Asking the real questions

Solderlocks@solderlocks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Given that the cost of developing software is falling, will the thousands of unusable government websites/apps finally be fixed? Could new ADA cases be won by citizens who have been blocked from accessing services?

Welcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️‍⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:

Flushes

The Internet's Bathroom. Post your flushes, see who else is in there, and keep every record in your own AT Protocol repo.

flushes.app

forgot why I didn’t like this gastroenterologist the first time now I remember 🤡

are you telling me if i should wasn’t so chronically online from a young age i would be an even bigger smarty pants? /s /lh

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2d ago

Research reveals a negative impact of social media on academic performance Early social media use among teens has a negative effect on competence scores in both Italian & math. The earlier the social media account was created, the more pronounced the negative effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Changing your phone provider = changing your atmosphere provider → keep your phone number = keep your identity (username) Changing your phone = changing what app you use* → keep your contacts & photos = keep your followers, following, posts, etc. You can change providers without changing phones.

Track the birds caterpillars and trees* you find! Or see what others find. All with the account you’re seeing this from! No new login. 🧪 *previous post of theirs includes the tree site

山貂@yamarten.bsky.social · 3d ago

今週のリンク #ATプロトーク * lexicon.communityのプロセス改定 * Ask Everything: 質問&回答プラットフォーム * birds.place: 鳥類観察 * Hypo(Gray Card): 写真撮影情報管理 * Caterpillars: 招待制フォーラム * QBank.study: 学習サポート(医療系向け) * LinkRing: リンクリスト作成 * ATPcraft: atproto統合マインクラフトサーバー * maintainers.space: コードホスティングサービス横断管理 * Spark Nexus: 自作カードゲーム

Friendly reminder as LLM papers come out that headlines aren’t everything and designing studies on these things are hard and costly, therefore more likely to carry an asterisk of “under these specific conditions (that likely don’t reflect real world usage)”

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 5d ago

"an AI-assisted condition (𝑛 = 55), where participants were allowed to use an embedded LLM (gpt-4o-mini) in whatever way they chose while writing." I just don't find Prolific samples told to basically do whatever copy paste they want very informative design for motivated writing

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

This is a wild ride for real

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 6d ago

This story about a college bio lab fuckup is fucking wild from start to finish arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

okay i wanna but the stories apps to get a community lexicon going but first can someone who knows things about migrating lexicons gimme the DL? we still need to move the @atstore.fyi ones i think but i don’t wanna bork it 🙈 #atproto dev adult help requested ty

Bluesky and Leaflet are in the Atmosphere!!! ...wtf does does that mean? Here's a little explainer, written for everyone. No tech experience or prior knowledge required. All you need is 4 minutes or less :D

What is the Atmosphere?

An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.

lab.leaflet.pub

excuse me you did WHAT this is so cool 👀

Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · last wk.

I’ve been working on an Exaclidraw fork for about a week that syncs your drawings to your Atmosphere account as well as uses Iroh for realtime encrypted end to end collaborative work. I feel like it’s at a stage where I can share it. Meet lexidraw.app!

"And maybe don't stop tailscaled over Tailscale again. ;)" look,,,, (is right)

finally setting up my home server to run @letta.com agents 👀🎉

you can tune your settings on atls.city too! it’s very nice. i set mine up to show me buffalo and rochester and less politics, more art

ATlas

Discover users, explore cities, and see your mutuals on the ATlas map.

atls.city

business goose🪿@goose.art · 2w ago

highly recommend checking out the near you feed, very cool and fairly accurate to people in your area you can also tag yourself on atls.city to improve its confidence!

yes and 🫢👀 (iykyk)

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 2w ago

This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >

Hypo is now out! It provides a rich metadata layer on top of @grain.social records, including gear and workflow abstractions as well as tools for photo annotation and search. If you shoot film, it also provides a stockpile tracker, shot logger, and development timer.

Hypo

Hypo is a tool for organizing and sharing your film or digital photography: the gear you shoot, develop, and scan with; the workflows that take a film roll from capture to finished scan; and the prove...

hypo.graycard.app

instead of waiting to finish writing i'm just going to ... post the blog??? truthfully do not see how i'll ever publish blogs if i have to finish them in one go. follow along to see how i #atproto-fy this thing later ;)

remoras diaries: part 1

i need a place for notes that works the way i want (and need).

notesbyarielm.leaflet.pub

multi passionate ppl who can’t pick between interests stay winning 😎 also i’m here to tell you ai won’t be solving biology understanding anytime soon no matter what they’re telling you lmao. many limitations in our understanding are physical (some can be overcome w better texh), social and ethical.

Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · 2w ago

going to be an emotional crisis for lots of *specialists* folks decided to go all in on narrow depth and the rewards from that are going to be under steady threat a diversified portfolio of skills and interests, meanwhile, enjoys steady returns under this paradigm compositional problem solving

FYI your chat settings may have been changed by a bug. I’ve been fighting this bug for weeks and now other people are noticing and apparently the bug has been fixed but your settings might still be wrong, so. ✌🏻

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦@mackuba.eu · 2w ago

Wtfffff I didn't realize!

atproto fixes this

ceej@ceej.online · 3w ago

I am so fucking tired of creating accounts

asked and received: passport photo by my orthodontist after my visit 😆

This is wild but also not the first time I’ve seen reference to nonsense like this 😅 Multi-authenticated authorship is possible with atproto, yes? 😇 @chive.pub @atproto.science

Jean Léon Maître@maitrejl.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have seen a paper being published by the first author without any of the other authors being aware of it. 1st author made bogus Gmail addresses. Pretty wild 😱 I don't think asking for all of this contact info will help prevent a motivated fraudster though. Only annoying the rest of us 😮‍💨

Would you like an easy personal research website generator backed by @sifa.id and other atmosphere apps/data? ( @semble.so for library, @standard.site for blog, etc ) Inspired by the academicpages.github.io template all of us researchers use 😅

Sifa ID 🪿@sifa.id · 3w ago

Here's an early POC for a "personal website" run entirely on Sifa (and more atproto) data: sifa.id/p/gui.do/site (just append /site to your own profile to see it in action) You can also self-host it: github.com/singi-labs/s...

climate change is coming for us all 🤡 anyway not quiet as apocalyptic (yet?) as that time we also had to evacuate when living in livermore, ca

Cory Smith@wxcory.bsky.social · 3w ago

Unhealthy air quality is expected today across WNY and into central parts of the state thanks to wildfire smoke coming from Western Ontario and Minnesota. Limit time spent outside, especially as smoke thickens later on in the day. #Buffalo #Rochester #WNY #NYwx #wxonthe1s

real interesting paper and results in this thread for the #AI and #ML folks following me. also watching the "thinking" of agents it's very clear they go in circles, even when they try to get out. it's kinda funny, kinda alarming.

Sakana AI@sakanaai.bsky.social · 4w ago

We still do not fully understand what enables humans to navigate open-ended search in this way, or what ingredients current AI systems are missing. For now, the results suggest that there remains something important about human creativity that AI agents have not yet learned to reproduce.

just saw a post from someone who did a 5 year postdoc who just got a job in industry............as a postdoc 🧪 i'm dying and crying and why #AcademicSky

always a joy watching high schoolers learn they won't always get an answer because, in fact, there are often multiple right answers and it only matters if you can justify yours.

LLMs trained heavily on Nate from Leverage didn’t they? Cuz dude has said smoking gun 2x already in this episode and we’re only 10 min into it

This should go beyond Blacksky and just be general etiquette on the Atmosphere. There’s no reason to reshare inflammatory content that only traumatizes or retraumatizes people

JD (by way of Blacksky)@jdot.blacksky.team · 4w ago

Stop screenshotting and posting heinous behavior, report it to us so our moderators can investigate the account/post. You can also subscribe to our greenlist which allows you to block/mute repeat offenders.