This happened with Stingrays too - usage was left out of court filings or obscured as “confidential informants”. Judges didn’t like that.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

amazing list, I particularly like 4, 8, 15, and 49 …but the wildest part is that @minormobius.bsky.social got opus to one-shot em and actually prototyped > half! https://fifty.mino.mobi/

50 things i won't build on atproto

but maybe you should?

permadeath.com

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!

Yes to this! And for a little more history about this kind of thing see also Jack in the Box.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterday

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Airtable should have taken over the world. so many of the problems caused by spreadsheets were elegantly solved by Airtable's combination of tight schemas and user-friendliness. but I think deep down, none of them understood what they'd actually built. bsky.app/profile/tech...

Techmeme@techmeme.com · yesterday

Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

apnews.com/article/jenn... This is such a clever idea for a tour that I'm a little surprised nobody has thought of it before

Comedian Jenny Yang uses a comedy tour to uplift immigrants, one grocery store at a time

Comic Jenny Yang has turned cultural grocery stores into comedy clubs for her summer tour. She's been performing in these unique venues to entertain and support immigrant communities.

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cowards

Mark Shore@markshore.bsky.social · 2d ago

for legal reasons Bluesky still hasn't rolled out the true AT protocol where if enough people block you, you die IRL (not to mention the terrifying damnatio memoriae block, where if the block numbers are massive enough you cease to ever have existed)

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I appreciate how the New York Times made sure to explain how this username came from the dragon language in Skyrim.

📍 Prescott Market Hall Market · Oakland, California, US ☀️ 21°C Birthday for a 3 year old. #BeaconBits

If you wanna catch up on new research in your networks, I recommend this bsky feed! It's great. It shows you posts linking to academic papers - from people you already follow. I've found it very useful so far.

Nothing I’ve written has ever been as good as “comparison is the thief of joy”

Trying out a new A.I. chat*: chattjb.org *A.I. here apparently stands for Average Individual

ChatTJB

ChatTJB

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I'm not saying the possibility of a lunch train led by @julietshen.bsky.social is reason enough to go to @atproto.nyc community day but it is a *very* good reason to go. blog.atproto.nyc/3mrionom6ck2k

atproto.nyc community day 2026

Join us on Saturday, Aug 22nd at the Recurse Center in Brooklyn to learn, hack, and build with the AT Protocol!

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My personal site is now part of the Atmosphere ☁️😌 gordonbrander.com/notes/ecosys...

this is so cool. my god. the blacksky oauth login with device account is just the cherry on top

Scooty@scottlanoue.com · 5d ago

Happy Friday! I've been building towards an "Atmosphere OS", where my atproto account is the identity layer on a real phone. I wrote a little bit about it here:

Reminder: I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked bsky to Puzzmo, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link in the next 6 days and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

On the one hand it's vindicating to hear an engineer say that they realized the problem that they were interested turned out to be an ethics problem not an engineering problem. youtu.be/vS6HEes8daw

The PROBLEM with Capitalism - Smarter Every Day 316

YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay

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OH MY GOD THEY TOTALLY DID YOU SHOULD CLICK ON THE LINK TO WITNESS THIS TRAVESTY

furry hater@furry-hater.bsky.social · 5d ago

what the hell??? youtube just removed the original rick roll youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Yeah this is right. There are plenty of contexts where people do care about the control and ownership of their data. People get real sad when their family photos disappear. But data sovereignty as a selling feature for a social media platform is a weird one, and possibly a category error.

Jacky!@omg.jacky.wtf · 5d ago

People do care about their data; they happen to not use the same language that tech folks use when they're talking about. And frankly, we as tech folks fucked up by fighting for React and JavaScript everywhere (dev happiness) over privacy and safety (user integrity). It's our fault.

It’s always nice to finish off the week with a little protocol flex. @scottlanoue.com ships Login with Atmosphere at the mobile operating system level.

Scooty@scottlanoue.com · 5d ago

Happy Friday! I've been building towards an "Atmosphere OS", where my atproto account is the identity layer on a real phone. I wrote a little bit about it here:

And here’s the reveal, it’s @scottlanoue.com

Boris@bmann.ca · 5d ago

This is the low level protocol hack I was teasing! 🤯🤯🤯 @scottlanoue.com is the developer of @comail.at - email trust with atproto accounts. Now he has “login with atmosphere” supported as native accounts on GrapheneOS, with forked & patched native apps @bsky.app @blackskyweb.xyz @stream.place

Downplay a book or movie: As it turns out, there is an antimemetics division.

Joe Uchill@joeuchill.bsky.social · 6d ago

Downplay a book or movie: EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE ALL SPORATICALLY

After three weeks I have finally escaped from the grasp of Dungeon Crawler Carl. I did not anticipate how book 8 would end.

Wonderful talk by @sjgreenwood.bsky.social about @paper-feed.bsky.social! Custom feeds on Bluesky are unique resources for researchers interested in recommendation algorithms #IC2S2 Featuring many Bluesky friends like @graze.social @devingaffney.com @kissane.myatproto.social @aendra.com

Said it before, saying it again: the problem with nonconsensual deepfake porn sites isn't the "pornography" part, it's the "nonconsensual" part. If you don't put "nonconsensual" in your law, you're just banning porn and you're no different from the Heritage Foundation. www.kare11.com/article/news...

writing these words in this order made me feel like i was having a stroke, i am pleased to share it with all of you

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 6d ago

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

I grew up in a proper country, in which Gore Vidal had beef w everyone & Lillian Hellman sued Mary McCarthy for something MM said on the Dick Cavett Show ("every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' & 'the'"--honestly an all-timer of a burn). Srsly critics fighting is a sign of cultural health!

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7d ago

I really do think Emily Wilson and JCO could conceivably escalate this to the point of dueling

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