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Kageyama Satsuki@kagesatsuki.com · 2w ago

Lmao @firefox.com calling out a lot of people

huge +2 to this if i was not given internet access as a child, i would've grown into a homophobic, transphobic, racist and generally bigoted human being.

aegisiondure 🫍@equalnotequals.com · 15h ago

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

US based folks who care about the internet surviving, especially the open social web, READ and then ACT TODAY The senate is marking up two existentially threatening bills tomorrow, KOSA and the SCREEN Act. Educate yourself and call your representatives TODAY.

"The S is for surveillance": fighting KOSA and bad internet bills in the ATmosphere and the fediverses

Part 2 of The Time Is Right: shifting from theory to practice.

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"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

THE MOMENT ALEX EALA BEAT JESSICA PEGULA IN THE WASHINGTON FINAL The first Filipino player, man or woman, to win a singles title Look what it means… she falls to her knees & lets it all out This title symbolizes so much to so many people 🇵🇭🥹

This time last year pdsmoover.com was being created 🥹. August 8th will officially be one year

PDS MOOver

PDS MOOver – ATProto tools for PDS migrations and backups

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Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · last yr.

I sorta want to write a web app that handles account migrations that are in limbo purely because I have the perfect name. Account has been migrated to new PDS, but it’s deactivated on new one, activated on old old one and PLC has not been changed. It would be called “Just sign the papers”

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...

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oh I like this! should we do for @leaflet.pub? idk if this *exact* thing but <3 the idea of encouraging convo not just recs/shares kind of a "yes, and…" ladder ideally, b/c likes/shares are *also* useful, but they are not The Thing! and yeah I'm a big fan of quote sharing as positive spotlight!

"Content" and the Engagement Wars

Why the word "content" has always been a red-herring, and comments are even better than Retweets.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev)@hikatamika.com · 6d ago

Haus of Decline put something I've been thinking about for years into a more succinct and shareable package. Today's #blog post both compiles and expands my thoughts on the word "content" as well as the Likes vs Reposts" debate. Spoilers: Comments are out of style, but they're better than either.

When we go into Autistic Burnout we lose to ability to suppress our autistic traits via camouflaging & masking to the same extent. Oftentimes, new traits “come out”, that we weren’t aware of before. Has this been your experience? What were they?

This. Plus "don't make enough money" is absolute bullshit. We have literally mountains of data on the value of college degrees. There is no such thing as a major or college degree that is not "worth it" financially. It's right-wing bullsh*t & should be treated as such. bsky.app/profile/coop...

Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

YES That's exactly what I keep saying to people asking me about atproto VS ActivityPub Different people and organizations will have different preferences about them, and it's fine, one might work better for another We can always communicate and find each other using the bridges

This. I don't think anyone is really anti-AI. They're anti-the-companies-pushing-AI. LLMs have some really incredible use cases. They can be assistive technologies, help with mental load, and allow you to focus more on the present than an endless stream of tasks or your phone.

Annie Sexton@anniesexton.com · 2d ago

Crappy morning. I find LLMs really beneficial in certain areas of my life, but a lot of people think AI use of any kind is the devil. While this is irritating, what frustrates me more is knowing the real problem is the companies trying to shove this crap up every orifice of our lives. I'm so tired.

OH! Also forgot to mention #Boardgames! From what I can tell, the boardgaming community is thriving on Bluesky. Hoping some decide to start Atmosphere blogs focusing on aspects within the community, like board game design, events, new releases, etc.

Debbie Ridpath Ohi@debbieohi.com · 2d ago

Hoping to find Atmosphere blogs (eg on @leaflet.pub @pckt.blog @offprint.app) focused on a particular community OTHER than tech or ATproto. Esp would love curated digests re: - #KidLit news - literary / #Publishing communities - indie #Comics - #Filk music community lab.leaflet.pub/3mp7sis6bfs2d

"What do you find appealing in the furry art?" This is a big post where I ask myself the question I generally ask furries a lot when I have the occasion. The alt texts gives more thoughts on the concepts I tried here. And you, how did you discover the fandom? Feel free to tell me if you want!

> Rudy deserves a lot of credit for taking those early risks when it was much harder to build and being the first to prove that it can be done, but it’s getting easier and easier. We are seeing more and more BlueSky and BlackSky-style networks pop up pretty often Shoutout the Original Risk Takers™️

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...

What if the DMA forced X into adopting ATProto? Ultimately I think it would be better than what we've got now, I think everyone should be on ATProto or AP, but it wouldn't be better than the organization went down completely.

It should be 100% illegal to use AI to make deepfakes of candidates for political ads.

Being anti-AI isn't enough. You should be pro-art, pro-artist, pro-writer, pro-worker. Don't expend all your energy tearing people down. Spend it lifting people up instead. Make their voices so loud, their art so visible, it drowns out the slop.

Hot take: Proliferation of press paywalls and social media service deprioritization of external links have done more to throw gasoline on the fire of misinformation/disinformation than AI image generation.

hey bluesky, i've been unemployed since i graduated. i'm proficient in typescript and python, and can learn new stuff fairly quick. also familiar with using LLMs in various ways. Please hire me.

What’s funny is I’m a real tech wonk. If AI wasn’t in the hands of untrustworthy rich fucks with delusions of grandeur, I’d be all in the boat for a bunch of reasons.

have people just completely forgotten that some things are fun/enjoyable to some people and not to others? i love baking my own bread! vast majority of people do not make their own bread and get it from a corporation producing it at scale with machines! i don’t shame them or look down on them!

MegaMasterX@megamasterx.dev · 5d ago

it feels so freaking good to code, dude. like human to IDE. how do ai-pilled people not find joy in doing this by hand. i genuinely dont understand.

From Reddit, a reminder that different places have different environmental issues. Here's the Buriganga river going through Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the mass of rivers that flow into the Bay of Bengal. A beautiful place with a lousy, corrupt government that has zero interest in providing services.

good late evening from the Philippines, open social web people! might be the last late night session before classes start for 2Y1 (2nd year first semester) in college later morning

“A society that treats naming racism as the greater offence has confused the mirror with the wound.” Saw this on the fediverse but damn it's a good read: e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

We must name racism when it happens | E-Tangata

"It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters him." — M...

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Rest well. Know that you are loved, appreciated & respected. Even if its just a stranger on the internet you dont even know and have never met. If you needed this, then this measage is for you. If you didn’t need this, same. Be well and be kind to yourself no matter how hard, friend. Take care ❤️👍🏾

Hi guys, I'm sorry to have to ask for this again but I really could use your support. My father died recently and now I have fallen behind on rent. If you could please chip in a few dollars, it would really help me keep going. I need to raise $10,000 asap to pay expenses. Thank you so much ❤️

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- re: first issue, I am working through my "saved posts" on Bluesky app by turning them into post embeds and adding to issue-specific @semble.so collections, both on main and this account (yeah, twice the headache I guess) that's the update for now! ✌️

good morning from the Philippines, quick updates on the Atmospheric Furry Radar: - first issue will drop soon over the weekend for July 12 through 25 then second one around August 4-5, pardon being busy with other stuff - still tweaking the @leaflet.pub publication on theming, especially with fonts