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I'm signing off of @bsky.app 1. Microblogging is the fertile soil upon which anxiety and toxicity grow. My mental health is more important. 2. At the first #AtmosphereConf, it was said that for @atproto.com to succeed, Bluesky must fail. I agree with this more today than ever. #BainCapital

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” — Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique

“An undesirable society is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.” — John Dewey, Democracy and Education

World Happiness Report 2026, the social media edition The way they approached the call for papers is really intriguing, start with the hypothesis you'd expect and then as for more expanding and challenging the ideas. Nuance has been surfaced. #atproto #atdev www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/

Back to the drawing board for Digg, some interesting tidbits for #atdev digg.com (just a blog like page now)

PBS Frontline new episode on Iran www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWao...

Dear #UK, I propose a trade deal #NoKings for #NoConfidence

Interesting observation while starting my fresh backfill... Many PDSes have some form of "bluesky" in the available domains, as opposed to "atproto" #atdev

Some nice graphs and stats in this one

My exclusive story on the new program, featuring comments from federal public defender Geremy Kamens of Virginia's eastern district, who spearheaded it. "Every time we’ve had a Supreme Court case, we’ve sort of had to reinvent the wheel," said Kamens. www.law.com/nationallawj...

Since August?!

not to distract from the real talk, but I would love to see an OpenClaw version of this

Pulling out of Iran is like pulling out during a one night stand... It was a mistake from the start and it will be really expensive if you don't

HN's thoughts on the big news, have your grains of salt handy, but also important to know what people outside the #atmosphere think too :] news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731...

fixfest.therestartproject.org

Court filings for Anthropic v Government They are just sueing anybody it seems :] www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379...

The editors at Foreign Affairs have compiled some of the magazine’s best coverage of the war in Iran—and what might come next. Explore the list here: https://fam.ag/4cyAjCB

@mikeblack114.bsky.social Did you see this and/or did I miss your commentary on it? thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

The ultimate fix for your smart* TV plasma-bigscreen.org *spying

blog.system76.com/post/system7...

Next Anthropic v Government episode dropped www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

What the world thinks about a number of things The questions are more varied than the title suggests www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

There's also a related queston for the atmosphere here: if a news website whats to add a share to Bluesky button to their website, should that button say Bluesky? If yes, should there also be a button for Blacksky? If no, what should it say instead?

@simonwillison.net reading through your clean room post, have you thoughts on the Ai output is not copyrightable, ergo it cannot be licensed either? SCOTUS refused to hear appeals a few days ago, so lower court ruling stands for now. This post explores, not a lawyer too tuananh.net/2026/03/05/r...

My choice clips, this piece is really good

AI perspective from a former Block DevRel blog.moot.dev/chasing-the-...

Hinton is one of those rare people who truly understands how both AIs and humans work, and has also read philosophy from the right sources (he refer to Dennett there). And he's not shy about pointing out how most people have a hopelessly wrong view of how people work, which is the main issue.

www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/f...

I've now printed and shipped over 20,000 whistles, sent across the country to groups that need em. That's 20,000 off a single 3d printer that has basically run continuously in my basement since about mid-January. The crew I print with has sent out over 1M now, and we can send to you too. toot.supply

Toward a Federal Framework for Online Age Assurance from @lawfaremedia.org, by Soham Mehta www.lawfaremedia.org/article/towa...

There are 350 North Atlantic Right Whales left. Their primary method of death is ship strikes. Since these protections were implemented in 2020 the population grew by around 5% - 7%. This rollback will be catastrophic.