Arikia Millikan
@arikia.bsky.social
Founder of CTRL+X, decentralizing the future of digital publishing ✍🏽💾 Recovering journalist 📝 Parrot whisperer 🦜
Today we’re launching Bluesky Protocol Services, a new brand and website for the infrastructure Bluesky operates. And Jetstream v2, the best way for developers to use atproto at scale, now with network replay. atproto.com/blog/introdu...
Introducing Bluesky Protocol Services
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
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Every such article should trigger an automatic follow-up on the stated date, like the preregistration of a clinical trial
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d agoThere are high-up editors at prestigious publications who wrote or greenlit like dozens of “Moon Base to Open Within Six Years” or “Space Hotel Slated for 2026” headlines. Nothing happened to them. They just get to keep doing it. Wild.
Media doesn’t “make” anyone do or believe anything. But it does provide permission structure and prioritization for what people think society will accept them doing or believing. This can be much more powerful and determinative than the seterotypical didactic propaganda we typically imagine.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last wk.What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
Man, remember a decade ago when every website "pivoted to video" to chase absurdly high metrics, but then it turned out that those metrics were absurd because they were literally fake? And no one ever experienced consequences for that lie that shifted a whole industry? Anyway, let's chase Threads.
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last wk.So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
another reason to socialize healthcare is so that it doesnt let bad people use accrued wealth to put a thumb on the scales like this because they are afraid of their date rapist grandson not being able to afford a morgan wallen branded doghouse to store his jet ski in during the winter
Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · last wk.The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
Turnitin has long used its end user licence agreement to use students' work for product devt. Now it's trying to update it to use essays for AI devt too! Prime example of academic content assetization - turning student IP into a source of value codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
AI and the amplification of academic content assetization
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…
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Ian Linkletter@linkletter.org · last wk.I found them! They are linked on Berkeley's website here classrooms.berkeley.edu/news/clarifi... h/t @other95.bsky.social Direct link to Turnitin's explanations of the proposed changes: view-su2.highspot.com/viewer/40018...
@holke.xyz Hey! Great to meet you at DWeb. Let’s connect in Berlin sometime!
Will be in NYC Aug 27-Sep 5 and SF Sep 5-27. HMU if you want to build better decentralized publishing systems with me, or talk about it.
I am a huge fan of the BoysClub newsletter but this is one of the most absolute cringe pieces of content to ever grace the internet. I hope Natasha got her entire retirement paid for doing this. No other explanation. www.instagram.com/reel/DZ-lSY9...
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Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.
How do surveillance, censorship, and technologies of control get weaponized—and how do we push back? I spoke with Jonathon W. Penney, author of "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age," about his roadmap for reform.
A Roadmap for Confronting the Chilling Effects of Censorship, Surveillance and New Technology
A conversation with Jonathon W. Penney, author of Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age.
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The experience of reading journalism on the internet honestly couldn’t get any worse. Who wants to help trying to make it better?
When I click a link to find info about a tragedy in my community, this is the UX:
People act like it’s impossible to do the right thing and succeed but its actually pretty easy to do it and have everyone love you and you can even be a goofy silly guy and do it
Steven Santos@stevensantos.bsky.social · 4w agoGuess who had the integrity not to accept $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year?
Dreaming of the days you could end a call by snapping a flip phone shut.
Tapping into our Gibson glass tower fever dreams coder David Vidovic shows off his elite skills with a righteous animated ride. We just need some proof that we were here... 💾 Hackers (1995) Animated Experience hackers-1995.vercel.app #hackers #hackersmovie
They are ok with white supremacy but draw the line at ai content.
Substack's new tool tells you who's been writing their newsletters with AI | TechCrunch
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
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@pfrazee.com Nice to meet you at Dweb! Would love to stay in touch and explore AT integration possibilities for CTRL+X :)
You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
Look what AFRICOM is already doing on the other side of the continent:
"We Initiated, Basically, A New War" in Somalia (Director's Cut)
PLUS: American Prestige x FOREVER WARS on the war against the left—a left Rubio says belongs to Cuba, which he thinks will scare you
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Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4w agoSure, why not another military adventure in World War Trump? Amongst other questions raised by this reporting is whether the executive branch considers JNIM and IS Sahel to be within the scope of the 2001 AUMF. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
A social app where everyone’s avatar is a baby pic of themselves and you let your inner child speak to the other inner children on the network. The arguments would be so cute 😍
This is concerning but also my first thought upon learning about password managers was basicically what if this happened: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm
Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties with a Russian counterpart — an arrangement that experts say poses a state-lev...
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Climbing the hill of AT protocol and starting from scratch on a new network seems daunting after Twitter/X thoroughly destroyed all the joy in the short-form content experience. Advice on starting over on Bluesky?
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
I gave a TED talk last year about the origins of my obsession with decentralized media. It’s personal! Please give it some social media love if any of it resonates with you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_x...
How Decentralization Prevents Digital Disasters | Arikia Millikan | TEDxBerlin
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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It's the job of newsrooms and platforms to keep their journalists/users safe from hate campaigns. Ask any journalist from a minoritized group who live this daily.
Jody Amable@jodyamable.bsky.social · 10mo agoGood piece from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social : reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/write-b...
