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shoutout to a German court for getting the facts about Bluesky wrong but the interpretation right, in a new ruling that actually has positive implications for open social networks connectedplaces.online/the-algorith...

The Call for Participation for AT Protocol Devroom at #FOSDEM 2027 is open! 🥳 We invite builders, operators, researchers, skeptics and community members alike, regardless of background and past speaking experience, to submit a talk. More info 👇 discourse.atmosphere.community/t/call-for-p...

🇧🇷 ✊🏻 🇷🇸 ✊🏻 Keep it going!

Arc was my favorite browser for four years. In Atlassian’s shoes I’d still have killed it, and probably bought the company too — we are mostly arguing about price. numergent.com/2026-10/They...

Arc is on the shortlist for 'company with the dumbest version of ai psychosis' award imo, killing off their own beloved product to make a much worse version of the same thing but with ai arc.net

i used to be a data analyst, created many a sales dashboard in large orgs, and looking at the usage numbers on the dashboards that youve created was always a great way to realise that some bullshit jobs indeed exist and that mine was one of them

i do appreciate the ai labs' steadfast conviction that the entire economy consists of creating sales dashboards

the future does indeed go FOOM

my problem with this sort of 'proactivity' in models is it conflicts pretty hard with workflows that involve creating a plan first, and that trips the models up constantly as a result

im so dizzy now, but this is fun

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Had a few hours to kill in Oslo, went to the Nobel Peace Center, and what a disappointment. It’s for people who think that if Hillary Clinton wins the next election everything will turn out fine again

The goose has the mic: our Call for Talks is open! AtmosphereConf 2027, the Netherlands, Apr 29-May 2. Builders, artists, journalists, moderators, researchers: doing something real on atproto? Tell us about it. First-time speakers welcome. Round 1 closes November 30. atmosphereconf.org/speak

We're delighted to announce that the Eurosky Identity Platform has been officially verified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a digital public good (DPG). eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

the majority of regular bsky users don’t like ai. A large part of the atproto power users are also ai power users. Attie’s features feel consistently targeted at regular social media users and not power users. This is a bit of a mismatch

My blog post that explains the latest #WSocial controversy is up: 🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/public-by-de... Disclaimer for W folks: this work is entirely self-funded, with childcare help courtesy of my family so I could write the first full draft on Sunday 💁‍♀️ #WIdentity #WSocialFacts #privacy

New video up, because I kinda had to vent my spleen a little bit. People gotta stop going to the token casino all the time, it's just not good

Everything is computer, except computer, which is power

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

🎉 Here it is: eu.boell.org/en/2026/10/0... English version of our Open Social Web Alliance paper is finally out. As mentioned to many of #Disinfo2026 folks. Feedback very welcome! #oswa

Dear friends who don't speak German: Go to YouTube ASAP, turn on subtitles → autogenerated translation and watch this video! TL;DR: #WSocial is posting legal names, nationalities and approx. birthdays of verified users as a public record on the Atmosphere. Confronted, they claim it's "by design" 🤯

great panel with @robin.berjon.com @scarnecchia.net and @cathleen.eurosky.social who reminds us that "if we want to have a chance to create an open social web, we need to think how regulations have consequences for that future, and not just how they're meant to be regulating Big Tech" #disinfo2026

Skywatch got another email from Shellenberger. He’s a crank yes, but Canada, Lithuania, and the EEAS pulling their sponsorship definitely speaks to some some sort of political pressure campaign targeting #Disinfo2026 and now I’m worried about if I’ll be able to get home without harassment.

also a wild @laurenshof.online skeet appears 🤭

gm from this little guy i ran into on my morning walk

Okay I’ve got a side project and looking for a pixel artist: animated characters with idle, walk and reaction cycles, plus wearable accessories that fit every frame. Game sprite experience is a big plus. Please reply here 👇 or DM

i wonder if we're gonna see a version of Duchamp's Fountain but for GenAI, or if attention is so diffuse now that there is no real way for an artist who wants to create controversy to kick up a storm now

The core differentiating factor of Bluesky as a microblog is the default feed, and the value of the collective labor going into this potentially transformative affordance is dying on the vine

got frustrated this morning with nextcloud, spend my afternoon fighting the UI of Home Assistant (and losing), and thought 'is it too cynical to say that europeans should not do design', only to log in on mu.social and see in my 'fu' feed (official name) that W-social calls their posts "Weets"