Mosh Lee
@mosh.bsky.social
Software, systems, and society. 💎 @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.
I listed a cargo bike for sale at the beginning of the summer, thinking the timing would be right for people interested in warm weather adventures. Crickets, then 8 inbounds the past 2 weeks. Turns out everyone is shopping for new school commutes. Bikes are infrastructure.
Philly volunteers at double the national rate. I wrote about this phenomenon, programs that multiply that impact, and where volunteering falls short. (Started as a Leaflet draft, accepted as a guest commentary in the Citizen, and reposted back on Leaflet 🫶🏽) mosh.leaflet.pub/3ms5pw73kbk2t
Leveraging Volunteer Love
From public parks to open source software, donated labor needs a professional boost to really thrive.
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This is wildly irresponsible. Even if there are legit uses (modeling flooding or wildfire devastation, maybe), they could drastically cut down on misinformation abuse by rendering in a lower-res illustration style. Also, watermark the hell out of it and host an image checker service.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
First impressions after 24 hours with the @blackskyweb.xyz Android app: 1. Visual design is pretty straightforward, but they've found ways to show a bit more content and less chrome. It's nice! 2. Loading and switching views is noticeably snappier. 3. A few bugs, likely related to federation.
Grow a bigger pie, don't fight over the slices.
dame@dame.is · 6d agoin a community like ours, i think it’s tacky to say “stop using [Atmosphere app] and use [other Atmosphere app] instead” when i released @aturi.to i didn’t tell people to stop using @pds.ls or @atproto.at with @anisota.net, you won’t find me saying “ditch bluesky, mu, blacksky, etc”
Everyone complaining about the new Washington Ave connector has never tried to get a 3 year old across 6 lanes of traffic and it shows.
ATProto builders, I've been having some really positive conversations with multiple funders who want to invest in the ecosystem. The tides are shifting, the interest is here. But, we need to talk. 👇
This list of data center requirements is actually pretty solid and reasonable. At state or national levels, this would spur much-needed innovation. (w/ municipal it's too easy for a developer to just go next door while still selling to the same audience) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)...
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This is Philly's 5th Council District. What in the holy hell of gerrymanders?
Are there any Bluesky clients that automatically strip location data + suggest alt text for images?
If you're tired of reading AI slop, read Emily Wilson's LRB review of The Odyssey. It is one of the most incisive, distinct pieces of writing I've come across in a long time.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hot take of the day: with the ballooning of SUVs and dangerous driving, true cycle paths (even if fewer miles of them) will have a bigger impact than bike lanes. *personal opinion only
I need to dig 40 post holes for trail network signage this fall. Has anyone trained a dog to dig on command? If it helps, I have the best doggo in the world.
@wired.com just broke that facial recognition scanners were shut off for the duration of Taylor Swift’s wedding at Madison Square Garden, demonstrating the dynamics of privilege & power when it comes to who gets to opt out of mass surveillance. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...
Sup friends! (I'm here remotely.)
Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 2w agoHappy IETF ATP Day for all who celebrate!
Such a good interactive, visual piece! Not unrelated, I'm grateful the Inquirer is owned by a nonprofit.
Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 2w agoFrom pirate lore to George Washington’s hideout, these 13 Delaware River islands have stories to tell.
And I'm increasingly convinced that the impact of practice > principle. Maybe even > (gulp) protocol.
Emelia@thisismissem.social · 2w agoSaid something interesting to a friend today when they asked about different open social web protocols. It might be a little bit controversial, but: I think that ActivityPub is decentralized in principle, whereas AT Protocol is decentralized in practice. 🧵
He's showing his equivalent of the tattoos, too. This is not going to end well. www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/p...
Maine Democrat frontrunner faces scrutiny over alleged anger outbursts | CNN Politics
Troy Jackson’s brash conduct raises alarm bells about his temperament as the nominee for a key Senate race, some critics said.
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78°F / 25.5°C is a sublime summer evening temperature, I will die on this hill.
🛑 The way we were taught to think: "We should provide universal [public good X], but how will we pay for it?" 🟢 The way we must learn to think: "Because [public good X] should be universally provided, we will work to rewrite the rules so that we can always pay for it, no matter what."
Will Beaman@greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 3w agoSome principles for euthanizing the rentier in a renewed democracy. 🧵 Rather than asking how to protect democracy from finance, we must ask how to redesign finance so that democratic commitments become the highest-priority promises in the system.
Introduced last month, the Pedestrian Protection Act would direct NHTSA to address the rapid rise in pedestrian fatalities related to increased SUV and pickup truck size. Thank you Congresswoman Scanlon & everyone working to get it passed! scanlon.house.gov/news/documen...
Scanlon, Thompson, Friedman Introduce Legislation to Prevent Pedestrian Fatalities and Make Streets Safer for All Road Users
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Ben Franklin Bridge party was an absolute madhouse. The hours were too short to accommodate all the demand. Wall to wall people going across, and a standstill at the exits bottlenecked by food truck lines. We treat walking like a half-day spectacle, and make it terrible the other 364.5.
Are you working with civic open data? Or other kinds of cool data? Reach out! There already are some cool projects for geo/sat and astronomy data — making dataset metadata available and searchable in a decentralised yet unified way — and we want to help more of them emerge!
Spec debt is a kind of technical debt. Really nice to have this one out the door!
Daniel Norman@norman.life · last mo.We shipped content addressing to millions of users, then spent ~10 years pretending the spec already existed. 😅 Well, billions of CIDs later, it's finally real: the official CID spec is live on the @ipfs.tech specs. specs.ipfs.tech/cid/ Thanks @lidel.org and @robin.berjon.com
The answer is parks, plazas, and libraries.
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 4w agoAt its heart, this is a story about sprawl and the lack of a public square in many cities and towns. Places with parks, plazas, and places people can access for free often have outdoor concerts, movie screenings, or just ways people can socialize and have fun without having to pay for it.
Hey @roomy.space, any plans to make a PWA soon? (Or maybe you already have one and I missed it.) The abilities to find the app easily and keyboard-switch would help so much.
I'm stuck in Scandinavia, but found a timely read: "Do not be the least frightened to be called social democrats; it is no shame. Know that socialist means 'society improver' and what can be more beautiful than to make a rotten society better." Happy 4th, America! medium.com/@triciawang/...
Malmö: A City of Ongoing Experimentation
Preamble: In August 2012, Media Evolution’s, The Conf invited me to Malmö, Sweden, to give a talk on my work in China and how to design for…
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