant assessors, job panels, lecturers, and research student supervisors have to spend more time assessing human integrity than scientific content. Expectations increase for all as LLM-generated careers are normalised...

Meta's ongoing censorship against queer and women's rights organizations is technofeudalism at its best (or, worst). Read here: www.waag.org/en/article/w...

Two great posts about atproto today, very different from each other.

Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

Recommending an episode of Syntax.fm with Dan Abramov if you want to better understand atproto.

Thanks @there-hugo.dev for doing the work of making a process for designing a @lexicon.community logo! We're looking forward to going through this process together!