and my personal 2c is that we need to be more explicit about curation, taste, and aesthetics of Excellent science as a practice. If the only way to preserve peer review is to institute submission quotas, we have to treat curation as the explicit skill that it is

as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values and judgment of small communities of researchers

This started up as a write-up for a cool hack I made (Atproto DID + Tailscale, coming soon 😎), but like many times before it started taking a life of its own, about how an integration of small scale networks is a more sustainable version of "internet scale" than large tech monopoly data centers.

Increasing lot sizes of our digital homes

From GeoCities to Facebook to Open Social and beyond: a history of digital homes, and a thought experiment for what comes next.

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danah's recent "Where Has Social Media Gone?" makes a great point about the trajectory of social media over time -- and links off to “Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media”, definitely worth reading! www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

i still currently believe that free and open-source software bundled with self-hosted options are the only sustainable path forward for content creators longterm we should be educating and sharing knowledge on these tools now more than ever

Inspired by @kissane.myatproto.social's announcement and @tessa.germnetwork.com's community building.

Holding space for each other

Every builder is advancing a critique of the hellscape we're currently in. Everyone who's building a community is pathbreaking Another Way that things could be.

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Just stumbled across this, but it's amazing. Previously, making a Bitsy project collaboratively was such a major hurdle.

There's not an abundance of teachers, and there's not an abundance of contextually-efficient matching between what's needed to break into a career and "learning to code." There is an abundance of bad and misleading content too.

JOB POST: Games/Creative Folks with a Master's Degree (or more), Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) -- where I work -- is HIRING for 1 permanent & 1 contract teaching position, for interactive media folks w/ some programming background. Is that you? apply.interfolio.com/189698

Great news: the talks from Jubensha Con are now available online for FREE! Big thanks to our amazing speakers for agreeing to this, and to Joe Strickland at @chronicinsanity.bsky.social for producing the videos. A lot of much bigger and more expensive conferences don't do this – but we just did.

Jubensha Con 2026 - YouTube

The talks given at JubenshaCon 2026 Find out more about the convention at https://jubenshacon.com Buy jubensha from: https://jubensha.co.uk https://www.suspe...

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I took this weekend class, "Research as a Leisure Activity" run by Laurel Schwulst and Celine Nguyen, with 17 other really amazing and different people. One of the biggest things I took away from this was the realization that I already have a love of learning and collection and do it constantly,

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

testing new website. anything broken? wanix.dev

Wanix — Wasm-native Unix sandboxing for the web

Run and interact with real Wasm and x86 programs sandboxed in the browser. No server. Inspired by Plan 9.

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Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org in Fall 2027. I've updated this post with additional information about this year's focus area. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2027

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.

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This has 20 responses already!! Who else we got. Atproto builders, lets talk $$.

Tessa Brown@tessa.germnetwork.com · 4w ago

Hey atproto builders, what if we got together to talk about the funding environment and how we sustainably grow our products and orgs? If you're interested in a meeting, add your info here! (context cont'd ⬇️)

hi! are you creative, technical, or love telling stories? i'm hiring an assistant / apprentice to help me this fall with my projects designing it as the thing i would've wanted 4 years ago when i started mixing art, software, and sculpture learn more spencer.place/help-2026/

Networked computing, in a fundamental way, changed the producer-consumer relationship we have with corporations. In the material world that relationship ends with the transfer of material and money; I buy a pencil and some paper, and the producer is out of the picture while I use them to write.

People today are drowning in awareness of suffering with nowhere productive to put it. This is a problem that social technology research can and should tackle! At our #CSCW2026 workshop, we’ll spend the day exploring how to design toward sustainable care. Apply by Aug 3: positech.github.io/cscw2026

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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Friends! I'm bad at advertising but better late than never! I'm co-organizing a workshop at #CSCW2026 exploring the future of infrastructure, in conversation with its deep roots in CSCW scholarship. Please join us! cscw2026-infrastructure-workshop.github.io My short pitch below 👇

Lilith presenting Backstitch backstitch.dev by @inkandswitch.com - local first version control for gaming teams using Godot @godotengine.org Usable by everyone building games, not just programmers or dedicated IT to make git work.

Local models report with a lovely d3-based task set. "[strong models] led to constant rework and surprises at later stages. So I've enjoyed that the weaker models make me go slower, and take more care in the moment, instead of deferring that comprehension and care to the future."

Martin Fowler@martinfowler.com · 4w ago

NEW POST After setting out her factors of viability, @birgitta410.bsky.social now reports on her experiences with local LLMs for programming. She compares them with two standard tasks and tries the best LLM in day-to-day use martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

This can seem really nihilistic at first if you're looking at the big picture! But Leckie's stories are more about the choices of individuals in the fucked up system, and how they find justice and agency and heroism in the cracks of that system. This is actually really hopeful!

This is great! I just bought a copy and I sugest you do the same! It's pay what you want, so if you have the means, please spend a bit to help keep this awesome #ttrpg magazine going!

Aaron Lim 林家丰@ehronlime.bsky.social · 4w ago

A4 2B D6 is now also available online at ehronlime.itch.io/a4-2b-d6-vol.... I've been so busy with other events that I hadn't gotten around to putting it up online until now. If you're interested in some writing on RPGs from Malaysian writers, artists, and designers check it out on itch now!

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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None of us can know what we don't know. I have a lot of known unknowns wrt software: I know I'm not a web developer or database engineer, but I know I'm damn good at statistical thinking. The challenges of this age aren't about replacing expertise but learning to share it

some highlights for the time-poor: 🎤 upcoming standalone apps for dialogue planning/management, VO processing 🤖 our substantive collection of sample scenes are coming to Godot 🧶 new features like custom-typed function parameters, and ReWired integration 💚 loads of new YS games from the SGF events!

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner.dev · last mo.

our monthly update for June is here! look at all the things from June! marvel at them! yarnspinner.dev/blog/monthly...

From research, to prototype, to a real plugin you can install in the Godot Asset Store, Backstitch is a branch of our research into universal version control brought to life in the Godot game engine! You can check it out now: store.godotengine.org/asset/inkand...

Backstitch - Godot Asset Store

Real-time version control for Godot! Backstitch enables fast collaboration for dev teams, game jams, and classrooms.

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Did you know that I've been spending years producing and distributing DIY physical releases for indie games? Because I have! And continue to! It's also a thing most anyone can easily do. (and I've been slowly building my own collection of others' games) pizzapranks.com/tapemarket/