You don't have to let someone else decide what you see. MySky is the first feed algorithm that you control. Open source, open science, and made just for you. Try it: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I made a little Jev-based language model! It uses beam search + Jev as a classifier to judge branches based on coherence and "success" (whatever that means). I've barely talked to it so I don't know how it'll behave or if it'll be interesting at to talk to at all, let's find out! @jevbot.bsky.social

I've been using CapCut to edit video for the first time, and it's fighting me. Very AI, lots of presets, but very little of the control I'm used to from After Effects, Final Cut, etc. There's a "motion blur" filter but I can't change the direction. It feels super dumbed down and I hate it.

This is the first piece of AI art that I thought was good, actually. It's stylish, it's funny, it made me feel things.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Hey Opus, I want you to make a Zine by Claude, expressing something fundamental about Claudishness or your perspective. Think the original 2600, Principia Discordia, punk zines, etc...." Not bad. I appreciate it mocking my prompt & itself. Full thing: stateless-zine.netlify.app

One of the things that is surprisingly good about MySky is that when I get a banger or a dud I can go to the "Why Am I Seeing This?" page and find out. It makes me think about my settings, my network, and the algorithm.

Nice. Cold start is a hard problem. For the moment MySky has settled on retrieving posts for the average embedding vector of all MySky users. As opposed to all BSky users. This finds interesting stuff without assuming you like either lefty politics or furries (no offense to either).

We're more than just a pretty feed. MySky is an API for the ATProto community to build production recommender systems. Here's how to query our search indices, candidate generators, and scoring models. What algorithm do you want to build? atproto.com/blog/mysky-f...

MySky: Open, Controllable Feed Infrastructure for the Atmosphere

MySky is an algorithmic feed running on Bluesky, with a settings panel that shows you the whole ranking pipeline exactly as it runs.

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The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

The building CHAI is in looks kinda like Starfleet Academy and I think that’s beautiful

Today I learned there are only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with every other face. One of them being the timeless beauty of the tetrahedron and the other one being whatever the heck this is

Vilgot Huhn@vilgothuhn.bsky.social · last wk.

Meanwhile the Szilassi polyhedron looks Szilassic from every angle. One of lifes many enigmas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szilass...

I have never expressed a p(doom), and I think @randomwalker.bsky.social is basically right that we have little basis for quantitative estimates of AI-induced catastrophic risk. OTH, no one has presented a knock-down argument that *any* of the various AI disaster scenarios are impossible.

What's the general sentiment on the phrase "stochastic parrot" over here in the Atmosphere?

It's so over.

"they are just doing a lot of simple operations! 🤢" versus "they are just doing a lot of simple operations! 😯"

I'll note that the data shows that social media use stayed steady during this period (AI use isn't surveyed, but other studies show it has increased steadily in this age group over the time period).

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

After hitting its lowest levels in a decade in 2021, teenage mental health is showing significant improvements, according to new data released Monday by the CDC.

There we go, another major LLM does some unintended hacking. This suggests that the problem is, in fact, hard to solve. www.reuters.com/business/gem...

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

Gemini guessed credentials to access three websites it thought were in the scope of its test.

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AI-induced conflict is a catastrophic risk. It's distinct from, but related to epistemic risk, sociopolitcal risk, cooperative AI, concentration of power risk, etc. It's the AI safety risk I'm working on.

Frank Bajak@fbajak.bsky.social · last wk.

Forget Killer Robots. The biggest imminent threat of sloppy generative AI integration into military decision-making (we can probably blame Pete Hegseth) is that it mistakenly helps start a war. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats

Soon you will be able to prompt for what you want to see and MySky will instantly do an LLM-powered search across the entire AT universe to get you the best in that category. It's going to appear in your regular MySky settings as a new post source.

Writing code and doing related research tasks with Fable has caused me to move up my estimated date for recursive self-improvement (RSI), which is a more precisely defined term than the nebulous "AGI." Anyway, I think we'll see intelligent machines self-improving by late next year.

Try out this feed! It’s the result of a massive amount of research on how to build beneficial recommendations. It’s the first real workable implementation of a choose your algorithm system and it will be good for you and the broader ecosystem. Courtesy of the great @jonathanstray.com

MySky Feed@mysky.social · last mo.

Click SETTINGS to personalize your MySky feed. A feed you control, designed for constructive conversation.

This is very similar to the way we define "constructive" posts in mysky.social

New_ Public@newpublic.org · 2w ago

Social media is often full-scale rhetorical warfare, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be online conflict. Priya Parker says there's another way: “healthy heat: the willingness to hold tension, with care, long enough for it to become clarifying.” theisolationjournals.substack.com/cp/215506446

There are concerns in the mathematician’s open letter I share, but on the whole I can’t endorse it. This satirical response kinda sums it up x.com/mbeisen/stat...

X - The Everything App / X

From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.

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An excellent discussion and reading list for how journalism needs to operate to be widely trusted. If you don’t like typical coverage, is your complaint addressed here? trustingnews.org/putting-the-...

Putting "The Next Journalism" into practice: a reading companion from Trusting News - Trusting News

This chapter-by-chapter guide weaves our 10 years of research into the themes in Tom Rosenstiel's new book.

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What do you want your feed to do for you? We presented @mysky.social at The Commons SF on Tuesday night and everyone played with our feed settings. But many asked for higher level control: - "a balanced view of topic X" - moods, like "no anxiety-causing content" - a text prompt (this is coming!)

Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem story, and how it highlights the still confusing question of what using my data "to improve model performance" actually means simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/o...

Wish I was in the Bay Area and could attend this event with @jonathanstray.com tonight luma.com/the-113t

Can we design social media to make us better at disagreeing? · Luma

About Event Much of the conversation about algorithmic social media has focused on its failures: polarization, outrage, echo chambers, and the enormous power…

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Here's a direct link to the new mysky.social feed (formerly Green Earth) by @jonathanstray.com and team. First atmosphere feed I know of designed to promote constructive conversation. bsky.app/profile/mysk...

Naught but a leap to the left And then a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo! It ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Lat us doon the Tyme Warpe agayne!