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Space Jesuit 🌺🌌

@metasj.bsky.social

a bi-coastal do-ever for generist hyperstition: Interlace jams, Klein lines, mad new ontologue. prod: Quad Rant. staging: the ultimate veridical wikiomn & xxx yolo zoo. 4NT. 🍯🐝🪡🫀

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Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 3w ago

You may know that I try to show newsrooms that they have an alternative to the horse race model in election coverage: "The citizens agenda." It's the campaign season and I am starting to get examples sent to me. Roanoke: roanoke.com/news/local/g... Cascadia: www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jul/16/...

What are your top issues in November's elections? Inform Roanoke Times coverage

The Roanoke Times is taking a closer approach to election coverage this fall by asking our audience directly: What do you care about most?

roanoke.com

Space Jesuit 🌺🌌@metasj.bsky.social · last mo.

Beautiful work, and now great to see Apertus 1.5 released! I got to play with the multimodal aspects a month ago, keen to see how it's doing now after another 6 weeks of fine tuning.

Apertus@apertusllm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Three new model weights: 0.5B, 1.5B, 4B are available using new quantization and distillation techniques. Download #Apertus 1.1, read the ICML workshop report, try a new demo on @hf.co - all just a tap away in our latest blog post: apertus-ai.org/articles/202...

Alexander Obenauer@alexanderobenauer.com · 3mo ago

We also have a "proposals" form if you'd like to get feedback on your idea before a full submission. Some wonderful submissions have already filtered in that way! And we have a "nominations" form if you'd like to submit a prompt for someone - a good prompt can be a wonderful gift.

Alexander Obenauer@alexanderobenauer.com · 4mo ago

Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

Augment is a forthcoming collection of essays on the future of personal computing: specifically, on the kind we as a species need in order to move beyond our stuck present, and on the ideas that will help us get there. This book is meant to serve as guidance and inspiration as we build a next generation of hardware, software, and systems. We hope you’ll share this page with those you think might write great essays for Augment, and even consider writing one yourself. Submissions are due by July 31. The technology field is today in a precarious state. A tsunamic tide of commercial thinking has managed the wholesale capture of practitioners, institutions, and dialogue. This capture has drained all imagination from our surround, and so actual invention has slid likewise near to zero. Along the way, the systems meant first to extend human reach have instead become dull and clanking manacles. Yet the same quality that makes technology easy to hijack — that massless, abstract ductility — leaves it as easy to re-form. The opportunity is still with us, undimmed, to build anew the beautiful thing, the powerful thing, the luminous thing, the human thing. This then is the invitation: to trawl a net through waters that, far enough down, remain idea-rich and that, with care, might still teem.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 11mo ago

for fuck's sake, no, bsky is not selectively moderating against trans people, if anything, some people have done a lot of behaviour that according to the letter of the rules would result in permabans, and yet they're getting 24h strikes and being let back on because of community pressure.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall@mrjeffu.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2y ago

A friend pointed out a couple weeks ago that Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946 and I keep thinking about how it feels like our political imaginations are being held hostage, with occasional outliers, by a very particular generational precept of the nation.

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 2y ago

More resources are starting to come into the atproto dev ecosystem. “We don’t have to all fit inside the same, one-size-fits-all app,” Wang said. “The whole point of the protocol is to build many different kinds of apps, and let a lot of different kinds of user experiences flourish.”

Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem | TechCrunch

In November, Peter Wang sought ideas for a new fund to support the AT Protocol ecosystem. Four weeks later, he launched Skyseed.

techcrunch.com

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2y ago

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams

CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%

commondreams.org

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 2y ago

before I worked at Bluesky, I worked with scholarly metadata and infrastructure. that field has had it's chain jerked around a lot w/r/t funding and sustainability of infra: maintenance, enclosure, M&A / consolidation, enshittification, grants, collective action, etc. not dissimilar to web!

sanjana!@sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 2y ago

I just landed in Boston because I’m giving a colloquium at Harvard tomorrow. What an amazing opportunity but my heart is so heavy and everything feels unreal. How about I supposed to talk about neutron stars right now 🥲