The funniest thing about “who is funding you” question is that believe it or not, we are also all trying to find an answer to that question so we can get paid.
GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.
🥾 Hike: 11.9 km (+1208m) — November peak to Seed Peak via pinecone #treeline #atproto
November peak to Seed Peak via pinecone
11.87 km • +1,208 m
treeline.world
This looks amazing. And, again, reconfirms the thing I keep telling people: the Atmosphere isn't about rebuilding Twitter. It's about rebuilding a better web overall.
daniel r(ooooooh) 👻@danielroe.dev · 4w ago🙋♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it
Tomorrow! @byjp.me is in town so we're hosting a meetup at @z-space.ca in Vancouver, with some themes around self hosting @wesleyfinck.org about social experiences on atproto @hadsie.com @jacob.cascadia.social are going to talk community scale AI @djpardis.com demoing local first music
ATProto Vancouver September 2026 Meetup
JP @byjp.me is coming to town, which is a great excuse to have a meetup! Our theme is going to be #selfhosting and #homelabs, but any projects you want to show off or discuss are welcome. We're tr...
atmo.rsvp
Fantastic episode of cbc ideas on wildfires. strongly recommend if you're interested in how current forest management leads to more and bigger fires, and how indigenous land stewardship can help reduce future fires. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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cbc.ca
Hello! We're Shared Computer Network, a community scale AI project running out of @z-space.ca There is a public write up of some of our stack here - and yes, we're in the middle of switching out to our own naming.
Z-Space Local AI
ZAI is the Z-Space Local AI project, exploring hardware and software systems at the community level.
news.z-space.ca
Scott @hadsie.com volunteered for #AtmosphereConf and now he's atproto pilled and making integrations for @freeq.at
Chad Fowler@chadfowler.com · 2mo ago
Canadians are not prepared for the manipulation aimed at us using crises like BC wildfires Not only is AI slop fooling people for clicks, bad actors like foreign governments (including Russian) often exploit these emergencies to encourage anger and mistrust More: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
B.C. wildfires being exploited by bad actors, Russian operatives, profiteers
As thousands of British Columbians return to their homes to see what’s left in the wake of aggressive wildfires, misinformation researchers are warning that the crisis is being exploited by bad actors...
ctvnews.ca
hot take: I would rather read your imperfect English in your own voice than perfect LLM English that makes all writing narratively the same
The only way to get employed as an AI engineer consultant/lead is to be unemployed long enough first, so you can catch up, keep up, prototype, evaluate and integrate 9-5. And then also tie it back to your previous tech life. Barely anyone can claim more than 12 months live experience.
Lots of people have been asking about the atproto alternative to Buzz, the Jack Dorsey-supported Nostr chat for agents & humans to chat in. The answer is freeq, which is atproto + IRCv3 extensions, including CRDTs with Automerge, QUIC, iroh. Follow @freeq.at.
freeq — the room where humans and agents work
freeq is chat infrastructure for humans and AI agents: cryptographic identity (Bluesky for people, did:key for agents), signed messages, verifiable channel policies, voice sessions, E2EE, CRDT federation — all as backwards-compatible IRC.
freeq.at
Since wildfires seem to be making news again, I may as well do a bit of self promotion for a service I run: If you're hiking in the backcountry, add the phone number to my treksafer.com service before you go. Text it to get a list of wildfires nearby. 100% free, and the code is fully open source.
TrekSafer
Get real-time wildfire and avalanche updates sent directly to your satellite messenger while you're in the backcountry.
treksafer.com
Success! My AI agent (running a small local model) is able to add my beans to my @arabica.social atproto records.
Two new inference nodes up in the Z-Space AI Cluster. Welcome to the party Orca and Salmon! Photography by @bmann.ca.
When you're up against network effects, there comes a time when it isn't worth staying and trying to get others to move. It's better to leave. And focus on building, on new network effects.
It's surreal that the entry point to the Internet for most people is now completely disconnected from reality. Even if it's only wrong 10% of the time, you can't know which 10%.
mitch said@mitchsaid.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy kid is doing research on a local landmark, so we googled some information about it and got the Gemini AI response. For every answer it gave, I questioned it, it then said was wrong and confidently gave another wrong answer. This continued for 6 wrong answers in a row, summarized here.
5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7416 - Petitions
ourcommons.ca
"We've replaced HR with AI" Somewhere, in the distance, a pride of lawyers lifts their heads off the ground. Prey is headed in their direction. Tonight will be good hunting.
Canadians, tell your MPs to vote NO on bill C22. There's a one-click option to do so in the thread!
OpenMedia@openmedia.org · 5mo agoBREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes. This should be our final alarm bell:.We can have privacy or we can have C22, not both! #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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wrote up some of my thoughts on the potential of AT Proto / ATmosphere apps after building a chess app fully on protocol. feeling bullish on niche/long-tail apps that couldn't have existed before this :)
What my chess app taught me about the future of multi-user software
I was skeptical that AT Proto was anything more than Bluesky-with-extra-steps, learnt how much potential the protocol has after building a multiplayer chess app, entirely client side and "on protocol". The real value is that apps become different views into the same data.
notes.hadsie.com
We need everyone to wake up to how fragile our shared commons are. We can't wait until we drown in security incidents and more projects close down, using them as excuses. If you're in a position to help (every company is), check who you depend on and need support (everyone), and fund them.
Nice article. The Atmosphere however is playing a “yes and” game. Absolutely social for groups and communities! But the structure here means we are aiming for _all_ apps, not just the social ones. Especially when permissioned data becomes available.