Yes! A few months ago I volunteered to help teams with ops or strategy, and kept this pinned to my profile until recently. A few founders took me up on it. mu.social/profile/rica... A recurrent issue was precisely what @mosh.bsky.social mentions: is this a project or a company?

Ricardo J. Méndez@ricardo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Putting my time where my #atmosphereconf ecosystem mouth is: if any early-stage ATProto team needs help honing their ops or strategy, ping me. If we are aligned, we can find a way to make it work.

"Platforms, universities and organizations in the tech accountability field can — and should — do more to ensure that research on prosocial design informs how healthy digital spaces get built."

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · last wk.

Independent prosocial design research can shape what gets built, but researchers lack the pathways and incentives to produce it. Audrey Hingle and Julia Kamin on what needs to change.

If I organized something like this in NYC, would y'all show up?

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2w ago

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani signs new law that says you don't have to go to work if your pet is asleep on you or just being extra cute.

NYC Voters- just left the last day of early voting and it was reminiscent of Pre-Mamdani demographics (everyone ~50+) where is the enthusiasm younger folks !!! For last year's primary same time it was round the block with younger folks. Get out there Tuesday...

I heart NY

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · last yr.

Inspired by all of the public servants giving up their jobs to take a stand against corruption & mass deportation.

There is $38 trillion sitting in US pensions & most of us pension beneficiaries know that climate disruption is bad for our savings. So I really appreciate any effort by pension managers to force asset managers to stop chasing short-term returns & focus on climate risk. www.ft.com/content/0a70...

Long-term investors split with asset managers over climate risk

Insurance groups and pension funds threaten to dump those ‘misaligned’ with retiree objectives

ft.com

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social · last yr.

Guidance to asset managers from European pensions on stewardship to address climate risk. Focus on "robustness of corporate net zero commitments," not just disclosure. Also: align w us on climate risk or we're look elsewhere. thepeoplespension.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Great to see a room full of people thinking hard about freeing social media from billionaire power and other unsavoury influences. Do read the newsletter, follow @freeourfeeds.com, consider a donation!

scotchneat 🇨🇦 @scotchneat.bsky.social · last yr.

@freeourfeeds.com has published their first newsletter update. If you care about their imperative to build independent, non-profit, and resilient infrastructure for social media, give it a read and consider a donation: free-our-feeds.ghost.io/update-1-feb...

Graded the first learning assessment of my Coastal Biology students using #7vortex Not only did they showed critical thinking and learning but also impressed me with their creativity. This witty one brought me a welcome laugh with the embedded Jacques Cousteau quote! www.7vortex.com/ecosystems/f...

7VORTEX - Everything is connected!

7VORTEX - Everything is connected

7vortex.com

Let’s redirect our focus locally

New York Amsterdam News@nyamnews.bsky.social · 2y ago

COVER STORY: The new year has kicked off with weather events that have many on alert across the country. Events like the extreme heat waves, floods, and storms of years past are proving to be expensive and life-threatening.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Should we be here? jenvandermeer.substack.com/p/escapees-t...

Escapees to BlueSky:

Who Owns It, How It Makes Money, and Does it Deserve Our Contributions?

jenvandermeer.substack.com

This is where we come to share important social media broligarchy news. I'm sure this will fix everything. www.wsj.com/tech/china-o...

China Officials Discuss Option of TikTok Sale to Elon Musk

Beijing officials preparing options for after Donald Trump’s inauguration have examined possible openness to a deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations with the owner of X.

wsj.com

As the Founders surely intended when they gave federal district court judges the power to micromanage the day to day operations of corporations incorporated in other states.

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler - and The LA Fires via... @teenvogue.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/la-fir...

Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted the Dystopia of the LA Fires by Studying History

This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed and 5 schools burned to ash.

teenvogue.com

for first day of congestion pricing, a nyc car ownership map comparing car ownership with a city that has had congestion pricing

Congratulations, New York City! Now please stop calling it "congestion pricing". It's the "Congestion Relief Zone," because congestion relief is what the toll buys.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority@mta.info · 2y ago

It’s happening! Tonight, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber unveiled one of the signs at the entrance to the Congestion Relief Zone. Tolling begins at midnight. Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info

it’s so beautiful 🥹

Here’s someone on TikTok who has made 19 videos today urging his followers to….do what congestion pricing is designed to do, and he and his followers seriously think they’re owning us all. Some real next-level stupidity going on here today.

IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME IT’S CONGESTION PRICING TIME

a cartoon drawing of a banana with arms and legs and a smiling face

Alt: a cartoon drawing of a banana with arms and legs and a smiling face, dancing to celebrate the end of cars

media.tenor.com

"The housing financial crisis is rarely—if ever—recognized as a water crisis for urban dwellers in the United States, despite growing evidence that water poverty, insecurity and unaffordability are flourishing in high-income countries."

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 2y ago

A study in Nature Cities on access to running water in large US cities since 1970 finds that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations. 🧪

"we propose educational strategies to promote evolutionary literacy, systems thinking and anticipatory competencies through socioscientific issues linked to sustainability topics" evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Evolutionary literacy as a catalyst for sustainable futures: connecting biological evolution education and education for sustainability - Evolution: Education and Outreach

In the face of growing societal, public health and environmental challenges linked to the functioning of the biosphere, strong evolutionary literacy emerges as indispensable to plan and achieve sustai...

evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com

If only #moss could influence elections.

Woodland Harmonies@woodland-harmonies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Moss and lichens are not only enchanting in their appearance but also essential for our ecosystem’s health. These remarkable organisms play a crucial role in storing water, helping to sustain the delicate balance of nature. #moss #lichen #forest #woodland #nature

Has anyone else had a Yunus experience?

Jen van der Meer@jenvandermeer.bsky.social · 2y ago

We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'

We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'

Jen van der Meer@jenvandermeer.bsky.social · 2y ago

I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.

We were so focused on social-data-for-good ideas, - 60 Decibels concepts - and he hated them. So focused on the purpose of social innovation - to reinvest all money to alleviate poverty. Not 'do well by doing good'

Jen van der Meer@jenvandermeer.bsky.social · 2y ago

I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.

I had the pleasure of a weekend-with-Yunus at NYU ITP a few years back- more than a decade - wherein he roundly critiqued all of the social-data-for-good ideas we came up with, in a strong way.

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 2y ago

Muhammad Yunus, an economist and Nobel peace laureate, is now the interim leader of Bangladesh. He has the expectations of his country’s students on his shoulders. Yunus is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. 🧪

NYC thunderstorms sound angry about this new year's eve. But then, rainstorms are for clearing away the grime of 2024. #nottimessquare

A delightful read. If only we could go back to the time of the Cephalopod. Predicting the rise of Cephalopod Diet. Or the Cephalopod Economy. Or the Cephalopod Way, a self help philosophy and paid community.

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2y ago

If the highly unlikely Silurian hypothesis is true (if the Earth was home to an intelligent civilization prior to ours), “it’s the cephalopods…who are the most likely candidates to have reached at least some level of civilization”. [pacificklaus.com]

Same time as Congestion Pricing? Ain't no coincidence BOUGHT & PAID FOR NYC GOVT GIVES LYFT(owner) AN EXCLUSIVE 10 YR MONOPOLY CONTRACT? NYC Taxpayers fund DOT's hostage taking of NYC streets/sidewalks to pay to construct bike lanes for SILICON V INVESTORS OWNED BIKE APP? ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Citi Bike to increase prices next week

For non-members, it will cost $4.99 to start a ride.

ny1.com